Abstract Aureobasidium is omnipresent and can be isolated from air, water bodies, soil, wood, and other plant materials, as well as inorganic materials such as rocks and marble. A total of 32 species of this fungal genus have been identified at the level of DNA, of which Aureobasidium pullulans is best …

Seaweeds from the genus Porphyra play a big economic role in seaweed aquaculture, mainly in Asia. In Europe, resources are put towards seaweed cultivation, but without attention to the Porphyra species which is also native to Europe. Different nomenclature and specifications are used to describe Porphyra, …

Het watervlooien genus Bosmina heeft in de loop der tijd voor een legendarische taxonomische verwarring gezorgd. De soort Bosmina longirostris heeft een groot aandeel in deze taxonomische verwarring. De morfologische variatie in de soort is groot. Er worden zes morfologische variëteiten onderscheiden …

Het doel van deze studie is niet alleen om het model van de XRN1 stalling site voor MODV te verifiëren, maar ook om vast stellen in hoeverre er variaties zijn in de structuur van de XRN1 stalling sites binnen het genus flavivirussen.

Het gaat slecht met de biodiversiteit wereldwijd, maar terwijl soorten verdwijnen zijn er ook nog veel onbeschreven soorten. De taxonomische kennis over insecten neemt af, betaalde taxonomen zijn er bijna niet meer. Toch is er nog veel te ontdekken, onder andere binnen de cicaden, ook binnen het relatief …

Corals harbor complex and diverse microbial communities that strongly impact host ftness and resistance to diseases, but these microbes themselves can be infuenced by stresses, like those caused by the presence of macroscopic symbionts. In addition to directly infuencing the host, symbionts may transmit …

Recent research has shown that many chloroplast markers commonly used for the identification of species in land plants are not useful in the moss genus Campylopus. The only known suitable marker in Campylopus is the nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region. However, evolutionary patterns of this region …

Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) are new world monkeys native to Central and South America. Although the overall population of howler monkeys is declining due to habitat loss and the illegal trade, their status, as categorised by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2017), ranges from Least Concern …

Background: To date, women are most often diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis (BV) using microscopy based Nugent scoring or Amsel criteria. However, the accuracy is less than optimal. The aim of the present study was to confirm the identity of known BV-associated composition profiles and evaluate indicators …

Conventional dairy husbandry systems acknowledge animal welfare guided by Brambel’s five freedoms. The concept of natural, or normal behaviour would in contrast to Brambel’s convention, be based on stability through chance and offers a less anthropocentric and more naturalistic approach. The present …