This study refers to the helminth fauna of the Spotted Nothura, Nothura maculosa (Temminck, 1815), on the basis of samples deposited in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, and also on bibliographical data. The helminth survey of N. maculosa is represented by the digenetic trematode Brachylaemus (Centrodes) centrodes (Braun, 1901) Travassos & Kohn, 1964, by two cestode...

The snake gourd genus, Trichosanthes, is the largest genus in the Cucurbitaceae family, with over 90 species. Recent molecular phylogenetic data have indicated that the genus Gymnopetalum is to be merged with Trichosanthes to maintain monophyly. A revised infrageneric classification of Trichosanthes including Gymnopetalum is proposed with two subgenera, (I) subg. Scotanthus comb. nov. and (II) ...

Mya truncata, a soft shell clam, is presented as a new model to study biomineralization through a proteomics approach. In this study, the shell and mantle tissue were analysed in order to retrieve knowledge about the secretion of shell matrix proteins (SMPs). Out of 67 and 127 shell and mantle proteins respectively, 16 were found in both shell and mantle. Bioinformatic analysis of SMP sequences...

As many as 963 herbarium sheets featuring 76 aquatic plant taxa from the ZA collection were digitised and published online through Virtual Herbarium. Aquatic plants have been collected over a period of 176 years, with three peaks (second decade 20th century, in 1940s 1950s, current decade). Most specimens Croatia smaller number neighbouring geographically close countries. The importance is expr...

There have been 179 species of microcaddisflies (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) recorded from the Republic Panama. Herein we describe 6 new Mount Totumas Cloud Forest and biological reserve, in Río Colorado watershed ( Leucotrichia cultrata, Metrichia akidion, M. plax, Ochrotrichia alma, O. paxilla, petersoni ). In addition, 1 under an informal designation report 4 country records for Panama this ...