Propagation of Delayed Lattice Differential Equations without Local Quasimonotonicity

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions and asymptotic spreading of delayed lattice differential equations without quasimonotonicity. The spreading speed is obtained by constructing auxiliary equations and using the theory of lattice differential equations without time delay. The minimal wave speed of invasion traveling wave solutions is established by presenting the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions

Existence of Bistable Waves in a Competitive Recursion System with Ricker Nonlinearity

Using an abstract scheme of monotone semiflows, the existence of bistable traveling wave solutions of a competitive recursion system with Ricker nonlinearity is established. The traveling wave solutions formulate the strong inter-specific actions between two competitive species

Coinvasion-Coexistence Traveling Wave Solutions of an Integro-Difference Competition System

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of an integro-difference competition system, of which the purpose is to model the coinvasion-coexistence process of two competitors with age structure. The existence of nontrivial traveling wave solutions is obtained by constructing generalized upper and lower solutions. The asymptotic and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions are proved by combining the theory of asymptotic spreading with the idea of contracting rectangle

Minimal wave speed of traveling wavefronts in delayed Belousov-Zhabotinskii model

This paper is concerned with the traveling wavefronts of Belousov-Zhabotinskii model with time delay. By constructing proper upper and lower solutions and applying the theory of asymptotic spreading, the minimal wave speed is obtained under the weaker condition than that in the known results. Moreover, the strict monotonicity of any monotone traveling wavefronts is also established

Bistable Wave Fronts in Integrodifference Equations

This paper is concerned with the bistable wave fronts of integrodifference equations. The existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic stability of bistable wave fronts for such an equation are proved by the squeezing technique based on comparison principle

Identification and functional characterization of DR6, a novel death domain‐containing TNF receptor

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Nitrogen application rates need to be reduced for half of the rice paddy fields in China

This research was partially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFD0800500), the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest (201003014, 201303089), National Natural Science Foundation of China (41773068) and the Newton Fund (Grant Ref: BB/N013484/1).Peer reviewedPostprin

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead