First report of serological, molecular detection, and characterization of human parvovirus B19 infections among sickle cell anaemia patients in Khartoum State, Sudan by Khalid Salman, Sittna Hayder El Nagar, Abdel Rahim M. El Hussein, Mohammed A. El Hussein, Hadi M. Yassine, Hebah A. Al Khatib, Mashael Ali Al- Badr, Ibrahim Farah, Khalid A. Enan

“…Phylogenetic analysis revealed two distinct Sudanese clusters: one (50 % of sequences) formed a unique clade with low similarity to existing genotypes, while the other (50 %) closely resembled genotype 1 A sequences from Iraq, Iran, and Tanzania. …”
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Genomic characterization of three marine fungi, including Emericellopsis atlantica sp. nov. with signatures of a generalist lifestyle and marine biomass degradation by Ole Christian Hagestad, Lingwei Hou, Jeanette H. Andersen, Espen H. Hansen, Bjørn Altermark, Chun Li, Eric Kuhnert, Russell J. Cox, Pedro W. Crous, Joseph W. Spatafora, Kathleen Lail, Mojgan Amirebrahimi, Anna Lipzen, Jasmyn Pangilinan, William Andreopoulos, Richard D. Hayes, Vivian Ng, Igor V. Grigoriev, Stephen A. Jackson, Thomas D. S. Sutton, Alan D. W. Dobson, Teppo Rämä

“…A six-gene phylogenetic analysis placed the isolate in the marine Emericellopsis clade and morphological examination confirmed that the isolate represents a new species, which is described here as E. atlantica. …”
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Morphological Characteristics, Mitochondrial Genome, and Evolutionary Insights Into a New Sea Squirt From the Beibu Gulf by Yichuan Zhang, Yuting Qin, Yueying Wu, Liping Liu, Wenguang Zhang, Ling Ding, Xiangpei Ya, Zhiting Wen, Kuaili Feng, Hong Wang, Yujun Wang

“…Interestingly, YZ‐2024 belongs to Pyuridae, but it clustered with 12 species of Styelidae into a clade. Based on this, it can be suggested that YZ‐2024 is a new species of sea squirt in the northern Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea. …”
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Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding? by Robert Lücking, M. Catherine Aime, Barbara Robbertse, Andrew N. Miller, Hiran A. Ariyawansa, Takayuki Aoki, Gianluigi Cardinali, Pedro W. Crous, Irina S. Druzhinina, David M. Geiser, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Laszlo Irinyi, Rajesh Jeewon, Peter R. Johnston, Paul M. Kirk, Elaine Malosso, Tom W. May, Wieland Meyer, Maarja Öpik, Vincent Robert, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Duong Vu, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch

“…Verification of identifications is crucial but often neglected. Because of clade-specific evolutionary histories, there is currently no single tool for the identification of fungi, although DNA barcoding using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) remains a first diagnosis, particularly in metabarcoding studies. …”
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Vertical bacterial variability in oxidation ponds in the tropical zone by C. Tudsanaton, T. Pattamapitoon, O. Phewnil, W. Wararam, K. Chunkao, P. Maskulrath, M. Srichomphu

“…Amongst these phyla, the Actinobacteriota dominated (25.35 to 28.23 percent), followed by Cyanobacteria (19.49 to 21.57percent), Planctomycetota (15.50 to 17.41 percent), Firmicutes (9.97 to 10.79 percent), Proteobacteria (9.73 to 10.79 percent), Verrucomicrobiota (6.47 to 7.69 percent), Chloroflexi (2.79 to 2.99 percent), Bacteriota (0.96 to 1.41 percent), Acidobacteriota (0.70 to 0.80 percent) and SAR324 clade (marine group B) (0.69 to 0.61 percent). Four organic substances were found in contaminated domestic wastewater. 1) Photosynthetic cyanobacteria and phytoplankton performed aerobic degradation and accounted for the dissolved oxygen levels of 7.76, 7.45 and 7.42 milligrams per liter, respectively at various depths along the vertical profile. 2) Bacteria and archaeans that participate in carbon compound treatment included Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobiota, Bacteroidota and Euryarcheota. …”
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TALome and phenotypic analysis of Pakistani Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae population revealed novel virulent TALEs contributing to bacterial blight of rice by Syed Mashab Ali Shah, Rafia Ahsan, Linlin Liu, Ying Li, Qi Wang, Yong Wang, Jiali Yan, Moein Khojasteh, Xiameng Xu, Zhengyin Xu, Awais Rasheed, Muhammad Zakria, Gongyou Chen

