Medicinal Potential of Pine Trees: A Brief Review Focusing on Three Species by Qinsong Li, Qiyu Li, Anping Wang, Wenxuan Quan

“…This paper reviews the medicinal potential of extracts from different organs of three trees of the genus Pinus in East Asia. Studies have shown that pine trees are rich in bioactive compounds, and these compounds have a variety of pharmacological activities, including antioxidation, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antitumor, and hypolipidemic effects. …”
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The last giants: New evidence for giant Late Triassic (Rhaetian) ichthyosaurs from the UK. by Dean R Lomax, Paul de la Salle, Marcello Perillo, Justin Reynolds, Ruby Reynolds, James F Waldron

“…The identification of two specimens with the same unique morphology and from the same geologic age and geographic location warrants the erection of a new genus and species, Ichthyotitan severnensis gen. et sp. nov. …”
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The Incidence of Infection Complicating Snakebites in Tropical Australia: Implications for Clinical Management and Antimicrobial Prophylaxis by Laura K. Smith, John Vardanega, Simon Smith, Julian White, Mark Little, Josh Hanson

“…All 3 envenomated individuals diagnosed with infection were believed to have taipan (genus Oxyuranus) bites. Five (83%) of the six patients diagnosed with infection had received empirical antibiotics at presentation; only 1/710 (0.1%) patients who received no antibiotics developed a (superficial) infection. …”
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Biological Evaluation of Garcinia kola Heckel by Abdulrahman Mahmoud Dogara, Saber W. Hamad, Harmand A. Hama, Sarwan W. Bradosty, Soran Kayfi, Sawsan S. Al-Rawi, Abubakar Abdullahi Lema

“…Garcinia kola belongs to the Garcinia genus of the Clusiaceae family and Malpighiales order. …”
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Effect of Chemical and Physical Properties of River Water in Shatt Al-Hilla on Phytoplankton Communities by Fikrat M. Hassan, Nuha F. Kathim, Falah H. Hussein

“…Bimodal variation of phytoplankton was observed. Five genus of phytoplankton were the highest number of species ( Nitzschia, Navicula, Gomphonema, Cymbella and Scendesmus). …”
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Chemical Composition, Total Phenolic Content, and Antioxidant Activity of the Essential Oils Extracted from the Needle of Ten Pinus Taxa by Zhihong Liu, Weixin Fan, Qing Xie

“…This study investigated the chemical compositions of essential oils (EOs) from ten taxa belonging to the Pinus genus. The studied taxa that grow wildly in China, and the EOs were extracted by steam distillation; the chemical compositions were isolated and characterized by GC-MS. …”
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Geographic Distribution Patterns of Soil Microbial Community Assembly Process in Mangrove Constructed Wetlands, Southeast China by Ping Hu, Qiong Yang

“…The abundance of genera changed significantly between the treatment groups, such as the genus <i>Candidatus_Udaeobacter</i> for bacteria versus <i>Russula</i> for fungi, and the random forest model showed that rare genera (e.g., <i>Acidibacter</i>, <i>Dyella</i>, <i>Sebacina</i>, and <i>Lachnellula</i>) also play an important role in microbial community construction. …”
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Molecular systematics of Keratinophyton: the inclusion of species formerly referred to Chrysosporium and description of four new species by Roman Labuda, Andreas Bernreiter, Doris Hochenauer, Alena Kubátová, Hazal Kandemir, Christoph Schüller

“…All four new species can be well distinguished from other species in the genus based on phenotype characteristics alone. Ten new combinations are proposed for Chrysosporium species which are resolved in the monophyletic Keratinophyton clade. …”
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Common Symptoms from an Uncommon Infection: Gastrointestinal Anisakiasis by Yuto Shimamura, Niroshan Muwanwella, Sujievvan Chandran, Gabor Kandel, Norman Marcon

“…Gastrointestinal anisakiasis is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by consumption of raw or undercooked seafood infected with nematodes of the genus Anisakis. Even though the reported cases indicate that this is a rare disease, the true incidence of the disease could be potentially higher than what is reported in the literature as cases can go undiagnosed. …”
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Purification and Optimization of Extracellular Lipase from a Novel Strain Kocuria flava Y4 by Adyasa Barik, Sudip Kumar Sen, Geetanjali Rajhans, Sangeeta Raut

