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The effects of phosphate application in Pb-contaminated soil on the oxidative stress of leaves, Pb accumulation in maize biomass and Pb speciation in rhizosphere soil
Reducing the bioavailability of lead (Pb) in soil is the key to alleviating the toxicity of Pb to plants. The present study investigated the effects of phosphorus application on Pb speciation in soil and the o...
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in water buffaloes and cats in Guangxi, China
Toxoplasma gondii is a pathogen that poses a serious threat to human health and causes significant economic losses to the global livestock industry. The prevalence of toxoplasmosis infection has been reported to ...
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Open AccessShort-term triphenyltin exposure alters microbial homeostasis in the silkworm (Bombyx mori) midgut
Triphenyltin (TPT) is a widespread synthetic chemical used in many fields and its potential risk to organisms has been comprehensively investigated using different animal models and species. Currently, little ...
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Open AccessCharacteristics of heavy metals in soil of lead-zinc mining areas and changes of antioxidant enzyme systems in maize leaf under Pb stress
Pb, Cu, Cd, Zn content of soil in mining areas and abandoned land, flats of the Pijiang River and farmlands were investigated. On this basis of soil heavy metal pollution, the changes of antioxidant enzyme sys...
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Open AccessUltrafast Raman fiber laser: a review and prospect
Ultrafast Raman fiber laser has been proved to be an effective method to obtain ultrafast optical pulses at special wavelength. Yet, compared with conventional rare-earth doped counterparts, it is challenging ...
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Open AccessThe mouse cortico–basal ganglia–thalamic network
The cortico–basal ganglia–thalamo–cortical loop is one of the fundamental network motifs in the brain. Revealing its structural and functional organization is critical to understanding cognition, sensorimotor ...
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Asymptotics of Weak Solution to a Chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes System with Superlinear Degradation
This paper studies a coupled chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes model with arbitrary superlinear dampening logistic term ...
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Open AccessOrganization of the inputs and outputs of the mouse superior colliculus
The superior colliculus (SC) receives diverse and robust cortical inputs to drive a range of cognitive and sensorimotor behaviors. However, it remains unclear how descending cortical input arising from higher-...
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Open AccessConnectivity characterization of the mouse basolateral amygdalar complex
The basolateral amygdalar complex (BLA) is implicated in behaviors ranging from fear acquisition to addiction. Optogenetic methods have enabled the association of circuit-specific functions to uniquely connect...
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Highly efficient organic solar cells enabled by a porous ZnO/PEIE electron transport layer with enhanced light trap**
In this study, a porous inorganic/organic (ZnO/PEIE, where PEIE is polyethylenimine ethoxylated) (P-ZnO) hybrid material has been developed and adopted in the inverted organic solar cells (OSCs). The P-ZnO ser...
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Fluid interaction does not affect the critical exponent in a three-dimensional Keller–Segel–Stokes model
The coupled chemotaxis fluid system $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{llc} n_t=\nabla \cdot ( (n+1)^{m-1}\nabla n)-\nabla \cdot (n(n+1)^{m-\alpha -1} \nabla c)-u\cdot \nabla n, &{}(x,t)\in \Omega \times (0,...
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Open AccessGenome-wide exploration and characterization of miR172/euAP2 genes in Brassica napus L. for likely role in flower organ development
APETALA2-like genes encode plant-specific transcription factors, some of which possess one microRNA172 (miR172) binding site. The miR172 and its target euAP2 genes are involved in the process of phase transformat...
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Global classical small-data solutions for a three-dimensional chemotaxis Navier–Stokes system involving matrix-valued sensitivities
The coupled chemotaxis fluid system $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{lll} n_t=\Delta n-\nabla \cdot (n S(x,n,c)\cdot \nabla c)-...
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Boundedness in a three-dimensional chemotaxis–haptotaxis model
This paper studies the chemotaxis–haptotaxis system $$\left\{\begin{array}{lll} u_t = \Delta u - \chi\nabla \cdot (u\nabla v) - \xi\na...
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Open AccessLarge numbers of new bacterial taxa found by Yunnan Institute of Microbiology
Extreme environments, primeval forest, sea sediments and plants in China yielded members of a new suborder, Jiangellineae, a new family Sinobacteraceae, and 23 new genera of actinomycetes and other bacteria. T...
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Proteome analysis on differentially expressed proteins of the fat body of two silkworm breeds, Bombyx mori, exposed to heat shock exposure
Proteomes of heat tolerant (multivoltine) and heat susceptible (bivoltine) silkworms (Bombyx mori) in response to heat shock were studied. Detected proteins from fat body were identified by using MALDI-TOF/TOF sp...
