Visceral leishmaniasis is a macrophage associated disorder which leads to a profound decrease in the natural immunotherapeutic potential of the infected subjects to combat the disease. The major surface glycoprotein gp63 has been found to be a significant vaccine candidate against visceral leishmaniasis. The current study addresses the levels of similarity and identity in the gp63 obtained from...

Disakisperma Steud. is a genus of four predominantly perennial C4 (NAD-ME) species in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Its species previously were treated in Eleusine, Eragrostis, Coelachyrum, Cypholepis, Leptochloa, or Diplachne by nearly all authors.It includes the widespread North and South American amphitropical disjunct Disakisperma dubium (type of the genus), Disakisperma eleusine from sou...

The fruits showing brown rot symptom on dwarf flowering almond were found in Gongju, Chungchungnam-Do in Korea in July 2005. Small water-soaked lesions on the fruits were initiated, and gradually developed to soft rot covered with gray conidia. Then the diseased fruits were shrunk and became grayish-black mummies. A fungus was isolated from the diseased fruit and its morphological, cultural and...

Molecular markers, mainly DNA-based are potential tools for DNA barcoding and phylogenetic study. The plant species belonging to the Nepeta genus have important medicinal value because of the presence of nepetalactones, and they have been used to treat human diseases. We amplified nuclear and chloroplast gene loci to develop a DNA barcode and phylogenetic study of Nepeta deflersiana. Among the ...

UNLABELLED PhyloDraw is a unified viewing tool for phylogenetic trees. PhyloDraw supports various kinds of multi-alignment formats (Dialign2, Clustal-W, Phylip format, NEXUS, MEGA, and pairwise distance matrix) and visualizes various kinds of tree diagrams, e.g. rectangular cladogram, slanted cladogram, phylogram, unrooted tree, and radial tree. By using several control parameters, users can ea...

genus trichoderma is a monophyletic fungus which some their species is known as biocontrol agent. this study was carried out for phylogenetic analysis of some isolates of the genus trichoderma. in this study 73 sequences (including 33 sequences from t. aspereluum, t. brevicompactum, t. capillare, t. harzianum, t. koningiopsis, t. pleuroticola and t. virens and 40 sequences obtained from geneban...

About a century after the first finding in northern Vietnam (1908), Coprinus leucostictus is rediscovered on 12 localities southern India and to southeastern China, growing evergreen subtropical or tropical forests. It morphologically rather unique species with coprinoid basidiomata, strongly branched diverticulate veil hyphae, hymeniderm pileipellis. The BLAST search of ITS tef-1α sequences sh...

DNA sequences coding for 81% of the ompA gene from 24 chlamydial strains, representing all chlamydial species, were determined from DNA amplified by polymerase chain reactions. Chlamydial strains of serovars and strains with similar chromosomal restriction fragment length polymorphism had identical ompA DNA sequences. The ompA sequences were segregated into 23 different ompA alleles and aligned...

The most comprehensive phylogenetic classification of human parainfluenza virus 3 (HPIV-3) was recently developed [PLoS One 2012;7:e43893]. This classification included three distinct clusters (A, B and C) with subdivision of cluster C into four subclusters (C1-4). In the present report, the classification of HPIV-3 was refined by inclusion of 27 overlooked beside newly characterized Saudi vari...