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Comparison of Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Underwater Visual Census for Assessing Macrobenthic Diversity

Biology
The rapid advancement of environmental DNA (eDNA) technology has transformed ecological research, particularly in aquatic ecosystems. However, the optimal sampling matrix (e.g., water or sediment) and the potential for eDNA to replace or complement ...
Zifeng Zhan, Weiwei Huo, Shangwei Xie, Wandong Chen, Xinming Liu, Kuidong Xu, Yanli Lei   +6 more
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Principles for Rigorous Design and Application of Synthetic Microbial Communities

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
SynComs are artificially designed to enable inter‐species metabolic interactions, metabolic division of labor, and ecological interactions that can elicit phenotypes like colonization stability and environmental adaptation. This systematic review explores the processes used to construct SynComs, the assessment of the mechanisms of metabolic interaction
Yuxiao Zhang, Minyu Jing, Lihui Lyu, Li Nie, Xihui Xu, Ru Sun, Xiyuan Xu, Siyu Chen, Shuobing He, Yumeng Zhang, Ping Huang, Weijie Luo, Jiaojiao Liang, Guifeng Gao, Kunkun Fan, Teng Yang, Liyan Zhang, Xiao Fu, Sarah M. Allard, Jack A. Gilbert, Jiabao Zhang, Haiyan Chu   +21 more
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Biodiversity assessment of Yunnan province based on the pressure-state-response model

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Biodiversity is the foundation of human survival, and its accurate assessment is a prerequisite for effective conservation and sustainable use. Most studies only assessed the state of biodiversity, but lacked a comprehensive understanding of the ...
Fang Yu, Fang Yu, Fei Peng, Ze Tang, Guoxia Ma, Guoxia Ma, Xiangyu Xu, Xiwen Zeng, Peipei Guo   +8 more
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How objective are protected area management effectiveness assessments? A case study from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2013
The assessment of protected area management effectiveness was developed out of a genuine desire to improve the way protected areas are managed and reported on, in relation to a formalised set of conservation objectives.
Clinton Carbutt, Peter S. Goodman
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Halorotetin B, A Novel Terpenoid Compound Derived from Marine Ascidian, Suppresses Tumor Growth by Targeting the Cell Cycle Regulator UBE2C

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Halorotetin B, a novel small‐molecule terpenoid identified from an edible marine ascidian, exhibits strong anti‐tumor activity both in vitro and in vivo through direct targeting UBE2C to induce tumor cell cycle arrest and then lead tumor cell senescence. As a newly discovered UBE2C inhibitor, Halorotetin B can serve as a novel potential cell senescence
Shanhao Han, Jianhui Li, Yuting Zhu, Penghui Liu, Yaoyao Zheng, Muchun He, Bo Dong   +6 more
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On the Importance of Contrasts in Taxonomic Diagnoses: A Survey of 405 Newly Described Insect Genera

Insects
Diagnoses are one of the most important ways that taxonomists make new taxa recognisable by others. A recent paper stated that diagnoses for newly described organisms should include both the characteristic(s) of the new taxon (providing state-specificity)
Laurence Packer
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Mechanisms of Aristolochic Acid Resistance in Specialist Butterflies and Evolutionary Insights for Potential Protective Pathways

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The study provides an extreme example of insect adaptation to highly toxic defenses of host plants, and investigates the complex strategies to resist carcinogenic aristolochic acids, including physical isolation, metabolic detoxification, and DNA repair.
Yang Luan, Yubo Zhang, Jingjing Li, Jianqing Zhu, Yuyang Lei, Yushi Hu, Zhenqiang Xin, Tianpei Xie, Jiang Zheng, Yuanyuan Lin, Jingjing Shen, Yiyi Cao, Xinyue You, Jing Xi, Jiaying Wu, Weiying Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Yuanting Zheng, David J. Lohman, Leming Shi, Wei Zhang   +20 more
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Seasonal Dynamics of Phytoplankton Community Structure and Environmental Drivers in the Coastal Waters of the Leizhou Peninsula, China

Diversity
To investigate the seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton community structure and its relationship with environmental factors in the coastal waters of the Leizhou Peninsula, China, surveys were conducted at 21 stations during four seasonal cruises: autumn ...
Jianming Li, Menghan Gao, Bihong Liu, Yingyi Fan, Junyu Wei, Yulei Zhang, Feng Li, Ning Zhang, Zhangxi Hu   +8 more
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Genetic Control of Tissue Remodeling by a Non‐Coding SNP in ITGA8 Explains Carotenoid‐Based Color Polymorphism in Marine Mollusks

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In this study, the orange‐muscle giant abalone (Haliotis gigantea) is used as a model to identify a non‐coding SNP that disrupts the interaction between ITGA8 pre‐mRNA and the splicing factor ILF2, leading to altered ITGA8 splicing. These splicing changes promote carotenoid accumulation in abalone muscle through the regulation of tissue remodeling ...
Xiaohui Wei, Wenzhu Peng, Zekun Huang, Bingye Yang, Yiyu Wu, Minzhen Han, Yi Wang, Bingling Peng, Guosheng Hu, Jiawei Hong, Guijia Liu, Linwei Nie, Yang Gan, Miaoqin Huang, Xuan Luo, Weiwei You, Wen Liu, Caihuan Ke   +17 more
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Monitoring of the eggs of the Karkloof blue butterfly, Orachrysops ariadne, for its conservation management

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2013
The Endangered Orachrysops ariadne (Butler 1898) (Karkloof blue butterfly) is endemic to the Endangered Moist Midlands Grassland in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and is extant at four sites. The results from the monitoring of the eggs laid by O.
Adrian J. Armstrong, Sharon L. Louw
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