Received 23/8/2012 Accepted 27/3/2013 (005770) 1 Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia dos Alimentos, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM, Km 9, Camobi, CEP 97119-900, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil 2 Curso de Farmácia, Centro Universitário Franciscano – UNIFRA, Rua dos Andradas, 1614, Centro, CEP 97010-032, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, e-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding author Phenolic c...

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In the process of searching for the recently described small anelloviruses 1 and 2 (SAVs) with the genomic DNA length of 2.2 or 2.6 kb in human sera, we isolated a novel virus with its genomic organization resembling those of torque teno virus (TTV) of 3.8-3.9 kb and torque teno mini virus (TTMV) of 2.8-2.9 kb. The entire genomic sequence of three isolates (MD1-032, MD1-073 and MD2-013), which ...

We report high-resolution, high-signal-to-noise, observations of the extremely metal-poor double-lined spectroscopic binary CS 22876–032. The system has a long period : P = 424.7 ± 0.6 days. It comprises two main sequence stars having effective temperatures 6300 K and 5600 K, with a ratio of secondary to primary mass of 0.89 ± 0.04. The metallicity of the system is [Fe/H] = –3.71 ± 0.11 ± 0.12 ...