Correction: Spenger et al. Glutaric Aciduria Type I Missed by Newborn Screening: Report of Four Cases from Three Families. . 2021, , 32.

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Glutaric Aciduria Type I Missed by Newborn Screening: Report of Four Cases from Three Families.

Glutaric aciduria type I (GA-1) is a rare autosomal-recessive disorder of the degradation of the amino acids lysine and tryptophan caused by mutations of the gene encoding glutaryl-CoA-dehydrogenase. Newborn screening (NBS) for this condition is based on elevated levels of glutarylcarnitine (C5DC) in dried blood spots (DBS). Here we report four cases from three families in whom a correctly performed NBS did not detect the condition.

Phyllopertha horticola (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) larvae in eastern Austrian mountainous grasslands and the associated damage risk related to soil, topography and management.

The soil-dwelling larvae of several Scarabaeidae species (white grubs), like the cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) and the garden chafer (Phyllopertha horticola), are serious pests in European cultivated grassland, reducing grass yield and destroying the turf by root-feeding. Nevertheless, the factors responsible for the development of large grub populations and the associated damage risk are poorly understood. The objectives of the study were to survey grub densities in grassland sites with different damage histories and find correlations with environmental and management variables.

Subsurface earthworm casts can be important soil microsites specifically influencing the growth of grassland plants.

Earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) deposit several tons per hectare of casts enriched in nutrients and/or arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and create a spatial and temporal soil heterogeneity that can play a role in structuring plant communities. However, while we begin to understand the role of surface casts, it is still unclear to what extent plants utilize subsurface casts. We conducted a greenhouse experiment using large mesocosms (volume 45 l) to test whether (1) soil microsites consisting of earthworm casts with or without AMF (four taxa) affect the biomass production of 11 grassland plant species comprising the three functional groups grasses, forbs, and legumes, (2) different ecological groups of earthworms (soil dwellers- vs.