Dracunculusmedinensis (a little dragon from Medina) is responsible for Dracunculiasis, popularly known as “guinea worm disease”. The Cyclops is the intermediate host that ingests the larvae of parasite (D.medinensis), that later on ingested by the human from the contaminated stagnant unfiltered water from thewater source. After ingestion these Cyclops are disintegrated by stomach digestive juic...

Multi-core architectures are becoming mainstream, permitting increasing on-chip parallelism through hardware support for multithreading. Synchronization, especial finegrain synchronization, is essential to the effective utilization of the computational power of high-performance large-scale multi-core architectures. However, designing and implementing fine-grain synchronization in such architect...

Based on phylogenetic analysis of 18S rRNA sequences and clade taxon composition, this paper adopts a biogeographical approach to understanding the evolutionary relationships of the human and primate infective trypanosomes, Trypanosoma cruzi, T. brucei, T. rangeli and T. cyclops. Results indicate that these parasites have divergent origins and fundamentally different patterns of evolution. T. c...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis in vascular plant roots is an ancient mutualistic interaction that evolved with land plants. More recently evolved root mutualisms have recruited components of the AM signaling pathway as identified with molecular approaches in model legume research. Earlier we reported that the reduced mycorrhizal colonization (rmc) mutation of tomato mapped to chromosome ...

Material collected during a biodiversity expedition in some protected areas of Ecuador, located in the provinces of Cotopaxi, Pichincha and Napo, resulted in ten new species and three first records. The new taxa are: Cylloepus bartolozzii sp. nov., Cylloepus cesari sp. nov., Cylloepus fabianorum sp. nov., Cylloepus francescae sp. nov., Cylloepus mazzai sp. nov., Cylloepus terzanii sp. nov., Cyl...

Bermudagrass (Cynodon sp.) and paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum) genotypes were evaluated in laboratory, greenhouse, and field experiments for potential resistance to the common turfgrass pests, tawny mole cricket (Scapteriscus vicinus Scudder) and southern mole cricket (Scapteriscus borellii Giglio-tos). Potential resistance among 21 seashore paspalums to both insects in an environmental chamber a...

Purpose To clarify the effects of ACL remnant tissue preservation on the clinical outcome of ACL reconstruction. Methods This is a systematic review. Results The majority of the reviewed articles suggested that remnant preservation significantly improved knee stability after ACL reconstruction, although there was some controversy. In addition, it was suggested that the degree of initial gra...