Six species of the gecko genus Hemidactylus are reported currently from Myanmar. This genus, in the family Gekkonidae, is the most geographically widespread and one of the most speciose. Morphological analysis within one Burmese species, H. bowringii, is concordant with the geographic pattern of genetic differentiation revealed by Carranza’s and Arnold’s (2006) phylogram based on mtDNA sequence...

Black truffles that morphologically resemble Tuber indicum have been known to occur in Japan since 1979. Our previous studies showed that there are two phylotypes of these truffles, both of which fell into the T. indicum complex (hereinafter "Tuber sp. 6" and "Tuber sp. 7"). However, their taxonomic treatment is still unclear. In this study, we conducted morphological and phylogenetic analyses ...

Gal (1-3) receptors are members of GPCR superfamily with seven transmembrane helices. The neuropeptide galanin mediates its effects through the receptor subtypes Gal1, Gal2, and Gal3 and has been implicated in anxiety and depression related behaviors. Galanin receptors are considered to be important targets for the development of novel antidepressant drugs. Owing to the importance of these rece...

Bacterial strains were isolated from sponge and green algae which were collected on the coast of Japan and Palau. The phylogenetic relationships of these isolates among marine species of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides complex were analysed by using their gyrB nucleotide sequences and translated peptide sequences (GyrB) in addition to 16S rDNA sequences. These isolates were closely rel...

DNA barcoding is a simple method for the identification of any species using a short genetic sequence from a standard genome section. The present study aimed at examining the nuclear and chloroplast diversity as well as the phylogenetic relationships of eight species of saffron including four spring-flowering and five autumn-flowering species from different parts of Iran, using the nuclear barc...

Ancestral state estimation (ASE), or ancestral reconstruction, is the process of estimating evolutionary history a character on phylogeny (Cunningham et al., 1998; Donoghue, 1989; Swofford & Maddison, 1987). This has been used to reveal evolution key innovations across tree life, such as orb web in spiders (Kallal 2020) and reproductive mode squamates (Pyron Burbrink, 2014), explore early major...

ABSTRACT The monophyletic origin of host-specific taxa in the plant-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum complex was tested by constructing nuclear and mitochondrial gene genealogies and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP)-based phylogenies for 89 strains representing the known genetic and pathogenic diversity in 8 formae speciales associated with wilt diseases and root and bulb rot. We incl...