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The model predicts that, in longer mammalian myotubes with a great number of nuclei, the spreading stage would be preceded with segregation of the nuclei into a large number of clusters, proportional to the myotube length, with a small average number of nuclei per cluster.Although the fungus Phaeomoniella chlamydospora is the most commonly detected causal agent of Petri disease and esca, two important fungal grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs), little is known about the dispersal patterns of P. chlamydospora inoculum. In this work, we studied the dispersal of P. chlamydospora airborne inoculum from 2016 to 2018 in two viticultural areas of eastern (Ontinyent) and northern (Logroño) Spain. The vineyards were monitored weekly from November to April using microscope slide traps, and P. chlamydospora was detected and quantified by a specific qPCR method set up in this work. The method was found to be sensitive, and a good correlation was observed between numbers of P. chlamydospora conidia (counted by microscope) and DNA copy numbers (quantified by qPCR). We consistently detected DNA of P. chlamydospora at both locations and in all seasons but in different quantities. In most cases, DNA was first detected in the last half of November, and most of the DNA was detected from December to early April. When rain was used as a predictor of P. chlamydospora DNA detection in traps, false negative detections were observed, but these involved only the 4% of the total. The dispersal pattern of P. chlamydospora DNA over time was best described (R2 = 0.765 and concordance correlation coefficient = 0.870) by a Gompertz equation, with time expressed as hydro-thermal (a physiological time accounting for the effects of temperature and rain). This equation could be used to predict periods with a high risk of dispersal of P. chlamydospora.Wnt signaling plays key roles in embryonic development and adult stem cell homeostasis and is altered in human cancer. Signaling is turned on and off by regulating stability of the effector β-catenin. The multiprotein destruction complex binds and phosphorylates β-catenin, and transfers it to the SCF-TrCP E3-ubiquitin ligase for ubiquitination and destruction. Wnt signals act though Dishevelled to turn down the destruction complex, stabilizing β-catenin. Recent work clarified underlying mechanisms, but important questions remain. We explore β-catenin transfer from the destruction complex to the E3 ligase, and test models suggesting Dishevelled and APC2 compete for association with Axin. We find that Slimb/TrCP is a dynamic component of the destruction complex biomolecular condensate, while other E3 proteins are not. Recruitment requires Axin and not APC, and Axin's RGS domain plays an important role. We find that elevating Dishevelled levels in Drosophila embryos has paradoxical effects, promoting the ability of limiting levels of Axin to turn off Wnt signaling. When we elevate Dishevelled levels, it forms its own cytoplasmic puncta, but these do not recruit Axin. Superresolution imaging in mammalian cells raises the possibility that this may result by promoting DishevelledDishevelled interactions at the expense of DishevelledAxin interactions when Dishevelled levels are high.Phytophthora ramorum, P. kernoviae and P. melonis are each species of current regulatory concern in United States, United Kingdom and other areas of the world. Ex-type material are cultures, and duplicates of the Type that was used to describe each species, and that are deposited in additional culture collections. Using these type specimens as references is essential to designing correct molecular identification and diagnostic systems. Here we report Whole Genome Sequence (WGS) for the Ex-type material of P. ramorum, P. kernoviae and P. melonis generated using High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) via the MinION third generation (3G-HTS) platform from Oxford Nanopore Technology. We assembled the quality filtered reads into contigs for each species. We assembled the continuous contigs of P. ramorum, P. kernoviae and P. melonis (1322, 545 and 2091 contigs respectively). The Ab initio prediction of genes from these species reveals that there are 16,838, 12,793 and 34,580 genes in P. ramorum, P. kernoviae and P. melonis, respectively. Of the 34,580 P. melonis genes, 10,164 genes were conserved among all three of these Phytophthora species which may include pathogenicity genes. We compared the ex-type of P. ramorum EU1 lineage assembly with another selected isolate of EU1 available at NCBI and found 251,859 SNPs genome-wide; the comparison with EU2 lineage genome isolate revealed 441,859 SNPs genome wide. This genome resource of the ex-types of P. ramorum, and P. kernoviae is a significant contribution as these species are among the most important pathogens of regulatory concern at different regions of the world.Establishing the pattern of abundance of molecules of interest during cell division has been a long-standing goal of cell cycle studies. Here, for the first time in any system, we present experiment-matched datasets of the levels of RNAs, proteins, metabolites, and lipids from un-arrested, growing, and synchronously dividing yeast cells. Overall, transcript and protein levels were correlated, but specific processes that appeared to change at the RNA level (e.g., ribosome biogenesis), did not do so at the protein level, and vice versa. We also found no significant changes in codon usage or the ribosome content during the cell cycle. We describe an unexpected mitotic peak in the abundance of ergosterol and thiamine biosynthesis enzymes. Although the levels of several metabolites changed in the cell cycle, by far the most significant changes were in the lipid repertoire, with phospholipids and triglycerides peaking strongly late in the cell cycle. Our findings provide an integrated view of the abundance of biomolecules in the eukaryotic cell cycle and point to a coordinate mitotic control of lipid metabolism.We have engineered a Human Immune System (HIS)-reconstituted mouse strain (DRAGA mouse HLA-A2. HLA-DR4. Rag1 KO. IL-2Rγc KO. NOD) in which the murine immune system has been replaced by a long-term, functional HIS via infusion of CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) from cord blood. Herein, we report that the DRAGA mice can sustain inducible and transmissible H1N1 and H3N2 influenza A viral (IAV) infections. DRAGA female mice were significantly more resilient than the males to the H3N2/Aichi infection, but not to H3N2/Hong Kong, H3N2/Victoria, or H1N1/PR8 sub-lethal infections. OX04528 supplier Consistently associated with large pulmonary hemorrhagic areas, both human and murine Factor 8 mRNA transcripts were undetectable in the damaged lung tissues but not in livers of DRAGA mice advancing to severe H1N1/PR8 infection. Infected DRAGA mice mounted a neutralizing anti-viral antibody response and developed lung-resident CD103 T cells.These results indicate that the DRAGA mouse model for IAV infections can more closely approximate the human lung pathology and anti-viral immune responses compared to non-HIS mice.