REVERSE AND CONVENTIONAL CHEMICAL ECOLOGY APPROACHES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OVIPOSITION ATTRACTANTS FOR CULEX MOSQUITOES.

Reverse and conventional chemical ecology approaches for the development of oviposition attractants for Culex mosquitoes.

Synthetic mosquito oviposition attractants are sorely needed for surveillance and control programs for Culex species, which are major vectors of pathogens causing various human diseases, including filariasis, encephalitis, and West Nile encephalomyelitis.We employed novel and conventional chemical ecology approaches to identify potential attractant

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Effects of garlic (Allium sativum) on growth indices and survival rate, some blood biochemical parameters and digestive enzymes of zebrafish (Danio rerio)

The aims of the present study were to investigate the effects of garlic at four levels including 0 (T0), 0.10 (T1), 0.15 (T2) and 0.20 (T3) gram of garlic essential oil Headwear per kilogram of diet on growth indices and survival rate, some blood biochemical parameters and digestive enzymes of zebrafish (Danio rerio).The larvae were fed from the ti

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Characterization of influenza A virus induced transposons reveals a subgroup of transposons likely possessing the regulatory role as eRNAs

Abstract Although many studies have observed genome-wide host transposon expression alteration during viral infection, the mechanisms of induction and the impact on the host remain unclear.Utilizing recently published influenza A virus (IAV) time series data and ENCODE functional genomics data, we characterized virus induced host differentially exp

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