Biodegradation Potentials of Aspergillus flavipes Isolated from Uburu and Okposi Salt Lakes

During 1974-1984, Lake Buchanan and seven peripheral pools usually contained water for only a few months each year, commencing in late summer. They ranged in salinity from 1 to 202 g l-1, their waters were dominated by sodium chloride, but with Ca2+/Mg2+ ratios of c. 1, and were generally alkaline. The fauna of 53 species included three halobionts (e.g. Parartemia minuta, Diacypris compacts), 18 halophilics (e.g. Mytilocypris splendida, Trigonocypris globulosa, Microcyclops dengizicus) and many salt- tolerant freshwater forms, mainly insects. Overall, the fauna was distinctly Australian, but some prominent taxa found in southern salt lakes were absent and others were replaced by local endemics and tropical species. Past climatic cycles have probably influenced the composition of the fauna.

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Epicochalasines A and B: Two Bioactive Merocytochalasans Bearing Caged Epicoccine Dimer Units from Aspergillus flavipes

Angewandte Chemie International Edition ◽

10.1002/anie.201511315 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 55 (10) ◽

pp. 3486-3490 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Hucheng Zhu ◽

Chunmei Chen ◽

Qingyi Tong ◽

Xiao-Nian Li ◽

Jing Yang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Aspergillus Flavipes

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Salsolaius gen. nov. a new genus of Apalochrini (Coleoptera, Melyridae, Malachiinae) from the salt Lake Way of Western Australia

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.5082.4.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5082 (4) ◽

pp. 393-400

Author(s):

ZHENHUA LIU ◽

ADAM ŚLIPIŃSKI ◽

HONG PANG

Keyword(s):

Western Australia ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lakes ◽

Male And Female ◽

Male Specific

Apalochrini comprises nearly half of the genera of Australian Melyridae, which are all recognized by male specific characters, and are commonly found on grasses, flowers and riverside or seashore rocks. Here we describe a new genus Salsolaius gen. nov. from Lake Way of Western Australia, representing the first known genus of Australian Melyridae inhabitating in salt lakes. The new genus can be easily distinguished by asymmetrically biserrate antennae and exposed apical abdomen from above in both male and female, the former characters is firstly found in Melyridae. Consequently, Salsolaius biserratus sp. nov. was described as the type species of this genus. An updated key to genera of Australian Apalochrini is provided.

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Flavipucine and Brunnescin, Two Antibiotics from Cultures of the Mycophilic Fungus Cladobotryum rubrobrunnescens

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C ◽

10.1515/znc-1995-5-605 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 50 (5-6) ◽

pp. 358-364 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Christian Wagner ◽

Heidrun Anke ◽

Helmut Besla ◽

Olov Sterner

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Furan Derivative ◽

Submerged Cultures ◽

Cytotoxic Effects ◽

Aspergillus Flavipes ◽

Antimicrobial Metabolites ◽

Agric Biol

Abstract Two antimicrobial metabolites were isolated from submerged cultures of Cladobotryum rubrobrunnescens, a mycophilic fungus growing on a Inocybe species. One of the compounds proved to be identical to flavipucine (2), an antibiotic previously isolated from Aspergillus flavipes (Casinovi et al., 1968) and from a Macrophoma species (Sassa T. and Onuma Y. (1983), Agric. Biol. Chem. 47, 1155-1157). The other metabolite, brunnescin (1), is a new tetrasubstituted furan derivative which exhibits antibacterial, antifungal and cytotoxic effects.

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