Origins and Evolution of WUSCHEL-Related Homeobox Protein Family in Plant Kingdom by Gaibin Lian, Zhiwen Ding, Qin Wang, Dabing Zhang, Jie Xu

“…These 350 members were grouped into 3 clades: the first clade represents the conservative WOXs from the lower plant algae to higher plants; the second clade has the members from vascular plant species; the third clade has the members only from spermatophyte species. …”
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Streptococcus abundance and oral site tropism in humans and non-human primates reflects host and lifestyle differences by Irina M. Velsko, Christina Warinner

“…We explored the dominant Streptococcus phylogenetic clades in samples from multiple oral sites and from ancient and modern-day humans and non-human primates and found that clade dominance is conserved across human oral sites, with most Streptococcus reads assigned to species falling in the Sanguinis or Mitis clades. …”
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A Drosophila melanogaster mitotype may have an adaptive meaning by D. V. Petrovskii, L. P. Zakharenko

“…Several different mitochondrial clades have been found in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. …”
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Looks can be deceiving: the deceptive milkcaps (Lactifluus, Russulaceae) exhibit low morphological variance but harbour high genetic diversity by Lynn Delgat, Glen Dierickx, Serge De Wilde, Claudio Angelini, Eske De Crop, Ruben De Lange, Roy Halling, Cathrin Manz, Jorinde Nuytinck, Annemieke Verbeken

“…Even though most collections were identified as L. deceptivus, the clade is shown to contain at least 15 species, distributed across Asia and America, indicating that the L. deceptivus clade represents a species complex. …”
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Diterpene chemical space of Aeollanthus buchnerianus Briq. aerial part by Gabin T. M. Bitchagno, Nathan Reynolds, Monique S. J. Simmonds

“…Abstract The Plectranthinae clade, which includes genera such as Plectranthus, Ocimum, and Aeollanthus, is well known for its diverse array of diterpenoids. …”
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Domestication of different varieties in the cheese-making fungus Geotrichum candidum by Bennetot, Bastien, Vernadet, Jean-Philippe, Perkins, Vincent, Hautefeuille, Sophie, Rodríguez de la Vega, Ricardo C., O’Donnell, Samuel, Snirc, Alodie, Grondin, Cécile, Lessard, Marie-Hélène, Peron, Anne-Claire, Labrie, Steve, Landaud, Sophie, Giraud, Tatiana, Ropars, Jeanne

“…The genetic diversity in the cheese clade was similar as that in the wild clade, suggesting the lack of strong bottlenecks. …”
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A molecular phylogeny of Zygopterans (Insecta, Odonata) of Kerala, India by C. Nitha Bose, Anu Boswell, Francy K. Kakkassery

“…All the existing family levels in Zygoptera were confirmed as monophyletic clades in both analyses. While the 18S analysis resolved deep relations well, the COI analyses supported recently diverged clades. …”
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Phylogenetic Analysis of Spike and Envelope Proteins for a Number of Bat Coronaviruses for Understanding the Hypothesis of Possible Origin for the Novel 2019- nCoV by Salar Ibrahim Ali

“…Phylogenetic tree analysis for Spike protein revealed that all 2019-nCoV related coronaviruses isolated from these species of species are discovered in China and Hong Kong and the Middle East bat are less likely to contribute in spreading or to become the origin of 2019-nCoV and all coronaviruses that from Hong Kong and China are located into one clade next to the clade that contains 2019-nCoV coronaviruses which indicates that this group of coronaviruses are genetically different for 2019-nCoV; moreover, Hong Kong and USA bat coronaviruses does not contain the bat coronavirus from China and are located into one clade far from the clade that contains 2019-nCoV indicates that all coronaviruses are genetically very different from 2019-nCoV, and USA bat coronavirus may has no role in generating of 2019-nCoV. …”
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Genome skimming provides evidence to accept two new genera (Apiaceae) separated from the Peucedanum s.l. by Bo-Ni Song, Chang-Kun Liu, Chang-Kun Liu, Jiao-Jiao Deng, Wei-Yan Tan, Song-Dong Zhou, Xing-Jin He

“…Among these Peucedanum s.l. members, plastid-based phylogenies recognized two monophyletic clades, clade A (four species) and clade B (10 taxa). …”
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Parasites specific to centipedes form a new major lineage of terrestrial gregarines by Tatiana S. Miroliubova, Kirill V. Mikhailov, Timur G. Simdyanov, Vladimir V. Aleoshin, Đinh Thế Dũng, Aleksandra I. Kudriavkina

