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Earthworm, suborder Crassiclitellata, cohort Terrimegadrili (Jamieson, 1988)

EDIS, 2012
Like insects, earthworms are among the animals most frequently encountered by many Floridians. Our kids play with them, dissect them in middle school biology, we fish with them, they crawl across our sidewalks and live in our flowerpots.
William T. Crow
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Earthworms (Clitellata, Megadrili) of the world: an updated checklist of valid species and families, with notes on their distribution [PDF]

, 2023
In the current paper we present an updated checklist of all the megadrile earthworms (Crassiclitellata: Annelida) in the world, and notes on the distribution of families worldwide. Biogeographic responses to geological phenomena including plate tectonics,
BROWN, George, CAMERON, Erin, CSUZDI, Csaba, DECAËNS, Thibaud, JAMES, Samuel, LAPIED, Emmanuel, MISIRLIOĞLU, Mete, PHILLIPS, Helen, REYNOLDS, John, Sekulić, Jovana, STOJANOVIĆ, Mirjana, Trakić, Tanja   +11 more
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Groundwater environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals hidden diversity and reflects land‐use and geology

Molecular Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 13, Page 3497-3512, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Despite being the most important source of liquid freshwater on the planet, groundwater is severely threatened by climate change, agriculture, or industrial mining. It is thus extensively monitored for pollutants and declines in quantity. The organisms living in groundwater, however, are rarely the target of surveillance programmes and little ...
Marjorie Couton, Samuel Hürlemann, Angela Studer, Roman Alther, Florian Altermatt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aliens in caves: the global dimension of biological invasions in subterranean ecosystems

Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 3, Page 849-867, June 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Alien species are a significant threat to natural ecosystems and human economies. Despite global efforts to address this challenge, the documented number of alien species is rapidly increasing worldwide. However, the magnitude of the impact of alien species may vary significantly across habitats.
Giuseppe Nicolosi, Stefano Mammola, Laura Verbrugge, Marco Isaia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parallel duplication and loss of aquaporin‐coding genes during the “out of the sea” transition as potential key drivers of animal terrestrialization

Molecular Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 8, Page 2022-2040, April 2023., 2023
Abstract One of the most important physiological challenges animals had to overcome during terrestrialization (i.e., the transition from sea to land) was water loss, which alters their osmotic and hydric homeostasis. Aquaporins are a superfamily of membrane water transporters heavily involved in osmoregulatory processes.
Gemma I. Martínez‐Redondo, Carolina Simón Guerrero, Leandro Aristide, Pau Balart‐García, Vanina Tonzo, Rosa Fernández   +5 more
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Catch‐All No More: Integrative Systematic Revision of the Genus Allolobophora Eisen, 1874 (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae) with the Description of Two New Relict Earthworm Genera

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
The taxonomy of earthworms has been riddled by instability, lack of systematically useful characters, and lax diagnoses of some genera. This has led to the use of some genera such as Allolobophora Eisen, 1874 as taxonomic wastebaskets, blurring their evolution and biogeographical history.
Alejandro Martínez Navarro, Sergio Jiménez Pinadero, Thibaud Decaëns, Mickaël Hedde, Marta Novo, Dolores Trigo, Daniel Fernández Marchán, Muhammad Muddassir Ali   +7 more
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Vermicast Analysis with the Earthworm Species Pheretima losbanosensis (Crassiclitellata: Megascolecidae): Bacterial Profiles for Potential Applications in Agriculture

Applied Sciences, 2023
In the Philippines, the use of non-native earthworm species in vermicomposting is popular. Given that the country is a vital geographical resource for earthworm diversity, the study of earthworm species to establish the potential of their vermicasts in ...
Maria Reynalen F. Mapile, Nonillon M. Aspe, Marie Christine M. Obusan   +2 more
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Nuevas lombrices de tierra acanthodrilidas de los géneros protozapotecia y trigaster de Cuba (annelida, crassiclitellata) [PDF]

, 2017
Four new Cuban species of the family Acanthodrilidae are described from west (Protozapotecia angelesae sp.nov.), center (Protozapotecia centralis sp.nov., Protozapotecia cubensis sp.nov.) and east (Trigaster setarmata sp.nov.) regions.
Fragoso, Carlos, Rodríguez, Carlos
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Phylogeny of snakes (Serpentes): combining morphological and molecular data in likelihood Bayesian and parsimony analyses [PDF]

, 2007
Copyright © 2007 The Natural history MuseumThe phylogeny of living and fossil snakes is assessed using likelihood and parsimony approaches and a dataset combining 263 morphological characters with mitochondrial (2693 bp) and nuclear (1092 bp) gene ...
Andrew F. Hugall, Barrett M., Bromham L., Bull J.J., Camp C.L., Cope E.D., Cundall D., Cundall D., Dowling H.G., Duméril A.‐M.‐C., Edwards A.F.W., Felsenstein J., Goldman N., Greene H.W., Greene H.W., Heise P.J., Hoffstetter R., Jamieson B.G.M., Jermiin L.S., John D. Scanlon, Jukes T.H., Kluge A.G., McDiarmid R.W., McDowell S.B., Michael S. Y. Lee, Nopcsa F., Rage J.‐C., Rage J.‐C., Rieppel O., Robin Lawson, Ronquist F., Savitzky A.H., Scanlon J.D., Schwenk K., Scotland R.W., Sorenson M., Steel M., Swofford D.L., Thomas R.A., Thompson J., Underwood G., Vidal N., Wallach V., Zaher H., Zaher H.   +44 more
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Phylogenomic analyses reveal a Palaeozoic radiation and support a freshwater origin for clitellate annelids

Zoologica Scripta, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 614-640, September 2020., 2020
Abstract Clitellata is a major clade of Annelida comprising nearly all freshwater and terrestrial annelids as well as several marine species. We investigated clitellate phylogenetic relationships using transcriptomes sampled from 74 taxa (64 clitellates and 10 polychaetes), including multiple representatives of nearly all major clitellate higher taxa ...
Christer Erséus, Bronwyn W. Williams, Kevin M. Horn, Kenneth M. Halanych, Scott R. Santos, Samuel W. James, Michel Creuzé des Châtelliers, Frank E. Anderson   +7 more
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