Chitin is the second most abundant biopolymer and functions as the main structural
component in a variety of living organisms. In nature, chitin rarely occurs in a pure form, but …

Calcofluor white M2R is one of a group of compounds known as fluorescent brighteners or
optical brighteners, or “whitening agents.” Others include Phorwhite (Phorwite, Blankophor) …

Fungal Cell Wall presents a comprehensive examination of the structure, synthesis, and
growth of the fungal cell wall and explores the reasons for the cell wall's importance to the …

It is a certainty that the tree of life can be broken up into large units of biodiversity that span
such great evolutionary distances that one could call them kingdoms. However, if these units …

It is widely accepted that chitin is present in nematodes. However, its precise role in
embryogenesis is unclear and it is unknown if chitin is necessary in other nematode tissues …

Developmental switching between life‐cycle stages is a common feature among many
pathogenic organisms. The protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica converts between …

Human mycoses have become a threat to health world-wide. Unfortunately there are only a
limited number of antimycotic drugs in use. Promising targets for drugs specific against fungi …

Cysts of Giardia lamblia and Entamoeba histolytica and oocysts of Toxoplasma gondii and
Cryptosporidium parvum are the infectious and sometimes diagnostic forms of these …

Differentiation of trophozoites into cysts in Entamoeba species has been described
morphologically and to a lesser extent biochemically, but studies of stage specific gene …

Trichomonas vaginalis is the parasitic protozoan residing in human urogenital tract causing
trichomoniasis, which is the leading non-viral sexually transmitted disease. It has …