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  • Chemogenomic fingerprints associated with stage-specific gametocytocidal compound action against human malaria parasites 
    Niemand, Jandeli; Van Biljon, Riette Andele; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Van Heerden, Ashleigh; Reader, Janette; Van Wyk, Roelof Daniel Jacobus; Orchard, Lindsey M.; Chibale, Kelly; Llinas, Manuel; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie (American Chemical Society, 2021-09)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria 
    Murray, Alison E.; Freudenstein, John; Gribaldo, Simonetta; Hatzenpichler, Roland; Hugenholtz, Philip; Kampfer, Peter; Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T.; Lane, Christopher E.; Papke, R. Thane; Parks, Donovan H.; Rossello-Mora, Ramon; Stott, Matthew B.; Sutcliffe, Iain C.; Thrash, J. Cameron; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Whitman, William B.; Acinas, Silvia G.; Amann, Rudolf I.; Anantharaman, Karthik; Armengaud, Jean; Baker, Brett J.; Barco, Roman A.; Bode, Helge B.; Boyd, Eric S.; Brady, Carrie Louise; Carini, Paul; Chain, Patrick S.G.; Colman, Daniel R.; DeAngelis, Kristen M.; De los Rios, Maria Asuncion; Estrada-de los Santos, Paulina; Dunlap, Christopher A.; Eisen, Jonathan A.; Emerson, David; Ettema, Thijs J.G.; Eveillard, Damien; Girguis, Peter R.; Hentschel, Ute; Hollibaugh, James T.; Hug, Laura A.; Inskeep, William P.; Ivanova, Elena P.; Klenk, Hans-Peter; Li, Wen-Jun; Lloyd, Karen G.; Loffler, Frank E.; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Moser, Duane P.; Nunoura, Takuro; Palmer, Marike; Parro, Victor; Pedrós-Alio, Carlos; Probst, Alexander J.; Smits, Theo H.M.; Steen, Andrew D.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Spang, Anja; Stewart, Frank J.; Tiedje, James M.; Vandamme, Peter; Wagner, Michael; Wang, Feng-Ping; Yarza, Pablo; Hedlund, Brian P.; Reysenbach, Anna-Louise (Nature Research, 2020-06-08)
    The assembly of single-amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) has led to a surge in genome-based discoveries of members affiliated with Archaea and Bacteria, bringing with it a need to develop ...
  • The polyphagous shot hole borer beetle : current status of a perfect invader in South Africa 
    Van Rooyen, Elmar; Paap, Trudy; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Townsend, Garyn; Fell, Shawn; Nel, Wilma Janine; Morgan, Seamus; Hill, Martin; Gonzalez, Allan; Roets, Francois (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2021-11)
    The polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) beetle is a recent invader in South Africa. Together with its fungal symbiont, Fusarium euwallaceae, it can rapidly kill highly susceptible host plants. Its impact is most profound ...
  • Bradyrhizobium altum sp. nov., Bradyrhizobium oropedii sp. nov. and Bradyrhizobium acaciae sp. nov. from South Africa show locally restricted and pantropical nodA phylogeographic patterns 
    Avontuur, Juanita Rayleen; Palmer, Marike; Beukes, Chrizelle Winsie; Chan, Wai Yin; Tasiya, Taponeswa; Van Zyl, Elritha; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Stepkowski, Tomasz; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Elsevier, 2022-02)
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  • Comparison of transcriptional responses and metabolic alterations in three multidrug-resistant model microorganisms, staphylococcus aureus ATCC BAA-39, escherichia coli ATCC BAA196, and acinetobacter baumannii ATCC BAA-1790, on exposure to iodine-containing nano-micelle drug FS-1 
    Korotetskiy, Ilya S.; Shilov, Sergey V.; Kuznetsova, Tatyana V.; Ilin, Aleksandr I.; Joubert, Monique; Taukobong, Setshaba; Reva, Oleg N. (American Society for Microbiology, 2021-03)
    Iodine is one of the oldest antimicrobial agents. Until now, there have been no reports on acquiring resistance to iodine. Recent studies showed promising results on application of iodine-containing nano-micelles, FS-1, ...
