The ciliate is compared with another, very similar one, found free-living on the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, as well as with all literature data on the genus Mesanopbrys. The ranges of all morphometric characters among these ciliates and all Mesanopbrys species described so ...
In southeast Asia, plant-ants of the genus Cladomyrma live together with coccoids in hollowed twigs of a wide range of ant-plants (myrmecophytes). Established colonies never lack sap-sucking scale insects and the ants appear to be dependent on the honeydew excretions of their trophobionts....
Lancetfish (Alepisaurus) are a type of fish that have some interesting characteristics. First, its genus name, Alepisaurus, translates to "scaleless lizard," which is most likely due to its smooth, scale-free body. What it lacks in scales, though, it makes up for in teeth, with two o...
There are two broad types of Sedum. Stonecrop Sedums are ‘true’Sedum, and are in theSedum genus. Border sedums used to be part of theSedumgenus, but have been reclassified and are now part of theHylotelephiumgenus. TheseHylotelephiumtypes of plant are often still labelled and sold as Sed...
The herbaceous peony belongs to the genus Paeonia and the family Paeoniaceae. There are over 33 species in the Paeonia genus, all native to Asia, Europe, and western North America. Zones Peonies can be grown in zones 2 to 8 (depending somewhat on the variety). ...
and theoretical speculations routinely associated with knowledge-producing collectives. The baptismal action of researchers in selecting a designative name to announce a new discovery of virus species and species variants does not follow the rigorous regulations that standardize all names of taxonomic ...
by Ki-Back Chu 1 and Fu-Shi Quan 1,2,* 1 Medical Research Center for Bioreaction to Reactive Oxygen Species and Biomedical Science Institute, Core Research Institute (CRI), Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Medical Zoology, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee ...
They can be assigned into two general approaches: (1) separating the strain of interest and its contaminants physically and (2) killing all living organisms except the species of interest [5]. In most cases, applying just one purification method is insufficient to achieve axenicity because ...
I'm a GIS and data manager at a botanical garden and we have an Access database that stores accessions going back over 100 years in a table with over 20,000...
The weevil larvae of this species are even more dangerous and can kill a plant by severely damaging its roots. The adults lay their eggs on citrus leaves, which ultimately fall off and carry the eggs or the larvae to the soil. The newborn larvae then burrow underground and start feeding ...