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  • Namib Desert primary productivity is driven by cryptic microbial community N-fixation 
    Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Woodborne, Stephan M.; Hall, Grant; Seely, Mary; Cowan, Don A. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-05-02)
    Carbon exchange in drylands is typically low, but during significant rainfall events (wet anomalies) drylands act as a C sink. During these anomalies the limitation on C uptake switches from water to nitrogen. In the ...
  • Namib desert soil microbial community diversity, assembly, and function along a natural xeric gradient 
    Scola, Vincent; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Frossard, Aline; Zablocki, Olivier; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Johnson, Riegardt M.; Seely, Mary; Cowan, Don A. (Springer, 2018-01)
    The hyperarid Namib desert is a coastal desert in southwestern Africa and one of the oldest and driest deserts on the planet. It is characterized by a west/east increasing precipitation gradient and by regular coastal fog ...
  • Naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, validated as hit multistage antiplasmodial natural products 
    Moyo, Phanankosi; Shamburger, William; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Reader, Janette; De Sousa, Ana Carolina C.; Egan, Timothy J.; Maharaj, Vinesh J.; Bringmann, Gerhard; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie (Elsevier, 2020-08)
    The discovery and development of multistage antimalarial drugs targeting intra-erythrocytic asexual and sexual Plasmodium falciparum parasites is of utmost importance to achieve the ambitious goal of malaria elimination. Here, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Natural products from Actinobacteria associated with fungus-growing termites 
    Benndorf, Rene; Guo, Huijuan; Sommerwerk, Elisabeth; Weigel, Christiane; Garcia-Altares, Maria; Martin, Karin; Hu, Haofu; Kufner, Michelle; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Poulsen, Michael; Beemelmanns, Christine (MDPI Publishing, 2018-09-13)
    The chemical analysis of insect-associated Actinobacteria has attracted the interest of natural product chemists in the past years as bacterial-produced metabolites are sought to be crucial for sustaining and protecting ...
  • Nearby transposable elements impact plant stress gene regulatory networks : a meta-analysis in A. thaliana and S. lycopersicum 
    Deneweth, Jan; Van de Peer, Yves; Vermeirssen, Vanessa (BMC, 2022-01)
    BACKGROUND: Transposable elements (TE) make up a large portion of many plant genomes and are playing innovative roles in genome evolution. Several TEs can contribute to gene regulation by influencing expression of nearby ...
  • The neighborhood of the spike gene Is a hotspot for modular intertypic homologous and nonhomologous recombination in coronavirus genomes 
    Nikolaidis, Marios; Markoulatos, Panayotis; Van de Peer, Yves; Oliver, Stephen G.; Amoutzias, Grigorios D. (Oxford University Press, 2022-01)
    Coronaviruses (CoVs) have very large RNA viral genomes with a distinct genomic architecture of core and accessory open reading frames (ORFs). It is of utmost importance to understand their patterns and limits of homologous ...
  • Neocordana gen. nov., the causal organism of Cordana leaf spot on banana 
    Hernandez-Restrepo, Margarita; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Crous, Pedro W. (Magnolia Press, 2015-04)
    Cordana leaf spot of banana is shown to be associated with several species of a new genus described here as Neocordana gen. nov. Furthermore, Neocordana belongs to Pyriculariaceae (Magnaporthales) rather than Cordanaceae ...
  • Neotropical termite microbiomes as sources of novel plant cell wall degrading enzymes 
    Victorica, Matias Romero; Soria, Marcelo A.; Batista-Garcia, Ramon Alberto; Ceja-Navarro, Javier A.; Vikram, Surendra; Ortiz, Maximiliano; Ontanon, Ornella; Ghio, Silvina; Martínez-Avila, Liliana; Quintero García, Omar Jasiel; Etcheverry, Clara; Campos, Eleonora; Cowan, Don A.; Arneodo, Joel; Talia, Paola M. (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-03-02)
    In this study, we used shotgun metagenomic sequencing to characterise the microbial metabolic potential for lignocellulose transformation in the gut of two colonies of Argentine higher termite species with different ...
  • New acremonium-like species in the Bionectriaceae and Plectosphaerellaceae 
    Giraldo, Alejandra; Gené, Josepa; Sutton, Deanna A.; Wiederhold, Nathan; Guarro, Josep (Springer, 2017-04)
    Several molecular studies have demonstrated that species traditionally assigned to the form genus Acremonium are polyphyletic, while Acremonium sensu stricto is a central element of the Bionectriaceae (Hypocreales). ...
  • New amidated 3,6-diphenylated imidazopyridazines with potent antiplasmodium activity are dual inhibitors of Plasmodium phosphatidylinositol-4-kinase and cGMP-dependent protein kinase 
    Cheuka, Peter Mubanga; Centani, Luyanda; Arendse, Lauren B.; Fienberg, Stephen; Wambua, Lynn; Renga, Shoneeze S.; Dziwornu, Godwin Akpeko; Kumar, Malkeet; Lawrence, Nina; Taylor, Dale; Wittlin, Sergio; Coertzen, Dina; Reader, Janette; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie; Chibale, Kelly (American Chemical Society, 2021-01)
    Recent studies on 3,6-diphenylated imidazopyridazines have demonstrated impressive in vitro activity and in vivo efficacy in mouse models of malaria infection. Herein, we report the synthesis and antiplasmodium evaluation ...
