The Cfm2 gene is conserved in vertebrates and is linked to various developmental anomalies in humans. This gene is a paralogue of another novel gene named Cfm, for caudal forebrain and midbrain. In the mouse, Cfm was found ...

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are remarkable creatures with a complex eusocial hive structure. There are two female honeybee castes within a hive; a single queen and thousands of workers. The only reproductively active female ...

During a cyanobacterial bloom in Lake Omapere, cyanobacterial toxins were detected in Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) from the Hokianga Harbour using Enzyme-Linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). However, Detection and ...

Gremlin (Grm) is a potent antagonist of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), which is highly conserved among vertebrates. A combination of functional studies and gene expression analyses in mice and chicks showed that the ...

Gastrointestinal nematodes are the single most costly disease facing sheep production in New Zealand. Production loss due to parasitism is two-fold; the direct cost of anthelmintic treatment combines with production losses ...

The PAX gene family encodes a group of transcription factors that play important roles during embryogenesis with mutations resulting in developmental abnormalities. Normally expression of these genes is downregulated prior ...