Symbiotic associations between mammals and fungi have been well documented and are
widely regarded as vital to ecosystem functions around the world. Symbioses between birds …

The species of yeasts that colonize floral nectar can modify the mutualistic relationships
between plants and pollinators by changing the chemical properties of nectar. Recent …

More than 2 000 yeast strains isolated from 1 200 samples mostly collected from Tibet and
Yunnan provinces in China were identified as 462 species according to the internal …

Human modification of the environment, particularly through land-use change, often reduces
animal species diversity. However, the effect of land-use change on the gut microbiome of …

Microbial skin assemblages, including fungal communities, can influence host resistance to
infectious diseases. The diversity-invasibility hypothesis predicts that high-diversity …

We characterize the diversity of nectar-living yeasts of a tropical host plant community at
different hierarchical sampling levels, measure the associations between yeasts and …

Background Studies on the diversity of yeasts in floral nectar were first carried out in the late
19 th century. A narrow group of fermenting, osmophilous ascomycetes were regarded as …

If species' evolutionary pasts predetermine their responses to evolutionarily novel stressors,
then phylogeny could predict species survival in an increasingly human-dominated world …

Two areas of research that have greatly increased in attention are: dipterans as vectors and
the microbes they are capable of vectoring. Because it is the front-end of the fly that first …

Introduction: New bioresources for catalytic application and fine chemical synthesis are the
need of the hour. In an effort to find out new biocatalyst for oxidation-reduction reaction …