Rapid and Localized Mechanical Stimulation and Adhesion Assay: TRPM7 Involvement in Calcium Signaling and Cell Adhesion. by Wagner Shin Nishitani, Adriano Mesquita Alencar, Yingxiao Wang

“…The intracellular calcium ion concentration was measured by the genetically encoded Cameleon biosensor, with the Transient Receptor Potential cation channel, subfamily M, member 7 (TRPM7) expression inhibited. …”
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Poplar Tree Response to Feeding by the Petiole Gall Aphid <i>Pemphigus spyrothecae</i> Pass by Izabela Kot, Katarzyna Kmieć

“…<i>Pemphigus spyrothecae</i> Pass. which is a member of the subfamily Pemphiginae is one of the gall-inducing aphids that occurs on poplar trees. …”
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Complete mitochondrial genome of the spotted alfalfa aphid, Therioaphis trifolii (Hemipera: Aphididae) by Xinzhi Liu, Shuhua Wei, Jia He, Fan Song, Hu Li, Wanzhi Cai

“…The phylogenetic tree supports the monophyly of Aphidinae and the sister relationship between T. trifolii and seven species of subfamily Aphidinae.…”
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Mitochondrial genomes of eight Scelimeninae species (Orthoptera) and their phylogenetic implications within Tetrigoidea by Ran Li, Xiaoli Ying, Weian Deng, Wantao Rong, Xiaodong Li

“…Scelimeninae was classified as a non-monophyletic subfamily.…”
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Fossil-calibrated phylogenies of Southern cave wētā show dispersal and extinction confound biogeographic signal by Eddy J. Dowle, Steven A. Trewick, Mary Morgan-Richards

“…The radiation of Macropathinae may have begun in the late Jurassic, but trans-oceanic dispersal is required to explain the current distribution of some lineages within this subfamily. Dating the most recent common ancestor of seven island endemic species with their nearest mainland relative suggests that each existed long before their island home was available. …”
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New Synonym and New Species Record of <i>Filchneria</i> (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) from China with a Morphological, Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Study on This Genus by Qing-Bo Huo, Bin-Qing Zhu, Abdur Rehman, Dávid Murányi, Yu-Zhou Du, Jun Wu

“…Phylogenetic analysis based on the subfamily Perlodinae is provided, along with morphological and biogeographic comparisons of <i>Filchneria</i> and its relatives.…”
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Reconstructing the phylogeny of the hornless rhinoceros Aceratheriinae by Xiao-Kang Lu, Xiao-Kang Lu, Tao Deng, Tao Deng, Tao Deng, Luca Pandolfi

“…This study presents the first phylogenetic analysis focused on the subfamily Aceratheriinae to date, with 392 characters (361 parsimony-informative characters) coded from 50 taxa at the species level. …”
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A role for extracellular amastigotes in the immunopathology of Chagas disease by Julio Scharfstein, Alexandre Morrot

“…Peptide epitopes from a highly polymorphic subfamily of trans-sialidase (TS) antigens were recently identified as targets of killer T cell (CTL) responses, both in mice and humans. …”
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Drugs acting at TRPM7 channels inhibit seizure‐like activity by Aytakin Khalil, Tawfeeq Shekh‐Ahmad, Stjepana Kovac, Robert C. Wykes, F. David Horgen, Andrea Fleig, Matthew C. Walker

“…Abstract Transient receptor potential cation subfamily M7 (TRPM7) channels are ion channels permeable to divalent cations. …”
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A New Subgenus and Species of <i>Priochirus</i> from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) by Yuan Peng, Rixin Jiang, Chao Shi, Xiaoxuan Long, Michael S. Engel, Shuo Wang

“…Despite this preponderance of available fossil material, fossils of the diverse subfamily Osoriinae remain rare. Here, we describe a new ososriine species, <i>Priochirus trisclerite</i> sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar. …”
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Magnetic Ion Channel Activation (MICA)-Enabled Screening Assay: A Dynamic Platform for Remote Activation of Mechanosensitive Ion Channels by Afeesh Rajan Unnithan, Michael Rotherham, Hareklea Markides, Alicia J. El Haj

“…The study demonstrated that active targeting of mechanosensitive integrins via RGD (Arginylglycylaspartic acid) motifs or TREK1 (KCNK2, potassium channel subfamily K member 2) ion channels can stimulate the ERK pathway and intracellular calcium levels compared to non-MICA controls. …”
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Entomological Survey and Impact of Climatic Factors on the Dynamics of Sandflies in Central Morocco by Hajar El Omari, Abdelkader Chahlaoui, Fatima Zahra Talbi, Amina Chlouchi, Fouad El-Akhal, Khadija Lahouiti, Amal Taroq, Meryem Mrani Alaoui, Abdelhakim El Ouali Lalami

