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Radiat Res 2021 Apr 15. Epub 2021 Apr 15.

ChromoLogic LLC, Monrovia, California 91016.

Thoracic exposure to ionizing radiation can lead to delayed injuries to the heart and lung that are serious and even life-threatening. These injuries are difficult to predict since they manifest over many weeks and months. To identify non-invasive, tissue-specific biomarkers for the early detection of late radiation injury, circulating microRNA (miRNA) levels were measured in non-human primates (NHP, Macaca mulatta) that received a single exposure of whole-thorax lung irradiation (WTLI) at a dose likely to result in 20% or 75% mortality within 180 days (9. Read More

Mycologia 2021 Apr 9:1-11. Epub 2021 Apr 9.

Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8563, Japan.

We describe two new Japanese truffle species, and , based on molecular and morphological analyses. Both species are clearly distinguishable from other species by the ocher tomentose mycelium covering the ascoma surfaces. has one-spored asci that each contain a large (68-97 × 51-80 µm), reddish-brown ascospore; these microscopic characters are similar to those of closely related Chinese species, , and forms one to four ascospores per ascus with a reddish-brown color similar to that of ascospores of and , although their spores are much larger than those of (27‒64 × 26‒55 µm). Read More

BMC Genomics 2021 Mar 9;22(1):165. Epub 2021 Mar 9.

Department of Gene Expression, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.

Background: Small RNAs (sRNAs) are 20-30 nt regulatory elements which are responsible for plant development regulation and participate in many plant stress responses. Insufficient inorganic phosphate (Pi) concentration triggers plant responses to balance the internal Pi level.

Results: In this study, we describe Pi-starvation-responsive small RNAs and transcriptome changes in barley (Hordeum vulgare L. Read More

Mycologia 2021 Mar 3:1-12. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.

Morphological studies suggest that the major pathogen causing basal stem rot of oil palm in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands is . This study presents the first evidence for conspecificity of from four countries where basal stem rot is prevalent. Seventy-three dikaryotic isolates of from Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands were studied via mating tests, analyses of nuc internal transcribed spacer ITS1-5. Read More

Clin Transl Sci 2021 Feb 28. Epub 2021 Feb 28.

Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.

Proteolytic instability is a critical limitation for peptide-based products. Although significant efforts are devoted to stabilize sequences against proteases/peptidases in plasma/serum, such approaches tend to be rather empirical, unspecific, time-consuming, and frequently not cost-effective. A more rational and potentially rewarding alternative is to identify the chemical grounds of susceptibility to enzymatic degradation of peptides so that proteolytic resistance can be tuned by manipulation of key chemical properties. Read More

Mycologia 2021 Jan-Feb;113(1):191-211. Epub 2020 Dec 16.

State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China.

sect. includes numerous species that are potential candidates for cultivation, and some have high nutritional and medicinal interests. Between 2012 and 2017, 147 specimens of . Read More

Mycologia 2021 Jan-Feb;113(1):56-64. Epub 2020 Nov 5.

Ants Laboratory, Department of Science and Technology, Quilmes National University , CONICET, Roque Saenz Peña 352, Bernal B1876BXD, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Entomophthoralean fungi with pathogenic abilities to infect social insects are rare. Here, we describe a fungus isolated from leafcutter ants. Morphologically, the fungus has spherical primary conidia and two types of microconidia: one with the same shape as the primary conidia and another with an elliptical to half-moon shape. Read More

Environ Res 2020 Oct 30:110375. Epub 2020 Oct 30.

Reactor Operation and Application Sub-Institute, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu, 610005, PR China.

High background electrolyte and natural organic matter are favorable to migration of hazardous radionuclides in geochemical repository. Herein, Ca-Mg-Al layered double hydroxide coated onto graphene oxide (Ca-Mg-Al LDH/GO) composites were successfully synthesized, characterized and adopted to decontaminate Eu(III) and fulvic acid (FA) under diverse experimental conditions. Diverse concentration gradients and different addition sequences on Eu(III) and FA were also obtained, which revealed different interaction mechanisms. Read More

Insects 2020 Oct 28;11(11). Epub 2020 Oct 28.

Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.

The grape mealybug (Ehrhorn, 1900) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) is a significant pest of grapevines ( spp.) and a vector of disease-causing grape viruses, linked to its feeding on phloem sap. The management of this pest is constrained by the lack of naturally occurring resistance traits in . Read More

Mycologia 2021 Jan-Feb;113(1):78-91. Epub 2020 Oct 30.

State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101, China.

A new species, , was isolated from several species of Polygonaceae in 2011 and 2012 in Tongwei County, Gansu Province, China. The species infects , and , causing brown leaf spots and large blotches with concentric rings in the field. is morphologically characterized by conidia spherical, unicellular, hyaline to pale brown or brown, (10. Read More

Mycology 2019 Dec 27;11(3):230-242. Epub 2019 Dec 27.

