SIALOTRANSCRIPTOMICS OF RHIPICEPHALUS ZAMBEZIENSIS REVEALS INTRICATE EXPRESSION PROFILES OF SECRETORY PROTEINS AND SUGGESTS TIGHT TEMPORAL TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION DURING BLOOD-FEEDING

Abstract Background Ticks secrete a diverse mixture of secretory proteins into the host to evade its immune response and facilitate blood-feeding, making secretory proteins attractive targets for the production of recombinant anti-tick vaccines.The largely neglected tick species, Rhipicephalus zambeziensis, is an efficient vector of Theileria parva

An updated comprehensive checklist of polychaete species, which have been recorded from Malaysian waters, is Mobile Phone Accessories provided, with their geographic distributions and the research history for them.A total of 57 species belonging to 30 families have been reported since the early 1870s, with Nereididae as the most dominant family wit

Conventional distributed-target-based polarimetric calibration algorithms estimate polarimetric distortions by assuming that the measured spatially averaged covariance matrix takes a specific form.However, when the underlying surface contains targets that do not satisfy the assumptions employed by those algorithms, the averaged covariance matrix ma

A future nuclear energy system is being developed at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), the system involves a Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) linked with the Tampons pyro-process.The pyro-process produces a source material to fabricate a SFR fuel rod.Therefore, an isotopic fissile content assay is very important for fuel rod safety and SFR e