THREE NEW SPECIES OF FUSARIUM (NECTRIACEAE, HYPOCREALES) ISOLATED FROM EASTERN CAPE DAIRY PASTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Three new species of Fusarium (Nectriaceae, Hypocreales) isolated from Eastern Cape dairy pastures in South Africa

A survey of the fungal diversity associated with mixed pastures from Eastern Cape dairy farms in South Africa led to the isolation of 155 Fusarium strains that belong to the Fusarium incarnatum-equiseti species complex (FIESC).Using single and multigene phylogenies based on Breast partial sequences of the translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF)

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Towards AI Welfare Science and Policies

In light of fast progress in the field of AI there is an urgent demand for AI policies.Bostrom et al., provide “a set of policy desiderata”, out of which this article link attempts to contribute to the “interests of digital minds”.The focus is on two interests of potentially sentient digital minds: to avoid suffering and to

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Assessing the effects of climate on host-parasite interactions: a comparative study of European birds and their parasites.

BackgroundClimate change potentially has important effects on distribution, abundance, transmission and virulence of parasites in wild populations of animals.Methodology/principal findingHere we analyzed paired information on 89 parasite populations for 24 species of bird hosts some years ago and again in 2010 with an average interval of 10 years.T

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