Accelerated evolution of constraint elements for hematophagic adaptation in mosquitoes

Comparative genomics is a powerful approach that comprehensively interprets the genome. Herein, we performed whole genome comparative analysis of 16 Diptera genomes, including four mosquitoes and 12 Drosophilae. We found more than 540 000 constraint elements （CEs） in the Diptera genome, with the majority found in the intergenic, coding and intronic regions. Accelerated elements （AEs） identified in mosquitoes were mostly in the proteincoding regions （〉93%）, which differs from vertebrates in genomic distribution. Some genes functionally enriched in blood digestion, body temperature regulation and insecticide resistance showed rapid evolution not only in the lineage of the recent common ancestor of mosquitoes （RCAM）, but also in some mosquito lineages. This may be associated with lineage-specific traits and/or adaptations in comparison with other insects. Our findings revealed that although universally fast evolution acted on biological systems in RCAM, such as hematophagy, same adaptations also appear to have occurred through distinct degrees of evolution in different mosquito species, enabling them to be successful blood feeders in different environments.

BEM for wave interaction with structures and low storage accelerated methods for large scale computation

The boundary element method（BEM） is a main method for analyzing the interactions between the waves and the marine structures. As with the BEM, a set of linear equations are generated with a full matrix, the required calculations and storage increase rapidly with the increase of the structure scale. Thus, an accelerated method with a low storage is desirable for the wave interaction with a very large structure. A systematic review is given in this paper for the BEM for solving the problem of the wave interaction with a large scale structure. Various integral equations are derived based on different Green functions, the advantages and disadvantages of different discretization schemes of the integral equations by the constant panels, the higher order elements, and the spline functions are discussed. For the higher order element discretization method, the special concerns are given to the numerical calculations of the single-layer potential, the double layer potential and the solid angle coefficients. For a large scale computation problem such as the wave interaction with a very large structure or a large number of bodies, the BEMs with the FMM and p FFT accelerations are discussed, respectively, including the principles of the FMM and the p FFT, and their implementations in various integral equations with different Green functions. Finally, some potential applications of the acceleration methods for problems with large scale computations in the ocean and coastal engineering are introduced.

A FRAMEWORK OF PARALLEL ALGEBRAIC MULTILEVEL PRECONDITIONING ITERATIONS

A framework for parallel algebraic multilevel preconditioning methods presented for solving large sparse systems of linear equstions with symmetric positive definite coefficient matrices,which arise in suitable finite element discretizations of many second-order self-adjoint elliptic boundary value problems. This framework not only covers all known parallel algebraic multilevel preconditioning methods, but also yields new ones. It is shown that all preconditioners within this framework have optimal orders of complexities for problems in two-dimensional(2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) problem domains, and their relative condition numbers are bounded uniformly with respect to the numbers of both levels and nodes.