Marbio, The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Department at Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

During a research cruise in 2016, we isolated fungi from sediments, seawater, driftwood, fruiting bodies, and macroalgae using three different media to assess species richness and potential bioactivity of cultivable marine fungi in the High Arctic region. Ten stations from the Svalbard archipelago (73-80 °N, 18-31 °E) were investigated and 33 fungal isolates were obtained. These grouped into 22 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) using nuc rDNA internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS1-5. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Nov-Dec;112(6):1086-1103. Epub 2020 Sep 8.

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University , West Lafayette, Indiana 47907.

In tropical and subtropical rainforests, vegetative fungal rhizomorphs from the Marasmiineae are routinely used as construction material in bird nests. Because rhizomorphs seldom produce mushrooms within nests, the fungal species involved remain largely unknown. In turn, this limitation has prevented us from resolving broader questions such as whether specific fungal species are selected by birds for different functional roles (i. Read More

Stud Mycol 2020 Mar 13;95:293-380. Epub 2020 Mar 13.

Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Biodiversity (Mycology and Microbiology), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada.

is a taxonomically neglected discomycete genus () of commonly encountered saprotrophs on decaying plant tissues throughout temperate regions. The combination of indistinct morphological characters, more than 700 names in the literature, and lack of reference DNA sequences presents a major challenge when working with . Unidentified endophytes, including strains that produced antifungal or antiinsectan secondary metabolites, were isolated from conifer needles in New Brunswick and placed with uncertainty in and , necessitating a more comprehensive treatment of these genera. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Sep-Oct;112(5):989-1002. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

Department of Biology, Randolph-Macon College , Ashland, Virginia 23005.

This paper describes the taxonomy, developmental morphology, and phylogeny of , a new monotypic member of the Leptomitales (Oomycota). In phylogenetic trees inferred from concatenated and separate nuc 18S rDNA (18S) and nuc 28S rDNA (28S) sequences, forms a well-supported clade related to but distinct from , a member of the Leptomitales. The organism is a holocarpic facultative saprotroph of moribund aquatic insects but grows well on a variety of mycological media in which it produces large eucarpic hyphae with a peripheral layer of protoplasm surrounding a central vacuole. Read More

Viruses 2020 08 8;12(8). Epub 2020 Aug 8.

Center for Translational Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.

Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) can either undergo a lytic pathway to cause productive systemic infections or enter a latent state in which the integrated provirus remains transcriptionally silent for decades. The ability to latently infect T-cells enables HIV-1 to establish persistent infections in resting memory CD4+ T-lymphocytes which become reactivated following the disruption or cessation of intensive drug therapy. The maintenance of viral latency occurs through epigenetic and non-epigenetic mechanisms. Read More

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020 Aug;70(8):4637-4645

Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

Six strains were isolated from healthy black bears () in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA. Phylogenetic analysis based on complete genome, 16S rRNA, , , and genes, and MALDI-TOF-MS main spectral profiles revealed that the strains belonged to one species and showed the closest relatedness to members of the ' group' (SIG), which include , and . The strains were positive in SIG-specific and negative in individual species-specific PCR assays for the gene. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Jul-Aug;112(4):781-791. Epub 2020 Jun 12.

Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University , P.O. Box-34, Al-Khod 123, Oman.

Oman is a desert country in the south of the Middle East. Springs and other water sources that harbor aquatic organisms can be separated by hundreds of kilometers. In Oct 2019, we isolated four freshwater aquatic fungi (Chytridiomycota) from benthic detritus baited with pine pollen on a general nutrient medium near Salalah, Oman. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Jul-Aug;112(4):742-752. Epub 2020 May 29.

Faculty of Education, Ibaraki University , Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan.

and are the only species of genus that parasitize plants belonging to genus (Rosaceae). Systematic revision of the genus and related genera by molecular phylogenetic analyses using nuc rDNA internal transcribed spacer (5.8S-ITS2 = ITS2) and nuc rDNA 28S (28S) sequences indicated that and belong to a group of species that also occur on . Read More

Fungal Syst Evol 2020 Jun 11;5:119-129. Epub 2019 Oct 11.

Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan.

is a large conspicuous polypore fungus growing on dead or living angiosperm trees in subtropical-boreal areas of China, Indonesia, Japan, and Taiwan. The present study places in the family that belongs to the order within (), based on evidence derived from morphological and ecological characteristics, and phylogenetic analyses of sequences of nuclear rDNA regions (5.8S, nuc 18S, nuc 28S) and protein-coding genes (, and ). Read More

Mycologia 2020 May-Jun;112(3):588-605. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

Department of Botany, University of Otago , PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.

Cortinarius: is a species-rich ectomycorrhizal genus containing taxa that exhibit agaricoid or sequestrate basidiome morphologies. In New Zealand, one of the most recognizable and common species is the purple sequestrate fungus, . We used genome skimming of the almost 100-y-old type specimen from to obtain the nuc rDNA internal transcribed spacer region ITS1-5. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Mar-Apr;112(2):423-437. Epub 2020 Feb 19.