“…The exogenous lipolytic activities of Kocuria sp. have been recognized earlier but the genus further contains many more unexplored strains. …”
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University proceedings. Volga region. Natural sciences by O.N. Kurdyukova, Yu.G. Zarutskaya

“…In the green spaces in Lugansk there were 9 taxon of the genus Populus L. – Populus alba L., Populus alba var. bolleana (Lauche) Ed. …”

Ophiocordyceps salganeicola, a parasite of social cockroaches in Japan and insights into the evolution of other closely-related Blattodea-associated lineages by João P. M. Araújo, Mitsuru G. Moriguchi, Shigeru Uchiyama, Noriko Kinjo, Yu Matsuura

“…Abstract The entomopathogenic genus Ophiocordyceps includes a highly diverse group of fungal species, predominantly parasitizing insects in the orders Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera. …”
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Elizabethkingia anophelis: An uncommon cause of hospital-acquired septic meningitis and a rare cause of community-acquired meningitis in children: A case series by Sarjana Shuchi, Shweta Satija, Manoj B Jais

“…E. anophelis is now being identified as the most prevalent species under the genus Elizabethkingia. Among the two cases, one was a health-care-associated infection and another was a community-acquired infection. …”
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Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity Using Cadmium Oxide Nanoparticles Prepared by Physical Method (PLAL) by Nisreen Kh. Abdalameer, Tuqa A. Khaleefa

“…Additionally, a specific genus of fungi known as Candida exists. The findings of the study indicate that CdO NPs synthesized using the PLAL technique possess antibacterial properties, rendering them effective in eradicating pathogenic bacteria and fungi. …”
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Deciphering chemical diversity among five variants of Abeliophyllum distichum flowers through metabolomics analysis by Yeong‐Geun Lee, Jeong Eun Kwon, Won‐Sil Choi, Nam‐In Baek, Se Chan Kang

“…Abstract Abeliophyllum distichum (Oleaceae), endemic to the Korean Peninsula and the sole member of its genus and species, possesses high scarcity value, escalating its importance under the Nagoya Protocol. …”
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Toll-Like Receptors in Leishmania Infections: Guardians or Promoters? by Marilia S. Faria, Flavia C. G. Reis, Ana Paula C. A. Lima

“…Protozoa of the genus Leishmania cause a wide variety of pathologies ranging from self-healing skin lesions to visceral damage, depending on the parasite species. …”
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Plectranthias raki (Teleostei, Serranidae), a new species of perchlet from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Maldives by Bart Shepherd, Hudson T. Pinheiro, Ahmed Najeeb, Claudia R. Rocha, Luiz A. Rocha

“…With this publication, the genus Plectranthias now comprises 67 valid species. …”
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Phylogeographic analyses reveal recent dispersal and multiple Wolbachia infections of the bright-eyed ringlet Erebia oeme within the European mountain systems by Valentine Mewis, Martin Wendt, Thomas Schmitt

“…Abstract The genus Erebia comprises numerous species in Europe. …”
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Morpho-phylogenetic analyses of two novel edible mushrooms from China and a mini review of Lyophyllum (Agaricales, Lyophyllaceae) cultivation and bioactivities by Song-Ming Tang, Feng-Ming Yu, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Zong-Long Luo, Kai-Yang Niu, Rui-Yu Li, Lin Li, Xi-Jun Su, Shu-Hong Li

“…Lyophyllum plays an important role in the natural ecosystem and has significant economic value. Some species of this genus have been cultivated in Asia, America, and Europe. …”
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Comparison of transcriptomic profiles between intracellular and extracellular Bartonella henselae by Shiva Kumar Goud Gadila, John R. Caskey, Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Ricardo G. Maggi, Monica E. Embers

“…Abstract The Bartonella genus of bacteria encompasses ubiquitous species, some of which are pathogenic in humans and animals. …”
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