HISTORICAL ECOLOGY MEETS CONSERVATION AND EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS: A SECONDARY CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN CARABUS VIOLACEUS (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE) POPULATIONS INHABITING ANCIENT AND RECENT WOODLANDS IN NORTH-WESTERN GERMANY

Only very few cases have documented that an increase in connectivity after a period of fragmentation in ecological time has had an effect on the distribution, genetic structure and morphology of stenotopic species.In this study we present an example of clinal variability in a woodland ground beetle as a result of changes in the connectivity of a la

Understanding the host-selection behavior of herbivorous insects is important to clarify their efficacy and safety as biocontrol agents.To explore the host-plant selection of the beetle Ophraella communa, a natural enemy of the alien invasive common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), we conducted a series of outdoor choice experiments in cages in 2

The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is overexpressed in many cancers, including breast, ovarian, endometrial and non-small cell lung cancer.An EGFR-specific imaging agent could facilitate clinical evaluation of primary tumors or metastases.To achieve this goal, 4-(2-aminoethylamino)-6,7-dimethoxyquinazoline (ADMQ) was synthesized based on a

Abstract We apply the technique of sequential deconfinement to the four dimensional N $$ mathcal{N} $$ = 1 U sp(2N) gauge theory with an antisymmetric field and 2F fundamentals.The fully deconfined frame is a length-N Carving Fork Sets quiver.We use this deconfined frame to prove the known self-duality of U sp(2N) with an antisymmetric field and 8

It is hypothesized that SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to elicit autoimmunity due to molecular mimicry between immunogenic proteins of the virus and human extracellular molecules.While in silico and in vitro evaluation of such immune cross-reactivity of human antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 proteins with several different tissue antigens has been described,