Vertebrate MOXD2 encodes a monooxygenase DBH-like 2 protein that could be involved in neurotransmitter metabolism, potentially during olfactory transduction.Loss of MOXD2 in apes and whales has been proposed to be associated with evolution of olfaction in these clades.We analyzed 57 bird genomes to identify MOXD2 sequences and found frequent loss o
One of the results of several decades of mass migration from Europe to America in the 19th and 20th centuries WILD PACIFIC SALMON was the creation of ethnic "communities" in the host countries, composed by the immigrants themselves and their descendants.Even though early theories that proposed the idea of American society as a melting-pot in which
Abstract We consider the scattering matrices of massive quantum field theories with no bound states and a global O(N) symmetry in two spacetime dimensions.In particular we explore the space of two-to-two S-matrices of particles of mass m transforming in the vector representation as restricted by the general conditions of unitarity, crossing, analyt
Abstract Background The phenomenon of heterosis is critical to plant breeding and agricultural productivity.Heterosis occurs when F1 hybrid offspring display quantitative improvements in traits to levels that do not occur in the parents.Increasing the genome dosage (i.e.ploidy level) of F1 offspring can contribute to heterosis effects.Sugar beet (B
Virginia Moya-Álvarez,1 Juan Luis Quevedo-Marín,2 Zichen Ji,3 Cristina Navarro-Jiménez,4 Rodrigo Jiménez-García,5 Ana López-de-Andrés,6 Alfonso Pérez-Trullén,7 Javier de Miguel-Díez3 1Faculty of Medicine, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid 28223, Spain; 2Rey Juan Carlos Univ