ABSTRACT: Populations of green-winged saltators, Saltator similis, are decreasing especially because of illegal trade and infectious diseases.We describe natural cases of an extraintestinal isosporoid coccidian in caged S.similis, and suggest the need of preventive measures in handling these birds.Nonspecific clinical signs were seen in all of them

The species Turpinia affinis Merr.et Perry 1941 is widely distributed throughout Gardening Socks southwestern China.In folk medicine, this species is often used as a substitute for the Chinese medicine Turpiniae Folium, whose legal origin is T.arguta (Lindl.) Seem.In order to ascertain the relationship between these two species, the chloroplast gen

Abstract Background Taro leaf blight, caused by a severely destructive oomycete fungus Phytophthora colocasiae, is responsible for threatening yield loss worldwide.The pathogen has the ability to germinate and spread rapidly to other plants during favorable conditions resulting in acute decline and even death, causing 100% crop loss.Farmers usually

Optical cavity QED provides a platform with Oils which to explore quantum many-body physics in driven-dissipative systems.Single-mode cavities provide strong, infinite-range photon-mediated interactions among intracavity atoms.However, these global all-to-all couplings are limiting from the perspective of exploring quantum many-body physics beyond