Adult and larval identification of Diabrotica can be difficult. Some adult identifications require considerable taxonomic experience while larvae of many Diabrotica species are morphologically indistinguishable. This study was conducted to determine whether 12 pest and non-pest Diabrotica species could be separated using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RF...

Conspecificity of the morphologically-similar, sympatric nudibranch species Dendrodoris gunnamatta (Allen, 1932) and krusensternii (Gray, 1850) was tested using sequences mitochondrial COI gene. Data analysis supports presence phenotypic polymorphy in D. where specimens from large estuaries embayments central New South Wales, Australia either lack or have highly reduced sky-blue ocellae.

The present study evaluated the association of carbon monoxide intoxication (COI) with Parkinson disease (PD).A total of 9012 adults newly diagnosed with COI were enrolled in this study as the COI cohort. The control (non-COI) cohort, comprising 36,048 participants, was matched for each COI patient according to age, sex, and the year of hospitalization. We calculated the hazard ratios (HR) and ...

With almost 40 000 species, the spiders provide important model systems for studies of sociality, mating systems, and sexual dimorphism. However, work on this group is regularly constrained by difficulties in species identification. DNA-based identification systems represent a promising approach to resolve this taxonomic impediment, but their efficacy has only been tested in a few groups. In th...

Abstract We establish a new genus of planocerid polyclad, Heteroplanocera gen. nov., based on species, H. katoi sp. collected at depth 245 m off the coast Izu Peninsula, West Pacific, Japan. nov. is distinguished from other genera by following characteristics: (i) pair nuchal tentacles, (ii) muscular bulb, (iii) spermiducal bulbs (instead seminal vesicle), (iv) free prostatic vesicle, (v) acces...

BACKGROUND Competing interests occur frequently in health care. This results in the potential for conflict of interest (COI). COI can lead to biased generation or assessment of evidence and misinform healthcare decision makers. Declaration of COI is insufficient to neutralize potentially harmful effects. Medical professional societies are obliged to develop robust mechanisms to "manage" COI, pa...

The genetic differentiation and genetic structure of the peach fruit moth, Carposina sasakii Matsumura (Lepidoptera: Carposinidae), was investigated in China, where the moth is native. The mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene of 180 individuals from 16 collections were sequenced and analyzed. The results showed that two sympatric and cryptic mtDNA lineages existed within C. sasakii i...

Morphological identification and molecular study on the COI gene were simultaneously conducted on Anagrus Haliday 'atomus' group individuals collected in the field in Italy or supplied from a UK biofactory. Females were morphologically identified as A. atomus L. and A. parvus Soyka sensu Viggiani (=A. ustulatus sensu Chiappini). Alignment of COI gene sequences from this study permitted recognit...

A fragment of 808 base pairs within the mtDNA gene cytochrome oxidase I (COI) was analyzed for 15 species of Anastrepha: 12 within the fraterculus group, one unplaced species and two outgroups. Phylogenetic relationships among the included taxa were inferred using neighbor-joining and maximum parsimony methods. The average Jukes-Cantor genetic distance among the species was 0.033±0.006 and the ...

Single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis discriminated three mtDNA haplotypes in the greenbug, Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) (Homoptera: Aphididae), previously identified by sequencing a 1.0–1.2 kb portion of the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. Neighborjoining, maximum parsimony, and maximum likelihood analysis of a 150 b portion of the original 1.2 kb fragment of the CO...