The controversy about the appropriate taxonomic placement of agents of subcutaneous and systemic mycoses in either Cladosporium or Xylohypha, both genera characterized by conidia being produced in dry, acropetal chains, was addressed with partial sequencing of LS ribosomal RNA. Observation of catenate anamorphs in species of Capronia (Ascomycotina, Herpotrichiellaceae), a genus which also has a...

1 Sex diagnosis is important in ecology, evolution, conservation biology, medicine, and food production. However, sex diagnosis is difficult in species without conspicuous sexual dimorphism or at life stages before such differences develop. This problem is exacerbated when the diagnostic trait is a continuous (non-discrete) variable to which general analytical methods are not commonly applied. ...

The Exophiala genus comprises dimorphic melanized fungi responsible for a spectrum of diseases including phaeohyphomycosis, mycetoma, chromoblastomycosis and fungemia. The E. jeanselmei species is predominant in such infections, followed by E. dermatitidis. This paper aims at reporting four cases and at discussing clinical, histologycal, mycologycal and epidemiologycal aspects for its diagnosis.

Abstract Krill are an abundant and globally distributed forage taxon in marine ecosystems, including the California Current Ecosystem (CCE). The role of krill trophodynamics depends on both abundance size (biomass), but impact extreme climate events body is poorly understood. Using samples collected from 2011 to 2018, we tested hypotheses that adult length three species (Euphausia pacifica, Thy...