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This study comprehensively characterizes the chickpea PLATZ transcription factor family through genome-wide identification and multi-faceted analyses, revealing their evolutionary history, regulatory mechanisms, and distinct, genotype-dependent roles in mediating responses to drought and salinity stresses.
This study reveals that in two polymorphic lizard species, aggression is primarily driven by species identity and the receiver's perception of opponent colour (specifically red) rather than by the colour morph itself serving as an honest signal of competitive ability.
This study demonstrates that while combining knee extension motor imagery with single-pulse TMS significantly enhances corticospinal excitability in the tibialis anterior muscle, it fails to produce similar facilitatory effects in the rectus femoris muscle, suggesting a muscle-specific limitation in plasticity for the latter.
This study demonstrates that rhizosphere microbiomes assembled under contrasting environmental histories and host associations retain distinct growth-promoting signatures that differentially influence the biomass of native Australian grasses, with the strongest positive effects observed in the original host from dry sub-humid regions.
The lower anther culture response in indica rice compared to japonica is primarily caused by a bottleneck at the callus induction stage, which is driven by the rapid early browning of sporophytic anther tissues that prevents callus formation.
This study utilized a robust bioinformatics pipeline to reanalyze raw methylation data from 374 samples, revealing that edematous severe acute malnutrition is characterized by a specific signature of hypomethylation in the protocadherin gamma cluster, which likely drives epithelial barrier dysfunction and tissue edema through disrupted cadherin signaling.
This study demonstrates that HIV-1 RNAs transcribed from the second G residue of the transcription start site, when containing GC or GU at the 5' end, form stable structures similar to native genomic RNAs, suggesting they can function as genomic RNA despite mutations that typically prevent transcription from the third G residue.
This study introduces a semi-quantitative framework that integrates epidemiological and spatial data to prioritize zoonotic risks from invasive mammals in Europe, revealing that most assessed species pose a major human health impact and highlighting the need for targeted management under a One Health perspective.
This study demonstrates that heptyl prodigiosin, a tripyrrole alkaloid isolated from the estuarine bacterium *Zooshikella* sp. RANM57, exhibits potent anticancer activity against androgen-independent prostate cancer cells by inducing dose-dependent, caspase-mediated intrinsic apoptosis and suppressing clonogenic survival.
This study of 102 plant species reveals that whole-leaf elongation is most strongly correlated with venation-loop geometry at the largest relative vein-width scale, while associations with other venation metrics like vein density are weaker or inconsistent.