Zeng, Jia-Lu Chen, Hui-Xia Xu, Hong-Ru Li, Liang
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Parasite
Species of the genus Rhabdias Stiles & Hassall, 1905 are common parasitic nematodes occurring in the lungs of amphibians and reptiles worldwide. In the present study, Rhabdias macrocephalum n. sp. is described using integrated morphological methods (light and scanning electron microscopy) and molecular approaches (sequencing of the nuclear 28S and ...
Gomes-Almeida, Brenda Karolina Diório, Gabriel Félix Costa, Samuel Geremias dos Santos Pepato, Almir Rogério
The family Spinturnicidae (Oudemans, 1902) comprises hematophagous mites found exclusively on bats. In this article, we present DNA barcodes (mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase I) for 71 specimens morphologically assigned to six spinturnicid species from 34 bat specimens (11 species) obtained from 10 caves and one forest fragment in karst areas fro...
Fjelde, Markus Osaland Timdal, Einar Haugan, Reidar Bendiksby, Mika
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Molecular phylogenetics has revolutionized the taxonomy of crustose lichens and revealed an extensive amount of cryptic diversity. Resolving the relationships between genera in the crustose lichen family Tephromelataceae has proven difficult and the taxon limits within the genus Calvitimela are only partly understood. In this study, we tested the m...
Cazabonne, Jonathan Walker, Allison K Lesven, Jonathan Haelewaters, Danny
Fungi are among the least known organisms on earth, with an estimated number of species between 1.5 and 10 million. This number is expected to be refined, especially with increasing knowledge about microfungi in undersampled habitats and increasing amounts of data derived from environmental DNA sequencing. A significant proportion of newly generate...
Irina, Ekimova Schepetov, Dmitry Alexandra, Koinova Ereskovsky, Alexander
In this study, we present the first integrative revision of the Boreal and Arctic calcareous sponges of the genus Leucosolenia with a specific focus on its biodiversity in the White Sea. The material for this work included a combination of newly collected specimens from different regions of the North-East Atlantic and the White Sea and historical m...
Lawrie, Angus D'Arcy Chaplin, Jennifer Kirkendale, Lisa Whisson, Corey Pinder, Adrian Mlambo, Musa C
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Genetic and morphological data have suggested a Gondwanan connection between the three non-marine aquatic gastropod genera Coxiella Smith, 1894, Tomichia Benson, 1851 and Idiopyrgus Pilsbry, 1911. These genera have recently been included in the family Tomichiidae Wenz, 1938, however, further assessment of the validity of this family is warranted. C...
Perrot-Minnot, Marie-Jeanne Cozzarolo, Camille-Sophie Amin, Omar Barčák, Daniel Bauer, Alexandre Filipović Marijić, Vlatka García-Varela, Martín Servando Hernández-Orts, Jesús Yen Le, T T Nachev, Milen
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Parasite (Paris, France)
Bien que l’intérêt pour les acanthocéphales semble n’avoir atteint qu’un petit nombre de chercheurs dans le monde, nous montrons dans cet article que ce groupe de parasites est composé d’excellents organismes modèles pour étudier les questions en suspens en biologie moléculaire et cytogénétique, écologie évolutive et écotoxicologie. Leur ascendance...
Causse, Romain Mennesson, Marion Lord, Clara Keith, Philippe
Freshwater habitats in Indo-Pacific tropical islands are mainly inhabited by amphidromous fish, which display a marine larval phase while the rest of their life cycle takes place in rivers. Gobiidae are the most diversified fish component in these ecosystems. In this study, we focused on the status of the widespread Stenogobius genus (Gobioidei). T...
Qiu, Lifei Dong, Jiangxing Li, Xingan Parey, Sajad H Tan, Ken Orr, Michael Majeed, Aquib Zhang, Xue Luo, Shiqi Zhou, Xuguo
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Zoological research
对东方蜜蜂 Apis cerana Fabricius, 1793的保护迫在眉睫，但仍缺乏切实可行的行动方案。这种广域分布的昆虫同时具有趋同和趋异适应的特征，很大程度上造成了形态表型特征的混淆和亚种分类地位的混乱。模糊的亚种界限危及到蜜蜂保护的基础，如果我们无法明确目标和优先级，就无法保护它们。在该研究中，我们调查了来自东方蜜蜂亚洲大陆支系主要种群的362头工蜂的基因组单碱基核苷酸变异，以解析进化历史是如何塑造其种群结构的。研究基于核基因组 SNPs 初步划分了八个亚种级别的遗传单元，其中七个边缘单元均表现出独立的单系性，并与广域分布的中部单元之间存在显著的遗传分化。同时，我们证明：包括体型大小等性状在内的大部分经典蜜蜂形态特征，都与所属生境的气候特征存在密切关联。此类特征并不能反映种群间真...
Beckmann, Lara M. Soto-Angel, Joan J. Hosia, Aino Martell, Luis
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PeerJ
Knowledge of life histories is crucial for understanding ecological and evolutionary processes, but for many hydrozoan species only incomplete life cycles have been described due to challenges in linking hydromedusae with their polyp stages. Using a combination of DNA barcoding, morphology, and ecological information, we describe for the first time...