  • Fungal Planet description sheets : 1042–1111 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Chooi, Y.-H.; Gilchrist, C.L.M.; Lacey, E.; Pitt, J.I.; Roets, F.; Swart, W.J.; Cano-Lira, J.F.; Valenzuela-Lopez, N.; Hubka, V.; Shivas, R.G.; Stchigel, A.M.; Holdom, D.G.; Jurjevic, Z.; Kachalkin, A.V.; Lebel, T.; Lock, C.; Martín, M.P.; Tan, Y.P.; Tomashevskaya, M.A.; Vitelli, J.S.; Baseia, I.G.; Bhatt, V.K.; Brandrud, T.E.; De Souza, J.T.; Dima, B.; Lacey, H.J.; Lombard, L.; Morte, A.; Papp, V.; Rodríguez, A.; Rodríguez-Andrade, E.; Semwal, K.C.; Tegart, L.; Abad, Z.G.; Akulov, A.; Alvarado, P.; Alves, A.; Andrade, J.P.; Arenas, F.; Asenjo, C.; Ballara, J.; Barrett, M.D.; Berna, L.M.; Berraf-Tebbal, A.; Bianchinotti, M.V.; Bransgrove, K.; Burgess, T.I.; Carmo, F.S.; Chavez, R.; Cmokova, A.; Dearnaley, J.D.W.; De A. Santiago, A.L.C.M.; Freitas-Neto, J.F.; Denman, S.; Douglas, B.; Dovana, F.; Eichmeier, A.; Esteve-Raventos, F.; Farid, A.; Fedosova, A.G.; Ferisin, G.; Ferreira, R.J.; Ferrer, A.; Figueiredo, C.N.; Figueiredo, Y.F.; Reinoso- Fuentealba, C.G.; Garrido-Benavent, I.; Canete-Gibas, C.F.; Gil-Duran, C.; Glushakova, A.M.; Goncalves, M.F.M.; Gonzalez, M.; Gorczak, M.; Gorton, C.; Guard, F.E.; Guarnizo, A.L.; Guarro, J.; Gutierrez, M.; Hamal, P.; Hien, L.T.; Hocking, A.D.; Houbraken, J.; Hunter, G.C.; Inacio, C.A.; Jourdan, M.; Kapitonov, V.I.; Kelly, L.; Khanh, T.N.; Kisło, K.; Kiss, L.; Kiyashko, A.; Kolarík, M.; Kruse, J.; Kubatova, A.; Kucera, V.; Kucerova, I.; Kusan, I.; Lee, H.B.; Levican, G.; Lewis, A.; Liem, N.V.; Liimatainen, K.; Lim, H.J.; Lyons, M.N.; Macia-Vicente, J.G.; Magana- Duenas, V.; Mahiques, R.; Malysheva, E.F.; Marbach, P.A.S.; Marinho, P.; Matocec, N.; McTaggart, A.R.; Mesic, A.; Morin, L.; Munoz-Mohedano, J.M.; Navarro-Rodenas, A.; Nicolli, C.P.; Oliveira, R.L.; Otsing, E.; Ovrebo, C.L.; Pankratov, T.A.; Panos, A.; Paz-Conde, A.; Perez-Sierra, A.; Phosri, C.; Pintos, A.; Posta, A.; Prencipe, S.; Rubio, E.; Saitta, A.; Sales, L.S.; Sanhueza, L.; Shuttleworth, L.A.; Smith, J.; Smith, M.E.; Spadaro, D.; Spetik, M.; Sochor, M.; Sochorova, Z.; Sousa, J.O.; Suwannasa, N.; Tedersoo, L.; Thanh, H.M.; Thao, L.D.; Tkalcec, Z.; Vaghefi, N.; Vaghefi, N.; Venzhik, A.S.; Verbeken, A.; Vizzini, A.; Voyron, S.; Wainhouse, M.; Whalley, A.J.S.; Wrzosek, M.; Zapata, M.; Zeil-Rolfe, I.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Naturalis Biodiversity Center & Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 2020)
    Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Antarctica, Cladosporium arenosum from marine sediment sand. Argentina, Kosmimatamyces alatophylus (incl. Kosmimatamyces gen. ...
