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Species delimitation polyphasic approach reveals Meyerella similis sp. nov.: a new species of “small green balls” within the Chlorella-clade (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)
The correct identification of species diversity of small single-celled green coccoid microalgae still causes difficulties, since their relatively...
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What Is Common between Ecology and Nuclear Physics: A Random Matrix Model for the Distribution of Trees in a Stand by Inventory Data
AbstractThe interactions between trees in a forest are manifested in a decrease in phytomass growth and the weakening and disappearance of some...
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Model-Based Analyses Suggest Pleistocene Refugia over Ancient Divergence as Main Diversification Driver for a Neotropical Open-Habitat Treefrog
Studies about diversification of Neotropical open-habitat organisms are scarce, especially in frogs, in which almost all studied species from...
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Development of an In Vitro Model for Inflammation Mediated Renal Toxicity Using 3D Renal Tubules and Co-Cultured Human Immune Cells
Background: The emergence of various infectious diseases and the toxic effects of hyperinflammation by biotherapeutics have highlighted the need for in...
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Delimiting Species with Single-Locus DNA Sequences
DNA sequences are increasingly used for large-scale biodiversity inventories. Because these genetic data avoid the time-consuming initial sorting of...
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Interaction models matter: an efficient, flexible computational framework for model-specific investigation of epistasis
PurposeEpistasis, the interaction between two or more genes, is integral to the study of genetics and is present throughout nature. Yet, it is seldom...
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DNA barcoding in Dorcadionini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) uncovers mitochondrial-morphological discordance and the hybridogenic origin of several subspecies
Dorcadionini is a highly speciose tribe within Cerambycidae and is also one of the most challenging in terms of species identification owing to the...
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Drought-adapted leaves are produced even when more water is available in dry tropical forest
Species in dry environments may adjust their anatomical and physiological behaviors by adopting safer or more efficient strategies. Thus, species...
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West–east diversification model explains pattern phylogeography of the Band-tailed Manakin Pipra fasciicauda
Birds are the vertebrate group most used in studies that attempts to decipher the events that have molded the diversification of the Amazonian biota....
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Quantitatively defining species boundaries with more efficiency and more biological realism
We introduce a widely applicable species delimitation method based on the multispecies coalescent model that is more efficient and more biologically...
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Pheretimoid earthworms of India: new insight from molecular systematics and phylogenetic relationship with new records
Around the world, the spread of pheretimoid earthworm species from Southeast Asia has raised ecological, environmental, and conservation concerns in...
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Land-use effects on leaf-litter breakdown in streams in a tropical lowland catchment
The expansion of oil palm and cattle grazing in the tropics continues to alter numerous ecosystem functions. The generated land-use change is...
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A DNA barcode library for mangrove gastropods and crabs of Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area reveals an unexpected faunal diversity associated with the intertidal forests of Southern China
BackgroundMangroves are tropical and subtropical intertidal forests colonising sheltered coasts across the world. They host a unique faunal...
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Molecular characterization of positively selected genes contributing aquatic adaptation in marine mammals
BackgroundMarine mammals, which have evolved independently into three distinct lineages, share common physiological features that contribute to their...
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Genetic and morphological differentiation among populations of the narrowly endemic and karst forest-adapted Pilea pteridophylla (Urticaceae)
In this study, the influence of geographic isolation on the levels of morphological and genetic differentiation among populations of the karst...
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Pauesia species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) attacking Eulachnini aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Lachninae) on coniferous plants in Lithuania: ecological and mitochondrial COI diversity
Based on the original research data of 2018–2019, ten species of aphid parasitoids of the genus Pauesia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) reared...
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First record of Pheretima vungtauensis (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) in India and its phylogenetic relationship with Metaphire houlleti
We discovered the first record of Pheretima vungtauensis from Manipur, North-eastern Region, India, heretofore only known from Vietnam. Because the...
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DNA Barcoding of Tree Frogs: Testing the Existence of Two Mitochondrial Lineages of Hyla savignyi
AbstractDNA barcoding is a popular approach that can aid in identifying species and has led to the discovery of many new amphibian species. In this...
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Discovering the Genotype
For some decades now, gene map** has challenged the theory linking genotype and environment to phenotype—the mathematical description of the...
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Continuous Time Modeling for Birth and Death Processes
In this chapter, we shall describe the fundamental modeling with the birth-death stochastic process. The idea and concept in such a modeling is very...