Strain DC-200T was isolated from homemade compost produced from kitchen refuse and characterized using a polyphasic approach. The isolate was a Gram-positive motile short rod, facultatively aerobic, catalase-positive and oxidase-negative, and was able to grow at 10-37 degrees C, pH 6.0-9.5 and with up to 5% of NaCl. The peptidoglycan was of the type B1 alpha and the muramic acid residues were g...

IVe reanalyzed data from a recently published study of higher-level snake relationships based on four slowly-evolving protein loci. The original study used phenetic clustering of genetic similarities and presented a single, highly resolved tree. Our reanalyses of these data reveal that the single published phenogram is only one of at least 10,000 equivalent UPGMA phenograms, the consensus of wh...

Traditional sources of taxonomic characters in the large and taxonomically complex subfamily Apioideae (Apiaceae) have been confounding and no classification system of the subfamily has been widely accepted. A restriction site analysis of the chloroplast genome from 78 representatives of Apioideae and related groups provided a data matrix of 990 variable characters (750 of which were potentiall...

Twenty three isolates of Beauveria bassiana and 13 isolates of Metarhizium anisopliae were tested on third instar nymphs of Triatoma infestans, a serious vector of Chagas disease. Pathogenicity tests at saturated humidity showed that this insect is very susceptible to fungal infection. At lower relative humidity (50%), conditions expected in the vector microhabitat, virulence was significantly ...

a multivariate statistical analysis was performed on morphological characters of sixty-one populations of avena eriantha dur. a. clauda dur., a. barbata pott ex link., a. wiestii steud., a. fatua l., a. sterilis ssp. ludoviciana l. and a. sativa l. factor analysis revealed that intraspecific morphological variations are due to quantitative characters. interspecific as well as intersectional rel...

Article info: Received: 09 June 2014 Accepted: 29 January 2015 ABSTRACT Comparative analysis of variations in 50 craniological parameters in 117 adult (59 male and 58 female) individuals of the striped mouse (Apodemus agrarius Pallas, 1771) in Bulgaria that belong to populations with 4 or 3 pairs metacentric chromosomes in the karyotype was performed. The identified craniological characteristic...

Transposable elements (TEs) account for a large portion of plant genomes, particularly in grasses, in which they correspond to 50%-80% of the genomic content. TEs have recently been shown to be a source of new genes and new regulatory networks. The most striking contribution of TEs is referred as "molecular domestication", by which the element coding sequence loses its movement capacity and acq...

A bacterial strain isolated from sewage sludge compost, strain SC-083T, was characterized. The isolate was a motile, Gram-positive, short rod, forming coryneform V-shaped cells during the early stages of growth. The organism was strictly aerobic and able to grow between 22 and 36 degrees C and between pH 5.5 and 8.0. The predominant fatty acids were cyclohexyl-C17 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and iso-C...

Fungal species of the Neotyphodium and Epichloë genera are endophytes of pasture grasses showing complex differences of life-cycle and genetic architecture. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers have been developed from endophyte-derived expressed sequence tag (EST) collections. Although SSR array size polymorphisms are appropriate for phenetic analysis to distinguish between taxa, the capacity ...

Turnera sidoides is an autopolyploid complex of obligate outcrossing perennial herbs. It includes five subspecies and five morphotypes in which diploid to octoploid cytotypes were found. Based on phenetic analyses of the complex and karyotype data of polyploid cytotypes, it has been hypothesized that morphological and chromosome differentiation of T. sidoides occurred at the diploid level. To t...