  • Solar salterns as model systems to study the units of bacterial diversity that matter for ecosystem functioning 
    Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T.; Viver, Tomeu; Conrad, Roth E.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Rossello-Mora, Ramon (Elsevier, 2022-02)
    Microbial communities often harbor overwhelming species and gene diversity, making it challenging to determine the important units to study this diversity. We argue that the reduced, and thus tractable, microbial diversity ...
  • Development and optimization of a DNA-based reverse genetics systems for epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus 
    Guo, Yunze; Pretorius, Jakobus Maree; Xu, Qingyuan; Wu, Donglai; Bu, Zhigao; Theron, Jacques; Sun, Encheng (Springer, 2020-05)
    Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) is a member of the genus Orbivirus, family Reoviridae, and has a genome consisting of 10 linear double-stranded (ds) RNA segments. The current reverse genetics system (RGS) for ...
  • Euwallacea perbrevis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), a confirmed pest on Acacia crassicarpa in Riau, Indonesia, and a new fungal symbiont; Fusarium rekanum sp. nov. 
    Lynn, Kira Mary Theresa; Wingfield, Michael J.; Duran, Alvaro; Marincowitz, Seonju; Oliveira, Leonardo S.S.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Barnes, Irene (Springer, 2020-06)
    Non-native Acacia plantations in Indonesia were first reported to be infested by a native ambrosia beetle species, identified as Euwallacea fornicatus in 1993. Recently the level of infestation in these plantations by ...
  • Ceratocystis wilt on Eucalyptus : first record from South Africa 
    Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Michael J.; Fourie, Arista; Noeth, K.; Barnes, Irene (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2020)
    Wilt and death of an E. grandis × E. urophylla variety was recently observed in the Zululand region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Symptoms on the dying trees included a streaking pattern of discolouration in the sapwood ...
  • Pathogenesis, biophysical stability and phenotypic variance of SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus 
    Ramulongo, Tovhowani Dapheny; Maree, Francois Frederick; Scott, Katherine; Opperman, Pamela Anne; Theron, Jacques (Elsevier, 2020-04)
    Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious vesicular disease of cloven-hoofed animals, which severely decreases livestock productivity. FMD virus (FMDV), the causative agent, initiates infection by interaction ...
  • Phylogenomic structure of Bacillus anthracis isolates in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa revealed novel single nucleotide polymorphisms 
    Lekota, Kgaugelo Edward; Hassim, Ayesha; Madoroba, Evelyn; Hefer, Charles A.; Van Heerden, Henriette (Elsevier, 2020-06)
    Bacillus anthracis, the aetiological agent of anthrax, is regarded as a highly monomorphic pathogen that presents a low genetic diversity using standard molecular techniques. Whole genome sequencing and single nucleotide ...