“…Interestingly, the expression analysis of six clade-III OsSWEET genes suggests that novel TALE/s targeting unidentified susceptibility gene/s. …”
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Preparedness, prevention and control related to zoonotic avian influenza by EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Animal Welfare (AHAW), ECDC, Julio Alvarez, Anette Boklund, Sabine Dippel, Fernanda Dórea, Jordi Figuerola, Mette S. Herskin, Virginie Michel, Miguel Ángel Miranda Chueca, Eleonora Nannoni, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Romolo Nonno, Anja B. Riber, Jan Arend Stegeman, Karl Ståhl, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Frank Tuyttens, Christoph Winckler, Claire Brugerolles, Thorsten Wolff, Anna Parys, Erika Lindh, Neus Latorre‐Margalef, Marie‐Anne Rameix Welti, Ralf Dürrwald, Ramona Trebbien, Sylvie Van der Werf, Magnus Gisslén, Isabella Monne, Alice Fusaro, Claire Guinat, Alessio Bortolami, Leonidas Alexakis, Theresa Enkirch, Olov Svartstrom, Katriina Willgert, Francesca Baldinelli, Ludovica Preite, Malin Grant, Alessandro Broglia, Angeliki Melidou

“…In the EU/EEA, H5Nx viruses of clade 2.3.4.4b, which have increased opportunities for evolution due to widespread circulation in birds and occasional cases/outbreaks in mammals, have acquired the highest number of zoonotic traits. …”
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Impact of interventions on mpox transmission during the 2022 outbreak in Canada: a mathematical modeling study of three different cities by Fanyu Xiu, Carla M. Doyle, Jorge Luis Flores Anato, Jesse Knight, Linwei Wang, Joseph Cox, Daniel Grace, Trevor A. Hart, Terri Zhang, Shayna Skakoon-Sparling, Milada Dvorakova, Rita Shahin, Herveen Sachdeva, Nathan Lachowsky, Hind Sbihi, Darrell H.S. Tan, Michael A. Irvine, Sharmistha Mishra, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

“…Objectives: The global mpox (clade II) outbreak of 2022 primarily affected gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) and was met with swift community and public health responses. …”
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Neurotropic Tick-Borne Flavivirus in Alpine Chamois (<i>Rupicapra rupicapra rupicapra</i>), Austria, 2017, Italy, 2023 by Norbert Nowotny, Maria Lucia Mandola, Isabella Monne, Zoltán Bagó, Chiara Nogarol, Alice Fusaro, Katharina Dimmel, Barbara Moroni, Lisa Guardone, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Elisa Palumbo, Gabriela Stanclova, Adi Steinrigl, Gabriele Fidler, Cristina Bertasio, Irene Bertoletti, Alessandro Bianchi, Mattia Calzolari, Paola Prati, Nadia Vicari, Angela Salomoni, Maria Francesca Priore, Federica Gobbo, Aitor Garcia-Vozmediano, Tom Loney, Ahmad Abou Tayoun, Alawi Alsheikh-Ali, Paola De Benedictis, Jeremy V. Camp, Zdenek Hubalek, Ivo Rudolf, Davide Lelli, Ana Moreno

“…The chamois-derived virus strains, tentatively termed “Alpine chamois encephalitis virus”, form a well-supported independent genetic clade with Spanish goat encephalitis virus, clearly separated from other LIV. …”
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Reactogenicity and Immunogenicity Against MPXV of the Intradermal Administration of Modified Vaccinia Ankara Compared to the Standard Subcutaneous Route by Valentina Mazzotta, Pierluca Piselli, Alessandro Cozzi Lepri, Giulia Matusali, Eleonora Cimini, Rozenn Esvan, Francesca Colavita, Roberta Gagliardini, Stefania Notari, Alessandra Oliva, Silvia Meschi, Rita Casetti, Giulia Micheli, Licia Bordi, Alessandro Giacinta, Germana Grassi, Saba Gebremeskel Tekle, Claudia Cimaglia, Jessica Paulicelli, Alessandro Caioli, Paola Gallì, Giulia Del Duca, Miriam Lichtner, Loredana Sarmati, Enrica Tamburrini, Claudio Mastroianni, Alessandra Latini, Paolo Faccendini, Carla Fontana, Emanuele Nicastri, Andrea Siddu, Alessandra Barca, Francesco Vaia, Enrico Girardi, Fabrizio Maggi, Andrea Antinori

