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Marine Invertebrate Xenobiotic-Activated Nuclear Receptors: Their Application as Sensor Elements in High-Throughput Bioassays for Marine Bioactive Compounds

Marine Drugs, 2014
Developing high-throughput assays to screen marine extracts for bioactive compounds presents both conceptual and technical challenges. One major challenge is to develop assays that have well-grounded ecological and evolutionary rationales.
Ingrid Richter, Andrew E. Fidler
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Diversity under a magnifier lens: the case of Typhlotanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) in the N Atlantic

Scientific Reports, 2023
Research focusing on ‘stout-bodied’ typhlotanaids collected from several sites around Iceland and adjacent N Atlantic region has resulted in the description of 15 species new to science, as well as the creation of eight new genera.
Marta Gellert, Magdalena Błażewicz, Tomasz Mamos, Graham J. Bird   +3 more
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Invertebrate extracellular phagocyte traps show that chromatin is an ancient defence weapon

Nature Communications, 2014
Controlled release of chromatin from the nuclei of inflammatory cells is a process that entraps and kills microorganisms in the extracellular environment. Now termed ETosis, it is important for innate immunity in vertebrates.
C. Robb, E. Dyrynda, R. Gray, A. Rossi, V. Smith   +4 more
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Higher Network Activity Induced by Tactile Compared to Electrical Stimulation of Leech Mechanoreceptors

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
The tiny ensemble of neurons in the leech ganglion can discriminate the locations of touch stimuli on the skin as precisely as a human fingertip. The leech uses this ability to locally bend the body-wall away from the stimulus. It is assumed that a three-
Elham Fathiazar, Gerrit Hilgen, Gerrit Hilgen, Jutta Kretzberg, Jutta Kretzberg   +4 more
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A Thesaurus for Soil Invertebrate Trait-Based Approaches

PLoS ONE, 2014
Soil invertebrates are known to be much involved in soil behaviour and therefore in the provision of ecosystem services. Functional trait-based approaches are methodologies which can be used to understand soil invertebrates’ responses to their ...
B. Pey, Marie-Angélique Laporte, J. Nahmani, A. Auclerc, Y. Capowiez, G. Caro, D. Cluzeau, J. Cortet, T. Decaëns, F. Dubs, S. Joimel, Muriel Guernion, C. Briard, F. Grumiaux, Baptiste Laporte, A. Pasquet, C. Pelosi, C. Pernin, Jean-François Ponge, S. Salmon, L. Santorufo, M. Hedde   +21 more
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Octopaminergic modulation of a fly visual motion-sensitive neuron during stimulation with naturalistic optic flow

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013
In a variety of species locomotor activity, like walking or flying, has been demonstrated to alter visual information processing. The neuromodulator octopamine was shown to change the response characteristics of optic-flow processing neurons in the fly’s
Diana eRien, Roland eKern, Rafael eKurtz
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Macrogenetics Approach Reveals Spatial Trends and Drivers of Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity at Different Biological Organization Levels in Tropical Western Atlantic Decapods

Ecology and Evolution
Recent studies explored whether the latitudinal diversity gradient extends to a latitudinal genetic diversity gradient. There is a knowledge gap concerning the genetic diversity distribution across marine invertebrates, and whether the latitudinal ...
Pedro A. Peres, Fernando L. Mantelatto
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Microclimatic Influences on the Abundance of Three Non-Troglobiont Species

Diversity
Subterranean environments are often characterized by a natural gradient of microclimatic conditions and trophic resources, showing a higher trophic availability and a lower microclimatic stability in the shallowest area (close to the cave entrance ...
Luca Coppari, Raoul Manenti, Enrico Lunghi   +2 more
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Editorial: Invertebrate UDP-Glycosyltransferases: Nomenclature, Diversity and Functions

Frontiers in Physiology, 2021
Seung-Joon Ahn, Thomas Chertemps, Martine Maïbèche, Steven J. Marygold, Thomas Van Leeuwen   +4 more
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Thermal Tolerance and Mortality of the Texas Pigtoe (Fusconaia askewi) Under Experimental Conditions

Hydrobiology
Systemic habitat destruction over the last 100 years combined with major anthropogenic stressors such as aquatic contaminants, exotic species, and economic endeavors is driving the decline in freshwater unionid species diversity.
Sara Rumbelow, Marsha Williams, Lance Williams   +2 more
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