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From Mud to Meat: Comparative Metabarcoding Reveals Two Different Evolutionary Paths to Carnivory in a Group of Meiofaunal Annelids

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 22, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Evolutionary transitions to carnivory represent profound shifts in feeding mode that are often accompanied by widespread changes in organismal function, behaviour and ecology. Such transitions have evolved numerous times among animals, and predator–prey interactions have been major drivers of animal evolution.
Joseph M. Mack, Alexandra E. Bely
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A neotype for Pontoscolex corethrurus (Müller, 1857) (Clitellata)

, 2019
James, Samuel W., Bartz, Marie L.C., Stanton, David W. G., Conrado, Ana C., Dupont, Lise, Taheri, Shabnam, Silva, Elodie Da, Cunha, Luís, Brown, George G. (2019): A neotype for Pontoscolex corethrurus (Müller, 1857) (Clitellata).
Brown, George G., Dupont, Lise, James, Samuel W., LUÍS CUNHA, DAVID W. G. STANTON, Dupont, Lise,, Taheri, Shabnam,, Cunha, Luis,, Da Silva, Elodie,, SAMUEL W. JAMES, Bartz, Marie L. C., LISE DUPONT, Stanton, David W. G., Cunha, Luís, SHABNAM TAHERI, Conrado, Ana C., Conrado, Ana C.,, ANA C. CONRADO, GEORGE G. BROWN, Bartz, Marie L.C., James, Samuel W.,, Taheri, Shabnam, Bartz, Marie L. C.,, Stanton, David W. G.,, ELODIE DA SILVA, Silva, Elodie Da, MARIE L.C. BARTZ, Brown, George G.,   +27 more
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Terrestrial invertebrates of the Faroe Islands: V. Earthworms (Lumbricidae): Distribution and habitats

Fauna Norvegica, 1983
Sampling in the summers of 1978 - 1979 in 112 localities on 18 islands in the Faroe group yielded ten species of earthworms. All ten also occur in neighbouring areas (Iceland, the Hebrides, western Norway) with the exception of Octolasiuin lacteum and ...
Pehr H. Enckell, Sten Rundgren
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Metabarcoding Close to Home: Songbird Nests as eDNA Aggregators for Trophic Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.
We present a novel method for extracting eDNA from whole bird nests and a LNA blocking oligonucleotide designed to reduce metabarcoding reads from nest building sparrows. Metabarcoding of 22 nests from a montane sagebrush steppe ecosystem detected 126 species, primarily insects, including putative diet items, ectoparasites, and confirmed nest predators.
John A. Kronenberger, Elise C. Zarri, Anna Noson, Taylor M. Wilcox   +3 more
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Species diversity and distributions of microdrile earthworms (Annelida, Clitellata, Enchytraeidae) from South America

, 2009
Christoffersen, Martin L. (2009): Species diversity and distributions of microdrile earthworms (Annelida, Clitellata, Enchytraeidae) from South America.
Christoffersen, Martin L.
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CRAYFISH EPIBIONTS BRANCHIOBDELLA SP. AND HYSTRICOSOMA CHAPPUISI (ANNELIDA: CLITELLATA) IN GREECE

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2007
Specimens of the three known Greek crayfish species, Astacus astacus (Linnaeus, 1758), Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823 and Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803), were collected from seven localities in Greece and were examined for the ...
SUBCHEV M., KOUTRAKIS E., PERDIKARIS C.
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New earthworm records from Turkey (Clitellata: Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae) [PDF]

Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis, 2017
Elaboration of an earthworm material collected in different parts of Turkey resulted in recording altogether eighteen species and subspecies. The Levantine Dendrobaena orientalis Černosvitov, 1940 was reported for the first time outside the Levant.
Szederjesi, Tímea, Misirlioglu, Mete
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Unveiling Origin Pitfalls in Metagenomic Surveillance for Emerging Infectious Diseases: Parvoviruses as a Model

iMetaMed, Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2025.
A diverse reagent‐associated virome, including parvoviruses, misleads zoonotic surveillance. By leveraging large language models (ChatGPT‐4o), we construct a virus discovery data framework (PVDDC) and ParvoDB to access and correct host misattributions, thereby enhancing the accuracy of metagenomic surveillance for emerging zoonotic diseases.
Peng Zhao, Jie Dong, Hong Liu, Data Research and Curation Team, Ying Xue, Ting Zhang, Hongtao Sui, Yongfeng Hu, Jiang Du, Haoxiang Su, Qi Jin, Fan Yang   +11 more
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Codon usage for aspartic acid in Clitellata mitochondrial genomes.

, 2016
Number of codons present in proteins used to code aspartic acid in Clitellata mitochondrial genomes. Even though all Hirudinea, except for P. lamothei, have a strong bias for the use of the GAT codon, they exclusively code for the trnD gene with a GUC ...
Sebastian Kvist (195777), Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa (195784), Andrés Moya (2203084), Mark E. Siddall (195792), Alejandro Manzano-Marín (128471), Amparo Latorre (88013)   +5 more
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A comparison of mustard, household detergent and formalin as vermifuges for earthworm sampling

Fauna Norvegica
The efficiencies of three vermifuges (household detergent, mustard and formalin) in extracting earthworms were compared in a pasture in western Norway.
Gaute Bø Grønstøl, Torstein Solhøy, Mass Kåre Løyning   +2 more
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