When working at quantifying the genome size of stingless bees, it was observed that males of Lestrimelitta sp possessed the same amount of nuclear DNA as the females. Thus, we used flow cytometry (FCM) and cytogenetic analysis to confirm the ploidy of these individuals. The males analyzed proved to be diploid, since, through cytometric analysis, it was demonstrated that the mean genome size of ...

Let & = (P, £, I) be a generalized quadrangle of order 5, s φ 1, having a flag (x, L) with χ and L regular. Then a generalized quadrangle SP = (Ρ',Β',Ι') of order s can be constructed. We say that &" is obtained by switching from & with respect to (je, L). Examples are given where ¥ £ &'\ e.g., starting from a T2(O) of Tits, with O an oval of PG(2, q), q even, with nucleus «, the GQ T2((O {*}) ...

The nucleotide sequence of Mycoplasma sp. (Kid) phenylalanine tRNA was determined to be pG-G-U-C-G-U-G-U-A-G-C-U-C-A-G-U-C-G-G-D-A-G-A-G-C-A-G-C- A-G-A-C-U-G-A-A-m(1)G-C-Psi-C-U-G-C-G-U-m(7)G-U-C-G-G-C-G-G-U-Psi-C-A-A-U-U-C-C-G-U-C-C-A-C-G-A-C-C-A-C-C-A(OH). It is characterized by the absence of ribothymidine and the presence of only few modified nucleotides.

We have examined the lipids of three isolates, Romboutsia lituseburensis, Romboutsia ilealis, and Romboutsia sp. strain FRIFI, of the newly described genus Romboutsia by two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography (2D-TLC) and by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS). We have found three phospholipids, phosphatidylglycerol (PG), cardiolipin and phosphatidic acid in all three species. A ...

Fungi and their enzymes have long been thought to cause the softening of pasteurized gherkins; however, exact fungal species timing contamination are unknown. Ready-to-sell pickle jars blossoms growing gherkins were inoculated with DNA-sequenced fungi isolated from rotting at various stages production. Fusarium oxysporum, equiseti, Galactomyces geotrichum, Mucor circinelloides, hiemalis, fragil...