A new species of flower flies is described from China (Sichuan & Yunnan: Hengduan Mountains), Sericomyia khamensis Thompson & Xie). A key is provided to the species of the subtribe Sericomyiina found in China along with nomenclatural and taxonomical notes on them. 

As more than 90% of species in a microbial community could not be isolated and cultivated, the metagenomic methods have become one of the most important methods to analyze microbial community as a whole. With the fast accumulation of metagenomic samples and the advance of next-generation sequencing techniques, it is now possible to qualitatively and quantitatively assess all taxa (features) in ...

Barleria albostellata C.B. Clarke (grey barleria, Acanthaceae) is an indigenous shrub to South Africa and has been relatively understudied. This a valuable medicinal plant with wide spectrum of antibacterial anti-inflammatory activities. Detailed studies on the floral pollen morphology B. are rare. study was conducted observe flower grains using stereomicroscopy scanning electron microscopy (SE...

Five taxa viz, Agaricus altipes, A. cupreobrunneus, A. placomyces, A. porphyrocephalus, and A. urinascens var. urinascens are reported as new records for Iran. Details of taxonomical important features are also presented herewith. New localities in the west and north-west of the country are reported as habitats of Agaricus speciesin Iran.  

We re−describe the type material of the tiny African tragulid “Dorcatherium” moruorotensis from the early Miocene of Kenya, and erect the new genus Afrotragulus, the first African Miocene tragulid that does not belong to Dorcatherium. This new taxon is characterized by its elongated and stretched lower molars with a unique morphological dental pattern that strongly contrasts with that of Dorcat...

We present a mechanism that provides word sets which can make human-computer interaction more active in the course of information retrieval, with natural language processing technology and a mathematic measure for calculating degree of inclusion. We show what type of words should be added to the current query, i.e. keywords which previously had been input, in order to make human-computer intera...