The interaction of natamycin-azithromycin combination against 60 ocular fungal isolates was tested The combination produced 100% synergistic interactions when natamycin was added to azithromycin 20, 40, and 50 μg/ml against species complex (AFSC) isolates and to azithromycin 50 μg/ml against species complex isolates. Addition of 50 μg/ml azithromycin enhanced natamycin's effect against AFSC isolates by reducing natamycin MIC from 64 to 0.031 μg/ml. No antagonism was observed.
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Gigascience
January 2025
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Background: In this study, we present an in-depth analysis of the Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) genome, highlighting its genetic diversity, structural variations, and evolutionary adaptations. We generated an annotated haplotype-phased, chromosome-level genome assembly (2n = 50) by integrating high-fidelity (HiFi) long reads and chromosome conformation capture data (Hi-C).
Results: We achieved a haploid size of 940 megabase pairs (Mbp) for haplome 1 and 929 Mbp for haplome 2 with high scaffold N50 values of 36.
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Laboratório de Algoritmos em Biologia, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
A key trait of Eukarya is the independent evolution of complex multicellular (CM) in animals, plants, fungi, brown algae and red algae. This phenotype is characterized by the initial exaptation of cell-cell adhesion genes followed by the emergence of mechanisms for cell-cell communication, together with the expansion of transcription factor gene families responsible for cell and tissue identity. The number of cell types (NCT) is commonly used as a quantitative proxy for biological complexity in comparative genomics studies.
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January 2025
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, School of Natural Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Collagen is the most ubiquitous protein in the animal kingdom and one of the most abundant proteins on Earth. Despite having a relatively repetitive amino acid sequence motif that enables its triple helical structure, in type 1 collagen, that dominates skin and bone, there is enough variation for its increasing use for the biomolecular species identification of animal tissues processed or degraded beyond the amenability of DNA-based analyses. In recent years, this has been most commonly achieved through the technique of collagen peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) known as ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry), applied to the analysis of tens of thousands of samples across over one hundred studies in the past decade alone.
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Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH 03824.
Cancer is an extraordinarily complex illness, with many tumors ultimately developing resistance to the currently available therapeutics. This highlights a need for the discovery of new anticancer medicines. Natural products have been utilized for centuries by the indigenous people of Alaska for both spiritual and medicinal purposes and have traditionally been administered as medicine for a wide range of ailments from the common cold to cancer.
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January 2025
Research Center for Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Traditional Medicine, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Complex Cibinong Science Center-BRIN, Cibinong, 16911, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
The escalating concerns about the environmental and health impacts of synthetic pesticides have intensified the search for sustainable and effective alternatives. Cinnamon oil, derived from the bark of Cinnamomum species, has emerged as a promising candidate in this arena due to its potent biopesticidal properties. This review explores the multifaceted role of cinnamon oil in agricultural pest management, emphasizing its potential to contribute significantly to food security.
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