“…Sandflies are small insects belonging to the order Diptera, which make up the Phlebotominae subfamily within the Psychodidae family. In the fight against leishmaniasis in the prefecture of Meknes, Morocco, a study of the phlebotomist population was carried out during the period of activity of sandflies while studying the link between the abundance of these insects and climatic factors, namely, temperature, moisture, rainfall, and wind speed. …”
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Non-marine fish of the late Santonian Milk River Formation of Alberta, Canada – evidence from vertebrate microfossil localities by Don B Brinkman, Andrew G. Neuman, Julien Divay

“…The Milk River fish assemblage is more similar to assemblages from southern Utah than it is to the late Campanian assemblage of Alberta in the presence of the elasmobranch Lonchidion and a member of amiid subfamily Vidalamiinae, the relatively high abundance of the ostariophysan teleost U3/BvD, and the absence of sturgeon, Holostean A, Holostean B, and Coriops. …”
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Critical appraisal of the piRNA-PIWI axis in cancer and cancer stem cells by Elena Garcia-Borja, Frantisek Siegl, Rosana Mateu, Ondrej Slaby, Aleksi Sedo, Petr Busek, Jiri Sana

“…Abstract Small noncoding RNAs play an important role in various disease states, including cancer. PIWI proteins, a subfamily of Argonaute proteins, and PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) were originally described as germline-specific molecules that inhibit the deleterious activity of transposable elements. …”
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First crAss-Like Phage Genome Encoding the Diversity-Generating Retroelement (DGR) by Vera Morozova, Mikhail Fofanov, Nina Tikunova, Igor Babkin, Vitaliy V. Morozov, Artem Tikunov

“…The genome of the phage referred to as the crAssphage LMMB, belonged to the candidate <i>genus I</i> of the AlphacrAssvirinae subfamily. The DGR-cassette of the crAssphage LMMB contained all the essential elements: the gene encoding reverse transcriptase (RT), the target gene (TG) encoding the tail-collar fiber protein, and variable and template repeats (VR and TR) with IMH (initiation of mutagenic homing) and IMH* sequences at the 3′-end of the VR and TR, respectively. …”
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Genome-wide identification of the ZIP gene family in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) and expression analysis under different element stress by Feng Gao, Jing Li, Jing Zhang, Nenghui Li, Chaonan Tang, Emily Patience Bakpa, Jianming Xie

“…Based on phylogenetic analyses, the LsZIP gene family can be divided into three subfamilies, and the LsZIP genes within the same subfamily shared similar gene structure. …”
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Food-plant catalogue of aphids (Aphididae: Homoptera) on malvids clade (Angiosperms: Eudicots: Eurosids) of flowering plants in India by Rajendra Singh

“…A total of 150 species of aphids belonging to 71 genera and 11 subfamilies were recorded to infest 172 species of this clade of flowering plants belonging to 105 genera, 21 families and 5 orders. …”
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AMMONOIDS FROM THE ZHUGANPO MEMBER OF THE FALANG FORMATION AT NIMAIGU AND THEIR RELEVANCE FOR DATING THE XINGYI FOSSIL-LAGERSTÄTTE (LATE LADINIAN, GUIZHOU, CHINA) by XIAODONG ZOU, MARCO BALINI, DA-YONG JIANG, ANDREA TINTORI, ZUO-YU SUN, YUAN-LIN SUN

“…New genera Yangites, Haoceras and Sinomeginoceras are described on the basis of four new species. The new subfamily Haoceratinae (family Trachyceratidae) is erected to accommodate Haoceras and Sinomeginoceras. …”
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The application of machine learning methods to the prediction of novel ligands for RORγ/RORγT receptors by Rafał A. Bachorz, Joanna Pastwińska, Damian Nowak, Kaja Karaś, Iwona Karwaciak, Marcin Ratajewski

“…The resulting models were applied to the virtual screening of the ZINC20 database to identify new, biologically active ligands of RORγ receptors, which are a subfamily of nuclear receptors. Based on the known ligands of RORγ, we selected candidates and calculate their predicted activities with the best-performing models. …”
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The Inhibitory Effects of Ca2+ Channel Blocker Nifedipine on Rat Kv2.1 Potassium Channels. by Xian-Tao Li, Xiao-Qing Li, Xi-Mu Hu, Xiao-Yue Qiu

“…But to date, little is known whether nifedipine exerted an action on Kv2.1 channels, a member of the Shab subfamily with slow inactivation. In the present study, we explored the effects of nifedipine on rat Kv2.1 channels expressed in HEK293 cells. …”
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