cellulases; fungu’s cave; solid state fermentation; submerged fermentation; subterranean environment Thus, seeking for new highly efficient cellulose degraders, we here reveal cellulolytic activities ...

Some tick bites can cause Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), making people allergic to red meat and some other mammal products. Three tick species in the U.S. are known to transmit AGS: the lone star tick ...

Ed.: This article first appeared in the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound’s Salish Sea Currents magazine on Oct. 27, 2024, in a seven-part series on shark discoveries. It is republished under Creative ...

Rattlesnakes are venomous reptiles that you should avoid as much as possible. While some species deliver less harmful bites, any rattlesnake bite can turn fatal quickly. Most rattlesnake species have ...

The Lord Howe Long-eared Bat and Christmas Island Pipistrelle are endemic to Lord Howe and Christmas Island respectively. The Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat, Greater Large-eared Horseshoe Bat and Semon's ...

HERE'S THE BACKGROUND — Trap-jaw ants (Odontomachus brunneus) can move their chopstick-like mandibles slowly and dexterously. However, they can also crash their jaws together staggeringly ...

The brown catshark (Apristurus brunneus) is commonly found in the Pacific Ocean, ranging from the northern Pacific waters off the coast of British Columbia and south to the Baja California ...

She belonged, they decided, to the colorfully named “brunneus” group of catsharks, which includes such members as the hoary catshark, the flaccid catshark, the humpback catshark and the milk-eye ...

As well, as part of the seven species of fish found, one of the inaugural kinds to be named in the local Dhivehi language is the rose-veiled fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa). Finifenmaa ...

In 2022, new species of plants and animals were discovered, all of which were already extant but had stayed very well hidden. According to our best estimates, we only know about 10 per cent of ...

The fish, Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa, was named by Ahmed Najeeb, a biologist from the Maldives Marine Research Institute, after the local word for ‘rose’. Subtle physical differences and DNA analyses ...

In March though, an analysis found that this particular swimmer, Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa, is, in fact, its own separate species. Also known as rose-veiled fairy wrasse, these fish vary in their ...