Mitochondrial genetic diversity of pest and vector species, Frankliniella schultzei (Thripidae: Thripinae).

Background: Frankliniella schultzei (Trybom) is a serious pest and a carrier of tospoviruses in major agricultural crops. This species is a historical and unresolved species complex that contains genetically different cryptic species across the globe.

Methods And Results: DNA barcodes were generated from freshly collected specimens of F.

Search for CP-Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment.

This Letter reports a search for charge-parity (CP) symmetry violating nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the NOvA Experiment, and examines their effects on the determination of the standard oscillation parameters. Data from ν_{μ}(ν[over ¯]_{μ})→ν_{μ}(ν[over ¯]_{μ}) and ν_{μ}(ν[over ¯]_{μ})→ν_{e}(ν[over ¯]_{e}) oscillation channels are used to measure the effect of the NSI parameters ϵ_{eμ} and ϵ_{eτ}. With 90% CL the magnitudes of the NSI couplings are constrained to be |ϵ_{eμ}|≲0.

pH-Independent Selective Formation of VO Motif Incorporating a Family of Hydrazone Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Luminescence-Based Sensing Studies toward Selective Metal Ions.

Two new dioxidovanadium(V) compounds with the general formula [VO(L)] (L = hydrazone ligand) were synthesized using three different methods (acidic, neutral, and basic media) with either VOSO. 5HO, [VO(acac)], or NHVO as the starting material and hydrazone ligands. In both cases, five coordinated V ions adopted distorted square pyramidal geometry through the coordination of two oxido ligands and one hydrazone ligand.

Investigating the Role of OsHDT701 and Other Blast-Associated Negative Regulatory Genes in Indica Rice Cultivar Ranjit Using Combined Wet Lab and Computational Approaches.

Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, severely impacts global rice production. Understanding the role of the host's blast negative regulatory genes is crucial for combating this disease. We studied the expression of seven rice blast negative regulatory genes (previously characterized in ssp.

Purifying selection drove the adaptation of mitochondrial genes along with correlation of gene rearrangements and evolutionary rates in two subfamilies of Whitefly (Insecta: Hemiptera).

Insect mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are usually represented by a conserved gene order. Whiteflies exhibit gene rearrangement in their mitogenomes; however, understanding how nucleotide substitution rates shape gene rearrangement in whiteflies is unclear due to the limited number of mitogenomes. Additionally, the mechanisms by which selection pressure drives adaptations in mitochondrial genes in the two subfamilies of whiteflies are not yet known.