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Linghui Hu, Na Yao, Chengxin Wang, Liting Yang, Gulden Serekbol, Bin Huo, Xuelian Qiu, Fangze Zi, Yong Song and Shengao Chen
To study the morphological differences between and the evolutionary mechanisms driving the differentiation of geographically distinct populations of Gymnodiptychus dybowskii, 158 fish were collected from the Turks River and the Manas River in Xinjiang fr...
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Giovanni Preiti, Antonio Calvi, Giuseppe Badagliacca, Emilio Lo Presti, Michele Monti and Monica Bacchi
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is widely known among grain legumes for its high nutritional quality, playing an important role in enhancing Mediterranean farming systems as a sustainable crop. Field experiments comparing 121 lentil accessions (microsperm...
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Przemyslaw Grodzicki, Joanna Bacia, Katarzyna Piatkowska and Bartosz Piechowicz
Among the honeybee subspecies, Polish beekeepers most commonly rear three of them, i.e., Apis mellifera carnica, A. m. mellifera and A. m. caucasica. They differ in morphological and physiological features. Our goal was to find a linkage between their th...
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Jian Song, Yongtao Cui, Honghuan Fan, Liqun Tang and Jianjun Wang
Rice heterosis has played a significant role in improving rice yields in China since the 1970s. The utilization of heterosis between the indica and japonica subspecies of rice is especially important in this regard. However, inter-subspecies hybridizatio...
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Lulu Cai, Qian Tian, Qingqing Meng, Xiaoyang Bao, Peidong Xu, Ji Liu, Wenjun Zhao and Hui Wang
Stewart?s vascular wilt and leaf blight of sweet corn is caused by the Gram-negative enteric bacterium Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii. Stewart?s wilt results in substantial yield losses worldwide warranting rapid and accurate disease diagnosis. Recom...
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Pedro João Rodrigues, Walter Gomes and Maria Alice Pinto
Honey bee classification by wing geometric morphometrics entails the first step of manual annotation of 19 landmarks in the forewing vein junctions. This is a time-consuming and error-prone endeavor, with implications for classification accuracy. Herein,...
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Meijuan Hu, Shuang Zhao, Jinlin Liu, Yichao Tong, Zhangyi Xia, Jing Xia, Shuang Li, Yuqing Sun, Jiaxing Cao and Jianheng Zhang
Green tides originate from the rapid growth of green macroalgae and their large accumulation. In the past few decades, the severity and frequency of green tides have increased and the range of their geographical distribution has widened. In recent years,...
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Paolo Francesco Ambrico, Stefania Zicca, Marianna Ambrico, Palma Rosa Rotondo, Angelo De Stradis, Giorgio Dilecce, Maria Saponari, Donato Boscia and Pasquale Saldarelli
The quarantine bacterium Xylella fastidiosa was first detected in Salento (Apulia, Italy) in 2013 and caused severe symptoms in olives, leading to plant death. The disease, named Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS), is caused by the strain ?De Donno? ST5...
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Shu-Hua Chen, Christine H. Parker, Timothy R. Croley and Melinda A. McFarland
Identification of bacteria by mass spectrometry offers the potential of a high-throughput non-targeted method to determine the presence of Salmonella. While MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry can identify Salmonella at the genus and species level, few studies h...
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Mohammed Othman Aljahdali, Mohammad Habibur Rahman Molla and Wessam Mansour Filfilan
Tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) have significant potential for aquaculture production around the world. There is an increasing demand among tilapia producers for strains with higher yields and for fish that can survive in highly saline water. Novel strains an...
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