INTRODUCTION Biological communities present in soil are essential to sustainable and productive agricultural practices; however, an accurate determination of the ecological status of agricultural soils remains to date an elusive task. An ideal indicator should be pervasive, play a relevant role in the ecosystem, show a rapid and proportional answer to external perturbations and be easily and ec...

in order to find a taxonomical difference between the larvae of a. stephensi and a. superpietus, 100 larvae of each species were taken and the number of branchings of the middle prothoracic hairs in the direction of the outer prothoracic hair were counted. the means found for a. stephensi and a. superpictus are 11.20 and 13.11 respectively, which are statistically significant. further studies o...

The present study employed 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to survey the prokaryotic microbiota on Farpuk Cave, revealing a diverse bacterial community with 4,021 operational taxonomical units (OTUs), mainly dominated by the genus Rhodococcus. Moreover, 18.17% of the OTUs were unclassified at the phylum level, suggesting the existence of novel bacterial species.

Three new species of oribatid mites of the genus Plonaphacarus, Plonaphacarus sidorchukae sp. nov., Plonaphacarus rybalovi sp. nov. and Plonaphacarus hamulus sp. nov., are described from Bale Mountains National Park (Afrotropical region, Ethiopia). Morphological and taxonomical remarks about Steganacarus (Steganacarus) sol and Steganacarus (Steganacarus) vestitus are presented.

In order to identify the resulted bioactive strain MSB-6 from primary and secondary screening of marine soil samples, various morphological, physiological and biochemical tests are performed. Further confirmation is done by the 16S rRNA gene analysis. The reports confirmed strain MSB-6 as Pseudomonas fluorescens and it is deposited to Gene Bank with the accession number KC852045. It is mesophil...

This study was conducted during two successive seasons 2003 and 2004 by using twelve peach cultivars whether importedlow chill or originated as strains of local cultivar Meet Ghamr. Studied cultivars were either early-season ones (namely, Robin, Rubidoux, and Spring Time) or mid-season cultivars (namely, Florida Red, Fla 16/33, Fla 3/2, Desert Red, Bemto, and Hagazy) or late-season cultivars (n...

Metagenomics is the study of the genomic content of a sample of organisms obtained from a common habitat using targeted or random sequencing. Goals include understanding the extent and role of microbial diversity. The taxonomical content of such a sample is usually estimated by comparison against sequence databases of known sequences. Most published studies use the analysis of paired-end reads,...

hyalomma marginatum rufipes (acari: ixodidae) along with three closely related subspecies is considered as marginatum group. the subspecies had proven as main vector of crimean congo hemorrhagic fever virus, the cause of human death in asia, africa and europe. this tick is also a vector of parasitic protozoan theileria annulata, agent of tropical theileriosis in cattle. nonetheless, taxonomical...

Fragmentation is a recurring feature of archaeological faunal material, and impacts many aspects zooarchaeological studies from taxonomical identification to biometric studies. It can result anthropic natural actions that occurred respectively before and/or after bone deposit. While several fragmentation typologies have been described, they are currently based on both macroscopic observations r...