A cGAL-UAS bipartite expression toolkit for sensory neurons.

Animals integrate sensory information from the environment and display various behaviors in response to external stimuli. In hermaphrodites, 33 types of sensory neurons are responsible for chemosensation, olfaction, and mechanosensation. However, the functional roles of all sensory neurons have not been systematically studied due to the lack of facile genetic accessibility.

and mechanosensors are involved in mating behavior in .

Male mating in is a complex behavior with a strong mechanosensory component. has several characterized mechanotransducer proteins, but few have been shown to contribute to mating. Here, we investigated the roles of , a piezo channel, and , a mechanotransducing TRPN channel, in male mating behavior.

Formation of vocabularies in a decentralized graph-based approach to human language.

Zipf's law establishes a scaling behavior for word frequencies in large text corpora. The appearance of Zipfian properties in vocabularies (viewed as an intermediate phase between referentially useless one-word systems and one-to-one word-meaning vocabularies) has been previously explained as an optimization problem for the interests of speakers and hearers. Remarkably, humanlike vocabularies can be viewed also as bipartite graphs.

Short-term dynamics of indoor and outdoor endotoxin exposure: Case of Santiago, Chile, 2012.

Indoor and outdoor endotoxin in PM2.5 was measured for the very first time in Santiago, Chile, in spring 2012. Average endotoxin concentrations were 0.

Depsides and triterpenes in Pseudocyphellaria coriifolia (lichens) and biological activity against Trypanosoma cruzi.

The lichen Pseudocyphellaria coriifolia is a species endemic to southern South America. From the lichen thallus, methyl evernate, tenuiorin and three hopane triterpenoids were isolated and identified as the main lichen constituents. Their trypanocidal effects were screened against epimastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi.