bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ouabain Modulates the Distribution of Connexin 43 in Epithelial Cells
Authors: Ponce Arturo , Larre Isabel , Castillo Aida , Flores-Maldonado Catalina , Verdejo-Torres Odette , Contreras Ruben Gerardo , Cereijido Marcelino
Published: September 2016

Background/Aims: The fact that ouabain has been identified as an endogenous substance, led us to inquire its physiological role in epithelial cells. Based on previous observations, we hypothesized that it influences processes related to cell contacts. Previously we have shown that nanomolar concentrations of ouabain up-regulate tight junctions, accelerate ciliogenesis, and increase gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC). Given that silencing assays indicated that connexin 43 (Cnx43) is involved in the GJIC response, in the present work we study whether ouabain affects Cnx43 expression and distribution. Methods: We seeded confluent monolayers of epithelial renal MDCK cells and incubated them with 10 nM ouabain during 1 h. Then we measured, by densitometric analysis of Western blot assays, the amount of Cnx43 in cells and in fractions enriched of plasma membrane. We also studied its localization with immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy. Results: Cnx43 is remarkably displayed, outlining the borders of cells gathered in clusters, randomly scattered throughout the monolayer. Ouabain increases the density of such clusters, as well as the average number of cells per cluster, without inducing the synthesis of new Cnx43. It also promotes relocation towards the membrane, of subunits already available. The fact that such changes are inhibited by PP2 and PD98059 indicates that a signaling pathway, that includes c-Src and ERK1/2, is involved in this response. Conclusion: Ouabain induces the translocation of Cnx43 from the cytoplasm to the plasma membrane. These findings support our hypothesis that one of the physiological roles of ouabain is the modulation of physiological processes that depend on cell to cell contacts.
Identification of Heme Oxygenase-1 as a Novel Predictor of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Outcomes in Acute Leukemia
Authors: Lu Yinghao , Wu Depei , Wang Jishi , Li Yan , Ma Dan , Chai Xiao , Kang Qian
Published: September 2016

Objective: The main aim of this study was to determine the correlation between clinical outcome and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) expression before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in acute leukemia. Methods: HO-1 mRNA levels in 83 patients were measured using qRT-PCR. In a comparative analysis of HO-1 levels in relation to different post-transplant outcomes, the HO-1 threshold, determined via the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, was effectively used to predict clinical relapse and acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD). The correlations among clinical relapse, aGVHD and HO-1 expression were analyzed based on this threshold. Results: Leukemia risk stratification and relative expression of HO-1 before pretreatment had significant effects on clinical relapse. Leukemia risk stratification, relative expression of HO-1 after HSCT and the interval from diagnosis to transplantation had a significant influence on aGVHD. Both relapse and aGVHD appeared to be associated with relative HO-1 expression. The relative expression rate of HO-1 was 1.131-1.186 before pretreatment, and strongly associated with post-transplantation relapse. The relative expression rate of HO-1 was 1.102-1.144 after transplantation, and closely related to aGVHD. ROC curve analysis revealed high specificity and sensitivity of HO-1 expression in predicting relapse and aGVHD after allo-HSCT. Conclusions: HO-1 expression can be effectively used as a predictor of relapse as well as a diagnostic factor of aGVHD after transplantation for allo-HSCT patients with acute leukemia.
High Prevalence of Stress and Low Prevalence of Alzheimer Disease CSF Biomarkers in a Clinical Sample with Subjective Cognitive Impairment
Authors: Eckerström Marie , Berg Anne Ingeborg , Nordlund Arto , Rolstad Sindre , Sacuiu Simona , Wallin Anders
Published: September 2016

Background/Aims: Subjective cognitive impairment (SCI) is a trigger for seeking health care in a possible preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD), although the characteristics of SCI need clarification. We investigated the prevalence of psychosocial stress, depressive symptoms and CSF AD biomarkers in SCI and MCI (mild cognitive impairment). Methods: Memory clinic patients (SCI: n = 90; age: 59.8 ± 7.6 years; MCI: n = 160; age: 63.7 ± 7.0 years) included in the Gothenburg MCI study were examined at baseline. Variables were analyzed using logistic regression with SCI as dependent variable. Results: Stress was more prevalent in SCI (51.1%) than MCI (23.1%); p < 0.0005. SCI patients had more previous depressive symptoms (p = 0.006), but showed no difference compared to MCI patients considering current depressive symptoms. A positive CSF AD profile was present in 14.4% of SCI patients and 35.0% of MCI patients (p = 0.001). Stress (p = 0.002), previous stress/depressive symptoms (p = 0.006) and a negative CSF AD profile (p = 0.036) predicted allocation to the SCI group. Conclusion: Psychosocial stress is more prevalent in SCI than previously acknowledged. The high prevalence and long-term occurrence of stress/depressive symptoms in SCI in combination with a low prevalence of altered CSF AD biomarkers strengthens the notion that AD is not the most likely etiology of SCI.
Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia with t(12;17)(p13;q21)/TAF15-ZNF384 and Other Chromosome Abnormalities
Authors: Yamamoto Katsuya , Kawamoto Shinichiro , Mizutani Yu , Yakushijin Kimikazu , Yamashita Tomoe , Nakamachi Yuji , Kawano Seiji , Hayashi Yoshitake , Matsuoka Hiroshi , Minami Hironobu
Published: September 2016

The t(12;17)(p13;q11∼21) translocation is a very rare but recurrent cytogenetic aberration observed predominantly in early pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with CD19+CD10-CD33+ phenotype. This translocation was shown to form a fusion gene between TAF15 at 17q12 and ZNF384 at 12p13. On the other hand, der(1;18)(q10;q10) has been detected as a rare unbalanced whole-arm translocation leading to trisomy 1q in myeloid malignancies. We describe here the first case of mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) with a t(12;17)(p13;q21)/TAF15-ZNF384, which also had der(1;18)(q10;q10) as an additional abnormality. A 74-year-old woman was diagnosed with MPAL, B/myeloid, because bone marrow blasts were positive for myeloperoxidase, CD19, and CD22. Chromosome analysis showed 46,XX, +1,der(1;18)(q10;q10),t(2;16)(q13;q13),t(12;17)(p13;q21). Expression of the TAF15-ZNF384 fusion transcript was confirmed: TAF15 exon 6 was fused in-frame to ZNF384 exon 3. This type of fusion gene has been reported in 1 acute myeloid leukemia case and 3 ALL cases. Thus, at present, it is difficult to find a specific association between the structure of the TAF15-ZNF384 fusion gene and the leukemia phenotype. The TAF15-ZNF384 fusion may occur in early common progenitor cells that could differentiate into both the myeloid and lymphoid lineages. Furthermore, der(1;18)(q10;q10) might play some role in the appearance of an additional myeloid phenotype.
Aberrant Epigenetic Regulation in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Its Implication in Precision Medicine
Authors: Zhan Yi , Guo Yu , Lu Qianjin
Published: September 2016

Great progress has been made in the last decades in understanding the complex immune dysregulation in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet the efforts to pursue an effective treatment of SLE proved to be futile. The pathoetiology of SLE involves extremely complicated and multifactorial interaction among various genetic and epigenetic factors. Multiple gene loci predispose to disease susceptibility, and the interaction with epigenetic modifications mediated through sex, hormones, and the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis complicates susceptibility and manifestations of this disease. Finally, certain environmental and psychological factors probably trigger the disease via epigenetic mechanisms. In this review, we summarize and discuss recent epigenetic studies of SLE and suggest a personalized approach to the dissection of disease onset and therapy or precision medicine. We speculate that in the future, precision medicine based on epigenetic and genetic information could help guide more effective targeted therapeutic intervention.
Whole exome sequencing analysis reveals TRPV3 as a risk factor for cardioembolic stroke/subtitle
Authors: Carrera Caty , Jiménez-Conde Jordi , Derdak Sophia , Rabionet Kelly , Vives-Bauzá Cristofol , Soriano-Tárrega Carolina , Giralt-Steinhauer Eva , Mola-Caminal Marina , Diaz-Navarro Rosa M. , Tur Silvia , Muiño Elena , Gallego-Fabrega Cristina , Beltran Sergi , Roquer Jaume , Ruiz Agustin , Sotolongo-Grau Oscar , Krupinski Jurek , Lee Jin-Moo , Cruchaga Carlos , Delgado Pilar , Malik Rainer , Worrall Brad B. , Seshadri Sudha , Montaner Joan , Fernández-Cadenas Israel ,   the Metastroke Consortium, ISGC Consortium and Genestroke Consortium
Published: September 2016

Genetic studies suggest that hundreds of genes associated with stroke remain unidentified. Exome sequencing proves useful for finding new genes associated with stroke. We aimed to find new genetic risk factors for cardioembolic stroke by analysing exome sequence data using new strategies. For discovery, we analysed 42 cardioembolic stroke cases and controls with extreme phenotypes (cohort 1), and for replication, 32 cardioembolic stroke cases and controls (cohort 2) using the SeqCapExome capture kit. We then analysed the replicated genes in two new cohorts that comprised 834 cardioembolic strokes and controls (cohort 3) and 64,373 cardioembolic strokes and controls (cohort 4). Transcriptomic in-silico functional analyses were also performed. We found 26 coding regions with a higher frequency of mutations in cardioembolic strokes after correcting for the number of mutations found in the whole exome of every patient. The TRPV3 gene was associated with cardioembolic stroke after replication of exome sequencing analysis (p-value-discovery: 0.018, p-value-replication: 0.014). The analysis of the TRPV3 gene using polymorphisms in cohort 3 and 4 revealed two polymorphisms associated with cardioembolic stroke in both cohorts, the most significant polymorphism being rs151091899 (p-value: 3.1 × 10−05; odds ratio: 5.4) in cohort 3. The genotype of one polymorphism of TRPV3 was associated with a differential expression of genes linked to cardiac malformations. In conclusion, new strategies using exome sequence data have revealed TRPV3 as a new gene associated with cardioembolic stroke. This strategy among others might be useful in finding new genes associated with complex genetic diseases.
Generation and in vitro characterisation of inhibitory nanobodies towards plasminogen activator inhibitor 1
Authors: Zhou Xiaohua , Hendrickx Maarten L. V. , Hassanzadeh-Ghassabeh Gholamreza , Muyldermans Serge , Declerck Paul J.
Published: September 2016

Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) is the principal physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) and has been identified as a risk factor in cardiovascular diseases. In order to generate nanobodies against PAI-1 to interfere with its functional properties, we constructed three nanobody libraries upon immunisation of three alpacas with three different PAI-1 variants. Three panels of nanobodies were selected against these PAI-1 variants. Evaluation of the amino acid sequence identity of the complementarity determining region-3 (CDR3) reveals 34 clusters in total. Five nanobodies (VHH-s-a98, VHH-2w-64, VHH-s-a27, VHH-s-a93 and VHH-2g-42) representing five clusters exhibit inhibition towards PAI-1 activity. VHH-s-a98 and VHH-2w-64 inhibit both glycosylated and non-glycosylated PAI-1 variants through a substrate-inducing mechanism, and bind to two different regions close to αhC and the hinge region of αhF; the profibrinolytic effect of both nanobodies was confirmed using an in vitro clot lysis assay. VHH-s-a93 may inhibit PAI-1 activity by preventing the formation of the initial PAI-1•t-PA complex formation and binds to the hinge region of the reactive centre loop. Epitopes of VHH-s-a27 and VHH-2g-42 could not be deduced yet. These five nanobodies interfere with PAI-1 activity through different mechanisms and merit further evaluation for the development of future profibrinolytic therapeutics.
Sedentary behavior in adolescents in small city in the south of the country
Authors: Sousa Gabriel R. de , Silva Diego A. S.
Published: September 2016

Study design: Cross-sectional Study. Objective: To investigate the prevalence of sedentary behavior based on screen time and demographic and socioeconomic factors associated in adolescents. Method: The study was conducted in a small town of Santa Catarina by applying a self-reported questionnaire on television, video game and computer use and demographic and socioeconomic factors. Results: The prevalence of sedentary behavior was 90.5% (95% CI: 82.1-95.8). The prevalence of sedentary behavior for television use was 60.7% (95% CI: 49.4-71.1), followed by computer use, 38.1% (95% CI: 27.7- 49.3) and video game use, 11.9% (95% CI: 5.8-20.8). Boys used more video games. Students of the night shift and low economic status had longer computer use. Adolescents who did not work and whose parents studied eight years or less had higher exposure to television use. Conclusion: The prevalence of sedentary behavior based on screen time was high in adolescents from a small town in southern Brazil, and those who studied in the night shift and parents that studied eight years or more were less likely to be exposed to excessive television use
Dispositivo implantável de EUDRAGIR/PCL-T/ Diclofenaco de sódio: caracterização mecânica, liberação do fármaco e atividade anti-inflamatóriain vivo
Authors: Cunha Romilton Crozetta da , Moterle Diego , Cunha Antônio Castelan da , Martinelli Fabrício , Baggio Marcelo , Kanis Luiz A.
Published: September 2016

Modelo do estudo: experimental. Objetivo do estudo: produzir, descrever e avaliar a atividade antiinflamatória de um sistema polimérico implantável contendo diclofenaco de sódio na inflamação aguda induzida por carragenina em um modelo de artrite emjoelho de ratos. Metodologia: Um dispositivo implantável de Eudragit RS 100 e PCL-T (EUDPCL-T) contendo 3.0 mg de diclofenaco de sódio foi produzido. Os dispositivos foram implantados na região peri-articular posterior dos joelhos de ratos induzidos a artrite. Resultados: Após 6 horas e no dia 7 após a indução de artrite, o edema do joelho foi avaliado, e os mediadores inflamatórios, mieloperoxidase (MPO) e óxido nítrico foram analisados. Os resultados foram comparados com a administração oral de 30 mg / kg de diclofenaco de sódio. Conclusões: O dispositivo implantável foi capaz de produzir os mesmos resultados anti-inflamatórios na artrite induzida por carragenina quando comparadoscom o tratamento por via oral, entretanto com doses mais baixas
Comparação da frequência cardíaca em repouso medida usando um monitor cardíaco e um aparelho oscilométrico em adolescentes: análise de sensibilidade e especificidade
Authors: Zanuto Edner F. , Saraiva Bruna C. , Vanderlei Luiz C. M. , Costa Júnior Paulo , Agostinete Ricardo R. , Zanuto Everton A. C. , Fernandes Rômulo A.
Published: September 2016

Desenho do estudo: Estudo experimental Objetivos: avaliar a consistência e eficiência de um aparelho oscilométrico para medir frequência cardíaca em repouso em adolescentes. Métodos: Os dados de adolescentes de ambos os sexos, com idade entre 10 e 15 anos foram analisados. O peso foi medido utilizando uma balança digital e altura, um estadiômetro. Índice de massa corporal foi calculado dividindo-se o peso corporal pela altura ao quadrado. A frequência cardíaca de repouso foi medida com um monitor de frequência cardíaca e um aparelho oscilométrico para medir a pressão arterial. A média e o desvio padrão foram utilizados para descrever as características da amostra. A correlação de Pearson foi usada para examinar a relação entre os dois dispositivos. A reprodutibilidade foi avaliada pelo coeficiente de correlação intraclasse e eficiência pela curva ROC. Resultados: média / alta correlações foram encontrados (r = 0,80) entre o monitor de frequência cardíaca e aparelho oscilométrico. O coeficiente de correlação intraclasse apresentaram valores de 0,88 (0,66-0,96) para as meninas e 0,90 (0,82-0,95) para os meninos. A sensibilidade foi de 70,0 (34,8- 93,3) e 80,4 (28.4- 99.5) e a especificidade de 86,6 (69,3-96,2) e 90,0 (55,5-99,7) para meninos e meninas, respectivamente
Documentaristas brasileiras e as vozes feminina e masculina
Authors: Holanda Karla
Published: September 2016

Após abordar certos aspectos da história do documentário moderno brasileiro, em especial sua relação com autorias femininas, iremos destacar um filme pouco conhecido, A entrevista (1966), de Helena Solberg, e cotejá-lo com documentários recentes, em especial Os dias com ele (2013), de Maria Clara Escobar. Nesse cotejo, serão discutidas as vozes feminina e masculina em documentários feitos por mulheres em dois períodos históricos. Pioneiro ao discutir os conflitos e anseio das mulheres, o primeiro documentário, ao final, retira a voz da mulher e a entrega à assertiva voz masculina. Em documentários mais recentes, as mulheres parecem fazer questão de reafirmar suas vozes.
Overcoming Fear, Denial, Myopia, and Paralysis
Authors: Hathaway Mark D.
Published: September 2016

Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology, Buddhism, and the Beatitudes of Jesus, this paper explores the role emotions play in influencing human responses to the ecological crisis. While political, technological, and economic factors contributing to this crisis are often analyzed, emotional factors tend to be neglected or underestimated. Humans may be suffering from a condition analogous to the “myopia for the future” described by Antonio Damasio which impedes both our perception of the crisis and our response to it. Traditional Buddhist psychology’s analysis of the “three poisons” provides helpful insights into why humans may fail to respond to distressing information. At the same time, emotions have the potential to empower humanity to overcome the interwoven dynamics of denial, despair, and addiction and to facilitate a collective response to the ecological crisis. Joanna Macy has developed an integrated set of interactive, spiritual practices to enable persons to reconnect emotionally to the entire Earth community, overcome both despair and myopia for the future, and take meaningful action to heal the world. The Aramaic version of Matthew’s Beatitudes as interpreted by Neil Douglas-Klotz also models a spiritual process for overcoming despair by working with and through emotions to empower restorative action.
Reformed Theology and the Question of Protestant Individualism
Authors: Butner, Jr. D. Glenn
Published: September 2016

Though Protestantism is all too commonly accused of providing a theology that is too individualistic, there are in fact numerous historical resources from which a decidedly Reformed theology can be developed which is attentive to the social nature of theology. This essay will develop precisely such a theology in dialogue with Henri de Lubac, the Catholic theologian perhaps most aware of the social dimension of Catholic thought. Combined, Heinrich Bullinger’s doctrine of election, John Owen’s understanding of limited atonement, and Abraham Kuyper’s pneumatology provide an adequately social reformed theology that can overcome numerous objections.
The Blumhardts in America
Authors: Collins Winn Christian T.
Published: September 2016

This essay, the first reception history of proto-Pentecostals Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt in Anglo-American literature, charts three phases of reception of the Blumhardts in English-speaking circles. The first phase focused on the healing ministry of the elder Blumhardt, which took place primarily in the nineteenth century. The second phase began in the mid-twentieth century and was devoted especially to introducing the Blumhardts to English-speaking readers. It included attempts by theologians and ethicists to appropriate the Blumhardts for constructive theological purposes. The third phase, currently underway, is marked by scholarly assessment of the Blumhardts in their historical setting and by an effort to translate more of the Blumhardt corpus into English. The conclusion offers unsystematic interpretive observations culled from the reception history itself, with an eye to the future appropriation of the Blumhardts in the English-speaking world.
A Shudder Swept Through Them
Authors: Johnson Andrea Shan
Published: September 2016

Upon hearing that baptism should be administered by immersion while invoking the name of Jesus at the Arroyo Seco camp meeting of 1913, one minister expressed concern that this practice would associate the early pentecostal movement with a man named Sykes. Who Sykes was has been the matter of some mystery, but this research based on archival holdings and newspapers suggests that it was Joshua Sykes, a pacifist preacher who lived in both Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Sykes represents Progressive era controversies in religion and in pacifism, and his history explains some of the early resistance to adopting this particular form of baptism.
Taxonomic status of Pennatula argentina Acuña & Zamponi, 1992 (Cnidaria: Octocorallia)
Authors: PÉREZ C. D. , SILVA B. T.
Published: September 2016

This is a taxonomic study of the species Pennatula argentina Acuña & Zamponi, 1992. The paratype is redescribed with reference to a number of characters: polyps arising directly from the rachis; the presence of polyps in oblique rows; adjacent polyps fused at the base; polyps non-retractile; absence of calyces; absence of sclerites except for minute ovals and circles in the interior of the stalk; and a robust peduncle with prominent bulb. The material is here identified as Anthoptilum grandiflorum (Verrill, 1879). Therefore, Pennatula argentina is considered a junior synonym of Anthoptilum grandiflorum.
Review of the Tertiary microbombyliids (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) in Baltic, Bitterfeld, and Dominican amber
Authors: EVENHUIS NEAL L.
Published: September 2016

The Tertiary amber fossil Mythicomyiidae are reviewed. One genus is described as new: Carmenelectra Evenhuis, gen.n. from Baltic amber; five species are described as new: Glabellula grimaldii Evenhuis, sp.n., Glabellula brunnifrons Evenhuis, sp.n., Mythicomyia dominicana Evenhuis, sp.n., Mythenteles baltica Evenhuis, sp.n., and Carmenelectra shechisme Evenhuis, sp.n. A new genus, Borissovia, gen.n. is described for the Cretaceous species Proplatypygus rohdendorfi Zaitzev. A total of 6 genera and 11 species of Mythicomyiidae are currently known from Tertiary amber. All Tertiary amber species are placed in extant genera except for those in the extinct genera Carmenelectra and Proplatypygus.
A new species of Galendromimus (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Brazil
Authors: ZACARIAS M. S. , DE MORAES G. J. , McMURTRY J. A.
Published: September 2016

Galendromimus multipoculi n. sp. is described based on specimens collected in southeastern Brazil on Inga uruguensis (Mimosaceae). A key is provided to help in the separation of females of the genus Galendromimus Muma, 1961.
Rheophilic water mites from southern Argentina, with the description of one new genus and three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
Authors: SMIT HARRY
Published: September 2016

Water mites from Southern Argentinean streams, from Neuquén Province in the north to Tierra del Fuego Province in the south, were examined. One new genus is described, viz. Andesobates as well as three new species, viz. Anisitsiellides australis, Protolimnesia (Protolimnesia) pampaensis and Andesobates longipalpis. New observations are made for a number of other species, some of these new records representing a considerable range extension. Finally, additional illustrations are provided for Protolimnesia longa Besch.
Enchelycore nycturanus, a new moray eel from South Africa (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae)
Authors: SMITH DAVID G.
Published: September 2016

Enchelycore nycturanus, a new species of moray eel, is described from the east coast of South Africa. It has slightly arched jaws that leave some teeth exposed when the mouth is closed. It has triserial maxillary teeth, biserial mandibular teeth, and its intermaxillary teeth are in five rows. Along with the dentition, its vertebral count (147-148) and its color pattern of white spots on a dark background distinguish it from all other morays. It is known only from the type locality and may be restricted to South Africa.
History and status of the genera Enneanectes and Axoclinus (Teleostei: Blennioidei: Tripterygiidae)
Authors: SMITH DAVID G. , WILLIAMS JEFFREY T.
Published: September 2016

The genus Enneanectes was established by Jordan and Evermann (in Jordan 1895), based on a specimen that was incorrectly identified as Tripterygium carminale Jordan and Gilbert, 1882. Brock (1940) selected Jordan and Evermann’s specimen as the neotype of Tripterygium carminale, thus transferring the name to another species. Subsequent authors have confused the issue further, at various times treating either of two biological species as the type species. We invoke provisions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to recognize Brock’s neotype designation and thus preserve prevailing usage of the genera Enneanectes and Axoclinus.
A new species of sponge-dwelling Elacatinus (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the western Caribbean
Authors: COLIN PATRICK L.
Published: September 2016

A new species of sponge-dwelling goby, Elacatinus lori, is described from Belize and Roatan Island, Honduras. It is distinguished from congeners by a terminal mouth position, thin white lateral stripe from the eye to the caudal peduncle and a thin white bar on the snout. It is the only shallow water sponge-dwelling Elacatinus in the Gulf of Honduras, appears to be endemic to that region, and has a mutually exclusive distribution from its apparent closest relatives.
Brazilian Sesiidae in the collection of the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany (Lepidoptera)
Authors: EICHLIN THOMAS D. , KINNEE SCOTT A.
Published: September 2016

Specimens of Brazilian Sesiidae on loan from the University of Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany (IGUS) were examined, including seven of B. Zukowskys types in the Marten Collection in the IGUS. The types are redescribed and illustrated. Three new species (Carmenta leptosoma sp. nov., C. plaumanni sp. nov. and C. splendens sp. nov.) are described, with adults and genitalic structures illustrated; C. semitrista (Zuk.) is designated a new synonym of angarodes Meyrick; and Carmenta asema is a comb. nov. for Synanthedon asema Zuk.
The Mastogenius Solier, 1849 of North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Polycestinae: Haplostethini)
Authors: BELLAMY C. L.
Published: September 2016

Two new species of Mastogenius Solier, 1849, are described and illustrated: M. arizonicus from the Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona and M. texanus from Brewster and Davis counties, Texas. Extensions to the range of M. puncticollis Schaeffer and M. robustus Schaeffer are given. A key to the haplostethine genera, and a key to and a catalogue of the species of Mastogenius of North America, including Mexico, are given.
Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae)
Authors: MIDDELFART PETER
Published: September 2016

Thirty-three species and seven genera are recognised in Cuninae s.l. (Condylocardiidae) in Australia. Ten species are placed in Cuna Hedley, 1902, five being new (C. deltoides n. sp., C. libbyae n. sp., C. microconcentrica n. sp., C. navicula n. sp. and C. ramus n. sp.). Mimicuna n. gen. is monotypic with one new species (M. cuniformis n. sp.). Three species belong in Crassacuna n. gen. one new: C. crassisculpta n. sp. Ovacuna Laseron, 1953 is monotypic and two species are included in Propecuna Cotton, 1931. Fourteen species are placed in Warrana Laseron, 1953, eight of these new (W. brucemarshalli n. sp., W. flexuosa n. sp., W. lunata n. sp., W. pauciconcentrica n. sp., W. pellucida n. sp., W. punicea n. sp., W. triangulata n. sp. and W. westralis n. sp.). Two species are included in Westaustrocuna n. gen., both new (W. keegani n. sp. and W. albanyensis n. sp.). Several taxa are excluded from Cuninae (and Condylocardiidae). These include: Hamacuna Cotton, 1931 (type species Cuna hamata Hedley & May, 1908), transferred to Carditidae; Hamacuna radiata Laseron, 1953 is synonymised with Carditella elegantula Tate & May, 1901 and transferred to Carditellopsis Iredale, 1936, in Carditidae; Saltocuna Iredale, 1936 (type species Cuna particula Hedley, 1902) is transferred to Lucinidae, and Cuna subrotunda Cotton, 1930 to Numella Iredale, 1924, in Ungulinidae.
A revision of Nearctic species of the genus Tropimenelytron Pace, 1983 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), a new genus for North America
Authors: GUSAROV VLADIMIR I.
Published: September 2016

Nearctic species of the genus Tropimenelytron Pace, 1983, a new genus for North America, are revised. Redescription and illustrations are provided for distinguishing the genus Tropimenelytron from other related aleocharine genera. Three new species are described: T. americanum Gusarov, sp. n., from Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and Quebec; T. robustum Gusarov, sp. n., from Oregon and British Columbia and T. californicum Gusarov, sp. n. from California. A key for identification of Nearctic species of Tropimenelytron is provided. The status of the genus Pelioptera Kraatz, 1957 is discussed. Pelioptera unica (Bernhauer, 1907) from Japan and P. peguana (Bernhauer, 1915) from Burma are transferred to Tropimenelytron.
Pristina trifida sp. nov., a new soil-dwelling microannelid (Oligochaeta: Naididae) from Amazonian forest soils, with comments on species recognition in the genus
Authors: COLLADO RUT , SCHMELZ RÜDIGER M.
Published: September 2016

A new species of the oligochaete genus Pristina (Naididae) is described from Central Amazonian soil and litter samples. Investigations were carried out on living and preserved material, with emphasis on characters of the soft-bodied anatomy as seen in living specimens, including the sexual organs. Regarding the chaetal pattern, Pristina trifida is almost indistinguishable from the syntopic P. silvicola Collado & Schmelz, 2000. Conspicuous differences exist, however, in the presence of a stomach with intracellular canals, in the location of the first nephridium in segment IX, and in details of the male reproductive system such as a large prostate gland and a widening of the distal part of the vas deferens. The new species resembles also a group of taxonomically problematic species, P. sima, P. minuta, and P. osborni, whose synonymy has been assumed by several authors. Pristina trifida differs from this group mainly by smaller needle and ventral chaetae and by equally long teeth in the anterior ventral chaetae. The high similarity in the chaetal pattern between P. trifida and P. silvicola implies that there are more species in Pristina than the chaetae might suggest. It further questions the accuracy of chaetae-based species identifications and synonymizations in the group of P. osborni, P. minuta, and P. sima, and possibly the genus in general.
Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Agrilus ater (Linné), A. biguttatus (Fabricius) and A. subauratus Gebler (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae)
Authors: JENDEK EDUARD
Published: September 2016

A nomenclatural analysis of names cited in synonymy of Agrilus ater (Linné, 1767), A. biguttatus (Fabricius, 1777) and A. subauratus Gebler, 1833 is presented. The availability and status of each name is examined, discussed and an updated list of subspecies and synonyms, both available and unavailable, is given. Agrilus ater jureceki Obenberger, 1924 is considered a junior subjective synonym of A. ater.
Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) types in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford
Authors: STAINES C. L.
Published: September 2016

The Chrysomelidae type specimens in the Hope Entomological Collection, Oxford are documented. The collection contains 102 primary and 86 secondary types.
Peracarid crustaceans from three inlets in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico: new records and range extensions
Authors: CHÁZARO-OLVERA SERGIO , WINFIELD IGNACIO , ORTIZ MANUEL , ÁLVAREZ FERNANDO
Published: September 2016

Four new Gulf of Mexico records and nine geographic range extensions of peracarid crustaceans within the Gulf are presented for the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The new records were obtained from plankton samples collected in the inlets of three Mexican coastal lagoons: Río Soto la Marina, Tamaulipas; Camaronera Lagoon, Veracruz and Términos Lagoon, Campeche. The new records include seven amphipod species (Caprella penantis, Gammaropsis atlantica, Monocorophium insidiosum, Hartmanodes nyei, Metaharpinia floridana, Westwoodilla sp., Parametopella texensis), one cumacean (Cyclaspis sp.) and five isopods (Excorallana berbicensis, Anilocra abudefdufi, Sphaeroma walkeri, Armadilloniscus sp., Erichsonella attenuata).
Wetapolipus jamiesoni gen. nov., spec. nov. (Acari: Podapolipidae), an ectoparasite of the mountain stone weta, Hemideina maori (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) from New Zealand
Authors: HUSBAND ROBERT W. , ZHANG ZHI-QIANG
Published: September 2016

Wetapolipus jamiesoni gen. nov., spec. nov. (Acari: Podapolipidae), ectoparasitic on Heimdeina maori (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae), is described from the Rock and Pillar and St. Mary's Ranges in New Zealand, and compared with other podapolipid mites. This unique genus shows no obvious relation with other genera and is distinguished from other genera by both apomorphic attributes (adult female with 3 pairs of legs, scaled idiosoma, no stigmata, no ambulacra II, III, no ambulacral claws, no idiosomal plates C, D or EF and male with 3 pairs of legs) and plesiomorphic attributes (adult females with prodorsal plate with a full complement of setae (3 pairs represented by sockets only), ventral gnathosomal setae, setae 3a present on coxae III, 3 femora I setae, 3 genua I setae, 2 femora II setae and males with a posterodorsal genital capsule and setae sc 1 ).
A new species of Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) from Panamá
Authors: BREEDY ODALISCA , GUZMÁN HÉCTOR M.
Published: September 2016

Pacifigorgia rubinoffi, a new shallow water species of the family Gorgoniidae from the Pacific Panamá, is described and illustrated. Known from several localities around the Gulf of Chiriquí, it is patchy in distribution, ranging from 1-5 m in depth. The colony is characterized by multiple fans, closed meshwork, lack of distinct midribs, a deep orange color of both colony and sclerites, low occurrence of spindles with acute and bent ends, large asymmetric rods, and the occurrence of barrels. The new species is illustrated in detail with scanning electron micrographs, photomicrographs and color photographs.
Platicrista horribilis, a new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from Mongolia
Authors: KACZMAREK ŁUKASZ , MICHALCZYK ŁUKASZ
Published: September 2016

A new eutardigrade, Platicrista horribilis sp. nov., is described from moss samples collected in Mongolia. This species differs from others of genus Platicrista mainly by having indented lunules on the IV pair of legs.
A new Rakaia species (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) from Otago, New Zealand
Authors: BOYER SARAH L. , GIRIBET GONZALO
Published: September 2016

Rakaia macra sp. nov. is described from three lots of specimens collected by Ray Forster in 1977 from Waipori, Otago, South Island of New Zealand. This species is currently known only from the Waipori area (exact locality unspecified) where it is extremely abundant. Clearly a member of the family Pettalidae, R. macra sp. nov. presents unusual chelicerae, with a conspicuous outer lateral ridge on the second segment, and without the two types of denticles in the mobile digit that characterize the New Zealand pettalids. The relationships between the new species and its closest relatives are discussed, and the distinction between the genera Rakaia and Neopurcellia is questioned.
A new species of the water mite genus Kawamuracarus Uchida from Oman (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
Authors: SMIT HARRY
Published: September 2016

A new hyporheic water mite, Kawamuracarus stocki n. sp. (Limnesiidae), is described from Oman. It is the first record of a water mite from this country.
A revision of the genus Seeversiella Ashe, 1986 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Authors: GUSAROV VLADIMIR I.
Published: September 2016

The Nearctic and Neotropical genus Seeversiella Ashe, 1986 is redescribed. Twenty seven new species of Seeversiella are described (S. texana Gusarov, sp. n. from Texas, S. sonomotoides Gusarov, sp. n. and S. liliputana Gusarov, sp. n. from Arizona, S. fusca Gusarov, sp. n., S. tuberculicauda Gusarov, sp. n., S. nigriceps Gusarov, sp. n. and S. mexicana Gusarov, sp. n. from Mexico, S. castanea Gusarov, sp. n. from Mexico and Honduras, S. grandis Gusarov, sp. n. from Guatemala, S. badia Gusarov, sp. n. and S. minima Gusarov, sp. n. from El Salvador, S. similis Gusarov, sp. n. from Honduras, S. brunnea Gusarov, sp. n., S. curtipennis Gusarov, sp. n., S. lativentris Gusarov, sp. n., S. luridicollis Gusarov, sp. n., S. micralymma Gusarov, sp. n., S. impressicollis Gusarov, sp. n., S. sulcicollis Gusarov, sp. n., S. microphthalma Gusarov, sp. n., S. geostiboides Gusarov, sp. n., S. adusta Gusarov, sp. n., S. flavida Gusarov, sp. n. and S. paramoana Gusarov, sp. n. from Costa Rica, S. scabricollis Gusarov, sp. n. and S. furcativentris Gusarov, sp. n. from Costa Rica and Panama, S. brevipennis Gusarov, sp. n. from Panama). Atheta globicollis Bernhauer, 1907 (distributed from southern Canada to Honduras) is transferred to Seeversiella and redescribed. Seeversiella bispinosa Ashe, 1986 is placed in synonymy with S. globicollis. A key for identification of species of Seeversiella is provided. The lectotype of Atheta globicollis Bernhauer, 1907 is designated. Geographical distribution of Seeversiella is discussed.
Census of “ Microturbellarians” (free-living Platyhelminthes) of the zoogeographical regions originating from Gondwana
Authors: NOREÑA CAROLINA , BRUSA FRANCISCO , FAUBEL ANNO
Published: September 2016

In this study we review microturbellarian species known to occur in zoogeographical regions that originated from Gondwana. The 510 reported species are from all types of aquatic environments (marine, brackish and freshwater). Complete data of the distribution and bibliographical references are provided. In addition, taxonomic discrepancies, as well as new combinations, are clarified. This checklist is the first revised compendium of the microturbellarians of the Gondwanian zoogeographical regions.
Correction to the Buprestidae and Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) listings from Nomina Insecta Nearctica (1996)
Authors: BELLAMY C. L. , WESTCOTT R. L.
Published: September 2016

The errors and omissions from the Nomina Insecta Nearctica listings of Buprestidae and Schizopodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) are corrected. New information is presented for some listings based on taxonomic or nomenclatural changes made after the cut-off date (June, 1994) for that work.
New species of Trichogramma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) associated with lepidopterous eggs in Brazil
Authors: QUERINO R. B. , ZUCCHI R. A.
Published: September 2016

Four new species of Trichogramma are described: Trichogramma bertii n. sp. from Glena sp., a geometrid of silvicultural importance; Trichogramma esalqueanum n. sp. from Mechanitis lysimnia eggs, a minor pest of tomato and Heliconius erato phyllis; Trichogramma iracildae n. sp. from eggs of Calpodes ethlius; and Trichogramma pratissolii n. sp. collected from Anagasta kuehniella trap eggs (factitious host).
New species and records of Copris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeinae) from Central America
Authors: KOHLMANN BERT , CANO ENIO , DELGADO LEONARDO
Published: September 2016

Two new species of Copris Geoffroy from Guatemala and Honduras are described and illustrated: Copris caliginosus sp. nov. and Copris nubilosus sp. nov. Both species are related to C. sallei Harold, which is redescribed and illustrated for the first time. A key for the remotus complex is also included. New distributional records of Copris are provided for five species and subspecies from Guatemala and El Salvador.
New records of the water mite genera Atractides Koch and Sperchon Kramer from the Balkan, with the description of one new species
Authors: PESIC VLADIMIR M.
Published: September 2016

Four water mite species of the genera Atractides and Sperchon (Acari: Hydrachnidia) are reported from Serbia and Crna Gora, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Bulgaria. Sperchon vesnae is described as a new species; first description are given of the female of Atractides longisetus Pesic, 2002; first records from the Balkan peninsula are given of Sperchon longissimus Viets, 1920, and Atractides cf. lunipes Lundblad, 1956. The latter is a rare water mite species previously known only from the French Pyrenees.
Two new species of the genus Orizabus Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from southern and central Mexico
Authors: MORÓN MIGUEL ANGEL , TAPIA ANA MARÍA , ARAGÓN AGUSTÍN
Published: September 2016

Two new Mexican species, Orizabus vulcanicus sp. nov. from Iztaccihuatl volcano (Puebla) and Orizabus dechambrei sp. nov. from the Omilteme mountains (Guerrero), are described. Drawings of the diagnostic structures of the new species and a key to the 14 species now included in the genus are provided.
SEM and systematic studies of Steinernema abbasi Elawad et al., 1997, and S. riobrave Cabanillas et al., 1994 (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae)
Authors: NGUYEN KHUONG B. , ADAMS BYRON J.
Published: September 2016

SEM studies of the two nematodes Steinernema abbasi and S. riobrave revealed that they have two horn-like structures on the labial region similar to those of S. bicornutum, S. ceratophorum, S. pakistanense, and S. thermophilium. The structures were not mentioned in the original descriptions. In addition , S. riobrave has the twelfth pair of genital papillae at the edge of the cloaca. The papillae at this position were reported only in S. scapterisci. The formula of the lateral field pattern of S. abbasi is 2, 6, 8, 7, 6, 2, and that of S. riobrave is 2, 7, 8, 6, 2. Phylogenetic trees from sequences of D2/D3, and ITS regions of Steinernema species show that the four species S. abbasi, S. bicornutum, S. ceratophorum, and S. riobrave comprise a monophyletic group. These relationships support the present morphological studies.
Redescription of the milliped Amphelictogon subterraneus bahamiensis Chamberlin, 1918, with an assessment of the family Chelodesmidae in the Bahamas (Polydesmida: Leptodesmidea)
Authors: SHELLEY ROWLAND M.
Published: September 2016

The milliped Amphelictogon subterraneus bahamiensis Chamberlin, 1918, the only representative of the family Chelodesmidae in the Bahamas and the only one in the New World occurring in part north of the Tropic of Cancer, is recorded from Eleuthera Island in addition to published localities from Andros and Cat Islands, Bahamas, and Cayo Coco, Cuba, where it is common. A redescription in English is provided along with gonopod drawings in medial and lateral views; a female cyphopod is illustrated for the first time. The populations on these three Bahamian islands probably represent isolated fragments of a once continuous population on the Pleistocene “super-island” on Great Bahama Bank, which in turn likely originated through rafting from the area of Cuba that now includes Cayo Coco. Investigations are needed to learn whether the species still survives on Andros, Eleuthera, and Cat islands, and whether additional populations occur on other islands that were once joined in the Pleistocene land mass.
Morphology of the larval mandible and maxilla in the subgenus Carrollia Lutz of Culex L. (Diptera: Culicidae)
Authors: LIRIA JONATHAN , NAVARRO JUAN-CARLOS
Published: September 2016

Larval mouthpart morphology has proven to be an additional taxonomic tool at the subgeneric and generic level in mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the genus Anopheles and some members of the tribe Sabethini. However, little is known about these characters in genus Culex. The present work describes the mouthpart morphology of four species belonging to the recognized groups in the subgenus Carrollia. Five mandibular characters are diagnostic in the subgenus, four on the mandible and one on the maxilla: posterior dorsal tooth (PDT), mandibular comb (MnC), mandibular spiculose area (MSA), postartis (Poa) and dorsal maxillary suture (DMxS). The maxilla offers two characters that allow the separation of the groups proposed by Valencia (1973) for this taxon: seta (4- Mx), Cx. bihaicola and Cx. rausseoi (bihaicola group) is large (0.127-0.159 mm), little sclerotized, not branched and located posterior beyond the laciniarastrum one (LR1), in Cx. iridescens and Cx. urichii (iridiscens group) it is very large (0.203-0.229 mm), strongly sclerotized, branched on the apex and medial to the maxillary body (MxBo).
Two new species of Ascidae (Acarina : Mesostigmata) from India
Authors: BHATTACHARYYA ASIT K.
Published: September 2016

Two new species viz., Lasioseius kshamae and Gamasellodes andhraensis are described and illustrated from India.
Molecular taxonomy of two sympatric sibling species of the pollenbeetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Authors: DE BIASE ALESSIO , ANTONINI GLORIA , MANCINI EMILIANO , AUDISIO PAOLO
Published: September 2016

A molecular analysis was performed, combined with field data on insect/host-plant associations, in order to clarify taxonomic relationships within the W-Palaearctic Meligethes aeneus complex (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Meligethinae). The analysis was focused on the specific distinction of M. aeneus (Fabricius, 1775), and M. gracilis C.Brisout de Barneville, 1863, with special regard to populations occurring in sympatry. The genetic divergence between the two examined taxa, based on comparison between mtDNA sequence data, was congruent with distance values usually scored between related, but evidently separated, insect species. Genetic data and ecological evidence clearly show that Meligethes aeneus and M. gracilis, erroneously synonymized in a recent paper by a Russian author, are distinct biological species that frequently occur in syntopy in Western Europe.
Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) types in the Royal Museum of Scotland Collection
Authors: STAINES C. L. , WHITTINGTON ANDREW E.
Published: September 2016

The types of twenty-three Chrysomelidae species in the Royal Museum of Scotland Collection are documented. Syntypes of Cassida flavicornis Olivier, Cassida guttata Olivier, Cassida humeralis Olivier, Cassida multipunctata Olivier, Cassida variolosa Olivier, Chrysomela atra Olivier, Chrysomela erythrocephala Olivier, Chrysomela ignita Olivier, Chrysomela lepida Olivier, Chrysomela variabilis spartii Olivier, Clytra floralis Olivier, Clytra paradoxa Olivier, Colaspis chrysis Olivier, Colaspis smaragdula Olivier, Donacia vittata Olivier, Doryphora angulata Stål, Galeruca coerulea Olivier, G. plebeja Olivier, Hispa maculata Olivier, H. scutellaris Olivier, Paropsis atomaria Olivier, Sagra splendida Olivier, and the lectotype of Chrysomela quadriguttata Olivier are present.