An outbreak of chlamydiosis was diagnosed in hatchling and juvenile Indopacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) on a crocodile farm in Papua New Guinea. The outbreak was characterised by high mortality with hepatitis and exudative conjunctivitis. The agent appears to have been introduced with live wild-caught crocodiles, which are purchased routinely by the farm. Improved quarantine procedures ...

1. Flood-sensitive plant species are restricted to highly elevated sites in floodplains, but why flood-tolerant plants do not grow at higher elevations is much less clear. We test the hypothesis that a trade-off exists between flood-tolerance and selective root placement in nutrient-rich patches, a putatively important trait in the more competitive highly elevated sites. 2. Achillea ptarmica , ...

The first step of anaerobic benzoate degradation is the formation of benzoyl-coenzyme A by benzoate-coenzyme A ligase. This enzyme, purified from Rhodopseudomonas palustris, is maximally active with 5 microM benzoate. To study the molecular basis for this reaction, the benzoate-coenzyme A ligase gene (badA) was cloned and sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequence of badA showed substantial sim...

Galianthe (Rubiaceae) is a neotropical genus comprising 50 species divided into two subgenera, Galianthe subgen. Galianthe, with 39 species and Galianthe subgen. Ebelia, with 11 species. The diagnostic features of the genus are: usually erect habit with xylopodium, distylous flowers arranged in lax thyrsoid inflorescences, bifid stigmas, 2-carpellate and longitudinally dehiscent fruits, with de...

We publish in this article a new species of tree Drypetes (Putranjivaceae) from the Democratic Republic Congo and Congo, D. palustris, which occurs Western Congolian Swamp Forests ecoregion. It is known eight gatherings we compare it with most similar morphology, calvescens, have studied 51 collected Central Africa. A taxonomic treatment both species, including their detailed descriptions, typi...

In South Korea, most metal mines were abandoned and caused contamination for more than 30 years. Even the soil is highly contaminated with trace elements, plants still grow in area can affect contamination. Phytolith amorphous silica plant body. resistant to decomposition, stabilization of carbon, nutrients, toxic substances accumulated phytolith being studied. this study, Gilgok gold mine, whi...

This study investigated the subcellular localization of key enzymes of the glyoxylate cycle, i.e. isocitrate lyase (ICL; EC 4.1.3.1) and malate synthase (EC 2.3.3.9), that function constitutively in coordination with oxalate biosynthesis of glucose-grown Fomitopsis palustris. The ICL purified previously from F. palustris is termed FPICL1. Subcellular fractionation analysis of the cell homogenat...

The pckA gene, encoding the gluconeogenic enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), was cloned by PCR amplification from the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris No. 7. Sequencing of a 2.5-kb chromosomal SmaI-PstI fragment containing the structural gene revealed an open reading frame encoding 537 amino acids, homologous to known pckA genes. Primer extension analysis ide...

background: human echinostomiasis is an intestinal disease caused by the members of family echinostomatidae parasites. the aim of present research was to identify echinos­tomatidae cercariae emitted by lymnaea palustris snails from mazandaran province in the north of iran based on the morphological and morphometrical charac­teristics of the different stages of experimental parasite life cycle. ...