Invasive plants, which cause substantial economic and ecological impacts, acquire both pathogens and beneficial microbes in their introduced ranges.Communities of fungal endophytes are known to mediate impacts of pathogens on plant fitness but few studies have examined the temporal dynamics of fungal communities on invasive plants.The annual grass
A new ant-butterfly symbiosis in the forest canopy fills an evolutionary gap
Abstract Myrmecophilous butterflies can establish complex symbiotic relationships with ants.A caterpillar wandering among the brood of the aggressive ponerine ant Neoponera villosa was found inside the core of a nest built in the myrmecophytic bromeliad Aechmea bracteata.This is the first caterpillar found living inside a ponerine ant nest.Its LAVE
Synthetic Datasets Generator for Testing Information Visualization and Machine Learning Techniques and Tools
Data generators are applications that produce synthetic datasets, which are useful for testing data analytics applications, such as machine learning algorithms and information visualization techniques.Each data generator application has a different approach to generate Shoes data.Consequently, each one has functionality gaps that make it unsuitable
Multivariate statistical analysis of the quality of apple juice to integrate and simplify juice industrial production technologies
Apple juices produced from nine different industrial production technologies were obtained in pilot scale, for simplifying and integrating the production technologies according to the quality comparison of juices.Juice quality characterized by total phenolic DAILY FACE MOISTURIZER content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), total soluble solid (T
The specificity of Babesia-tick vector interactions: recent advances and pitfalls in molecular and field studies
Abstract Background Babesia spp.are protozoan parasites of great medical and veterinary importance, especially in the northern Hemisphere.Ticks are known vectors of Babesia spp., although some Babesia-tick interactions have not been fully elucidated.Methods The present review was performed to investigate the specificity of Babesia-tick species inte