We examined structural changes in the molluscan community for ten years (2001-2010) before and five years (2011-2015) after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami around Matsushima Bay, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Before the earthquake and tsunami, Ruditapes philippinarum, Macoma incongrua, Pillucina pisidium, and Batillaria cumingii were dominant, and an alien p...

1 Magdalena Baymakova1, Kamen Plochev1, Ivan Dikov1, Georgi T. Popov1, Raynichka Mihaylova-Garnizova1, Valentina Kovaleva2, Todor Kundurdjiev3 1Department of Infectious Diseases, Military Medical Academy, 2Center of Military Epidemiology and Hygiene, Military Medical Academy, 3Department of Occupational Health, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria Fever of Unknown Origi...

The systematic position of secotioid (Torrendia) and gasteroid (Amarrendia) forms within the agaricoid Amanita lineage (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) was studied with molecular (nLSU, ITS) data. Secotioid and gasteroid forms occur in four independent clades nested within agaricoid forms. One clade corresponds to the secotioid T. pulchella from southern Europe and northern Africa. The others corres...

Low levels of feces-associated natural virus, simulating virus numbers estimated to exist in moderately polluted shellfish-growing waters, were used to evaluate the effectiveness of depuration as a virus depletion procedure in soft-shell clams. Depuration effectiveness depended upon the numbers of virus bioaccumulated and whether virus was solids associated. Virus uptake was greatest when virus...

Damaged and developing kernels of peanut (Arachis hypogaea) are susceptible to colonization by fungi in the Aspergillus flavus group which, under certain conditions, produces aflatoxins prior to harvest. Our objective was to determine whether infection of peanut roots and pods by Meloidogyne arenaria increases aflatoxin contamination of the kernels when peanut is subjected to drought stress. Th...

In a recent Physical Review Letter [1] Garcia and Nieto Vesperinas (GNV) dispute the claim of perfect lensing made in [2]. GVN claim that the solutions proposed in [2] imply infinite energy density and are therefore inadmissible. They also claim that finite absorption leads to catastrophic collapse of the amplifying solutions vital to focussing. GNV calculate in equation (6) of their Letter the...