  • New and interesting chaetothyrialean fungi from Spain 
    Madrid, H.; Hernandez-Restrepo, Margarita; Gené, J.; Cano, J.; Guarro, J.; Silva, V. (Springer, 2016-10)
    In the course of taxonomic studies on saprobic microfungi from Spain, several slow-growing, dematiaceous hyphomycetes were isolated from soil, submerged plant material and river sediments. Sixteen of these strains were ...
  • New and interesting fungi. 4 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Hernandez-Restrepo, H.; Schumacher, R.K.; Cowan, Don A.; Maggs-Kolling, G.; Marais, E.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Yilmaz, Neriman; Adan, O.C.G.; Akulov, A.; Alvarez Duarte, E.; Berraf-Tebbal, A.; Bulgakov, T.S.; Carnegie, A.J.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Decock, C.; Dijksterhuis, J.; Duong, Tuan A.; Eichmeier, A.; Hien, L.T.; Houbraken, J.A.M.P.; Khanh, T.N.; Liem, N.V.; Lombard, L.; Lutzoni, F.M.; Miadlikowska, J.M.; Nel, Wilma Janine; Pascoe, I.G.; Roets, F.; Roux, Jolanda; Samson, R.A.; Shen, M.; Spetik, M.; Thangavel, R.; Thanh, H.M.; Thao, L.D.; Van Nieuwenhuijzen, E.J.; Zhang, J.Q.; Zhang, Y.; Zhao, L.L.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 2021-04-28)
    An order, family and genus are validated, seven new genera, 35 new species, two new combinations, two epitypes, two lectotypes, and 17 interesting new host and / or geographical records are introduced in this study. Validated ...
  • New and unexpected host associations for Diplodia sapinea in the Western Balkans 
    Zlatkovic, M.; Keca, N.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Jami, Fahimeh; Slippers, Bernard (Wiley, 2017-06)
    Diplodia sapinea is an important pathogen of pine trees in plantations and urban areas in many parts of the world. This pathogen has recently also been isolated from diseased Cedrus atlantica, C. deodara and Picea omorika ...
  • New antidiabetic targets of α-glucosidase inhibitory peptides, SVPA, SEPA, STYV and STY: Inhibitory effects on dipeptidyl peptidase-IV and lipid accumulation in 3T3-L1 differentiated adipocytes with scavenging activities against methylglyoxal and reactive oxygen species 
    Ibrahim, Mohammed Auwal; Serem, June Cheptoo; Bester, Megan Jean; Neitz, Albert Walter Herman; Gaspar, Anabella Regina Marques (Springer, 2020-12)
    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a multifactorial disease that requires multiple therapeutic strategies for its management. Bioactive peptides with multiple anti-diabetic targets are attractive therapeutic molecules. The ...
  • New Botryosphaeriales on native red milkwood (Mimusops caffra) 
    Jami, Fahimeh; Marincowitz, Seonju; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2018-09)
    Fungi in the Botryosphaeriales (Ascomycetes) are common endophytes in woody plants with a wide global distribution and in some cases they are important tree pathogens. The aim of this study was to consider the possible ...
  • New Ceratocystis species from Eucalyptus and Cunninghamia in South China 
    Liu, FeiFei; Mbenoun, Michael; Barnes, Irene; Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Michael J.; Li, GuoQing; Li, JieQiong; Chen, ShuaiFei (Springer, 2015-06)
    During routine surveys for possible fungal pathogens in the rapidly expanding plantations of Eucalyptus and Cunninghamia lanceolata in China, numerous isolates of unknown species in the genus Ceratocystis (Microascales) ...
  • New coffee (Coffea arabica L.) genotypes derived from Coffea canephora exhibiting high levels of resistance to leaf rust and Ceratocystis canker 
    Castro Caicedo, Bertha Lucía; Cortina Guerrero, Hernando A.; Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Michael J. (Sociedade Brasileira de Fitopatologia, 2013)
    The purpose of this study was to evaluate the resistance to coffee leaf rust (CLR), caused by Hemileia vastatrix and to Ceratocystis canker (Cc) in coffee genotypes derived from crosses of Coffea arabica var. Caturra ...
  • New insights from RADseq data on differentiation in the Hottentot golden mole species complex from South Africa 
    Mynhardt, Samantha; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Bloomer, Paulette (Elsevier, 2020-02)
    Golden moles (Family Chrysochloridae) are small subterranean mammals, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, and many of the 21 species are listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List. Most species have highly restricted ranges; ...
  • New isolations of the rabies-related Mokola virus from South Africa 
    Coertse, Jessica; Markotter, Wanda; Le Roux, Kevin; Stewart, Daniel; Sabeta, Claude Taurai; Nel, Louis Hendrik (BioMed Central, 2017-01-31)
    BACKGROUND : Mokola virus (MOKV) is a rabies-related lyssavirus and appears to be exclusive to the African continent. Only 24 cases of MOKV, which includes two human cases, have been reported since its identification in ...