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  • Pena–Shokeir syndrome : current management strategies and palliative care 
    Adam, Sumaiya; Coetzee, Melantha; Honey, Engela M. (Dove Medical Press, 2018)
    Pena–Shokeir syndrome (PSS) type 1, also known as fetal akinesia deformation sequence, is a rare genetic syndrome that almost always results in intrauterine or early neonatal death. It is characterized by markedly decreased ...
  • Penicillium diversity in Canadian bat caves, including a new species, P. speluncae 
    Visagie, Cobus M.; Yilmaz, Neriman; Vanderwolf, K.; Renaud, J.B.; Sumarah, M.W.; Houbraken, J.; Assebgui, R.; Seifert, K.A.; Malloch, D. (Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 2020-06)
    Penicillium species were commonly isolated during a fungal survey of bat hibernacula in New Brunswick and Quebec, Canada. Strains were isolated from arthropods, bats, rodents (i.e. the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus), ...
  • Phages actively challenge niche communities in Antarctic soils 
    Bezuidt, Keoagile Ignatius Oliver; Lebre, Pedro H.; Pierneef, Rian Ewald; Leon-Sobrino, Carlos; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Cowan, Don A.; Van de Peer, Yves; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-05-05)
    By modulating the structure, diversity, and trophic outputs of microbial communities, phages play crucial roles in many biomes. In oligotrophic polar deserts, the effects of katabatic winds, constrained nutrients, and ...
  • The phenotype of Floating-Harbor syndrome : clinical characterization of 52 individuals with mutations in exon 34 of SRCAP 
    Nikkel, Sarah M.; Dauber, Andrew; De Munnik, Sonja; Connolly, Meghan; Hood, Rebecca L; Caluseriu, Oana; Hurst, Jane; Kini, Usha; Nowaczyk, Malgorzata J.M.; Afenjar, Alexandra; Albrecht, Beate; Allanson, Judith E.; Balestri, Paolo; Ben-Omran, Tawfeg; Brancati, Francesco; Cordeiro, Isabel; Da Cunha, Bruna Santos; Delaney, Louisa A.; Destree, Anne; Fitzpatrick, David; Forzano, Francesca; Ghali, Neeti; Gillies, Greta; Harwood, Katerina; Hendriks, Yvonne M.C.; Heron, Delphine; Hoischen, Alexander; Honey, Engela M.; Hoefsloot, Lies H.; Ibrahim, Jennifer; Jacob, Claire M.; Kant, Sarina G.; Kim, Chong Ae; Kirk, Edwin P.; Knoers, Nine V.A.M.; Lacombe, Didier; Lee, Chung; Lo, Ivan F.M.; Lucas, Luiza S.; Mari, Francesca; Mericq, Veronica; Moilanen, Jukka S.; Møller, Sanne Traasdahl; Moortgat, Stephanie; Pilz, Daniela T.; Pope, Kate; Price, Susan; Renieri, Alessandra; Sa, Joaquim; Schoots, Jeroen; Silveira, Elizabeth L.; Simon, Marleen E.H.; Slavotinek, Anne; Temple, I. Karen; Van der Burgt, Ineke; De Vries, Bert B.A.; Weisfeld-Adams, James D.; Whiteford, Margo L.; Wit, Jan M.; Yee, Connie Fung On; Beaulieu, Chandree L.; FORGE Canada Consortium; White, Sue M.; Bulman, Dennis E.; Bongers, Ernie; Brunner, Han; Feingold, Murray; Boycott, Kym M. (BioMed Central, 2013-04-27)
    BACKGROUND: Floating-Harbor syndrome (FHS) is a rare condition characterized by short stature, delays in expressive language, and a distinctive facial appearance. Recently, heterozygous truncating mutations in SRCAP ...
  • Pheromone expression reveals putative mechanism of unisexuality in a saprobic ascomycete fungus 
    Wilson, Andrea M.; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Public Library of Science, 2018-03)
    Homothallism (self-fertility) describes a wide variety of sexual strategies that enable a fungus to reproduce in the absence of a mating partner. Unisexual reproduction, a form of homothallism, is a process whereby a fungus ...
  • Pheromones as management tools for non-Scolytinae Curculionidae : development and implementation considerations 
    Scheepers, Luki-Marie; Allison, Jeremy D.; Bouwer, Marc Clement; Rohwer, Egmont Richard; Slippers, Bernard (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2020)
    For the large family Curculionidae, the number of species considered pests is expected to increase due to global movement of plant and soil material, as well as climate change. Pheromones are increasingly popular for use ...
  • The phoma-like dilemma 
    Hou, L.W.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Pfenning, L.H.; Yarden, O.; Crous, Pedro W.; Cai, L. (Elsevier, 2020-06)
    Species of Didymellaceae have a cosmopolitan distribution and are geographically widespread, occurring in diverse ecosystems. The family includes several important plant pathogenic fungi associated with fruit, leaf, stem ...
  • Phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses reveal two new genera and three new species of ophiostomatalean fungi from termite fungus combs 
    Nel, Wilma Janine; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Michael J.; Poulsen, Michael; Aanen, Duur K.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Duong, Tuan A. (Taylor and Francis, 2021)
    The Ophiostomatales (Ascomycota) accommodates more than 300 species characterized by similar morphological adaptations to arthropod dispersal. Most species in this order are wood-inhabiting fungi associated with bark or ...
