• Extremophiles in a changing world 

  Cowan, Don A.; Albers, S.V.; Antranikian, G.; Atomi, H.; Averhoff, B.; Basen, M.; Driessen, A.J.M.; Jebbar, M.; Kelman, Z.; Kerou, M.; Littlechild, J.; Müller, V.; Schönheit, P.; Siebers, B.; Vorgias, K. (Springer, 2024-04)

  Extremophiles and their products have been a major focus of research interest for over 40 years. Through this period, studies of these organisms have contributed hugely to many aspects of the fundamental and applied sciences, ...
• Invasion of an Afrotemperate forest complex by the polyphagous shot hole borer beetle 

  Townsend, Garyn; Van Rooyen, Elmar; Hill, Martin; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Roets, Francois (Wiley, 2024-04)

  The polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB), Euwallacea fornicatus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), is a significant tree-killing pest recently introduced into South Africa. Many native trees in urban settings ...
• New Resinogalea species from Araucaria araucana resin in Chile and reclassification of the genus in the Cryptocaliciomycetidae 

  Balocchi, Felipe; Barnes, Irene; Wingfield, Michael J.; Ahumada, Rodrigo; Visagie, Cobus M. (BMC, 2023-08)

  Araucaria araucana is an ancient conifer, native to the mountain ranges in Chile and Argentina. These trees host a large number of organisms, mainly insects, strongly or even exclusively associated with them. The recent ...
• Interplay of intracellular and trans-cellular DNA methylation in natural archaeal consortia 

  Reva, Oleg N.; La Cono, Violetta; Crisafi, Francesca; Smedile, Francesco; Mudaliyar, Manasi; Ghosal, Debnath; Giuliano, Laura; Krupovic, Mart; Yakimov, Michail M. (Wiley, 2024-04)

  DNA methylation serves a variety of functions across all life domains. In this study, we investigated archaeal methylomics within a tripartite xylanolytic halophilic consortium. This consortium includes Haloferax lucertense ...
• Expanding Antarctic biogeography : microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils 

  Lebre, Pedro H.; Bosch, Jason; Coclet, Clement; Hallas, Rebecca; Hogg, Ian D.; Johnson, Jenny; Moon, Katherine L.; Ortiz, Maximiliano; Salawu-Rotimi, Adeola; Stevens, Mark I.; Varliero, Gilda; Convey, Peter; Vikram, Surendra; Chown, Steven L.; Cowan, Don A. (Wiley, 2023-09)

  The majority of islands surrounding the Antarctic continent are poorly characterized in terms of microbial macroecology due to their remote locations, geographical isolation and access difficulties. The 2016/2017 Antarctic ...
• Hybridization in an isolated population of blesbok and red hartebeest 

  Van Wyk, Anna M.; Schulze, Erika; Labuschagne, Kim; Thamae, Seeng; Kotze, Antoinette; Dalton, Desire Lee (Wiley, 2024-04)

  Hybridization in antelope species has been widely reported in South African national parks and provincial reserves as well as on private land due to anthropogenic effects. In a closed management setting, hybridization may ...
• Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health 

  Chepsergon, Jane; Moleleki, Lucy N. (Elsevier, 2023-06)

  The rhizosphere is a chemically complex environment that harbors a strikingly diverse microbial community. The past few decades have seen a rapid growth in the body of literature on plant–microbe–microbe interactions ...
• “Order from disordered” : potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins 

  Chepsergon, Jane; Moleleki, Lucy N. (Elsevier, 2023-10)

  There is a continuous arms race between pathogens and their host plants. However, successful pathogens, such as phytopathogenic oomycetes, secrete effector proteins to manipulate host defense responses for disease ...
• Ocean warming favours a northern Argyrosomus species over its southern congener, whereas preliminary metabolic evidence suggests that hybridization may promote their adaptation 

  Pringle, Brett A.; Duncan, Murray I.; Winkler, Alexander C.; Mafwila, Samuel; Jagger, Charmaine; McKeown, Niall J.; Shaw, Paul W.; Henriques, Romina; Potts, Warren M. (Oxford University Press, 2023-01)

  Anthropogenic-induced climate change is having profound impacts on aquatic ecosystems, and the resilience of fish populations will be determined by their response to these impacts. The northern Namibian coast is an ocean ...
• Seagrass genomes reveal ancient polyploidy and adaptations to the marine environment 

  Ma, Xiao; Vanneste, Steffen; Chang, Jiyang; Ambrosino, Luca; Barry, Kerrie; Bayer, Till; Bobrov, Alexander A.; Boston, LoriBeth; Campbell, Justin E.; Chen, Hengchi; Chiusano, Maria Luisa; Dattolo, Emanuela; Grimwood, Jane; He, Guifen; Jenkins, Jerry; Khachaturyan, Marina; Marin-Guirao, Lazaro; Mesterhazy, Attila; Muhd, Danish-Daniel; Pazzaglia, Jessica; Plott, Chris; Rajasekar, Shanmugam; Rombauts, Stephane; Ruocco, Miriam; Scott, Alison; Tan, Min Pau; Van de Velde, Jozefien; Vanholme, Bartel; Webber, Jenell; Wong, Li Lian; Yan, Mi; Sung, Yeong Yik; Novikova, Polina; Schmutz, Jeremy; Reusch, Thorsten B.H.; Procaccini, Gabriele; Olsen, Jeanine L.; Van de Peer, Yves (Nature Research, 2024-03)

