Similar recovery time of microbial functions from fungicide stress across biogeographical regions

Infomap Bioregions: Interactive Mapping of Biogeographical Regions from Species Distributions

Biogeographical regions (bioregions) reveal how different sets of species are spatially grouped and therefore are important units for conservation, historical biogeography, ecology, and evolution. Several methods have been developed to identify bioregions based on species distribution data rather than expert opinion. One approach successfully applies network theory to simplify and highlight the...

Microbial biogeography: patterns in microbial diversity across space and time

Microbial Safety of Black Summer Truffle Collected from Sicily and Umbria Regions, Italy

Background: Tuber aestivum Vittad., known as black summer truffle, represents high-value food especially used as garnishment in nouvelle cuisine. The aim of this study was to investigate on the viable microbial populations associated with T. aestivum ascomata collected in different sites of Sicily and one locality of Umbria (Italy). Methods: The ripe ascomata of black summer truffles were coll...

Validation of microbial recovery from disinfectants.

We evaluated the efficacy of different neutralizing solutions for use in disinfectant efficacy assays. Our approach used comparisons between the recoveries of low inocula in different treatment populations. The challenge organisms employed were those described by the AOAC for use in determining germicidal, tuberculocidal, sporicidal, and fungicidal activity of disinfectants. Neutralizer efficac...

Story tracking: linking similar news over time and across languages

The Europe Media Monitor system (EMM) gathers and aggregates an average of 50,000 newspaper articles per day in over 40 languages. To manage the information overflow, it was decided to group similar articles per day and per language into clusters and to link daily clusters over time into stories. A story automatically comes into existence when related groups of articles occur within a 7-day win...