•Among the Lepidonotinae, two species of Lepidonotus are referred to new genera: L. dictyolepis Haswell, from Australia, to Augenerilepidonotus, and L. kumari Rullier, from Malaya, to Olgalepidonotus. As part of an on-going study on the polynoid polychaetes, two species that were described under Lepidonotus Leach, 1816, L. dictyolepis Haswell, 1883, from Australia, and L. kumari Rullier, 1970, ...

A recurrent issue for data integration is the lack of a common and structured vocabulary used by different parties to describe their data sets. The Crop Ontology (www.cropontology.org) project aims to provide a central place where the crop community can gather to generate such standardized vocabularies and structure them into ontologies. Having standardized ontologies opens the world of the Sem...

Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome types I and III (TRPS1, OMIM 190350; TRPS3, OMIM 190351) are rare hereditary diseases with autosomal dominant inheritance (1, 2). The first case was reported in 1966 (3). In 2000 the TRPS1 gene was identified as one of its causative genes and mapped to chromosomal region 8q24.1 (1). These syndromes have characteristic sparse and slow-growing hair, craniofacial abn...

A family is reported in which the 'acromegaloid facial appearance' (AFA) phenotype was segregating through two generations. The five affected persons showed a striking resemblance to the patients previously reported, including progressively coarse acromegaloid-like facial appearance, narrow palpebral fissures, bulbous nose, and thickening of the lips and intraoral mucosa, resulting in exaggerat...

The adult dog pineal gland was studied with the electron microscope. Pineal connective tissue spaces were poorly developed and showed capillaries with nonfenestrated endothelial cells. Two cell types, pinealocytes and astrocytes, could be identified in pineal parenchyma. Dog pinealocytes showed microtubules, centrioles, occasional cilia, and well-developed Golgi complexes. These cells showed th...

DIAGNOSIS: A. All that is papillary in the bladder is not papillary urothelial neoplasia: i. Diagnostic pitfalls: papillary hyperplasia, nephrogenic adenoma, fibroepithelial polyp and papillary/polypoid cystitis ii. Artifacts: pseudopapillary folds and avulsed urothelium B. All urothelial proliferations that expand the lamina propria are not invasive carcinoma: i. Diagnostic pitfalls: florid vo...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To report a case and the unique histopathology of a necrotic uveal melanoma mimicking advanced Coats' disease in a young adult. METHOD A 26-year-old male presented with a blind, painful eye, total exudative retinal detachment, and bulbous aneurysms consistent with Coats' disease. No masses were visualized on ultrasound or CT scan, and the patient underwent enucleation of the e...

The purpose of this article is to describe the clinical features of otodental syndrome. A 9-year-old boy presented with dental abnormalities that have been described for otodental syndrome. The characteristic findings included large bulbous crowns in canine and molar teeth of both dentitions, deep vertical enamel fissures separating the cusps of affected molars, and hypoplastic yellow areas on ...

Whether bulbous, Roman, or pug, the nose gets all the credit. But the actual star of smell is an unassuming patch of tissue, several centimeters square, tucked up inside each nasal cavity. After a whiff of a peach or a lilac, this tissue captures the volatile chemicals traveling into each nostril. The chemicals bind to receptors on the tissue's millions of neurons, the neurons relay the informa...

Some of the mitochondria in the free-living giant ameba Pelomyxa carolinensis (Chaos chaos) exhibit unusual and strikingly complex morphological patterns. A study of serial sections of these mitochondria reveals that the patterns are formed by the organization and packing of minute villi (cristae mitochondrlales). The form of the individual villus is a regular soft zigzag (or wave) with a bulbo...