  We present chromosome-level genome assemblies from representative species of three independently evolved seagrass lineages: Posidonia oceanica, Cymodocea nodosa, Thalassia testudinum and Zostera marina. We also include a ...
• Urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem services 

  Eldridge, David J.; Cui, Haiying; Ding, Jingyi; Berdugo, Miguel; Saez-Sandino, Tadeo; Duran, Jorge; Gaitan, Juan J.; Blanco-Pastor, Jose L.; Rodriguez, Alexandra; Plaza, Cesar; Alfaro, Fernando; Teixido, Alberto L.; Abades, Sebastian; Bamigboye, Adebola R.; Penaloza-Bojaca, Gabriel F.; Grebenc, Tine; Nahberger, Tine U.; Illan, Javier G.; Liu, Yu-Rong; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Rey, Ana; Siebe, Christina; Sun, Wei; Trivedi, Pankaj; Verma, Jay Prakash; Wang, Ling; Wang, Jianyong; Wang, Tianxue; Zaady, Eli; Zhou, Xiaobing; Zhou, Xin-Quan; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel (Nature Research, 2024-03)

  Greenspaces are important for sustaining healthy urban environments and their human populations. Yet their capacity to support multiple ecosystem services simultaneously (multiservices) compared with nearby natural ecosystems ...
• Convergent and/or parallel evolution of RNA-binding proteins in angiosperms after polyploidization 

  Guo, Liangyu; Wang, Shuo; Jiao, Xi; Ye, Xiaoxue; Deng, Deyin; Liu, Hua; Li, Yan; Van de Peer, Yves; Wu, Wenwu (Wiley, 2024-05)

  Increasing studies suggest that the biased retention of stress-related transcription factors (TFs) after whole-genome duplications (WGDs) could rewire gene transcriptional networks, facilitating plant adaptation to challenging ...
• Unexpected diversity in historical biological control programs: Population genetics of the nematode Deladenus siricidicola in Australia and New Zealand 

  Eshetu, Firehiwot Birhane; Barnes, Irene; Nahrung, Helen F.; Fitza, Katrin N.E.; Meurisse, Nicolas; Slippers, Bernard (Elsevier, 2023-05)

  The nematode Deladenus siricidicola is used for the biocontrol of the invasive woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, that infests Pinus globally. In New Zealand, D. siricidicola was accidentally introduced along with S. noctilio, after ...
• Comparative transcriptional analysis of Persea americana MYB, WRKY and AP2/ERF transcription factors following Phytophthora cinnamomi infection 

  Fick, Alicia; Swart, Velushka; Bombarely, Aureliano; Van den Berg, Noelani (Wiley, 2024-04)

  Plant cells undergo extensive transcriptional reprogramming following pathogen infection, with these reprogramming patterns becoming more complex when pathogens, such as hemibiotrophs, exhibit different lifestyles. These ...
• Root exudate compounds change the bacterial community in bulk soil 

  Afzal, Muhammad Yasir; Das, Bikram K.; Valappil, Vishnu Thayil; Scaria, Joy; Brözel, Volker Siegfried (Elsevier, 2024-06)

  The soil bacteria are diverse in nature both physiologically and phylogenetically with spatial variations within the soil microenvironments. Plant roots secrete organic substances called root exudates which benefit bacteria ...
• Leaf surface traits may influence host specificity in psyllids of Eucalyptus, Spondyliaspis cf. plicatuloides (Froggatt) and Glycaspis brimblecombei Moore (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) 

  Makunde, P.T. (Privilege); Joubert, Johannes Christoffel; Slippers, Bernard; Hurley, Brett P.; Hammerbacher, Almuth (Springer, 2023-08)

  Spondyliaspis cf. plicatuloides and Glycaspis brimblecombei (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) are invasive insect pests of Eucalyptus, native to Australia. The insects feed on eucalypt sap, and both psyllid species exhibit clear ...
• Ligand-guided investigation of a series of formamidine-based thiuram disulfides as potential dual-inhibitors of COX-1and COX-2 

  Oladipo, Segun D.; Akinpelu, Olayinka I.; Omondi, Bernard (Wiley, 2023-01)

  A series of thiuram disulfides 1–6 which had been previously synthesized and characterized, were studied for their potential therapeutic properties. Target-fishing analyses through HitPick and SwissTarget prediction ...
• Pathogenicity of Chrysoporthe deuterocubensis on eucalypts in Indonesia 

  Tarigan, Marthin; Wingfield, Michael J.; Jami, Fahimeh; Marpaung, Yosep MAN; Durán, Alvaro; Pham, Nam Q. (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2024)

  Several economically important pathogens, including species of Chrysoporthe, pose a threat to the rapidly expanding eucalypt plantation industry in Southeast Asia. During 2019 disease surveys in Riau and Kalimantan ...
• Detection and genome sequencing of lumpy skin disease viruses in wildlife game species in South Africa 

  Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Kara, Pravesh Deepak; Last, Robert D.; Romito, Marco; Wallace, David Brian (MDPI, 2024-01)

  Lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) has recently undergone rapid spread, now being reported from more than 80 countries, affecting predominantly cattle and to a lesser extent, water buffalo. This poxvirus was previously ...
• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? A call for community participation in the governance of the SeqCode 

  Sutcliffe, Iain; Rodriguez-R, Luis M.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Whitman, William B. (Elsevier, 2024-05)

  Codes of nomenclature that provide well-regulated and stable frameworks for the naming of taxa are a fundamental underpinning of biological research. These Codes themselves require systems that govern their administration, ...

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