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Extinction Debt Paid Off: The Demise of the European Polecat (Mustela putorius) in NE Iberia

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We studied a vanishing polecat population for a decade, until its ultimate demise, using camera trap and roadkill data, landscape descriptors and dietary and toxicological analyses.Polecat favoured farmland and avoided forests and water bodies occupied by the invasive American mink.
Salvador Salvador, Roger Puig‐Gironès, Xavier Llopart, Santiago Palazón, Miguel Clavero   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chytrid fungi distribution and co-occurrence with diatoms correlate with sea ice melt in the Arctic Ocean

Communications Biology, 2020
Global warming is rapidly altering physicochemical attributes of Arctic waters. These changes are predicted to alter microbial networks, potentially perturbing wider community functions including parasite infections and saprotrophic recycling of ...
Estelle S. Kilias, Leandro Junges, L. Šupraha, G. Leonard, Katja Metfies, T. Richards   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating a structured expert elicitation approach for adaptive conservation management based on lessons from five years in practice

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Adaptive management of threatened species relies on having ex ante estimates of species’ responses to different interventions. Structured expert elicitation is often used to generate these estimates, but comparisons of these expert‐predicted outcomes with observed results are rare.
Helen J. Mayfield, James Brazill‐Boast, Mick Andren, Michiala Bowen, Adam Fawcett, Trent Forge, Luke Foster, Ross Goldingay, Paul Hillier, Meagan Hinds, Simon Lee, Erica Mahon, Martine Maron, Doug Mills, Thomas Rowell, Stephanie Stuart, Caren Taylor, Grant Webster, Nicole A. Hansen   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Auxin response and PIN‐mediated transport in chlorophyte algae

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Like multicellular plants, green algae respond to auxin and move it across their cells. However, their PIN‐like proteins do not act like plant auxin exporters, suggesting that basic auxin transport evolved early and specialized directional transport appeared later in plant evolution.
Adrijana Smoljan, Sarah Koutnik‐Abele, Dmitrii Vladimirtsev, Petr Klíma, Anita Bírošíková, Yuzhou Zhang, Jack Merrin, Maximilian Schuster, Katarina Kurtović, Ulrich Z. Hammes, Jan Petrášek, Jiří Friml   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The actin networks of chytrid fungi reveal evolutionary loss of cytoskeletal complexity in the fungal kingdom

bioRxiv, 2020
Cells from across the eukaryotic tree use actin polymers and a number of conserved regulators for a wide variety of functions including endocytosis, cytokinesis, and cell migration.
Sarah M. Prostak, Kristyn A. Robinson, M. Titus, L. Fritz-Laylin   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of the invasive diatom species Cymbella janischii on riverine microbial biofilm communities and a potential role of bacterially produced zeatin

Journal of Phycology, EarlyView.
Abstract The diatom Cymbella janischii is an invasive species in Japan, causing nuisance blooms by forming thick mats in rivers. To date, there are no documented studies on the microbiome associations in C. janischii mats or the processes that drive bloom formation.
Eldrin D. L. R. Arguelles, Kana Mugikura, Shinya Sato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A lizard acting as carrier of the amphibian-killing chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in southern Brazil

Acta Herpetologica, 2018
Fungal infections are causing widespread population declines and extinctions in all vertebrate classes. Among them, an important fungal disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the pathogenic chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd).
Mariana Pontes, Guilherme Augusto-Alves, Carolina Lambertini, Luís Toledo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overlooked components of lipid metabolism: Odd‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in photosynthetic microorganisms

Journal of Phycology, EarlyView.
Abstract This mini‐review examines odd‐carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids (odd‐PUFAs), a rare but biologically significant group of fatty acids in photosynthetic microorganisms. Odd‐PUFAs are straight‐chain fatty acids containing an odd number of carbon atoms and two or more methylene‐interrupted double bonds. They typically account for less than 1% of
Linda Nedbalová, Milada Vítová, Tomáš Řezanka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validation and justification of the phylum name Cryptomycota phyl. nov.

IMA Fungus, 2011
The recently proposed new phylum name Cryptomycota phyl. nov. is validly published in order to facilitate its use in future discussions of the ecology, biology, and phylogenetic relationships of the constituent organisms.
M.D.M. Jones, T.A. Richards, D.L. Hawksworth, D. Bass   +3 more
doaj  

Occurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the Tensift region, with comments on its spreading in Morocco

Acta Herpetologica, 2019
The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a generalist pathogen that affects many amphibian species and is responsible of chytridiomycosis onset, considered as the main causes of species extinctions and populations declines worldwide. The
Redouane Ait El Cadi, El-Mustapha Laghzaoui, Angelica Crottini, Tahar Slimani, Jaime Bosch, El Hassan EL Mouden   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source