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The MetaInvert soil invertebrate genome resource provides insights into below-ground biodiversity and evolution
Soil invertebrates are among the least understood metazoans on Earth. Thus far, the lack of taxonomically broad and dense genomic resources has made...
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Comparative mitochondrial genomics in Nematoda reveal astonishing variation in compositional biases and substitution rates indicative of multi-level selection
BackgroundNematodes are the most abundant and diverse metazoans on Earth, and are known to significantly affect ecosystem functioning. A better...
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Marine Peptides and Their Bioactive Potentials: New Horizon for Biotherapeutics
Marine ecosystems act as a reservoir of innumerable novel bioactive compounds by instigating stressful environments. Thus, marine bio-resources have...
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Ecology of predator-induced morphological defense traits in Daphnia longispina (Cladocera, Arthropoda)
Inducible defenses against predators are widespread among plants and animals. For example, some Daphnia species form neckteeth against predatory...
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Water quality criteria derivation and ecological risk assessment for ibuprofen, a common antifever drug in China
Ibuprofen, an extensively consumed antifever drug, has been inevitably recorded in various aquatic environments in China. However, water quality...
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Parasites That Are Important Especially for Humans Endangering Their Health and Life
This chapter gives an overview on the three important groups of human parasites: protozoan organisms, helminths and arthropods. Important parasitic...
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Globale Artenvielfalt und räumliche Muster biologischer Diversität
Kap. 2 gibt einen einführenden Überblick über die globale Vielfalt der auf der Erde vorkommenden Arten sowie über großräumige Verteilungsmuster der...
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Diel variation of plankton in the highly impacted freshwater zone of Hooghly estuary in relation to ecological alteration
Plankton are promising ecological monitoring tool that responds quickly to any sort of aquatic ecological alteration, of which many of them are much...
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“Hidden” biodiversity: a new amphipod genus dominates epifauna in association with a mesophotic black coral forest
Black corals are important components of mesophotic and deep-water marine habitats. Their presence at great depths (e.g., 50 to 200 m) makes...
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Distribution pattern of macrobenthic assemblages along a salinity gradient in the Hangzhou Bay and its adjacent waters
It is widely acknowledged that the distribution of macrobenthos is affected by salinity, but the degree of influence varies in different areas. To...
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Under-ice observations by trawls and multi-frequency acoustics in the Central Arctic Ocean reveals abundance and composition of pelagic fauna
The rapid ongoing changes in the Central Arctic Ocean call for baseline information on the pelagic fauna. However, sampling for motile organisms...
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Introduction to and Importance of Insects
Insects and closely related arthropods are the dominant and most diverse forms of terrestrial and aquatic (non-marine) animal life on the planet....
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Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation – a tardigrade perspective
BackgroundThe advancement of sequencing technologies results in the rapid release of hundreds of new genome assemblies a year providing unprecedented...
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Spatial variation in macrobenthic assemblages and their relationship with environmental factors in the upstream and midstream regions of the Heihe River Basin, China
The Heihe River is a typical inland river under increasing anthropogenic pressure. To explore the characteristics of the macrobenthic assemblages and...
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis
The western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a global invasive species that causes increasing damage by direct...
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Intruder (DD38E), a recently evolved sibling family of DD34E/Tc1 transposons in animals
BackgroundA family of Tc1/mariner transposons with a characteristic DD38E triad of catalytic amino acid residues, named Intruder ( IT ), was...
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A chromosome scale assembly of the tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), genome
ObjectiveThe tarnished plant bug (TPB), Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Hemiptera: Miridae), is a pest damaging many cultivated crops in...
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Cold Seep Macrofauna
In deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, macrofaunal diversity and distribution are determined by geochemical environments generated by fluid seepage....