“…Phylogenetic analyses with combined SSU, 5.8S and LSU rDNA dataset support the previously proposed separation of Trichorhynchus to the Trichorhynchidae based on morphology and recover the dactylophorids and trichorhynchids as sister groups in a monophyletic clade. This clade appears sister to the clade of the Actinocephaloidea and Stylocephaloidea, and represents a new major lineage of terrestrial gregarines that we designate as a new superfamily Dactylophoroidea.…”
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Abundant geographical divergence of Clostridioides difficile infection in China: a prospective multicenter cross-sectional study by Lulu Bai, Telong Xu, Wenzhu Zhang, Yajun Jiang, Wenpeng Gu, Wei Zhao, Yang Luan, Yanfeng Xiong, Nianli Zou, Yalin Zhang, Ming Luo, Jinxing Lu, Bike Zhang, Yuan Wu

“…The isolates from different geographical areas had divergent characteristics after multilocus sequence typing, toxin gene profiling, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. No isolate from clade 2 were found, and clade 1 was still the main clade for these clinical isolates. …”
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Molecular phylogenetic studies on the lichenicolous Xanthoriicola physciae reveal Antarctic rock-inhabiting fungi and Piedraia species among closest relatives in the Teratosphaeria... by C. Ruibal, A.M. Millanes, D.L. Hawksworth

“…Sequences of the nLSU region were obtained from 11 specimens of X. physciae, which formed a single clade supported both by parsimony (91 %), and maximum likelihood (100 %) bootstraps, and Bayesian Posterior Probabilities (1.0). …”
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Use of “ARRIAH-AviFluVac” vaccine in turkeys, geese and ducks by N. V. Moroz, S. V. Frolov, V. N. Irza, L. O. Scherbakova, V. Yu. Kulakov

“…Higher species resistance of ducks to the challenge with avian influenza virus of subtype H5, clade 2.3.4.4bas compared to turkeys was also demonstrated.…”
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Aspergillus sect. Aeni sect. nov., a new section of the genus for A. karnatakaensis sp. nov. and some allied fungi by J. Varga, J.C. Frisvad, R.A. Samson

“…This clade is placed in a new section, Aspergillus sect. …”
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Reclassification of Pterulaceae Corner (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) introducing the ant-associated genus Myrmecopterula gen. nov., Phaeopterula Henn. and the corticioid Radulomyceta... by Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Gareth W. Griffith, Maria Alice Neves, David J. McLaughlin, Esther G. McLaughlin, Lina A. Clasen, Bryn T. M. Dentinger

“…The neotropical Myrmecopterula gen. nov. forms a distinct clade adjacent to Pterula, and most members of this clade are associated with active or inactive attine ant nests. …”
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Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of WUSCHEL-related homeobox (WOX) gene family in Pinus yunnanensis by Junfei Xu, Zhaoliu Hu, Sili Chen, Junrong Tang, Lin Chen, Peizhen Chen, Nianhui Cai, Yulan Xu

“…Our findings revealed that 10 PyWOX genes were dispersed across three existing clades, and their expression profiles were presented in specific developmental stages and tissues. …”
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The complete chloroplast genome of Viola vaginata (Violaceae), an endemic species of the snowy region in Japan by Yayoi Takahashi, Masato Fujiwara, Masaaki Ozeki, Masayuki U. Saito, Takaya Iwasaki

“…Phylogenetic analysis placed V. vaginata in a clade with subsection Biobatae species and some Patellares species, while other Patellares species formed a distinct clade, contrasting with previous nuclear ITS results. …”
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Importance of appropriate genome information for the design of mating type primers in black and yellow morel populations by Melissa Cravero, Aaron J. Robinson, Patrick Hilpisch, Patrick S. Chain, Saskia Bindschedler, Pilar Junier

“…Genomic sequencing of black (Elata clade) and yellow (Esculenta clade) morel species has led to the development of PCR primers designed to amplify genes from the two idiomorphs for rapid genotyping of isolates from these two clades. …”
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Phytophthora: an ancient, historic, biologically and structurally cohesive and evolutionarily successful generic concept in need of preservation by Clive Brasier, Bruno Scanu, David Cooke, Thomas Jung

“…Phylogenetically less related clades often show strong phenotypic and behavioural similarities and no one clade or group of clades shows the synapomorphies that might justify a unique generic status. …”
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Heads up-Four Giraffa species have distinct cranial morphology. by Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Anusuya Chinsamy, Bernard R Agwanda, Michael Butler Brown, Stephanie Fennessy, Sara Ferguson, Rigardt Hoffman, Fredrick Lala, Arthur Muneza, Ogeto Mwebi, Moses Otiende, Alice Petzold, Sven Winter, Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou, Julian Fennessy

“…The results show distinct sexual dimorphism and divergent ontogenetic trajectories of skull shape for the north clade (G. camelopardalis antiquorum, G. c. camelopardalis, G. c. peralta, and G. reticulata) and the south clade (G. giraffa angolensis, G. g. giraffa, G. tippelskirchi tippelskirchi, and G. t. thornicrofti) which was further supported statistically. …”
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