No jacket required - new fungal lineage defies dress code

No jacket required--new fungal lineage defies dress code: recently described zoosporic fungi lack a cell wall during trophic phase.

Analyses of environmental DNAs have provided tantalizing evidence for "rozellida" or "cryptomycota", a clade of mostly undescribed and deeply diverging aquatic fungi. Here, we put cryptomycota into perspective through consideration of Rozella, the only clade member growing in culture. This is timely on account of the publication in Nature of the first images of uncultured cryptomycota from envi...

A new SUN role – no KASH required?

In eukaryotic cells, a close physical association between the microtubule-organising centre (MTOC) and the nucleus is essential, and its disruption leads to severe cellular abnormalities. MTOC–nucleus attachment is maintained by SUN and KASH proteins, which are found in the inner and outer nuclear membranes, respectively, and typically interact to form nuclear-envelope-spanning LINC complexes. ...

On the value of an old dress code in the new millennium.

A S I WAS preparing to deliver my annual lecture to the secondyear medical students, I looked out over the audience and realized that the attendees looked different from those in years past: there were a substantial number of women (compared with 5% in my class); some students were unkempt and slouched, reading nonmedical material (as opposed to the bolt-upright, fearful, and attentive position...

Black-tie dress code: two new species of the genus Toxomerus (Diptera, Syrphidae)

Toxomerus hauseri Mengual sp. n. and Toxomerus picudus Mengual sp. n. are described from Peru and Ecuador respectively. Toxomerus circumcintus (Enderlein, 1938) is treated as a valid species and not considered synonym of Toxomerus marginatus, and Toxomerus ovatus (Hull, 1942) is considered junior synonym of Toxomerus nitidus (Schiner, 1868). An identification key for the Toxomerus species with ...

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