Attractiveness, longevity, and release rates of multilure wafers for trapping males of the oriental fruit fly and melon fly (Diptera: Tephritidae).

Invasive fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) pose a serious threat to the production and export of many commercially important fruits and vegetables. Detection of the agricultural pests Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) and Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett) relies heavily on traps baited with male-specific attractants. For B.

Creating patient-specific vein models to characterize wall shear stress in hemodialysis population.

End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients require arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) that allow a mature vein to withstand hemodialysis. Unfortunately, venous thrombosis and stenosis in the cephalic vein arch after AVF placement is common and heavily influenced by hemodynamics. To better assess forces and flow behavior in the cephalic arch, we have built patient-specific millifluidic models that allow us to explore the complex interplay between patient-specific vein geometry and fluctuating hemodynamics.

pop-1/TCF, ref-2/ZIC and T-box factors regulate the development of anterior cells in the C. elegans embryo.

Patterning of the anterior-posterior axis is fundamental to animal development. The Wnt pathway plays a major role in this process by activating the expression of posterior genes in animals from worms to humans. This observation raises the question of whether the Wnt pathway or other regulators control the expression of the many anterior-expressed genes.