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Contrasting Approaches to the Study of Subterranean Life: Biospeleology and Speleobiology

Acta Carsologica, 2023
The study of subterranean life in general and cave life in particular has been given several names, most especially biospeleology and speleobiology. Historically, biospeleology came first, and signalled that biological study was part of speleology, the ...
David C. Culver, Tanja Pipan
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The role of isolation on contrasting phylogeographic patterns in two cave crustaceans [PDF]

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017
Background The underlying mechanisms and processes that prompt the colonisation of extreme environments, such as caves, constitute major research themes of evolutionary biology and biospeleology.
Jorge L. Pérez-Moreno, Gergely Balázs, Blake Wilkins, Gábor Herczeg, Heather D. Bracken-Grissom   +4 more
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Prefatory Arthropod biospeleology of Robber’s cave of Satara district of Maharashtra

Environment Conservation Journal
The present study aimed to document the preliminary arthropod fauna of the Robber’s Cave. The cavern vertebrate fauna is well documented, but the arthropod fauna has not been documented from the studied cave area.
Pooja Kumar Misal, Sunil Madhukar Gaikwad, Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate   +2 more
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Standing genetic variation as a potential mechanism of novel cave phenotype evolution in the freshwater isopod, Asellus aquaticus. [PDF]

Evol Dev, 2023
An orange eye phenotype, hidden within cave populations (masked by absence of pigment), was uncovered through crossing cave populations with surface populations. A similar orange eye phenotype can be found within surface populations suggesting that orange alleles within the cave populations originated from standing variation in the founding surface ...
Rodas LR, Sarbu SM, Bancila R, Price D, Fišer Ž, Protas M.   +5 more
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Towards evidence-based conservation of subterranean ecosystems. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 2022
ABSTRACT Subterranean ecosystems are among the most widespread environments on Earth, yet we still have poor knowledge of their biodiversity. To raise awareness of subterranean ecosystems, the essential services they provide, and their unique conservation challenges, 2021 and 2022 were designated International Years of Caves and Karst.
Mammola S, Meierhofer MB, Borges PAV, Colado R, Culver DC, Deharveng L, Delić T, Di Lorenzo T, Dražina T, Ferreira RL, Fiasca B, Fišer C, Galassi DMP, Garzoli L, Gerovasileiou V, Griebler C, Halse S, Howarth FG, Isaia M, Johnson JS, Komerički A, Martínez A, Milano F, Moldovan OT, Nanni V, Nicolosi G, Niemiller ML, Pallarés S, Pavlek M, Piano E, Pipan T, Sanchez-Fernandez D, Santangeli A, Schmidt SI, Wynne JJ, Zagmajster M, Zakšek V, Cardoso P.   +37 more
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Genomic Comparisons of Alphacoronaviruses and Betacoronaviruses from Korean Bats [PDF]

Viruses, 2022
Coronaviruses are well known as a diverse family of viruses that affect a wide range of hosts. Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, a variety of bat-associated coronaviruses have been identified in many countries. However, they do not
Van Thi Lo, Sun Woo Yoon, Yong Gun Choi, Dae Gwin Jeong, Hye Kwon Kim   +4 more
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For most of its history, biospeleology has been a poor cousin of the other speleological disciplines

Acta Carsologica, 2020
Our series of interviews with leading karstologists now turns to cave biologist. David Culver, an emeritus professor of environmental science at the American University (Washington DC, USA), talks about his relationship to karst and what subterranean ...
Ivo Lučić
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BIOSPELEOLOGY OF THE MACAREGUA CAVE (COLOMBIA)

Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research, 2016
A description of the findings in an unusual cave in San Gil (Santander, Colombia), infested with histoplasma.
Elizabeth S. Grose, Cornelis J. Marinkelle   +1 more
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Draft Genome Sequence of the Methane-Oxidizing Bacterium "Candidatus Methylomonas sp. LWB" Isolated from Movile Cave. [PDF]

Genome Announc, 2017
We describe the draft genome sequence of “Candidatus Methylomonas sp. LWB” isolated from Movile Cave microbial mat samples. The genome contains both the soluble and particular methane monooxygenase; however, one of the putative particulate methane ...
Stephenson J, Kumaresan D, Hillebrand-Voiculescu AM, Brooks E, Whiteley AS, Murrell JC.   +5 more
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Hypogean Communities as Cybernetic Systems: Implications for the Evolution of Cave Biotas

Diversity, 2020
Ramón Margalef proposed in 1968 that ecosystems could be better understood if they were viewed as cybernetic systems. I tested this hypothesis in the case of hypogean ecosystems using available pieces of evidence. I looked on how information on feedbacks,
Aldemaro Romero
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