Group I chitin deacetylases (CDAs), CDA1 and CDA2, play an essential role in cuticle formation and molting in the process of insect wing development.A recent report showed that trachea are able to take up a secreted CDA1 (serpentine, serp) produced in the fat body to support normal tracheal development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.Howev

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BACKGROUND: Infection incidence increases with the average number of contacts between susceptible and infected individuals.Contact rates are normally assumed to increase linearly with host density.However, social species seek out each other at low density and saturate their contact rates at high densities.Although predicting epidemic behaviour requ