The launch of The Journal of Parasitology (JP) by Henry Baldwin Ward in September 1914 was a historical landmark that witnessed the passage of the torch of acanthocephalan work, especially higher taxonomy, from Europe to the United States, with the excep-tion of the works of Anton Meyer, Yves Golvan, and a few Russian workers in the early twentieth century. At that juncture, there were only two...

One hundred reference strains and 1,240 clinical isolates representing 26 species of the family Micrococcaceae were used to evaluate the potential of tests for synergistic hemolysis, adherence to glass, pyroglutamyl-beta-naphthylamide hydrolysis, and susceptibility to a set of five antimicrobial agents for differentiating these species and strains within the species. Sixty-eight percent of the ...

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a language based on XML for the electronic communication of business and financial data. This paper is intended to: (1) give a brief presentation of the XBRL language and its applicability to financial analysis; (2) define the requirements of a software application supporting financial analysis and planning capable of processing financial data in...

Ap Applicati tions ons in in Pl Plant t Scien Sciences ces Plants of species within Lespedeza Michx. sect. Macrolespedeza Maxim. (Fabaceae) are deciduous shrubs mainly distributed in the temperate forests of East Asian countries such as Korea,, hybridization is frequent among these species. Therefore, their taxonomic entities are often unclear. One representative, L. maritima Nakai, is a Korean...

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Since relatively little is known about the effects of acid precipitation on growth and productivity of crop plants, a crop survey was initiated to study effects of H 2SO 4 rain simulants on growth, yield, and quality of selected crops which were chosen to represent diverse taxo nomic groups and crop products. Yield responses of 28 crop cultivars were examined. Plants were grown in pots in field...

Embryos of different species of vertebrate share a common organisation and often look similar. Adult differences among species become more apparent through divergence at later stages. Some authors have suggested that members of most or all vertebrate clades pass through a virtually identical, conserved stage. This idea was promoted by Haeckel, and has recently been revived in the context of cla...

Ap Applicati tions ons in in Pl Plant t Scien Sciences ces Whole genome sequencing is more available and less expensive than ever before, yet most scientists continue to rely on targeted, comparative sequencing for phylogenetics and phylo-geography. Identifying the most appropriate markers to employ has been challenging. Information for model organisms abounds, and a few studies have specifi ca...

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited and the new work is distributed under the same license as the original. DNA metabarcoding, the use of high-throughput sequencing methods to simultaneousl...