  • The phylogenetic position and diversity of the enigmatic mongrel frog Nothophryne Poynton, 1963 (Amphibia, Anura) 
    Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B.; Conradie, Werner; Siu-Ting, Karen; Tolley, Krystal A.; Channing, Alan; Cunningham, Michael J.; Farooq, Harith M.; Menegon, Michele; Loader, Simon P. (Elsevier, 2016-06)
    The phylogenetic relationships of the African mongrel frog genus Nothophryne are poorly understood. We provide the first molecular assessment of the phylogenetic position of, and diversity within, this monotypic genus ...
  • Phylogenetic relationships among biological species of Armillaria from China 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Zhao, Jun; Van Coller, Sophia Johanna; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2015-09)
    Fourteen Chinese Biological Species (CBS) of Armillaria were previously identified in a collection of Chinese isolates. CBS C, F, G, H, J, L, N and O remained unnamed, while the remaining isolates included A. borealis, A. ...
  • Phylogenetic relationships among species of Ganoderma (Ganodermataceae, Basigiomycota) from Cameroon 
    Kinge, T.R.; Mih, A.M.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus (CSIRO, 2012)
    Ganoderma is an important genus of the Polyporales in the tropics. Identification of tropical species has mainly been based on morphology, which has led to misidentification. This study aimed to elucidate the diversity ...
  • Phylogenetic revision of Camarosporium (Pleosporineae, Dothideomycetes) and allied genera 
    Wanasinghe, D.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Jeewon, R.; Crous, Pedro W.; Wijayawardene, N.N.; Jones, E.B.G.; Bhat, D.J.; Phillips, A.J.L.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Dayarathne, M.C.; Phukhamsakda, C.; Thambugala, K.M.; Bulgakov, T.S.; Camporesi, E.; Gafforov, Y.S.; Mortimer, P.E.; Karunarathna, S.C. (Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS), 2017-08-23)
    A concatenated dataset of LSU, SSU, ITS and tef1 DNA sequence data was analysed to investigate the taxonomic position and phylogenetic relationships of the genus Camarosporium in Pleosporineae (Dothideomycetes). Newly ...
  • Phylogenetic species recognition and hybridisation in Lasiodiplodia : a case study on species from baobabs 
    Cruywagen, Elsie M.; Slippers, Bernard; Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2017-04)
    Lasiodiplodia species (Botryosphaeriaceae, Ascomycota) infect a wide range of typically woody plants on which they are associated with many different disease symptoms. In this study, we determined the identity of Lasiodiplodia ...
  • Phylogenetics, biogeography and classification of, and character evolution in, gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes) : effects of character exclusion, data partitioning and missing data 
    Crowe, Timothy M.; Bowie, Rauri C.K.; Bloomer, Paulette; Mandiwana, Tshifhiwa G.; Hedderson, Terry A.J.; Randi, Ettore; Pereira, Sergio L.; Wakeling, Julia (Blackwell, 2006-12)
    The phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and classification of, and morphobehavioral (M/B) evolution in, gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes) are investigated. In-group taxa (rooted on representatives of the Anseriformes) ...
  • Phylogenomic and epidemiological insights into two clinical Mycobacterium bovis BCG strains circulating in South Africa 
    Modipane, Lesedi; Reva, Oleg N.; Magazi, Beki T.; Antiabong, John Francis; Osei Sekyere, John; Mbelle, Nontombi Marylucy (Elsevier, 2019-10)
    BACKGROUND : Mycobacterium bovis BCG is a live, attenuated tuberculosis vaccine. While the vaccine protects infants from tuberculosis, complications including disseminated infections have been reported following ...
  • Phylogenomic incongruence in Ceratocystis : a clue to speciation? 
    Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Trollip, Conrad; Wingfield, Michael J.; Barnes, Irene; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Wingfield, Brenda D. (BioMed Central, 2020-05)
    BACKGROUND: The taxonomic history of Ceratocystis, a genus in the Ceratocystidaceae, has been beset with questions and debate. This is due to many of the commonly used species recognition concepts (e.g., morphological ...
  • 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 ...
  • Phylogenomic, pan-genomic, pathogenomic and evolutionary genomic insights into the agronomically relevant enterobacteria Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea stewartii 
    De Maayer, Pieter; Aliyu, Habibu; Vikram, Surendra; Blom, Jochem; Duffy, Brion; Cowan, Don A.; Smits, Theo H.M.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Coutinho, Teresa A. (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017-09-14)
    Pantoea ananatis is ubiquitously found in the environment and causes disease on a wide range of plant hosts. By contrast, its sister species, Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii is the host-specific causative agent of the ...
  • Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Pseudobarbus (Cyprinidae) : shedding light on the drainage history of rivers associated with the Cape Floristic Region 
    Swartz, E.R. (Ernst Roelof); Skelton, Paul H. (Paul Harvey); Bloomer, Paulette (Elsevier, 2009)
    Relationships among the historically isolated lineages of Pseudobarbus were reconstructed using molecular and morphological data. Contradictions between the molecular and morphological phylogenies suggest convergent evolution ...
  • Phylogeny and systematics of the genus Calonectria 
    Lombard, Lorenzo; Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Cbs Publications / Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2010)
    Species of Calonectria are important plant pathogens, several of which have a worldwide distribution. Contemporary taxonomic studies on these fungi have chiefly relied on DNA sequence comparisons of the β-tubulin gene ...