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Therapeutic Effects of Psoralea corylifolia and Morus alba Aqueous Extracts on Tetrahymena pyriformis-Infected Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) and Underlying Transcriptomic Mechanisms: Implications for Ciliate Parasite Control

Animals
Tetrahymena pyriformis is biologically similar to Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, the parasite that causes “white spot disease” in fish. Because it has immune evasion genes and grows quickly, T. pyriformis serves as an ideal model for developing treatments
Sitong Li, Pengfei Zhang, Yunhan Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Huan Li, Xuming Pan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Waders in a sea of debris: a global overview

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The impact of plastic pollution on ecosystems and marine fauna is well documented, although research into its effects on waders (also known as shorebirds) remains limited. Given that waders are exposed to coastal marine litter, this exposure could be a significant factor in the decline of their populations. This study aims to assess the global
Yada Trapletti‐Lanti, Mónica Expósito‐Granados, Elizabeth Znidersic, Marga L. Rivas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard, Joshua I. Brian, Wayne Dawson, Petr Dostál, Franz Essl, Michal Gruntman, Tina Heger, Mark van Kleunen, Mialy Razanajatovo, Lena C. Reimann, Frank M. Schurr, Montserrat Vilà, Florencia A. Yannelli, Marina Golivets   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden in the riffles: A new suckermouth catfish (Mochokidae, Chiloglanis) from the middle Zambezi River system, Zimbabwe [PDF]

ZooKeys
The recent surge in the discovery of hidden diversity within rheophilic taxa, particularly in West and East Africa, prompted a closer examination of the extent to which the current taxonomy may obscure the diversity of riffle-dwelling suckermouth ...
Tadiwa I. Mutizwa, Wilbert T. Kadye, Pedro H. N. Bragança, Taurai Bere, Albert Chakona   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling plasmid diversity and functionality in pristine groundwater

Environmental Microbiome
Background Plasmids are key in creating a dynamic reservoir of genetic diversity, yet their impact on Earth’s continental subsurface—an important microbial reservoir—remains unresolved. We analyzed 32 metagenomic samples from six groundwater wells within
Olga María Pérez-Carrascal, Akbar Adjie Pratama, Matthew B. Sullivan, Kirsten Küsel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Multigene Perspective on the Phylogeny and Evolutionary Relationships of Class Spirotrichea (Ciliophora)

Ecology and Evolution
Despite extensive research, evolutionary relationships within the class Spirotrichea remain contentious due to limitations of single‐gene phylogenies and sparse molecular data.
Bailin Li, Chunyu Lian, Yongqiang Liu, Zhongming Wang, Xuming Pan, Li Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A graph neural network approach for aquatic biodiversity prediction leveraging water system interconnections

Ecological Informatics
Rapid climate change and human activity have led to dramatic declines in aquatic biodiversity, which has destabilized ecosystems and accelerated ecological imbalances.
Byeongkeun Kwon, Dain Lee, Hyunjun Ko, Hanbin Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang, Suhyeon Kim   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Himalayan uplift and evolution of aquatic biodiversity across Asia: Snowtrout (Cyprininae: Schizothorax) as a test case. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Regmi B, Douglas MR, Wangchuk K, Zbinden ZD, Edds DR, Tshering S, Douglas ME.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source