Merckelbach, Lucas M Borges, Luísa M S
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Molecular ecology resources
Only a fraction of species found so far has been described, particularly cryptic species uncovered by molecular data. The latter might require the use of molecular data for its diagnosis, but it is important to make use of the diagnostic content of the molecular data itself. The molecular character-based model provides discrete molecular diagnostic...
Morello, Giovanna Salomone, Salvatore D’Agata, Velia Conforti, Francesca Luisa Cavallaro, Sebastiano
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating and fatal neurodegenerative disorder, caused by the degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons for which there is no truly effective cure. The lack of successful treatments can be well explained by the complex and heterogeneous nature of ALS, with patients displaying widely distinct clinical f...
Hofman, Sebastian Rysiewska, Aleksandra Osikowski, Artur Falniowski, Andrzej
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ZooKeys
A new species of Kerkia, K. briani Rysiewska & Osikowski, sp. nov. is described from the spring Polički Studenac Vrelo (Crkvina), adjacent to the Trebišnjica River (Bosnia and Herzegovina) collected with Bou-Rouch technique, pumped from an interstitial habitat 50 cm below the bottom of the spring. The shell, female reproductive organs, and the peni...
Grego, Jozef Mumladze, Levan Falniowski, Andrzej Osikowski, Artur Rysiewska, Aleksandra Palatov, Dimitry M. Hofman, Sebastian
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ZooKeys
The position of the southwestern Caucasus as a stygobiotic Mollusca hotspot is confirmed. Molecular data of stygobiotic gastropods revealed the diversity of subfamily Sadlerianinae Szarowska, 2006, inhabiting the subterranean environment of Georgia. In addition to the well-known endemic genera Pontohoratia Vinarski, Palatov & Glöer, 2014 and Motsam...
Font, Albert Domènech, Montserrat Benítez, Raquel Rava, Marta Marqués, Miriam Ramírez, José L. Pineda, Silvia Domínguez-Rodríguez, Sara Gago, José L. Badal, Josep
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Cancers
Background: Platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) increases the survival of patients with organ-confined urothelial bladder cancer (UBC). In retrospective studies, patients with basal/squamous (BASQ)-like tumors present with more advanced disease and have worse prognosis. Transcriptomics-defined tumor subtypes are associated with response t...
Thinh, B. B. Chac, L. D. Thu, L. T. M.
Background. The term “DNA barcode” is used extensively in molecular taxonomy. Basically, this technique is based on the use of a DNA sequence (about 400–800 bp) as a standard to identify and determine the species relation of organisms quickly and accurately. Therefore, DNA barcodes not only help taxonomists in classifying and identifying species, b...
Johri, Shaili Tiwari, Anjani Kerr, Emma N. Dinsdale, Elizabeth A.
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources
We present the first mitogenome sequence of the Smoothnose Wedgefish, Rhynchobatus laevis obtained through field sequencing on the MinION handheld sequencer. The mitochondrial genome of R. laevis is 16,560 bp in length and consisted of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and a non-coding control region (D-loop). GC content ...
Johri, Shaili Dunn, Nicholas Chapple, Taylor K. Curnick, David Savolainen, Vincent Dinsdale, Elizabeth A. Block, Barbara A.
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources
The Chagos archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) has been lacking in detailed genetic studies of its chondrichthyan populations. Chondrichthyes in Chagos continue to be endangered through illegal fishing operations, necessitating species distribution and abundance studies to facilitate urgent monitoring and conservation of the sp...
Vieira, Christophe Henriques, Filipe D'hondt, Sofie Neto, Ana Almada, Carmen H Kaufmann, Manfred Sansón, Marta Sangil, Carlos Clerck, Olivier De
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Journal of phycology
The brown alga Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) is an important macroalga in the North-eastern Atlantic archipelagos (i.e., Macaronesia). Notably in the Canaries it can dominate benthic assemblages. While the genus has been the subject of several ecological studies in the Canaries, no study has yet been conducted to assess species-level divers...
Chan, Benny K.K. Tsao, Yao Feng Ganmanee, Monthon
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ZooKeys
Abstract Octomeris is a chthamalid intertidal barnacle with eight shell plates. There are currently two species of such barnacles: O. brunnea Darwin, 1854 (type locality in the Philippines), common in the Indo-Pacific region, and O. angulosa Sowerby, 1825, only recorded in South Africa. Octomeris intermedia Nilsson-Cantell, 1921, identified from th...