Although known for their potent venom and ability to prey upon both invertebrate and vertebrate species, the Barychelidae spider family has been entirely neglected by toxinologists.In striking contrast, the sister family Theraphosidae (commonly known as tarantulas), which last shared a most recent common ancestor with Barychelidae over 200 million
The article Recliner is dedicated to the study of the saints depicted in the representation of the Triumph of Orthodoxy in the icon probably made in Constantinople around 1400 which is now kept at the British Museum in London.New identifications of certain figures are proposed.Questions RWgift are posed as to how the scene was shaped and which writ
An 80-year-old male presented with a history of a hard right parotid mass that had gradually increased in size, with subsequent facial paralysis.A fine-needle aspiration biopsy NUTRI SEA + D was performed.The cytologic specimens contained a substantial number of sheet-like clusters or small groups of a mixture of plasmacytoid, oval to spindled, or
The gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae is the etiological agent of American Foulbrood (AFB), a globally occurring, deathly epizootic of honey bee brood.AFB outbreaks are predominantly caused by two genotypes of P.larvae, ERIC I and ERIC II, with P.larvae ERIC II being the more virulent genotype on larval level.Recently, com
The rare branched-chain sugar apiose, once thought to only be present in the plant kingdom, was found in two bacterial species: Geminicoccus roseus and Xanthomonas pisi.Glycans with apiose residues were detected in aqueous methanol-soluble fractions as well as in the insoluble pellet fraction of X.pisi.Genes encoding bacterial uridine diphosphate a