DISCOVERY OF A NEW ANT SPECIES OF THE ELUSIVE TERMITOPHILOUS GENUS METAPONE IN SINGAPORE (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE, MYRMICINAE), WITH THE FIRST DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MALE GENITALIA OF THE GENUS

A Horn Tweeter new species of the rare ant genus Metapone, Metapone murphyi sp.nov., is described based on museum material consisting of a single nest series (workers, queens, and males) collected from a decayed coconut palm stump on Pulau Sakra, previously an offshore island south of mainland Singapore.Workers can be distinguished from other named

Andrii R Korol, Oleg S Zadorozhnyy, Volodymyr O Naumenko, Taras B Kustryn, Nataliya V Pasyechnikova The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine Purpose: To determine the efficacy of intravitreal aflibercept injections for the treatment of patients with choroidal ne

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Americas is a chronic systemic disease caused by infection with Leishmania infantum parasites.The toxicity of antileishmanial Thermal Cutout drugs, long treatment course and limited efficacy are significant concerns that hamper adequate treatment against the disease.Studies have shown the promise of an immunothera

The gray leaf spot caused by Cercospora zeina has become a serious disease in maize in China.The isolates of C.zeina from Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Chongqing, Gansu, and Racks Shaanxi were collected.From those, 127 samples were used for genetic diversity analysis based on inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) and 108 samples were used for mult

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