The diversity of Xylaria species associated with termite nests in northeast Thailand was investigated. Among the 14 taxa included this study, 11 and one variety were described as new, another two resemble existing taxa, X. escharoidea nigripes. newly are chaiyaphumensis, conica, fulvescens, ischnostroma, margaretae, minima, reinkingii var. microspora, siamensis, sihanonthii, subintraflava, thie...

Our study is based on oribatid mite materials collected from the Dipterocarpus alatus, Haldina cardifolia and Ochrocarpos siamensis tree species in Cat Tien National Park, southern Vietnam. A list of identified taxa includes 44 species/subspecies 31 genera 22 families. Of these, seven are recorded for first time Vietnam, two Oriental region. Sixteen mites were boles, 36 species, crowns. The Jac...

The plant growth promoting model bacterium FZB42T was proposed as the type strain of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. plantarum (Borriss et al., 2011), but has been recently recognized as being synonymous to Bacillus velezensis due to phylogenomic analysis (Dunlap C. et al., 2016). However, until now, majority of publications consider plant-associated close relatives of FZB42 still as "B. amyl...

BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania martiniquensis infection has been reported in human and domestic animals of Martinique Island, Germany, Switzerland, USA, Myanmar and Thailand. The peculiar clinical features of disseminated cutaneous and visceral forms co-existence render the urgent need of specific diagnostic tool to identify the natural sand fly vectors for effective prevention a...

Microbes have evolved ways of interference competition to gain advantage over their ecological competitors. The use of secreted antagonistic compounds by yeast cells is one of the prominent examples. Although this killer behavior has been thoroughly studied in laboratory yeast strains, our knowledge of the antagonistic specificity of killer effects in nature remains limited. In this study, yeas...

As part of a program aiming at the selection of yeast strains which might be of interest as sources of natural flavours and fragrances, the bioreduction of (4R)-(-)-carvone and (1R)-(-)-myrtenal by whole-cells of non-conventional yeasts (NCYs) belonging to the genera Candida, Cryptococcus, Debaryomyces, Hanseniaspora, Kazachstania, Kluyveromyces, Lindnera, Nakaseomyces, Vanderwaltozyma and Wick...