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Open AccessTurnover of sex chromosomes in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Tropheini (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
Sex chromosome replacement is frequent in many vertebrate clades, including fish, frogs, and lizards. In order to understand the mechanisms responsible for sex chromosome turnover and the early stages of sex c...
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Open AccessReconstructing the post-glacial spread of the sand fly Phlebotomus mascittii Grassi, 1908 (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Europe
Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Phlebotominae) are the principal vectors of Leishmania spp. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae). In Central Europe, Phlebotomus mascittii is the predominant species, but largely u...
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Open AccessCorrection: DNA barcoding of exuviae for species identification of Central European damselflies and dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata)
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Preface: advances in cichlid research V: behavior, ecology, and evolutionary biology
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Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the cichlid genus Hemichromis (Teleostei, Cichliformes, Cichlidae), with description of a new genus and revalidation of H. angolensis
The tribe Hemichromini is an early diverging, mainly Central and West African lineage within the species-rich African cichlid fishes (Cichliformes, Cichlidae) including two genera, Hemichromis Peters 1858 and the...
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Open AccessDNA barcoding of exuviae for species identification of Central European damselflies and dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata)
Monitoring of odonates has become an important instrument for ecological status assessment of (semi-)aquatic habitats. Besides information on presence and abundance, knowledge about a species´ autochthony at t...
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Open AccessSex chromosomes in the tribe Cyprichromini (Teleostei: Cichlidae) of Lake Tanganyika
Sex determining loci have been described on at least 12 of 22 chromosomes in East African cichlid fishes, indicating a high rate of sex chromosome turnover. To better understand the rates and patterns of sex c...
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Open AccessCumulative SARS-CoV-2 mutations and corresponding changes in immunity in an immunocompromised patient indicate viral evolution within the host
Different scenarios explaining the emergence of novel variants of concern (VOC) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been reported, including their evolution in scarcely mon...
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Preface: advances in cichlid research IV: behavior, ecology, and evolutionary biology
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Open AccessCorrection to: An in vitro model for assessment of SARS‑CoV‑2 infectivity by defining the correlation between virus isolation and quantitative PCR value: isolation success of SARS‑CoV‑2 from oropharyngeal swabs correlates negatively with Cq value
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Open AccessAn in vitro model for assessment of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity by defining the correlation between virus isolation and quantitative PCR value: isolation success of SARS-CoV-2 from oropharyngeal swabs correlates negatively with Cq value
At the beginning of the pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), little was known about its actual rate of infectivity and any COVID-19 patient positive in laboratory te...
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Open AccessDiscriminating larvae of two syntopic Cychramus species (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) by means of bar-HRM analysis
Molecular genetic methods are increasingly used to supplement or substitute classical morphology-based species identification. Here, we employ a COI mini-barcode coupled high-resolution melting analysis to qui...
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Open AccessCongruent geographic variation in saccular otolith shape across multiple species of African cichlids
The otoliths of teleost fishes exhibit a great deal of inter- and intra-species shape variation. The ecomorphology of the saccular otolith is often studied by comparing its shape across species and populations...
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Open AccessUncharted digenean diversity in Lake Tanganyika: cryptogonimids (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) infecting endemic lates perches (Actinopterygii: Latidae)
Lake Tanganyika is considered a biodiversity hotspot with exceptional species richness and level of endemism. Given the global importance of the lake in the field of evolutionary biology, the understudied stat...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Phylogeographic patterns of intertidal arthropods (Acari, Oribatida) from southern Japanese islands reflect paleoclimatic events
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessPhylogeographic patterns of intertidal arthropods (Acari, Oribatida) from southern Japanese islands reflect paleoclimatic events
The Japanese islands represent one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. Their geological history and present geography resulted in a high number of endemic species in nearly all major metazoan clades. We inve...
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Preface: advances in cichlid research III: behavior, ecology, and evolutionary biology
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Open AccessOnly true pelagics mix: comparative phylogeography of deepwater bathybatine cichlids from Lake Tanganyika
In the absence of dispersal barriers, species with great dispersal ability are expected to show little, if at all, phylogeographic structure. The East African Great Lakes and their diverse fish faunas provide ...
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Open AccessDelineating species along shifting shorelines: Tropheus (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from the southern subbasin of Lake Tanganyika
Species delineation is particularly challenging in taxa with substantial intra-specific variation. In systematic studies of fishes, meristics and linear measurements that describe shape are often used to delin...
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Open AccessPhylogenomics uncovers early hybridization and adaptive loci sha** the radiation of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes
Lake Tanganyika is the oldest and phenotypically most diverse of the three East African cichlid fish adaptive radiations. It is also the cradle for the younger parallel haplochromine cichlid radiations in Lake...
