“…Subsequent studies on those species (Esteves, Lucey, Wang, & Pires, 2003;Faro, Veríssimo, Lin, Tang, & Pires, 1995;Llorente et al, 2004) confirmed the presence of aspartic proteases in the extracts and similar results were obtained when other species belonging to the same taxonomic group (tribe Cardueae, family Asteraceae) were analyzed as potential milk coagulants (Tamer, 1993;Vairo Cavalli, Claver, Priolo, and Natalucci (2005)). …”