Molecular characterization of the Newcastle disease virus that caused an outbreak in backyard birds in Costa Rica in 2015

Costa Rica gained its Newcastle Disease Virus NDV-free status with vaccination according to OIE proceedings in 1996, and its declaration as a country free of the velogenic, viscerotropic form of this disease (G/SPS/GEN/119) presented to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1999.On April 24th, 2015, SENASA (National Animal Health Service) attended

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Transition to Multicellularity and Peto Paradox

This paper aims to explain the transition to Measuring Cup Sets multicellularity as a consequence of the evolutionary response to stress.The proposed model is composed of three parts.The first part details stochastic biochemical kinetics within a reactor (potentially compartmentalized), where kinetic rates are influenced by random stress parameters

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