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New tardigrade records for the Baltic states with a description of Minibiotus formosus sp. n. (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2014
In sixteen moss, lichen and mixed (moss/lichen) samples, collected from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 291 specimens, 48 simplexes, including one exuvium with 6 eggs, and 8 free-laid eggs of eutardigrades were found.
Krzysztof Zawierucha, Jakub Dziamięcki, Natalia Jakubowska, Łukasz Michalczyk, Łukasz Kaczmarek   +4 more
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An integrative description of Macrobiotus shonaicus sp. nov. (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Japan with notes on its phylogenetic position within the hufelandi group. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Tardigrade research in Japan dates back over 100 years, and to date, 167 species of this ecdysozoan phylum have been reported from the country. Of these species, the Macrobiotus hufelandi complex has been represented only by the nominal taxon of this ...
Daniel Stec, Kazuharu Arakawa, Łukasz Michalczyk   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

An integrative redescription of the nominal taxon for the Mesobiotus harmsworthi group (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) leads to descriptions of two new Mesobiotus species from Arctic. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
The Mesobiotus harmsworthi group has a global distribution, with localities in polar, temperate and tropical zones. Since the first species of the harmsworthi group was described in the beginning of the 20th century, tens of new species within the group ...
Łukasz Kaczmarek, Krzysztof Zawierucha, Jakub Buda, Daniel Stec, Magdalena Gawlak, Łukasz Michalczyk, Milena Roszkowska   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Integrative Redescription of the Minibiotus intermedius (Plate, 1888)—The Type Species of the Genus Minibiotus R.O. Schuster, 1980

Diversity, 2022
In the present study, we used the integrative taxonomy approach to redescribe Minibiotus intermedius based on the newly found topotypic population in Marburg (Germany).
Łukasz Kaczmarek, Pushpalata Kayastha, Milena Roszkowska, Magdalena Gawlak, Monika Mioduchowska   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrative descriptions of two new Macrobiotus species (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from Mississippi (USA) and Crete (Greece) [PDF]

Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2021
In this paper, we describe two new Macrobiotus species from Mississippi (USA) and Crete (Greece) by means of integrative taxonomy. Detailed morphological data from light and scanning electron microscopy, as well as molecular data (sequences of four ...
Matteo Vecchi, Daniel Stec
doaj   +3 more sources

Effects of synthetic acid rain and organic and inorganic acids on survival and CaCO3 piercing stylets in tardigrades

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Volume 339, Issue 6, Page 578-589, July 1, 2023., 2023
Tardigrades species exhibit differential sensitivity to synthetic acid rain and natural occurring acids based on pH, acid nature, exposure duration, and species (freshwater species exhibit greater resistance). Aragonite piercing stylets of feeding apparatus maintain their morphology when tardigrades are exposed to acids.
Edoardo Massa, Lorena Rebecchi, Roberto Guidetti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The wealth of shared resources: Improving molecular taxonomy using eDNA and public databases

Zoologica Scripta, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 226-234, May 2023., 2023
Abstract Public databases such as the NCBI's GenBank have been used as repositories for genomic studies for more than 30 years. In this time, our understanding of the natural world, and especially the genomic world, has expanded vastly, and the size of these databases represent this genomic revolution.
James F. Fleming
wiley   +1 more source

Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

Biological Reviews, Volume 97, Issue 3, Page 1057-1117, June 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground biodiversity and, ultimately, human nutrition. Soil ecologists often operate with functional groups to infer the effects of individual taxa on ecosystem functions and services ...
Anton M. Potapov, Frédéric Beaulieu, Klaus Birkhofer, Sarah L. Bluhm, Maxim I. Degtyarev, Miloslav Devetter, Anton A. Goncharov, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Bernhard Klarner, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Dana F. Liebke, Mark Maraun, Rory J. Mc Donnell, Melanie M. Pollierer, Ina Schaefer, Julia Shrubovych, Irina I. Semenyuk, Alberto Sendra, Jiri Tuma, Michala Tůmová, Anna B. Vassilieva, Ting‐Wen Chen, Stefan Geisen, Olaf Schmidt, Alexei V. Tiunov, Stefan Scheu   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrative Descriptions of Two New Mesobiotus Species (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from Vietnam

Diversity, 2021
To date, 34 tardigrade taxa have been recorded from Vietnam and this includes only two macrobiotid species belonging to the genus Mesobiotus. In this paper, two additional species of this genus, one of the M. harmsworthi group and one of the M.
Daniel Stec
doaj   +1 more source

Integrative taxonomy identifies two new tardigrade species (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Greenland

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020
In this paper we describe Macrobiotus engbergi sp. nov. and Tenuibiotus zandrae sp. nov. from Greenland. Our study has involved both classical taxonomic methods, which include morphological and morphometric analyses conducted with the use of light and ...
Daniel Stec, Denis T. Tumanov, Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source