A new tiger moth, Micrarctia kautti sp. n., from southwest China, Sichuan is described. A diagnostic comparison with Micrarctia trigona (Leech, 1899) is provided. During recent years the Chinese Arctiini have been intensively collected and explored (Dubatolov, 1996a; Dubatolov, 1996b; Dubatolov, 2003; Dubatolov, Kishida & Wu, 2005; Fang & Cao, 1984; Fang, 2000 and numerous other publications) s...

Epiphytic yeasts, which colonize plant surfaces, may possess activity that can be harnessed to help plants defend themselves against various pathogens. Due to their unique characteristics, epiphytic yeasts belonging to the genus Pseudozyma hold great potential for use as biocontrol agents. We identified a unique, biologically active isolate of the epiphytic yeast Pseudozyma aphidis that is capa...

O. Entin-Wohlman,1,* H. Bary-Soroker,2 A. Aharony,1,† Y. Imry,3 and J. G. E. Harris4,5 1Department of Physics and the Ilse Katz Center for Mesoand Nano-Scale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva IL-84105, Israel 2Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva IL-84105, Israel 3Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot IL-76100,...

The ability of a parasite strain to establish and grow on its host may be drastically altered by simultaneous infection by other parasite strains, and dynamics under multiple infection have been suggested to be a major force driving pathogen evolution. Here, I studied whether hosts' induced defenses mediate dynamics of multiple infection of the fungal pathogen, Podosphaera plantaginis, infectin...