STRONG FITNESS COSTS OF FALL ARMYWORM RESISTANCE TO DUAL-GENE BT MAIZE ARE MAGNIFIED ON LESS-SUITABLE HOST-CROP CULTIVARS

Strong Fitness Costs of Fall Armyworm Resistance to Dual-Gene Bt Maize Are Magnified on Less-Suitable Host-Crop Cultivars

We examined the fitness costs of resistance to transgenic Cry1A.105+Cry2Ab2 Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) maize in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a globally invasive pest species.Using Bt-resistant and -susceptible populations of similar genetic backgrounds, we compared insect life-history traits and population growth rates on the foliage

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Feasibility of the Medial Temporal lobe Atrophy index (MTAi) and derived methods for measuring atrophy of the medial temporal lobe

Introduction: the Medial Temporal-lobe Atrophy index (MTAi), 2D-Medial Temporal Atrophy (2D-MTA), yearly rate of MTA (yrRMTA) and yearly rate of relative MTA (yrRMTA) are simple protocols for measuring the relative extent of atrophy in the MTL in relation to the global brain atrophy.Albeit preliminary studies showed interest of these methods in the

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The Role of the Public Administration and the Rural Development

Present time demonstrates that the theory and practice of the public administration arein a perpetual and radical change, under the influence of some contextual factors, extremelydifferent: historical, political, geographical, cultural and economical ones.The understanding onthe whole working mechanism in the King Kong public administration mainly

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Insights into Protein Sequence and Structure-Derived Features Mediating 3D Domain Swapping Mechanism using Support Vector Machine Based Approach

3-dimensional domain swapping is a mechanism where two or more protein molecules form higher order oligomers by exchanging identical or similar subunits.Recently, this Toner Collection Unit phenomenon has received much attention in the context of prions and neuro-degenerative diseases, due to its role in the functional regulation, formation of high

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