After 15 years from its publication, the Szeptycki’s check-list of Protura World has been updated. Five new genera and 98 species since then were added. New taxonomical combinations have adopted. Updates to distribution also Globally, list shows 831 belonging 77 arranged in seven families three orders.&nbsp

BACKGROUND This paper includes 2742 specimens of 18 species of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) collected from 132 lotic sites in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, in the early summer of 2002 and 2003 and the spring of 2005 and 2006. NEW INFORMATION All species are recorded from this region for the first time, and Metacnephianigra (Rubtsov, 1940) is a new record for Turkey. Distri...

Cancer urania Herbst, 1801, is the type species of the leucosiid genus Coleusia Galil, 2006. Its identity has been a subject of confusion due to various taxonomical and nomenclatural issues. We redescribe the species, discuss its complex history and taxonomy, and a female syntype is designated as the lectotype of the species to clarify any lingering ambiguities concerning the type material of C...

Bacterial names are continually being changed in order to more adequately describe natural groups (the units of microbial diversity) and their relationships. The problems in Klebsiella taxonomy are illustrative and common to other bacterial genera. Like other bacteria, Klebsiella spp. were isolated long ago, when methods to identify and classify bacteria were limited. However, recently develope...

New cysteine proteinase inhibitors, TMC-52A, B, C, and D, were isolated from the fungal fermentation broth. On the basis of a taxonomical study, the producing strain, F-2665, was characterized as Gliocladium sp. Spectroscopic analyses and chemical degradation have shown TMC-52A to D to be epoxysuccinyl peptides. TMC-52A to D strongly inhibited cysteine proteinases, in particular, cathepsin L wi...

During the course of screening for new antibiotics from rare actinomycetes in our laboratory, a rare actinomycete initially designated as strain A-3416 was found to produce an antibiotic with strong activity against staphylococci resistant to various antibiotics. From its unique physicochemical properties, it was judged to be a new antibiotic and named antibiotic AB-64. In this paper, taxonomic...

The paper deals with the issue of how and to what extent WordNet-like resources provide the necessary information for an assessment of semantic similarity which is useful for practical applications. The general point is made that taxonomical information should be complemented with distributional evidence. The claim is substantiated through experimental data and an illustration of a word sense d...

Results We found that c-diversity decreases from south to north whereas a-diversity increases along the same latitudinal gradient. Communities in formerly glaciated regions are composed of smaller, more mobile species and show trait and taxonomical aggregation. In more southerly populations, which did not experience glaciation, earthworm species are larger, have smaller geographical ranges, and...

We present a novel approach to modelling biological information using ontologies. The system interlinks three ontologies, comprising anatomical, developmental and taxonomical information, and includes instances of structures for different species. The framework is constructed for comparative analyses in the field of evolutionary development. We have applied the approach to the vertebrate heart ...