epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Kensal Van Holde,Jordanka Zlatanova & Jordanka Zlatanova

Fig. 12.4 The ovalbumin gene and its mRNA illustrate the concept of split genes. The protein is 386 amino acids long and could have been encoded by a gene of ...

mobi |eng | 2017-02-19 | Author:Patrick R. Murray

Rotavirus Rotavirus was the first virus demonstrated to cause human gastrointestinal disease by observing large numbers of viral particles in the stool of symptomatic children. Despite the recognition of the ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-19 | Author:Strachan, Tom & Read, Andrew [Strachan, Tom]

Unaffected Affected Genotype AA Aa aa H–W frequency p 2 2 pq q 2 = 1/2000 q 2 = 1/2000, therefore q = √(1/2000) × 1/45. p = 1 − ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Sherman, Irwin W. [Sherman, Irwin W.]

Mammals have co-opted the lymphatic system for another purpose: immunological defense. This has been accomplished by placing clusters of immune tissues at “checkpoints” or “surveillance stations” along the lymphatic routes, ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Robert A Weinberg [Weinberg, Robert A]

CHAPTER 10 GUIDE PROTEINS OF THE CELL: THE MACHINERY THAT CONTROLS GROWTH Knowing about mutant genes allows us to trace the roots of cancer back to discrete, identifiable changes in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karl R. Matthews

Susceptibility and Tolerance Y. enterocolitica is unusual because it can grow at temperatures below 4°C. The doubling time at the optimum growth temperature (ca. 28 to 30°C) is ∼34 min, ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Török, Estée; Moran, Ed; Cooke, Fiona

Diagnosis Serology is unhelpful, given the high seroprevalence, so diagnosis relies on virus detection and pathological findings. Viral culture is difficult, as both JCV and BKV are very slow-growing. • ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:John M. Archibald

Population genomics of Adam and Eve One of the first and most contentious applications of a DNA-based molecular clock was to better understand the evolution of our own species. Here ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-02 | Author:Rene Kratz

REMEMBER Animal viruses enter host cells by endocytosis or fusion. In addition to demonstrating the same two basic patterns of infection as bacteriophage, animal cell viruses also demonstrate the same ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-24 | Author:Nicholas P Money

Rusts Stripe rust is a highly destructive disease of wheat that poses a significant threat to global food security. It is widespread across wheat-growing regions and has been called the ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-17 | Author:Ken Saunders

The four stumbled into the flat, laughing. Old Ned Ludd, the one with the appalling cough, clapped both young Kate and Candidate Ned on the back and gave Amy a ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Steffanie Strathdee & Thomas Patterson & Teresa Barker

16 SEMPER FORTIS: ALWAYS FAITHFUL, ALWAYS STRONG February 21–26, 2016 The evening of February 21, intent on finding a clue that could lead to phage sources, I spent the night ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Bill Sullivan

Is There a Devil Inside Us? Susannah Cahalan led a normal life until she turned 24 in 2009, when bizarre problems began to plague her. From out of nowhere, she ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Natalie Kuldell, Rachel Bernstein, Karen Ingram & Kathryn M. Hart

Inside the Black Box If you search the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, you’ll find any number of inverter devices. Most of them use transcriptional repression to implement the NOT ...

epub |eng | | Author:Atsushi Yokota & Masato Ikeda

MetA exists physiologically as a homodimer [41, 47]. For B. cereus, the 16 N-terminal residues are disordered, and structural data has not been provided by X-ray crystallography. Strikingly, residues 17–33 ...