Conserved Gene Order and Adaptive Evolution in Mitochondrial Genomes of Calappa Crabs: Insights Into Ecological Specialization and Phylogenetic Utility [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionDue to their maternal uniparental inheritance, structural conservation, and heterogeneous substitution rates, mitochondrial genomes are critical molecular markers for elucidating lineage diversification and reconstructing high‐resolution phylogenetic ...
Zhengfei Wang +7 more
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Predicting diet in brachyuran crabs using external morphology [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Morphological traits have often been used to predict diet and trophic position of species across many animal groups. Variation in gut size of closely related animals is known to be a good predictor of dietary habits.
Katia Quezada-Villa +14 more
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The mitogenome of the crab Grapsus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. ResourcesThe mitochondrial genome of Grapsus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765), a rocky shore crab distributed across the Macaronesian archipelagos and the eastern Atlantic, was sequenced and annotated for the first time.
Cátia Alves +9 more
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Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of the Tuerkayana (Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae) Genus Based on Whole Mitochondrial Genome Sequences [PDF]
Biology, 2023 Tuerkayana is of particular interest because it has been separated, in recent years, from Cardisoma and Discoplax but studies of its taxonomic status, especially from a whole mitochondrial genome perspective, have been lacking.
Zhengfei Wang +5 more
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Conserved organ-specific microbial assemblages in different populations of a terrestrial crab [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Microorganisms are ubiquitous in the environment and provide genetic and physiological functions to multicellular organisms. Knowledge on the associated microbiota is becoming highly relevant to understand the host’s ecology and biology.
Giovanni Bacci +14 more
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Phylogenetic relationships of Grapsoidea and insights into the higher phylogeny of Brachyuran
Genomics, 2021 Decapoda is one of the most diverse crustacean orders, and has become an important research subject. However, the phylogenetic relationships among the main lineages of Decapoda remain uncertain, especially in the order Brachyura. Herein, we sequenced the whole mitochondrial genome of V.
Qiu-Ning Liu
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Contrasting population genetic structure of three semi‐terrestrial brachyuran crabs on the coast of the Japanese archipelago [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAnthropogenic activities have reduced ecotones between the ocean and land, which is likely to threaten the population of brackish‐water brachyuran crabs.
Takeshi Yuhara +4 more
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceMangroves are expanding polewards due to global change, often encroaching into adjacent temperate saltmarshes. In both vegetated ecosystems, brachyurans are responsible for ecological processes and functions such as nutrient cycling and sediment ...
Anusha Rajkaran, Nasreen Peer
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Mangrove Rehabilitation and Brachyuran Crab Biodiversity in Ranong, Thailand
DiversityMangroves rehabilitated after deforestation by commercial exploitation must be monitored to confirm that key ecosystem functions are being restored.
Elizabeth C. Ashton, Donald J. Macintosh
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Six new records of decapod crustacean species (Anomura, Brachyura) from southern Brazil
Nauplius, 2023 Five anomuran and one brachyuran species collected from continental shelf and slope off southern Brazil have their geographic ranges considerably extended southward: Neolithodes agassizii (Smith), Paguristes spectabilis McLaughlin and Provenzano, Pagurus
Daniel Lima, Harry Boos, Marcos Tavares
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