Our understanding of microbial diversity and its evolutionary relationships has increased
substantially over the last decade. Such an understanding has been greatly fueled by …

A new marine benthic toxic Prorocentrum species is described from the tropical/subtropical
regions of the Atlantic (Colombian Caribbean Sea and Northeast Brazil) and Pacific …

Commercial interest in the culinary herb, Eryngium foetidum L., has increased worldwide
due to its typical pungency, similar to coriander or cilantro, with immense pharmaceutical …

Background Despite GC variation constitutes a fundamental element of genome and
species diversity, the precise mechanisms driving it remain unclear. The abundant …

Thick‐walled rosette‐like snow algae were long thought to be a life stage of various other
species of snow algae. Rosette‐like cells have not been cultured, but by manually isolating …

Simple Summary The richness (number of species) of the fungi kingdom is estimated at 1.5
million species, but the vast majority remains unknown. Many of them inhabit plants—the so …

Second Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS2) ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequence is a widely
used molecular marker for species-identification or-delimitation due to observed concerted …

Background: The delimitation of species of Tulasnella has been extensively studied, mainly
at the morphological (sexual and asexual states) and molecular levels—showing ambiguity …

Guanine and cytosine (GC) content is a fundamental component of genetic diversity and
essential for phylogenetic analyses. However, the GC content of the ribosomal internal …

Despite that the ballast water management (BWM) convention has come into force to
prevent the spread of harmful aquatic organisms, to date, very few bacteria can be identified …