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A new species of <i>Gamasomorpha</i> Karsch, 1881 (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Yunnan Province, China. [PDF]

Biodivers Data J
Yang K, Tong Y, Yang Z.
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Vegetation type mediates how urbanization reshapes the structure, function, and spatial variation of soil food webs

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 956-968, April 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Urbanization represents one of the major anthropogenic alterations of the Earth's surface, with significant impacts on biodiversity and its functions. Soil animals are essential components of biodiversity, and their trophic interactions play integral roles in the ...
Haifeng Yao, Zhipeng Li, Saichao Zhang, Shasha Hu, Huayuan Shangguan, Xin Sun, Anton M. Potapov   +6 more
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Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Size Evolution in the Spider Genus <i>Megaraneus</i> Lawrence, 1968 (Araneae: Araneidae). [PDF]

Insects
Čandek K, Turk E, de Souza Castanheira P, Yu KP, Gregorič M, Framenau VW, Agnarsson I, Kuntner M.   +7 more
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Insects and non‐woody plants slow down tropical forest succession: A community‐wide experiment in Papua New Guinea

Journal of Ecology, Volume 114, Issue 4, April 2026.
The importance of top‐down insect herbivory decreased, while the importance of bottom‐up plant competition with non‐woody plant species increased with elevation, representing a gradient of increasing environmental stress in the succession of woody plants.
Kari Sogera Iamba, Piotr Szefer, Kenneth Molem, Austin Sau, Gibson Maiah, Vojtech Novotny   +5 more
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A Historical Reassessment of the Authorship Year of Brachyteles arachnoides (Primates: Atelidae). [PDF]

Am J Primatol
Serrano-Villavicencio JE, Prado JR.
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring dietary adaptations in Ursus minimus: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis of the mandible

Boreas, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 443-453, April 2026.
Using 3D geometric morphometrics, the dietary adaptations of the extinct Auvergne bear (Ursus minimus) are analysed. Its mandibular morphology aligns more closely with omnivorous rather than insectivorous bears, challenging current ideas. The extinct bear Ursus minimus, which lived in Europe during the Pliocene and possibly Early Pleistocene, is ...
Anneke H. van Heteren
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Mitochondrial and <i>Wolbachia</i> phylogenetics of the introduced Jorō spider, <i>Trichonephila clavata</i> (Araneae: Araneidae) in North America. [PDF]

PeerJ
Russell JE, Mizera N, Brown CG, Chuang A, Coyle DR, Nelsen DR.   +5 more
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A century of theories of balancing selection

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 804-825, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Traits that affect organismal fitness are often highly genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that nature – after all – ‘selects’ the best genotypes at the expense of those that fall short.
Filip Ruzicka, Martyna K. Zwoinska, Debora Goedert, Hanna Kokko, Xiang‐Yi Li Richter, Iain R. Moodie, Sofie Nilén, Colin Olito, Erik I. Svensson, Peter Czuppon, Tim Connallon   +10 more
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One new species of <i>Drapetisca</i> Menge, 1866 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Gele Mountain, Chongqing, China. [PDF]

Biodivers Data J
Shi HX, Liu ZY, Irfan M, Wang LY.
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UITOTO: a software for generating molecular diagnoses for species descriptions

Cladistics, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 193-205, April 2026.
Abstract Millions of species remain undescribed, and each eventually will require a species description with a diagnosis. Yet, we lack software that can derive state‐specific and contrastive molecular diagnoses and allows the user to validate them based on all available sequences for the taxon under study. Here we introduce UITOTO, which addresses this
Ambrosio Torres, Leshon Lee, Amrita Srivathsan, Rudolf Meier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source