Trust your guts? The effect of gut section on diet composition and impact of Mus musculus on islands using metabarcoding [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2022., 2022 Research Article1. DNA metabarcoding is widely used to characterize the diet of species, and it becomes very relevant for biodiversity conservation, allowing the understanding of trophic chains and the impact of invasive species.
Gomes, I. +5 more
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A taxonomic synopsis of Heliotropiaceae and new combinations in Heliotropium from Thailand [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2023 A synopsis of Heliotropiaceae in Thailand is presented and, as part of this, the taxonomic history, identification keys, distribution maps, herbarium specimen citations and diagnostic characters are provided.
Chantaranothai, Pranom +1 more
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The challenges of classifying big genera such as Ipomoea [PDF]
TAXON, Volume 72, Issue 6, Page 1201-1215, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Big genera represent a significant proportion of the world's plants. However, comprehensive taxonomic and evolutionary studies of these genera are often complicated by their size and geographic spread. This paper explores the challenges faced in classifying these megadiverse plant groups consequent to the existing tension between ...
Pablo Muñoz‐Rodríguez +5 more
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Roots of Indian heliotrope (Heliotropium indicum) produce simple pyrrolizidine alkaloids using the same homospermidine oxidase involved in biosynthesis of complex pyrrolizidine alkaloids in aerial parts [PDF]
Plant Biology, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 1378-1390, December 2025.Indian heliotrope uses the same oxidase to produce complex pyrrolizidine alkaloid esters in aerial parts and simple pyrrolizidine alkaloids in roots. Abstract Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are toxic specialized metabolites found in several plant lineages with independent evolutionary origins.
M. M. Zakaria, M.‐B. Salewski, D. Ober
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More Choosy for Minor Foods: Diet, Seasonality and Food Selection in Sympatric Frugivorous and Folivorous Lemurs [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2025.Primates are deliberate and intelligent foragers and are presumed to select foods that maximize their fitness, yet little is known about the actual rules of food selection based on the nutritional chemistry of those foods, and less is known about how sympatric primates differ.
Mitchell T. Irwin +6 more
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Environmental heterogeneity influences liana community differentiation across a Neotropical rainforest landscape [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2024.By analyzing liana community variation among land units (LUs) that differ in geomorphology and soil properties along a 640‐ha tropical rainforest landscape in a neotropical reserve, we found strong evidence supporting our hypothesis that environmental heterogeneity, as represented by discrete LUs, promotes differentiation in liana composition across ...
Iván Leonardo Ek‐Rodríguez +4 more
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Indigenous Uses, Phytochemical Analysis, and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants [PDF]
Molecules, 2022 Australian tropical plants have been a rich source of food (bush food) and medicine to the first Australians (Aboriginal people), who are believed to have lived for more than 50,000 years.
Jamtsho, Tenzin +3 more
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Seeing double: two different homospermidine oxidases are involved in pyrrolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis in different organs of comfrey (Symphytum officinale) [PDF]
The Plant Journal, Volume 119, Issue 3, Page 1272-1288, August 2024.SUMMARY Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are toxic specialized metabolites produced in several plant species and frequently contaminate herbal teas or livestock feed. In comfrey (Symphytum officinale, Boraginaceae), they are produced in two different organs of the plant, the root and young leaves. In this study, we demonstrate that homospermidine oxidase (
Mahmoud M. Zakaria +3 more
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Evidence for nonallopatric speciation among closely related sympatric Heliotropium species in the Atacama Desert [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2013 The genetic structure of populations of closely related, sympatric species may hold the signature of the geographical mode of the speciation process.
Hilger, Hartmut H. +3 more
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Pest categorisation of Pyrrhoderma noxium [PDF]
EFSA Journal, Volume 22, Issue 3, March 2024.Abstract Following the commodity risk assessment of bonsai plants (Pinus parviflora grafted on Pinus thunbergii) from China performed by EFSA, the EFSA Plant Health Panel performed a pest categorisation of Pyrrhoderma noxium, a clearly defined plant pathogenic basidiomycete fungus of the order Hymenochaetales and the family Hymenochaetaceae.
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +24 more
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