Rediscovery and analysis of Phytophthora carbohydrate esterase (CE) genes revealing their evolutionary diversity

A continuous co-evolutionary arms-race between pathogens and their host plants promotes the development of pathogenic factors by microbes, including carbohydrate esterase (CE) genes to overcome the barriers in plant cell walls.Identification of CEs is essential to facilitate their functional and evolutionary investigations; however, current methods

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Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Trace Metals (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn) in Coastal Waters off the West Coast of Taiwan

Surface water samples were collected along the west coast of Taiwan during two expedition cruises which represent periods of different regional climatic patterns.Information on hydrochemical parameters such as salinity, nutrients, suspended particulate matter (SPM), and Chlorophyll a concentrations were obtained, and dissolved and particulate trace

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MONEY ETHICS MODERATION, ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND ORGANIZATION ETHICAL CULTURE ON THE EFFECT OF BUDGET PARTICIPATION ON BUDGETARY SLACK

Budgetary slack is suspected to have occurred at the Office of Information and Communication Technology Management and State Property (KPTIK and BMN work unit), the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia, which is possibly caused by dysfunctional behavior in budget participation.Raudhiah et al.2013 emphasized that budgetary slack is used

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Humanities Fiction: Translation and ‘Transplanetarity’ in Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life” and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival

One of the more interesting science fiction movies of recent years, at least to Humanities academics, is Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 alien-invasion movie, Arrival.It is a film which not only features a Professor of Linguistics as its heroine, but the plot of which is organised around the critical global importance of a multi-million dollar translatio

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