Guilliet, J Baudouin, G Pollet, N Filée, J
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BMC ecology and evolution
The Black Soldier Fly (BSF) Hermetia illucens is a cosmopolitan fly massively used by industrial companies to reduce biowaste and produce protein and fat for poultry and aquaculture feed. However, the natural history and the genetic diversity of the BSF are poorly known. Here, we present a comprehensive phylogeny and time tree based on a large data...
Boinot, Sébastien Barkaoui, Karim Mézière, Delphine Lauri, Pierre-Eric Sarthou, Jean-Pierre Alignier, Audrey
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BMC ecology and evolution
Through a meta-analysis, Mupepele et al. (BMC Ecol Evol 21:1-193, 2021) assessed the effects of European agroforestry systems on biodiversity, estimated by species richness or species diversity. They showed that the effects of silvoarable and silvopastoral systems depend on the systems they are compared to and the taxa studied. Further, they found ...
Jasso-Martínez, Jovana M. Quicke, Donald L. J. Belokobylskij, Sergey A. Santos, Bernardo F. Fernández-Triana, José L. Kula, Robert R. Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Mitochondrial (mt) nucleotide sequence data has been by far the most common tool employed to investigate evolutionary relationships. While often considered to be more useful for shallow evolutionary scales, mt genomes have been increasingly shown also to contain valuable phylogenetic information about deep relationships. Further, mt geno...
Durand, Karine Yainna, Sudeeptha Nam, Kiwoong
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BMC ecology and evolution
Recent advancement in speciation biology proposes that genetic differentiation across the whole genome (genomic differentiation, GD) may occur at the beginning of a speciation process and that GD itself may accelerate the rate of speciation. The fall armyworm (FAW, Spodoptera frugiperda) has been used as a model species to study the process of spec...
Akaishi, Tetsuya Fujiwara, Kei Ishii, Tadashi
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
The genome of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) contains many insertions/deletions (indels) from the genomes of other SARS-related coronaviruses. Some of the identified indels have recently reported to involve relatively long segments of 10–300 consecutive bases and with diverse RNA sequences around gaps between virus spe...
Shahnazari, Marzieh Zakipour, Zahra Razi, Hooman Moghadam, Ali Alemzadeh, Abbas
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Na,K-ATPase is a key protein in maintaining membrane potential that has numerous additional cellular functions. Its catalytic subunit (α), found in a wide range of organisms from prokaryotes to complex eukaryote. Several studies have been done to identify the functions as well as determining the evolutionary relationships of the α-subuni...
Holmes, Vaughn Aman, Jacob York, Geneva Kinnison, Michael T
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BMC ecology and evolution
Anadromous rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) have experienced a large range reduction in recent decades and the status of remnant spawning populations is poorly known in Maine, where these fish have significant ecological, cultural, and commercial relevance. Defining the remnant range of anadromous smelt is more difficult than for many declining fish ...
Chen, Jun-Qiong Zhang, Lu-Wen Zhao, Ru-Meng Wu, Hai-Xia Lin, Long-Hui Li, Peng Li, Hong Qu, Yan-Fu Ji, Xiang
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background The metabolic cold-climate adaption hypothesis predicts that animals from cold environments have relatively high metabolic rates compared with their warm-climate counterparts. However, studies testing this hypothesis are sparse. Here, we compared gut microbes between two cold-climate lizard species of the genus Phrynocephalus to see if g...
Silan, Ece Ozkilinc, Hilal
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Phylogenetic analyses for plant pathogenic fungi explore many questions on diversities, relationships, origins, and divergences of populations from different sources such as species, host, and geography. This information is highly valuable, especially from a large global sampling, to understand the evolutionary paths of the pathogens wor...
Bibermair, J. Wood, T. S. Chaichana, R. Schwaha, T.
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background The solely freshwater inhabiting Phylactolaemata is a sister taxon to all other bryozoans. Among phylactolaemates, Lophopodidae represents an early branching clade that is therefore crucial for ground pattern reconstruction. While more recent morphological data of most phylactolaemate families are present, data of lophopodids are scarce....
