Julie R Whittington,1 Taylor Ghahremani,2 Megan Whitham,3 Amy M Phillips,2 Bethany N Spracher,4 Everett F Magann2 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA, USA; 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA; 3Depart
The aphid Myzus persicae is a globally significant crop pest that has evolved high levels of resistance to almost all classes of insecticide.To date, the neonicotinoids, an economically important class of insecticides that target nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), have remained an effective control measure; however, recent reports of resis
It frequently has been postulated that intersexual coevolution between the male ejaculate and the female reproductive tract is a driving force in the rapid evolution of reproductive proteins.The dearth of research on female tracts, however, presents a major obstacle to empirical tests of this hypothesis.Here, we employ a comparative EST approach to
Abstract The spike protein (S) of SARS-CoV-2 induces neutralizing antibodies bempresas.com and is the key component of current COVID-19 vaccines.The most efficacious COVID-19 vaccines are genetically-encoded spikes with a double proline substitution in the hinge region to stabilize S in the prefusion conformation (S-2P).A subunit vaccine can be a v