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Isopod mouthpart traits respond to a tropical forest recovery gradient
Functional trait ecology has the potential to provide generalizable and mechanistic predictions of ecosystem function from data of species...
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Interkingdom interaction: the soil isopod Porcellio scaber stimulates the methane-driven bacterial and fungal interaction
Porcellio scaber (woodlice) are (sub-)surface-dwelling isopods, widely recognized as “soil bioengineers”, modifying the edaphic properties of their...
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Homeotic transformation in a terrestrial isopod: insights into the appendage identity in crustaceans
In many crustacean species, an individual possesses both uniramous and biramous appendages that enable us to compare the two types on the same...
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Dissecting the costs of a facultative symbiosis in an isopod living with ants
The balance between costs and benefits is expected to drive associations between species. While these balances are well understood for strict...
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Lack of anti-predator recognition in a marine isopod under the threat of an invasive predatory crab
The prey naïveté hypothesis suggests that the failure of prey to recognize novel predators as a threat is caused by a lack of anti-predator...
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Terrestrial isopod diversity and species-area relations in Tunisian traditional oases
This study investigates the influence of geographical location on the distribution of terrestrial isopods in nine oases in the south of Tunisia. The...
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Genome of a giant isopod, Bathynomus jamesi, provides insights into body size evolution and adaptation to deep-sea environment
BackgroundThe deep-sea may be regarded as a hostile living environment, due to low temperature, high hydrostatic pressure, and limited food and...
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Mothocya kaorui n. sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), a fish-parasitic isopod with unique antennules from the Izu Islands, Japan
A new species of fish-parasitic isopod in the family Cymothoidae is described from the Izu Islands, Japan. Mothocya kaorui n. sp. is reported from...
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Functional and sex-specific dynamics of ectoparasite size evolution in marine isopod–fish interactions: Harrison’s rule and increasing variance
Harrison’s rule, a pattern predicting that the body size of parasites correlates positively with the size of their hosts, is well-supported. However,...
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The terrestrial isopod symbiont ‘Candidatus Hepatincola porcellionum’ is a potential nutrient scavenger related to Holosporales symbionts of protists
The order Holosporales ( Alphaproteobacteria ) encompasses obligate intracellular bacterial symbionts of diverse Eukaryotes. These bacteria have highly...
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History of the terrestrial isopod genus Ligidium in Japan based on phylogeographic analysis
BackgroundPhylogeographical approaches explain the genetic diversity of local organisms in the context of their geological and geographic...
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Evolution and phylogeny of the deep-sea isopod families Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 and Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda: Asellota)
In the deep sea, the phylogeny and biogeography of only a few taxa have been well studied. Although more than 200 species in 32 genera have been...
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Transcriptomic analysis of cave, surface, and hybrid samples of the isopod Asellus aquaticus and identification of chromosomal location of candidate genes for cave phenotype evolution
BackgroundTranscriptomic methods can be used to elucidate genes and pathways responsible for phenotypic differences between populations. Asellus...
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Report on the association of valviferan isopod Synidotea variegata Collinge 1917 and regular sea urchin Stomopneustes variolaris Lamarck, 1816 from rocky subtidal regions of Vizhinjam, southwest coast of India
Association of the idoteid isopod, Synidotea variegata Collinge
1917 with the echinoid sea urchin, Stomopneustes variolaris Lamarck, 1816 is reported...
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A new species of branchial fish parasitic deep-sea isopod, Brucethoa Aneesh, Hadfield, Smit & Kumar, 2020 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from the Indian Ocean, with the transfer of two Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 species
Brucethoa isro n. sp. , a new species of deep-sea cymothoid is described and illustrated from the host fish Spinyjaw greeneye, Chlorophthalmus corniger ...
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Benthos meets plankton: isopods sampled in the Japan Trench by means of plankton nets fixed to large bottom trawls
During the KH-23–5 expedition aboard the RV Hakuho Maru to the Kuril-Kamchatka (KKT) and Japan Trenches (JT) in September 2023, we deployed bottom...
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Seasonal shape variations, ontogenetic shape changes, and sexual dimorphism in a population of land isopod Porcellionides pruinosus: a geometric morphometric study
BackgroundIsopods shape features are sensitive and respond to several selective pressures which may result in variations of these features. These...
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Diversity, distribution and composition of abyssal benthic Isopoda in a region proposed for deep-seafloor mining of polymetallic nodules: a synthesis
Due to the increasing challenge of meeting human demands for metals from land-based resources, interest in extracting mineral ores from the deep sea...
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Habitat degradation drives increased gnathiid isopod ectoparasite infection rate on juvenile but not adult fish
Widespread coral mortality is leading to coral reef degradation worldwide. Many juvenile reef fishes settle on live coral, and their...
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Ecophysiological responses of the desert isopod Hemilepistus reaumurii to the combined effects of thermoperiod and photoperiod
Life in desert ecosystems forces animals to adopt adaptive strategies to cope with severe environmental conditions. Their ability to colonize these...
