The invasive non-native earthworm Amynthas agrestis (Goto and Hatai, 1899) has recently been documented invading forests of the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States. This epigeic earthworm decreases the depth of organic soil horizons, and this may play a role in the decrease of millipede richness and abundance associated with A. agrestis invasion. To investigate the mechanism...

Membrane vesicles (MVs) are secreted from a wide range of microbial species and transfer their content to other cells. Although MVs play critical roles in bacterial communication, whether MVs selectively interact with bacterial cells in microbial communities is unclear. In this study, we investigated the specificity of the MV-cell interactions and evaluated the potential of MVs to target bacter...

The phylogeography of the filed vole (Microtus agrestis) in Eurasia was thoroughly examined using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome b (cytb) gene. However, former conclusions about genetic variability and contact zone eastern western lineages Lithuania were based on analysis a very limited number individuals. In present study, we 74 M. agrestis individuals trapped four sites eastern, norther...

MI agar is routinely used for quantifying Escherichia coli in drinking water. A suspect E. coli colony isolated from a water sample was identified as Buttiauxella agrestis. The whole genome sequence of B. agrestis was determined to understand the genetic basis for its phenotypic resemblance to E. coli on MI agar.

The hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis, is a member of the family of spiders known as the Agelenidae or funnel web weavers. The first record of Tegenaria agrestis Walckenaer in the United States was in Seattle,Washington in 1930 [1,2]. European distribution is widespread from Europe to central Asia [3].The current range of T. agrestis, originally named the aggressive house spider, includes Washing...

Wolf spider species of the genus Pardosa show a typical stenochronous life cycle, adults reproducing in the spring and different instars of the juvenile stage overwintering (Schaefer, 1977). The life cycle is typically one year long (Tretzel, 1954; Vlijm et al., 1963; Merrett, 1968) in Western and Central Europe, but at more Northern latitudes it can be extended to two (Edgar, 1972; Stepczak, 1...

This study documents the occurrence of an aggressive invasive earthworm species in undisturbed forest soils of the southern Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia, USA. Earthworms were sorted from samples collected in pitfall traps that had been set in mature, mesic oak-hickory forests in remote, high elevation, locations across northern Georgia. Specimens were continuously collected in thes...

Larvae of Bradysia agrestis, an insect vector that transports plant pathogens, were sampled from geographically isolated regions in Korea to identify their cutaneous fungal and bacterial flora. Sampled areas were chosen within the distribution range of B. agrestis; each site was more than 91 km apart to ensure geographical segregation. We isolated 76 microbial (fungi and bacteria) strains (site...