“…Our data support the current WHO recommendation of using the ID route in low–medium-income countries (LMIC), although response data in people infected with the new 1b clade are urgently needed.…”
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Effect of Larval Density on Development of the Coconut Hispine Beetle, Brontispa longissima (Gestro) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Mika Murata, Dang Thi Dung, Shun-ichiro Takano, Ryoko Tabata Ichiki, Satoshi Nakamura

“…Recently we found that B. longissima was divided into two monophyletic clades by genetic analysis. Therefore, we also compared the results between two populations, from Ishigaki, Japan (ISH) and Papua New Guinea (PNG), which were representative of the two monophyletic clades of B. longissima. …”
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A revised classification of Dryopteridaceae based on plastome phylogenomics and morphological evidence, with the description of a new genus, Pseudarachniodes by Zheng-Yu Zuo, Germinal Rouhan, Shi-Yong Dong, Hong-Mei Liu, Xin-Yu Du, Li-Bing Zhang, Jin-Mei Lu

“…Our analyses recovered 24 strongly supported clades grouped into seven major clades of Dryopteridaceae. …”
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Novel primers improve species delimitation in Cercospora by Mounes Bakhshi, Mahdi Arzanlou, Asadollah Babai-ahari, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Pedro W. Crous

“…The C. armoraciae s. lat. isolates are distributed over two clades, C. armoraciae s. str. and C. bizzozeriana. …”
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Fleming's penicillin producing strain is not Penicillium chrysogenum but P. rubens by J. Houbraken, J.C. Frisvad, R.A. Samson

“…Phylogenetic analysis of the most important penicillin producing P. chrysogenum isolates revealed the presence of two highly supported clades, and we show here that these two clades represent two species, P. chrysogenum and P. rubens. …”
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Using target enrichment sequencing to study the higher-level phylogeny of the largest lichen-forming fungi family: Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota) by Felix Grewe, Claudio Ametrano, Todd J. Widhelm, Steven Leavitt, Isabel Distefano, Wetchasart Polyiam, David Pizarro, Mats Wedin, Ana Crespo, Pradeep K. Divakar, H. Thorsten Lumbsch

“…We used a target enrichment data set and a qualitative selection method for 250 out of 350 genes to infer the phylogeny of the major clades in this family including 81 taxa, with both subfamilies and all seven major clades previously recognized in the subfamily Parmelioideae. …”
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Profiling Human Coronavirus Genomic Data Obtained from Patients in Belarus by M. V. Sprindzuk, A. S. Vladyko, L. P. Titov, V. I. Bernik

“…The dominant clades-clusters in Belarus and Russia are B.1 (“Basel cluster”) and B.1.1. …”
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Review and Phylogenetic Evaluation of Associations between Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) and Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Menno Reemer

“…(2) Are Microdontinae associated with all ants? (3) Are particular clades of Microdontinae associated with particular clades of ants? …”
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Specialized Bacteroidetes dominate the Arctic Ocean during marine spring blooms by Álvaro Redondo-Río, Christopher J. Mundy, Javier Tamames, Carlos Pedrós-Alió

“…These specialized taxa quickly displaced the microbial clades that dominate nutrient-poor waters during early spring, such as Archaea, Alpha-and Gammaproteobacteria. …”
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Clarifications needed concerning the new Article 59 dealing with pleomorphic fungi by Walter Gams, Hans-Otto Baral, Walter M. Jaklitsch, Roland Kirschner, Marc Stadler

“…The new rules formulated in Article 59 of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) will cause numerous, often undesirable, name changes, when only phylogenetically defined clades are named. Our task is to name fungal taxa and not just clades. …”
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Phylogenetic taxon definitions for Fungi, Dikarya, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota by David S. Hibbett, Meredith Blackwell, Timothy Y. James, Joseph W. Spatafora, John W. Taylor, Rytas Vilgalys

“…Abstract Phylogenetic taxon definitions (PTDs) are explicit, phylogeny-based statements that specify clades. PTDs are central to the system of rank-free classification that is governed by the PhyloCode, but they can also be used to clarify the meanings of ranked names. …”
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