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Sex determination in maize involves the production of staminate and pistillate florets from an initially bisexual floral meristem. Pistil elimination in staminate florets requires jasmonic acid signaling, and functional pistils are protected by the action of the () gene. The gene was identified and found to encode a previously uncharacterized family 1 uridine diphosphate glycosyltransferase that localized to the plant peroxisomes. Constitutive expression of an transgene protected all pistils in the plant, causing complete feminization, a gain-of-function phenotype that operates by blocking the accumulation of jasmonates. The segregation of an transgene was used to effectively control the production of pistillate and staminate inflorescences in maize plants.
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Ann Behav Med
January 2025
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, United States.
Background: Hispanic/Latina women in the United States have high rates of cervical cancer and little is known regarding how sociocultural factors might be related to their cervical cancer prevention behaviors.
Purpose: Two studies examined correlates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine initiation, HPV vaccine completion, ever screening for cervical cancer, and being up to date with screening among screening- and vaccine-eligible Hispanic/Latina women.
Methods: Study 1 examined sociodemographic correlates of these behaviors using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Am J Public Health
October 2025
Alexander Furuya, Asa Radix, Adam Whalen, Jessica Contreras, Jenesis Merriman, Krish J. Bhatt, Roberta Scheinmann, and Dustin T. Duncan are with the Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY. Yusuf Ransome is with the Department of Social and Behav
To examine how one's community connectedness may act as a source of resilience and promote HIV prevention and care behaviors among transgender women of color. We analyzed survey data from 313 transgender women of color living in New York City collected from August 2020 to November 2022. The Community Connectedness Scale asks participants about their baseline feelings of connection, feelings of inclusion, feelings of belonging, feelings of isolation, and feelings of being unlike in relation to the transgender community.
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September 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Türkiye.
The etiology of gender dysphoria (GD) involves both biological and psychosocial factors and may have a neurodevelopmental aspect. We aimed to compare individuals with GD with each other and with cisgender individuals based on minor physical anomalies (MPAs). The case group comprised 108 individuals with GD (60 GD assigned female at birth [AFAB]; 48 GD assigned male at birth [AMAB]), most with same-biological-sex attraction.
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August 2025
Instituto de Medicina Social Hesio Cordeiro, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. R. São Francisco Xavier 524, Maracanã. 20550-900 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
In this article an analysis of the preventive campaigns against cervical cancer (CC) and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination developed by the National Cancer Institute (INCA) of the Ministry of Health was conducted, in addition to some campaigns produced by non-governmental organizations and private institutions, from 2014 to 2020. From a socio-anthropological point of view, the objective was to understand how these health technologies trigger and produce gender representations. Seven categories of analysis were developed ("Generationality of care", "Schooling", "Childhood and Youth", "Gamification", "Health risk", "Men's health" and "Neutrality") that permitted discussion of the themes that emerged in graphic pieces.
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September 2025
Universidade Católica de Pernambuco. Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Objectives: to develop a digital educational technology on LGBT-phobic bullying, in the form of a comic book, for health education among school-aged adolescents.
Methods: a methodological study employing the Planning of Computer-Supported Learning Activities method to guide the organization of development stages, combined with Edgar Morin's pedagogical framework, under the perspective of comprehension, health education, and the context of sexual and gender diversity.
Results: the comic book "LGBT-Phobic Bullying: Shall We Talk?" was developed with the aim of contributing to education and awareness in the fight against LGBT-phobic bullying in school environments, serving as a health educational technology product.