Lepidopteran pheromone receptors (PRs), for which orthologies are evident among closely related species, provide an intriguing example of gene family evolution in terms of how new functions may arise.However, only a limited number of PRs have been functionally characterized so far and thus evolutionary scenarios suffer from elements of speculation.
Abstract Background The Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) is a new burnout measure developed to replace the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).Studies have supported the psychometric properties and cross-cultural measurement invariance of the BAT.However, some unresolved questions remain.These questions are the appropriate level of score interpretation, c
Essential proteins are crucial to living cells.Identification of essential proteins from protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks can be applied to pathway analysis and function prediction, furthermore, it can contribute to disease diagnosis and drug design.There have been some experimental here and computational methods designed to identify esse
The new revolution in materials science is being driven by our ability to manipulate matter at the molecular level to create structures with novel functions and properties.The aim of this paper is to explore new strategies to obtain plasmonic metal nanostructures through the combination of a top down method, that is electron beam lithography, and a