MITOCHONDRIAL DNA MAPPING OF SOCIAL-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN BRAZILIAN AMAZONIAN AFRICAN-DESCENDANT POPULATIONS

Mitochondrial DNA mapping of social-biological interactions in Brazilian Amazonian African-descendant populations

The formation of the Brazilian Amazonian population has historically involved three main ethnic groups, Amerindian, African and European.This has resulted in genetic investigations having been carried out using classical polymorphisms and molecular markers.To better understand the genetic variability and the micro-evolutionary processes acting in h

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The Case for Nonlocal Modifications of Gravity

The huge amounts of undetected and exotic dark matter and dark energy needed to make general relativity work on large scales argue that we should investigate modifications of gravity.The only stable, metric-based and invariant alternative to general relativity is f(R) models.These Paella Pans models can explain primordial inflation, but they cannot

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Rapid Purification of Endotoxin-Free RTX Toxins

Cytolytic leukotoxins of the repeat in toxin (RTX) family are large proteins excreted by gram-negative bacterial pathogens through the type 1 secretion system (T1SS).Due to low yields and poor stability in cultures of the original pathogens, it is useful to purify recombinant fatty-acylated RTX cytolysins from inclusion bodies produced in E.coli.Su

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