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The clade Multicrustacea constitutes the largest superclass of crustaceans, containing approximately four-fifths of all described non-hexapod crustacean...

This article documents the chronology of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2021, which originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Some...

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a protein that stimulates cell growth and differentiation by binding to its receptor, EGFR. Human EGF is 6-kDa and has...

The start codon is the first codon of a messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript translated by a ribosome. The start codon always codes for methionine in eukaryotes...

In genetics, a transcription terminator is a section of nucleic acid sequence that marks the end of a gene or operon in genomic DNA during transcription...

Crescentin is a protein which is a bacterial relative of the intermediate filaments found in eukaryotic cells. Just as tubulins and actins, the other major...

While there is much commonality, different parts of the tree of life use slightly different genetic codes. When translating from genome to protein, the...

Alvania grancanariensis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. The length of the shell attains...

Commercial animal cloning is the cloning of animals for commercial purposes, including animal husbandry, medical research, competition camels and horses...

Clostridium novyi (oedematiens) a Gram-positive, endospore- forming, obligate anaerobic bacteria of the class Clostridia. It is ubiquitous, being found...

Gibberella is a genus of fungi in the family Nectriaceae. In 1926, Japanese scientists observed that rice plants infected with Gibberella had abnormally...

Linoleoyl-CoA desaturase (also Delta 6 desaturase, EC 1.14.19.3) is an enzyme that converts between types of fatty acids, which are essential nutrients...

Ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase, Rieske iron-sulfur polypeptide 1, also known as UQCRFS1, Rieske iron-sulfur (Fe-S) protein, Cytochrome b-c1 complex subunit...

Cellana strigilis is a species of large limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nacellidae, one of the families of true limpets. Baden Powell...

The hierarchical editing language for macromolecules (HELM) is a method of describing complex biological molecules. It is a notation that is machine readable...

Alvania auberiana, common name the West Indian alvania, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae...

Alvania hirta is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. The length of the shell attains 2.9...

Alvania amatii is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. The length of the shell varies between...

Alvania africana is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. The length of the shell varies between...

Alvania elegantissima is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. The length of the shell attains...