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From Dormant Collections to Repositories for the Study of Habitat Changes: The Importance of Herbaria in Modern Life Sciences

Life, 2023
In recent decades, the advent of new technologies for massive and automatized digitization, together with the availability of new methods for DNA sequencing, strongly increased the interest and relevance of herbarium collections for the study of plant ...
Mauro Mandrioli
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Hydrolithon farinosum and Lithophyllum epiphyticum sp. nov. (Corallinaceae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta), Two Epiphytic Crustose Coralline Algae from the Abrolhos Archipelago, Brazil, Southwestern Atlantic

Diversity, 2023
The aim of this study was to elucidate the taxonomy of the common but overlooked epiphytic coralline algae species from shallow reefs and seagrass meadows of the Abrolhos Archipelago, Brazil.
Manoela B. Lyra, Ricardo G. Bahia, Michel B. Jesionek, Rodrigo T. Carvalho, Fernando C. Moraes, Adele S. Harvey, Renato C. Pereira, Fabiano Salgueiro, Leonardo T. Salgado   +8 more
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New Insight into the Genus Cladocroce (Porifera, Demospongiae) Based on Morphological and Molecular Data, with the Description of Two New Species

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023
During scientific expeditions in Indonesia and Vietnam, several sponge specimens belonging to the genus Cladocroce were collected. The integration of morphological and molecular analyses, incorporating species delimitation models (ABGD, ASAP, and bPTP ...
Marco Bertolino, Carlo Cerrano, Giorgio Bavestrello, Do Cong Thung, Laura Núñez-Pons, Francesca Rispo, Jana Efremova, Valerio Mazzella, Daisy Monica Makapedua, Barbara Calcinai   +9 more
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Characterization of Five Psychrotolerant Alcanivorax spp. Strains Isolated from Antarctica

Microorganisms, 2022
Five psychrotolerant Alcanivorax spp. strains were isolated from Antarctic coastal waters. Strains were screened for molecular and physiological properties and analyzed regarding their growth capacity.
Simone Cappello, Ilaria Corsi, Sabrina Patania, Elisa Bergami, Maurizio Azzaro, Monique Mancuso, Maria Genovese, Alessia Lunetta, Gabriella Caruso   +8 more
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Discovery of a New Species Provides a Deeper Insight into Taxonomic Grouping of the Deep-Sea Genus Acanthephyra (Crustacea: Decapoda)

Diversity, 2022
We describe and diagnose a new species of Acanthephyra (Acanthephyridae: Caridea: Decapoda) and provide an amended key to all species of the genus. In order to assess the taxonomic position of the new species, we examined and coded 55 characters in ...
Alexander Vereshchaka, Dmitry Kulagin, Anastasiia Lunina   +2 more
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The Current Diversity and Distribution of the Simple Thalloid Genus Apopellia (Marchantiophyta): Evidence from an Integrative Taxonomic Study

Diversity, 2023
An integrative study of expanded sampling of Apopellia species, including the topotype of Apopellia megaspora, made it possible to clarify the taxonomic position and distribution of the species of the genus.
Nadezhda A. Konstantinova, Anna A. Vilnet, Yuriy S. Mamontov   +2 more
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A new family for the enigmatic sea pen genus Gyrophyllum Studer, 1891 (Octocorallia, Pennatulacea), a molecular and morphological approach

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022
The description in 1891 of the sea pen genus Gyrophyllum Studer, 1891 and also the type species G. hirondellei Studer, 1891 was based on a single colony collected in the Azores Archipelago.
Pablo J. López-Gózalez, Jim Drewery, Gary C. Williams   +2 more
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Phylogeographic structure of two sympatric species of Mediimorda Méquignon, 1946 (Mordellidae, Coleoptera)

The European Zoological Journal, 2023
Sympatric distribution and syntopy are not common in closely related species since sporadic crosses may lead to the formation of hybrid zones disrupting the differentiation of sympatric incipient species.
A. M. Sanz-laParra, M. García-París, E. K. López-Estrada   +2 more
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Inhibition of biofilm formation in Mycobacterium smegmatis by Parinari curatellifolia leaf extracts

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2017
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious public health problem worldwide. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) grows as drug tolerant pellicles. Agents that inhibit biofilm formation in M.
Benjamin Bhunu, Ruvimbo Mautsa, Stanley Mukanganyama   +2 more
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First Report of Blood Fluke Pathogens with Potential Risk for Emerging Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi) Aquaculture on the Chilean Coast, with Descriptions of Two New Species of Paradeontacylix (Aporocotylidae)

Pathogens, 2021
Blood flukes are digeneans that infect wild and farmed fish that can cause a severe and potentially lethal disease in farmed fish. These parasites are undetectable in the larval stage based on macroscopic observations in the definitive host with the ...
Fabiola A. Sepúlveda, Luis A. Ñacari, Maria Teresa González   +2 more
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