A novel Fas ligand plays an important role in cell apoptosis of Crassostrea hongkongensis: molecular cloning, expression profiles and functional identification of ChFasL

BackgroundApoptosis regulates normal development, homeostasis, immune tolerance and response to environmental stress by eliminating unwanted or diseased cells, and plays a key role in non-specific immunity of invertebrates.The exogenous pathway mediated by death receptors and death ligands is a very important pathway for cell apoptosis.Death ligand

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Formation of sects in a religious market

This paper is an extension of the recent work by the authors where a simplifying assumption of no costs of entry to the religious market was set.In the present paper, the religious market is regulated in the sense that a sect in order to establish itself in a market has to bear costs of entry.In the case of one official denomination the strict sect

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Commercial Availability of Predatory Mites

Predatory mites such as Neoseiulus californicus McGregor Wellbeing (Fig.1) and Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot (Fig.2) feed on important fruits and ornamental pests such as the twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch), broad mite (Polyphagotarsonemus (Stenotarsonemus) latus Banks), cyclamen mite (Tarsonemus pallidus L.), and other m

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