To the best of our knowledge, this is the first instance of documented transposable element transcription in microsporidia, and could indicate active transposition.
A new study in the journal Science has found that rats can be helpful — the first instance that such behavior has been documented in rodents.
The first known documented instance of an attack by the Phylloxera in France was in a department of the former province of Languedoc, some time around 1863.
This case represents the first documented instance of a specific A. gambiae OBP ligand pairing combination, demonstrates the significance of OBPs in odor recognition, and can be expanded to the identification of other ligands for OBPs of Anopheles and other medically important insects.
The discovery appears to be one of the first publicly documented instances of an Iranian influence campaign conducted through U.S. social media, said Lee Foster, FireEye manager of information operations analysis.
The case, announced today, is the first documented instance of transmission from a mosquito to a person on the mainland of the United States outside Florida.
Although there are reported instances of use of its rhizome for hypoglycaemic effects, [ 18, 19] this is the first instance that the use of its leaves is documented.
On Friday, two women distributing Falun Gong leaflets were assaulted by a man with an iron bar -- the first documented instance of violence toward members of the movement in Hong Kong.
The first documented instance in English of "elector" as a translation of the German word Kurfürst (literally, "choose-prince") is from 1529, some 61 years later.We then have knights electors (first attestation: 1628).
Opposition activists have swarmed and harangued the league's monitors in Homs and other cities, confronting them with what they said was evidence of crimes by the security forces, but this appears to be the first documented instance of violence.
We report unambiguous landscape-scale evidence of interbreeding between wild and escapee Atlantic salmon resulting from a single-escape event, and of particular note, the first documented instance of which we are aware of feral offspring within the native range of Atlantic salmon18.
