Infaunal sedimentary communities underpin marine ecosystems worldwide. Understanding how disturbances such as oil spills influence infauna is therefore important, especially given that can be trapped in sediments for years or even decades. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) event was the largest spill United States history, impacting habitats throughout Northern Gulf of Mexico. We investigated in...

Aim The homogenisation of historically isolated gene pools has been recognised as one the most serious conservation problems in Antarctic. Lichens are dominant components terrestrial biotas Antarctic and high mountain ranges southern South America. We study effects dispersal strategy migration history on their genetic structure to better understand importance these processes interplay shaping p...

[This retracts the article on p. 301 in vol. 8, PMID: 28611662.].

Candida species causes superficial and life-threatening systemic infections and are difficult to treat due to the resistance of these organism to various clinically used drugs. Protolichesterinic acid is a well-known lichen compound. Although the antibacterial activity of protolichesterinic acid has been reported earlier, the antifungal property and its mechanism of action are still largely uni...