  • First draft genome assembly of the Argane tree (Argania spinosa) [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] 
    Khayi, Slimane; Azza, Nour Elhouda; Gaboun, Fatima; Pirro, Stacy; Badad, Oussama; Lightfoot, David A.; Unver, Turgay; Chaouni, Bouchra; Merrouch, Redouane; Rahim, Bouchra; Essayeh, Soumaya; Ganoudi, Matika; Abdelwahd, Rabha; Diria, Ghizlane; Mdarhi, Meriem Alaoui; Labhilili, Mustapha; Iraqi, Driss; Claros, M Gonzalo; Mouhaddab, Jamila; Sedrati, Hayat; Memari, Majid; Hamamouch, Noureddine; De Dios Alche, Juan; Alche, Juan de Dios; Boukhatem, Noureddine; Mrabet, Rachid; Dahan, Rachid; Legssyer, Adelkhaleq; Khalfaoui, Mohamed; Badraoui, Mohamed; Van de Peer, Yves; Tatusova, Tatiana; El Mousadik, Abdelhamid; Mentag, Rachid; Ghazal, Hassan (F1000 Research, 2020)
    BACKGROUND : The Argane tree (Argania spinosa L. Skeels) is an endemic tree of mid-western Morocco that plays an important socioeconomic and ecologic role for a dense human population in an arid zone. Several studies ...
  • Temporal analysis of the bovine lymph node transcriptome during cattle tick ( Rhipicephalus microplus ) infestation 
    Robbertse, Luise; Richards, Sabine A.; Stutzer, Christian; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Leisewitz, Andrew L.; Crafford, Jan Ernst; Maritz-Olivier, Christine (Elsevier, 2020-10)
    Livestock production is a fundamental source of revenue and nutrition, wherein cattle-farming constitutes one of the major agricultural industries. Vectors and vector-borne diseases constitute one of the major factors that ...
  • Natural products : a potential source of malaria transmission blocking drugs? 
    Moyo, Phanankosi; Mugumbate, Grace; Eloff, Jacobus Nicolaas; Louw, Abraham Izak; Maharaj, Vinesh J.; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie (MDPI Publishing, 2020-09-17)
    The ability to block human-to-mosquito and mosquito-to-human transmission of Plasmodium parasites is fundamental to accomplish the ambitious goal of malaria elimination. The WHO currently recommends only primaquine as a ...
  • South African sclerotinia sclerotiorum research in the age of genomics 
    Wilken, Pieter Markus; Buthelezi, Sikelela (Plaas Media, 2020-09)
    Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a fungal pathogen of many crop species that needs no introduction to anyone working in the agricultural industry. In South Africa, S. sclerotiorum causes disease on many economically ...
  • Structure−activity relationship studies reveal new astemizole analogues active against Plasmodium falciparum in vitro 
    Mambwe, Dickson; Kumar, Malkeet; Ferger, Richard; Taylor, Dale; Njoroge, Mathew; Coertzen, Dina; Reader, Janette; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie; Chibale, Kelly (American Chemical Society, 2021-08)
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  • Gene cluster activation in a bacterial symbiont leads to halogenated angucyclic maduralactomycins and spirocyclic actinospirols 
    Guo, Huijuan; Schwitalla, Jan W.; Benndorf, Rene; Baunach, Martin; Steinbeck, Christoph; Goerls, Helmar; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Regestein, Lars; Beemelmanns, Christine (American Chemical Society, 2020-03)
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  • Polyploidy : a biological force from cells to ecosystems 
    Fox, Donald T.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Soltis, Pamela S.; Ashman, Tia-Lynn; Van de Peer, Yves (Elsevier, 2020)
    Polyploidy, resulting from the duplication of the entire genome of an organism or cell, greatly affects genes and genomes, cells and tissues, organisms, and even entire ecosystems. Despite the wide-reaching importance ...
  • The termite fungal cultivar Termitomyces combines diverse enzymes and oxidative reactions for plant biomass conversion 
    Schalk, Felix; Gostincar, Cene; Kreuzenbeck, Nina B.; Conlon, Benjamin H.; Sommerwerk, Elisabeth; Rabe, Patrick; Burkhardt, Immo; Kruger, Thomas; Kniemeyer, Olaf; Brakhage, Axel A.; Gunde-Cimerman, Nina; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Dickschat, Jeroen S.; Poulsen, Michael; Beemelmanns, Christine (American Society for Microbiology, 2021-06)
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