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Browsing Genetics by Type "Preprint Article"
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Boughan, Shareen; Potgieter, A. Christiaan; Van Staden, Vida
(Society for General Microbiology, 2020-04)
African horse sickness virus (AHSV) is the causative agent of the often fatal disease African horse sickness in equids. The non-structural protein NS4 is the only AHSV protein that localizes to the nucleus. Here we report ...
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Reva, Oleg N.; Rademan, Sunelle; Visagie, M.H. (Michelle Helen); Lebelo, M.T. (Maphuti); Gwangwa, Mokgadi Violet; Klochko, Vitalii V.; Joubert, Anna Margaretha; Lall, Namrita
(Future Science, 2019)
AIM : To determine the computer-predicted anticancer activity of mupirocin and to compare its activities with those determined for another polyene antibiotic, batumin. MATERIALS AND METHODS : Molecular docking, cytotoxicity ...
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Roychoudhury, A.; Cowan, Don A.; Porter, David; Valverde, Alexander
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-05)
Here, we report on the spatial and temporal variation in sulphate-reducing bacterial community structure
and activity in three hypersaline coastal pans. Community structure was determined using denaturing gradient
gel ...
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Zablocki, Olivier; Rybicki, E.P.; Cowan, Don A.
(American Phytopathological Society, 2014-12)
Chlorotic, streak-like symptoms were observed in April 2013 on a single specimen of Albuca
rautanenii (Schinz) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt (Family: Hyacinthaceae) found among other
plants near Homeb in the Namib Desert, ...
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Barnes, Irene; Walla, J.A.; Bergdahl, A.; Wingfield, Michael J.
(American Phytopathological Society, 2014-10)
No abstract available
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Janoušek, Josef; Wingfield, Michael J.; Marmolejo Monsivais, José G.; Jankovský, Libor; Stauffer, Christian; Konečný, Adam; Barnes, Irene
(American Phytopathological Society, 2016-11)
Lecanosticta acicola is a heterothallic ascomycete that causes brown spot needle blight on native and nonnative Pinus spp. in many regions of the world. In this study we investigated the origin of European L. acicola ...
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Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Van Zyl, Leonardo J.; De Maayer, Pieter; Rubagotti, Enrico; Rybicki, Edward P.; Tuffin, Marla I.; Cowan, Don A.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-02)
Hypolithic microbial communities are specialized desert communities inhabiting the underside of translucent rocks where they are sheltered from harsh environmental conditions. Here, we present the first study of the viral ...
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Perez, Guillermo; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Hunter, Gavin Craig; Wingfield, Michael J.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-05)
Sexual reproduction in fungi involves either a single individual (selfing) or two individuals (outcrossing). To investigate the roles that these two strategies play in the establishment of an invasive alien pathogen, the ...
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Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Welz, Pamela J.; Le Roes-Hill, Marilize; Tuffin, Marla I.; Burton, Stephanie G.; Cowan, Don A.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-03)
In this study, three biological sand filter (BSF) were contaminated with a synthetic iron- [1500 mg L⁻¹ Fe(II), 500 mg L⁻¹ Fe(III)] and sulphate-rich (6000 mg L⁻¹ SO₄²⁻) acid mine drainage (AMD) (pH = 2), for 24 days, to ...
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Venter, Eudri; Van der Merwe, Christiaan F.; Van Staden, Vida
(Wiley, 2012-10)
Cryofixation by high-pressure freezing (HPF) and freeze substitution (FS) gives
excellent preservation of intracellular membranous structures, ideal for ultrastructural
investigations of virus infected cells. Conventional ...