Bat fossil endocasts have been little studied in the literature (nine published works, only one XXIth century), and macromorphology of brain extant bats has characterized at family-level. We describe here detail endocranial casts four hipposiderid species based on μCT-scans data propose a revised nomenclature structures that leave their imprint casts. Exhaustive comparisons external morphology ...

The edible wild mushrooms are most important in food security of ethnic groups and tribals throughout the world. Various indigenous strategies are followed to trace wild mushrooms suitable for human consumption. Data presented in this article projects ethnic knowledge on 51 edible wild mushrooms (in 23 genera) in the Western Ghats region of India. Information collected with support of ethnic gr...

Glia play crucial roles in the development and homeostasis of the nervous system. While the GLIA in the Drosophila embryo have been well characterized, their study in the adult nervous system has been limited. Here, we present a detailed description of the glia in the adult nervous system, based on the analysis of some 500 glial drivers we identified within a collection of synthetic GAL4 lines....

A new genus, Simonachne E.J.Thomps. is described and Ancistrachne maidenii (A.A.Ham.) Vickery transferred to it as The subtribe Cleistochloinae composed of four genera, Calyptochloa, Cleistochloa, Dimorphochloa Simonachne, united by distinctive morphology that associated with reproductive dimorphism. Phenetic analyses were used examine the similarities taxa test consistency results variation in...

Liver transplantation (LT) has become standard of care in patients with non-resectable early stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in liver cirrhosis. Currently, patient selection for LT is strictly based on tumor size and number, provided by the Milan criteria. This may, however, exclude patients with advanced tumor load but favourable biology from a possibly curative treatment option. It becam...

Humus forms are good indicators of environmental conditions and thus important in forest ecological processes. Altitudinal gradients considered as natural laboratory for evaluating soil processes humus form distribution. The objective this study was to evaluate the macromorphology along an altitudinal gradient (0-2000 m a.s.l.) covered with plain forest, mixed pure forests forest-grassland ecot...

Improving the wear resistance and corrosion of high-speed steel (HSS), WC/diamond/Co-based gradient composite coatings were produced on HSS substrates by laser cladding with different composition powder mixture (Co-Cr alloy powder, 80Co-Cr powder+20WC, 53Co-Cr powder+40WC+7diamond, wt%). The macromorphology, microstructures, phase characterized optical microscope (OM), scanning electron microsc...

Community science-generated biodiversity data can provide essential information for understanding species distributions, behaviors and conservation statuses. However, their utility be limited due to high uncertainty variability in quality, especially small taxonomically difficult organisms like fungi insects. One important set of community-generated that are increasingly used by scientists Rese...

Modern systematics integrating molecular and morphological data has greatly improved our understanding of coral evolutionary relationships during the last two decades led to a deeply revised taxonomy order Scleractinia. The family Merulinidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) was recently subjected series revisions following this integrated approach but phylogenetic affinities several genera ascribed it...