Herbarium, Department of Cell, Molecular, and Microbiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620.

is a small genus of Boletaceae found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere characterized by the light to dark brown hymenophore that stains blue. In Florida, specimens of were collected that resembled , a species known primarily from northeastern North America and Europe. Five nuclear loci of these Florida specimens were sequenced and phylogenetically analyzed. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Mar-Apr;112(2):438-452. Epub 2020 Feb 19.

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 461, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden.

This study describes four gray or brown species of (Hygrophoraceae, Agaricales), two of them new species, restricted to arctic-alpine and northern boreal zones of North America, and relates them morphologically and phylogenetically using multigene and nuc rDNA internal transcribed spacer ITS1-5.8S-ITS (ITS barcode) analyses to their similar, known counterparts. , epitypified here, is shown to be a pan-palearctic species with sequence-confirmed collections from Fennoscandia and easternmost Asia. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Mar-Apr;112(2):230-243. Epub 2020 Jan 7.

Laboratorio de Bioproducción, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Las Brujas, Uruguay.

species affecting spp. are a serious problem, as they infect forage grasses such as and , producing the ergot disease. The ascomycete is known to be the pathogen responsible for this disease in both grasses. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Jan-Feb;112(1):197-211. Epub 2020 Jan 3.

Center for Forest Mycology Research, Northern Research Station, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53726.

The leccinoid fungi are boletes and related sequestrate mushrooms (Boletaceae, Basidiomycota) that have traditionally been placed in , and a handful of other less familiar genera. These mushrooms generally feature scabers or scaber-like dots on the surface of the stipe, and they are often fairly tall and slender when compared with other boletes. They are ectomycorrhizal fungi and appear to be fairly strictly associated with specific trees or groups of related trees. Read More

PLoS One 2019 23;14(12):e0226985. Epub 2019 Dec 23.

Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agronomy and Bioengineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Dojazd, Poznań, Poland.

In this study, possible hybridization between two allopatric species, Cornus controversa and Cornus alternifolia, was explored using molecular and morphological approaches. Scanning electron microscope analyses of the adaxial and the abaxial leaf surfaces yielded a few new not yet described characters typical for the particular species and intermediate for hybrids. With the use of 14 Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA and 5 Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism primer combinations, 44 fragments species specific to C. Read More

Mycologia 2020 Jan-Feb;112(1):52-63. Epub 2019 Dec 17.

Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762.

The genus of Magnaporthaceae (Magnaporthales, Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota) contains species that are predominantly necrotrophic pathogens, often producing simple hyphopodia and dark, ectotrophic runner hyphae on plant roots and stems during colonization. Fungal isolates from turfgrass roots with dark and ectotrophic runner hyphae were examined and identified based on morphological, biological, and phylogenetic analyses. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods were implemented to obtain phylogenetic trees for partial sequences of the 18S nuc rDNA, ITS1-5. Read More

Int J Vet Sci Med 2019 22;7(1):55-60. Epub 2019 Nov 22.

Department of Zoonoses, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Methicillin-resistant (MRSA) is an emerging pathogen causing serious public health threats. This study was conducted to investigate the occurrence of multidrug-resistant MRSA among apparently healthy farm animals to shed the light on the potential role of these animals as a reservoir for such pathogen. For this purpose, 195 nasal swabs from apparently healthy farm animals (52 sheep, 51 goats, 47 cattle and 45 buffalo) were screened for multidrug-resistant MRSA. Read More

Sensors (Basel) 2019 Dec 6;19(24). Epub 2019 Dec 6.

Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China.

The non-uniform response in infrared focal plane array (IRFPA) detectors inevitably produces corrupted images with a fixed-pattern noise. In this paper, we present a novel and adaptive scene-based non-uniformity correction (NUC) method called Correction method with Statistical scene-based and Interframe Registration (CSIR) , which realizes low delay calculation of correction coefficient for infrared image. This method combines the statistical method and registration method to achieve a better NUC performance. Read More

Mycologia 2019 Nov-Dec;111(6):1056-1071. Epub 2019 Nov 8.

Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Species of are commonly associated with leaf spot diseases of a broad range of plant hosts worldwide. During our investigation of fungi associated with leaf spot diseases in northern and northwestern Iran, several isolates were recovered from symptomatic leaves on different herbaceous and woody plants in the Asteraceae, Betulaceae, and Salicaceae families. These isolates were studied by applying a polyphasic approach including morphological and cultural data and a multigene phylogeny using a combined data set of partial sequences of the 28S nuc rRNA gene (large subunit [28S]), internal transcribed spacer regions and intervening 5. Read More

Mycologia 2019 Nov-Dec;111(6):953-964. Epub 2019 Oct 21.

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907.

The genus consists of four described species associated with dead leaves in southwestern Japan. In this study, we describe three new species, , and , from the South Pacific island of Guam and Guyana in South America. Isolates were obtained from surfaces of diseased and healthy leaves of plants in the Euphorbiaceae, Asteraceae, and Poaceae. Read More