Potential Ancestral Conoidean Toxins in the Venom Cocktail of the Carnivorous Snail Raphitoma purpurea (Montagu, 1803) (Neogastropoda: Raphitomidae)

Venomous marine gastropods of the superfamily Conoidea possess a rich arsenal of toxins, including neuroactive toxins.Venom adaptations might have played a fundamental role in the radiation of conoideans; nevertheless, there is still no knowledge about the venom of the most diversified family of the group: Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875.In this study,

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Cost of copyright as a financial instrument

This article is devoted to a new financial instrument, like copyright.This financial instrument gradually captures world markets.Definitely, simple money is replaced by digital money with the de-velopment of information technology.The new instrument does not have a centralized system of NB@10 control and is protected from copyright, which may favor

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Expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa CupD fimbrial genes is antagonistically controlled by RcsB and the EAL-containing PvrR response regulators.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative pathogenic bacterium with a high adaptive potential that allows proliferation in a broad range of hosts or niches.It is also the causative agent of both acute and chronic biofilm-related infections in humans.Three cup gene Lavender clusters (cupA-C), involved in the assembly of cell surface fimbriae, have b

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Aspects of political theology in the spiritual autobiographies of the Orthodox space? New potential keys of lec

Starting from the title question, the author tries to identify aspects of political theology in the spiritual autobiographies from the Orthodox space (especially from the 19th and 20th centuries).After presenting the main aspects that defines the genre, and, in the same time, after showing what political theology means, he emphasizes the main impor

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Quantifying inequities in US federal response to hurricane disaster in Texas and Florida compared with Puerto Rico

If disaster responses vary in their effectiveness across communities, health equity is affected.This paper aims to evaluate and describe variation in the federal disaster responses to 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, compared with the need and severity of storm damage through a retrospective analysis.Our analysis spans from Tops landfall to

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