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A Pentaradial and Bilateral Combined Photoreception System in the Sea Cucumber is Mediated by a Blue Light‐Sensitive R‐Opsin

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota detects blue and adjacent wavelengths of light via an r‐opsin with a maximum absorption at 459 nm. In the oral tentacles, papillae, and tube feet, distinct light‐sensing structures with specialized morphologies are formed, constituting a unique pentaradial and bilateral combined photoreception system.
Jiasheng Huang, Chunhua Ren, Zhou Qin, Yimeng Cui, Bingbing Zhang, Peng Luo, Xuan Wang, Yaoqi Xie, Xin Zhang, Aifen Yan, Yang Zhang, Dingding Fan, Yang Liu, Wenjie Pan, Xiao Jiang, Lihong Yuan, Haipeng Qin, David M. Irwin, Chaoqun Hu, Yang Liu, Ting Chen   +20 more
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Breeding habitat loss linked to declines in Rufous Hummingbirds

Avian Conservation and Ecology
Habitat loss is the primary driver of biodiversity decline worldwide, but it remains unknown how land-cover change and, in general, habitat loss impact many migratory species, such as the Rufous Hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ).
Kendall M Jefferys, Matthew G Betts, W. Douglas Robinson, Jenna R. F. Curtis, Tyler A. Hallman, Adam C Smith, Chloë Strevens, Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez   +7 more
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Iron‐Mediated Release of Aged Dissolved Organic Carbon From Waterlogged Peatland Under Warming

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study conducts a five‐year in situ warming experiment in high‐altitude peatlands to examine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release. The study shows that warming promotes the release of plant‐derived modern DOC in drained peatlands, but amplifies aquatic export of century‐old DOC from waterlogged peatlands via Fe‐mediated DOC mobilization—a ...
Guohua Dai, Zhiying Yang, Zongguang Liu, Wanjia Hu, Lixiao Ma, Enze Kang, Wanqing Luo, Yunpeng Zhao, Chengzhu Liu, Juan Jia, Ting Liu, Chen He, Quan Shi, Jianliang Liu, Yongheng Gao, Huai Chen, Hailong Zhang, Meixun Zhao, Xiaojuan Feng   +18 more
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Habitat connectivity is determined by the scale of habitat loss and dispersal strategy

Ecology and Evolution, 2018
AbstractUnderstanding factors that ameliorate the impact of habitat loss is a major focus of conservation research. One key factor influencing species persistence and evolution is the ability to disperse across increasingly patchy landscapes. Here we ask whether interpatch distance (a proxy for habitat loss) and dispersal strategy can interact to form ...
Allan H. Edelsparre, Ashif Shahid, Mark J. Fitzpatrick   +2 more
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Two Routes to Land: Genomic Underpinnings of Parallel Aerial Egg Deposition in Aquatic Old‐World Pila and New‐World Pomacea (Ampullariidae)

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Comparative genomics of Gondwana‐diverged Pila and Pomacea reveals parallel evolution of aerial oviposition. Convergent chromosomal rearrangements reshape regulatory landscapes within topologically associating domains. Lineage‐specific gene family expansions and viral‐derived perivitelline proteins (PV1) underpin desiccation resistance.
Yufei Zhou, Huawei Mu, Xueying Nie, Yue Gao, Hui Wang, Ling Fang, Tiangang Luan, Monthon Ganmanee, Jian‐Wen Qiu, Jin Sun, Jack Chi‐Ho Ip   +10 more
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Variation in species' dispersal capacities amplifies effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on biodiversity loss

Ecosphere
Habitat loss and fragmentation can have a substantial impact on biodiversity loss. Modeling studies showing these effects generally work under the implicit assumption that all species in the community have equal dispersal capacities.
Monique deJager, Edwin T. Pos
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MFPD: A Multiple Fungal Pathogen Detection Pipeline Across Diverse Habitats

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The MFPD pipeline integrates a comprehensive ITS reference database of fungal pathogens, optimized parameters, and algorithms tailored for both full‐length and subregion sequences that balance accuracy and computational efficiency; it enables high‐throughput, species‐level identification from amplicon sequencing data, supporting large‐scale ...
Yi Shen, Xinrun Yang, Jiabao Yu, Yaozhong Zhang, Tianjie Yang, Yang Gao, Xiaofang Wang, Alexandre Jousset, Waseem Raza, Fang‐Jie Zhao, Qirong Shen, Gaofei Jiang, Zhong Wei, Yangchun Xu   +13 more
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A Foundation Model Based CT Biomarker for Non‐Invasive Prediction of Response to Neoadjuvant Immunochemotherapy in Non‐Small Cell Lung Cancer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study introduces a foundation model‐based biomarker for risk stratification of pathological response in non‐small cell lung cancer. A Vision Mamba super‐resolution model standardizes heterogeneous CT images. A multi‐task Swin Transformer then fine‐tunes a pre‐trained lung foundation model to jointly optimize tumor segmentation and response ...
Yanglan Xu, Shuchang Zhou, Qin Peng, Xiao Bao, Xiaodan Ye, Ahmet Görkem Er, Tong Tong, Mirabela Rusu, Yajia Gu, Mailin Chen, Jing Gong   +10 more
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Specialization in habitat use by coral reef damselfishes and their susceptibility to habitat loss [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2012
AbstractWhile it is generally assumed that specialist species are more vulnerable to disturbance compared with generalist counterparts, this has rarely been tested in coastal marine ecosystems, which are increasingly subject to a wide range of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Habitat specialists are expected to be more vulnerable to habitat loss
Pratchett, Morgan S., Coker, Darren J., Jones, Geoffrey P., Munday, Philip L.   +3 more
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