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Wednesday's Book: Soundings by Anita Brookner
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In this excellent collection of essays and reviews, Anita
Brookner chides writers such as Rousseau and Baudelaire who,
whatever they write, are really writing about themselves; and art
critics who, whatever painting they look at, see only their own
concerns.
What I propose to do, therefore, is rather insulting. Anita
Brookner is a marvellous novelist, about whom we know almost
nothing. But I've always thought there was probably a great deal of
her in her heroines (first insult). Now I wickedly wonder if there
isn't a great deal of her in her criticism too (second insult). If
so, don't we ...
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Evolution of SET-domain protein families in the unicellular and multicellular Ascomycota fungi.(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology
; ...and disease [7, 8, 9, 10, 11]. The fungal division Ascomycota provides a unique model to trace the fate of the SET-domain...proteins Current phylogenetic studies of the kingdom Fungi define Ascomycota as a monophyletic group [12, 13]. For an insight into...
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Reproductive consequences of Colletotrichum lindemuthianum (Ascomycota) infection on wild bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris).(Note)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Botany
; ...Combes 1999). We will here restrict it to its evolutionary sense. Colletotrichum lindemuthianum Sacc. & Magn. (Ascomycota) is the causal agent of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) anthracnose, a world-wide bean disease. Although it is controlled...
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Accelerated evolutionary rates in tropical and oceanic parmelioid lichens (Ascomycota).(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology
; ...these cases accelerated evolutionary rates were significantly associated with mutualism. In one of the largest classes of Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes [19, 20], significant differences in nucleotide substitution rates have not yet been shown. However...
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A new Xylaria (Xylariaceae, Ascomycota) from Cameroon
Magazine article from: Kew Bulletin
; Summary. A new species of Xylaria (Xylariaceae, Ascomycola) from western Cameroon is described on teleomorphic nad cultural characters. INTRODUCTION The following new species of Xylaria was one of eight species of the genus discovered in the course of the botanical inventory of the Mabeta-Moliwe
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New systematic biology study results reported from National Institutes of Health.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; ...species maximum-likelihood phylogeny of Ascomycota, the largest phylum of Fungi. This...multicellular sexual reproductive structures in Ascomycota, once in the common ancestor of Pezizomycotina...their study in Systematic Biology (The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny...
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Systematics of the Phialophora verrucosa complex: new insights from analyses of [beta]-tubulin, large subunit nuclear rDNA and ITS sequences.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Botany
; ...encompassing melanized, anamorphic Ascomycota that produce one-celled conidia from...genre Phialophora Medlar comprend des Ascomycota melanises anamorphes qui produisent...of little differentiated, phialidic Ascomycota (Gams 2000). The type of the genus...
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Researchers at University of Cordoba target environmental entomology.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; ...strain of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) that can become established endophytically...Cynipidae) by an Endophytic Strain of Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales). Environmental Entomology, 2009;38(3...
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Gene duplication, modularity and adaptation in the evolution of the aflatoxin gene cluster.(Research article)(Report)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology
; ...Aspergillus . Monocillium is an anamorphic name associated with a Niesslia teleomorph, also in the Phylum Ascomycota. The Ascomycota comprise highly divergent fungal lineages that span 450 million years of evolutionary history [70]. [figure...
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Fusicladium levieri, a fungal parasite of persimmon, found in Indiana.
Magazine article from: Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
; ...parasitic microfungus Fusicladium levieri Magnus (anamorphic Ascomycota) was found for the first time in Indiana on Diospyros virginiana...unidentified species of the genus Phyllosticta (anamorphic Ascomycota). Here, we report on a leaf spot fungus, Fusicladium levieri...
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Forgotten natural enemies: Interactions between coccinellids and insect-parasitic fungi
Magazine article from: European Journal of Entomology
; ...Rickettsia) and insect pathogenic fungi [such as Hesperomyces virescens Thaxter (Ascomycota: Laboulbeniales) and Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin (Ascomycota: Hypocreales)]. The role of natural enemies in regulating coccinellid populations...
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