During an intensive field survey in 2006 and 2007 a series of three specimens of a whitebellied and relatively large Murina species was collected in primary forest on limestone karst in Kim Hy Nature Reserve, Bac Kan Province, Vietnam. A further specimen of the same species was caught in 1998 in semi-degraded evergreen forest in Pu Mat National Park, Nghe An Province, Vietnam. The specimens, in...

A new species of Mycetophilidae, Cordyla australica sp. n., is described from continental Australia and Tasmania, representing the first Cordyla record in the region. A detailed description of its morphology with illustrations of male and female terminalia and a map of the collecting localities are provided. According to the structure of male terminalia, Cordyla australica sp. n. belongs to the...

Laboratory Trial A laboratory colony of pine regeneration weevils (pales, Hylobius pales, and pitch-eating, Pachylobius picivorus) was established during the winter of 1997-98. Weevils were collected once a week using pit traps baited with a 5:1 mix of ethanol and turpentine and set up in recently harvested tracts. In the laboratory, collected weevil species were maintained separately in clear ...

UNLABELLED In the context of deciphering the metabolic strategies of the obligate pathogenic fungi in the genus Pneumocystis, the genomes of three species (P. carinii, P. murina, and P. jirovecii) were compared among themselves and with the free-living, phylogenetically related fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe). The underrepresentation of amino acid metabolism pathways compared to those...

Major surface glycoprotein (Msg), the most abundant cell surface protein of Pneumocystis, plays an important role in the interaction of this opportunistic pathogen with host cells, and its potential for antigenic variation may facilitate evasion of host immune responses. In the present study, we have identified and characterized the promoter region of msg in 3 species of Pneumocystis: P. carini...

Among several bacterial and viral pathogens, the atypical fungal organism Pneumocystis jirovecii has been implicated as a contributor to the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In a previous study, we reported that Pneumocystis-colonized HIV-positive subjects had worse obstruction of airways and higher sputum levels of macrophage elastase/matrix metalloproteinase 12 (M...