Mycoplasmas (class Mollicutes) are among the smallest microorganisms capable of self and autonomous life (1). The genus Mycoplasma includes a large number reduced species which in nature are associated with hosts either commensally or pathogenically General features of the class Mollicutes are small genome, lack of cell wall and low GC content. Indeed, the Mycoplasma species Woese CR et al. (19...

BACKGROUND The spatial distribution of forage resources is a major driver of animal movement patterns. Understanding where animals forage is important for the conservation of multi-species communities, since interspecific competition can emerge if different species use the same depletable resources. However, determining forage resources in a spatially continuous fashion in alpine grasslands at ...

Talk about rewriting the textbooks. Scientists thought they knew what the heliosphere looked like. The solar system’s enveloping pocket filled with the solar wind’s charged particles is plowing through the onrushing “galactic wind” of the interstellar medium in the shape of a comet, they all agreed. When NASA launched the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in October 2008, mission scientists...

Despite its recognized importance for understanding the evolution of animal sociality as well conservation, long term analysis social networks populations is still relatively uncommon. We investigated network dynamics in males a gregarious mountain ungulate (Alpine ibex, Capra ibex) over ten years focusing on groups, sub-groups and individuals, exploring different scales. structure changing bet...

The ongoing Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) and recent observations from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Cassini missions are providing significant new information about the interaction of the heliosphere with the very local interstellar medium (VLISM). With new observations have come significant new puzzles for describing the interaction physics. Direct measurements of the sho...

The importance of capturing wild animals for research and conservation projects is widely shared. As this activity continues to become more common, the need to assess its negative effects increases so as to ensure ethical standards and the validity of research results. Increasing evidence has revealed that indirect (physiological and behavioural) effects of capture are as important as direct ri...

The genus Mycoplasma, a group of free-living, wall-less prokaryotes includes more than 100 species of which dozens are primary pathogens of humans and domesticated animals. Mycoplasma species isolated from wildlife are rarely investigated but could provide a fuller picture of the evolutionary history and diversity of this genus. In 2013 several isolates from wild Caprinae were tentatively assig...

Abstract We analyze the reasons for correlation between temperature, direction, and speed of interstellar neutral gas inflow into heliosphere, obtained in analyses observations performed by an onboard Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) instrument, IBEX-Lo. point out that this is combined result inability to measure atoms enter instrument restriction a short orbital arc around Sun during obse...