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Monitoring the birds and the bees: Environmental DNA metabarcoding of flowers detects plant–animal interactions

Environmental DNA, Volume 5, Issue 3, Page 488-502, May 2023., 2023
Pollinating species are experiencing declines globally making effective pollinator monitoring methods more important than ever before. Environmental DNA from flowers detects potential insect, bird, and mammal pollinators providing community‐level descriptions for a wide range of flowering plant species.
Joshua P. Newton, Philip W. Bateman, Matthew J. Heydenrych, Joshua H. Kestel, Kingsley W. Dixon, Kit S. Prendergast, Nicole E. White, Paul Nevill   +7 more
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Respiratory sensitization to insect allergens: Species, components and clinical symptoms

Allergology International, 2021
Airborne insect particles have been identified as an important cause of respiratory allergies, including allergic asthma and rhinitis. In the literature, the significance of respiratory exposure to insect particles as a cause of occupational allergy has ...
Yuma Fukutomi, Yuji Kawakami
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Key Elements Affecting the Library’s CFU Concentration in Taiwan

Complexity, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
Public libraries are popular gathering places, so understanding the factors that contribute to colony‐forming unit (CFU) concentrations and how to minimize them is essential. This study aimed to investigate the factors that affect CFU concentrations in a public library, using air sampling (Bioluminescent ATP‐assay) and statistical analysis software ...
Bang-Lee Chang, Han-Kuang Tien, Yong-Jun Lin, Gary Li-Kai Hsiao, Daniele Salvati   +4 more
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Could species‐focused suppression of Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, and Aedes albopictus, the tiger mosquito, affect interacting predators? An evidence synthesis from the literature

Pest Management Science, Volume 78, Issue 7, Page 2729-2745, July 2022., 2022
The risks of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus nuisance and vector‐borne diseases are rising and their ranges are expanding. The studies identified by this extensive review come together to suggest little potential risk of adverse impact of suppressing or eliminating invasive Aedes spp. on their predators and food webs.
Jane AS Bonds, C Matilda Collins, Louis‐Clément Gouagna   +2 more
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Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

Biological Reviews, Volume 97, Issue 3, Page 1057-1117, June 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground biodiversity and, ultimately, human nutrition. Soil ecologists often operate with functional groups to infer the effects of individual taxa on ecosystem functions and services ...
Anton M. Potapov, Frédéric Beaulieu, Klaus Birkhofer, Sarah L. Bluhm, Maxim I. Degtyarev, Miloslav Devetter, Anton A. Goncharov, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Bernhard Klarner, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Dana F. Liebke, Mark Maraun, Rory J. Mc Donnell, Melanie M. Pollierer, Ina Schaefer, Julia Shrubovych, Irina I. Semenyuk, Alberto Sendra, Jiri Tuma, Michala Tůmová, Anna B. Vassilieva, Ting‐Wen Chen, Stefan Geisen, Olaf Schmidt, Alexei V. Tiunov, Stefan Scheu   +25 more
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The multipartite mitochondrial genome of Liposcelis bostrychophila: insights into the evolution of mitochondrial genomes in bilateral animals. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Booklice (order Psocoptera) in the genus Liposcelis are major pests to stored grains worldwide and are closely related to parasitic lice (order Phthiraptera).
Dan-Dan Wei, Renfu Shao, Ming-Long Yuan, Wei Dou, Stephen C Barker, Jin-Jun Wang   +5 more
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New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber

Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 8, Issue 3, May/June 2022., 2022
Abstract Barklice are insects belonging to the order Psocodea. They are herbivorous or detritivorous, and inhabit a wide range of environments. Their oldest fossil record dates back to the late Carboniferous, but it was not until the Cretaceous that they became much more diverse.
Sergio Álvarez‐Parra, Enrique Peñalver, André Nel, Xavier Delclòs, Conrad Labandeira   +4 more
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DNA metabarcoding reveals the importance of gelatinous zooplankton in the diet of Pandalus borealis, a keystone species in the Arctic

Molecular Ecology, Volume 31, Issue 5, Page 1562-1576, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Information about the dietary composition of a species is crucial to understanding their position and role in the food web. Increasingly, molecular approaches such as DNA metabarcoding are used in studying trophic relationships, not least because they may alleviate problems such as low taxonomic resolution or underestimation of digestible taxa
Paulina Urban, Kim Præbel, Shripathi Bhat, Jan Dierking, Owen S. Wangensteen   +4 more
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Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes

Biological Reviews, Volume 97, Issue 1, Page 195-216, February 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Genome stability is a crucial feature of eukaryotic organisms because its alteration drastically affects the normal development and survival of cells and the organism as a whole. Nevertheless, some organisms can selectively eliminate part of their genomes from certain cell types during specific stages of ontogenesis.
Dmitrij Dedukh, Alla Krasikova
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Sexual antagonism in haplodiploids

Evolution, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 292-309, February 2022., 2022
Abstract Females and males may face different selection pressures, such that alleles conferring a benefit in one sex may be deleterious in the other. Such sexual antagonism has received a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention, almost all of which has focused on diploids.
Thomas J. Hitchcock, Andy Gardner, Laura Ross   +2 more
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