The male-male romance web series The Untamed reached a height of media interest in the summer of 2019 in China. Numerous Chinese young women were obsessed with the drama centred on the relationship between the two male protagonists, and many fan followers identified themselves as ‘ The Untamed Girls’. Through online observation of young female fans of the male-male romance web series, this study articulates how they were self-organised as a counterpublic and utilised strategic ways to negotiate with the party-state censorship. Drawing upon the conceptualisation of ‘ambivalence’, the study analyses a dual ambivalence in their collective actions. It is argued that The Untamed Girls’ participation as a popular feminist project is, however constantly intertwined with an assumption of heteronormativity and an internalised misogyny, where these seemingly empowered women are simultaneously reaffirming a heterosexual regulation of sexual desires and devaluing women when they celebrate the male-male romance embodied in such a drama series.
A bacterial strain, designated TSBY 57 T , was isolated during a study on the phylogenetic diversity of culturable bacteria from alpine permafrost in Tianshan Mountains, China, and was classified by means of a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The novel strain was found to belong to the genus Epilithonimonas and was distinguished from recognized species of this genus. Strain TSBY 57 T grew aerobically, at 0-30 8C, with 0-1.5 % (w/v) NaCl and at pH 6-8.Cells were Gram-stainnegative, non-motile, non-spore-forming rods. Compared with the reference strains, the novel strain was psychrotolerant. The predominant fatty acids were summed feature 3 (consisting of C 16 : 1 v7c and/or C 16 : 1 v6c), anteiso-C 15 : 0 and iso-C 15 : 0 .The sole respiratory quinone was MK-6.Phosphatidylethanolamine was predominant in the polar lipid profile of strain TSBY 57 T . These chemotaxonomic traits were in good agreement with the characteristics of the genus Epilithonimonas. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, strain TSBY 57 T was a member of the genus Epilithonimonas and was closely related to Epilithonimonas tenax DSM 16811 T (99.0 %), Epilithonimonas ginsengisoli DCY78 T (98.6 %) and Epilithonimonas lactis H1 T (98.5 %). However, DNA-DNA reassociation values between strain TSBY 57 T and E. tenax DSM 16811 T , E. ginsengisoli DCY78 T and E. lactis H1 T were 39.5¡2.6, 37.7¡1.0 and 37.3¡1.1 %, respectively. The G+C content of the DNA was 34.4¡0.2 mol%. Based on data from this polyphasic taxonomic study, strain TSBY 57 T represents a novel species of the genus Epilithonimonas, for which the name Epilithonimonas psychrotolerans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is TSBY 57 T (5NRRL B-51307 T 5CCTCC AB 207182 T ). The genus Epilithonimonas was defined by O'Sullivan et al.(2006) on the basis of rRNA cistron similarity studies and phenotypic characteristics. The first described species of the genus Epilithonimonas was isolated from the river epilithon (River Taff, Cardiff, UK), named Epilithonimonas tenax (type species). A second recognized species of the genus was then described, Epilithonimonas lactis (Shakéd et al., 2010), which was isolated from untreated cow's milk. Recently, two novel species have been established: Epilithonimonas xixisoli (Feng et al., 2014), isolated from wetland, and Epilithonimonas ginsengisoli (Hoang et al., 2015), isolated from ginseng rhizophere soil. Members of the genus Epilithonimonas are distributed in different freshwater and soil ecosystems.During a previous study (Bai et al., 2006), strain TSBY 57 T was isolated from a sample of alpine permafrost that was collected at the mouth of an ice-free cirque in Tianshan Mountains, China (438 079 10.20 N 868 499 28.20 E; altitude 3833 m).For phenotypic tests and fatty acid analysis, the reference strains E. tenax DSM 16811 T , E. ginsengisoli KCTC 32174 T and E. lactis H1 T were grown under the same conditions as strain TSBY 57 T . Cellular morphology was examined by transmission electron microscopy (JEM 1230; JEOL) using cells grown for 3 days at ...
ABSTRACT. The conserved protein Rod is found in various organisms. It is localized on the kinetochores or spindle microtubules during cell division. Rod is required for proper chromosome segregation during both mitosis and meiosis. The effects of rod mutations are similar for both equational and reductional divisions, giving rise to anaphases with lagging chromosomes and/or unequal numbers of chromosomes at the two poles. Recent studies have shown that Rod is a significant component of the mitotic checkpoint. It can form the RZZ complex with Zw10 and Zwilch, which plays an important role in maintaining a functional spindle assembly checkpoint.
: 706-714). In accordance with policies and procedures governing academic publication we concluded that the above-mentioned article published in Cell Struct. Funct. be retracted. We apologize to readers of the journals that this was not detected during the submission and review process.
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