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Physiological responses and adaptive mechanisms of amphibians and reptiles to multiple interacting environmental stressors: an integrative review. [PDF]

Front Physiol
Kurnaz M.
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Living Low and Dry: Costs of and Resilience to Soil Hydric Stress in a Fossorial Amphisbaenian Reptile

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Soil drought imposes moderate, temporary costs on a strictly fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. However, these animals seem to cope with, at least, moderately short droughts thanks to their peculiar adaptations to living in an underground environment. ABSTRACT The physiological traits of animals can be strongly influenced by climatic fluctuations, and ...
José Martín, Álvaro Navarro‐Castilla, Alejandro de la Concha, José Javier Cuervo, Isabel Barja, Pilar López   +5 more
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Physicochemical and typological insights into Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti larval habitats in a sub-Saharan African urban gradient setting. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Obame-Nkoghe J, Moudoumi Kondji F, Niangui BG, Ewak Obame R, Ondo Oyono A, Yapet Koumlah N, Yangari P, Longo-Pendy NM, Nkoghe Nkoghe LC, Ngangue MF, Okomo Nguema Y, Mombo LE, Paupy C, Otomo PV, Kengne P.   +14 more
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Hox Gene Variation Drives Morphological Specialization of Humpback Grouper Cromileptes altivelis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Cromileptes altivelis exhibits a distinctive “sunken head and humpback” morphology, formed through cranial remodeling. Genetic analyses identified unique amino acid variants in Hoxa7a and Hoxa10b, with functional tests confirming their role in enhancing osteoblast activity and driving cranial remodeling.
Xiaoying Cao, Zhaowei Zhong, Lisheng Wu, Quanyin Liu, Shaoxiong Ding   +4 more
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Syninclusions reveal "ant mosaic" in the Eocene amber forest. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zharkov DM, Dubovikoff DA, Khaitov VM, Abakumov EV.   +3 more
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Efficient Masked Autoencoder for Birdsong Representation with Applications on Wild Bird Species Classification

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Research on mosquito feeding preferences and the malaria parasites they transmit is essential for understanding the interactions between hosts, vectors, and parasites. In this study, vertebrate hosts were identified in 72 mosquitoes. Most blood meals (58.7%) came from birds, representing 25 species, while 40.0% came from mammals (13 species), and 1.3 ...
Qin Zhang, Shipeng Hu, Hengrui Wang, Jizheng Yi, Guoxiong Zhou, Xiangyu Shen, Weixiong Peng, Zhishu Xiao, Aibin Chen   +8 more
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Ecological Niche Modeling of the Narrow-Range Endangered Endemic <i>Lepidium olgae</i> in Uzbekistan. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Abulfayzov K, Khabibullaev B, Shomurodov K, Beshko N, Sullieva S, Li Y, Fan L.   +6 more
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Extreme Silk Toughness in Caerostris Spiders Is Limited to Adult Females

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We ask whether species with exceptionally tough silk, like Caerostris bark spiders, show different developmental patterns in silk toughness between ontogenetic stages and sexes. We found that only large females produce exceptionally tough silk with higher initial stiffness, while juvenile females as well as adult and juvenile males produce inferior ...
Matjaž Gregorič, Kuang‐Ping Yu, Jeremia Ravelojaona, Todd A. Blackledge, Matjaž Kuntner   +4 more
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<i>Acinetobacter</i> enrichment shapes composition and function of the bacterial microbiota of field-grown tomato plants. [PDF]

mSphere
Robertson S, Mosca A, Ashraf S, Corral A, Alegria Terrazas R, Arnton C, Thorpe P, Morris J, Hedley PE, Babbi G, Savojardo C, Martelli PL, Møller FD, Nielsen HN, Leekitcharoenphon P, Aarestrup FM, Halder R, Laczny CC, Wilmes P, Pietrantonio L, Di Cillo P, Catara V, Abbott J, Bulgarelli D.   +23 more
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Beyond Sexual Selection: Natural Selection Related Camouflage and Thermoregulation Shape Sexual Color Dimorphism in Diploderma Lizards

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Integrating comparative spectrometry, image analysis, and thermal modeling, we reveal that (1) females optimize crypsis via background matching, (2) males prioritize high‐contrast disruptive patterning at a significant thermoregulatory cost (reduced solar heat gain), and (3) habitat‐specific monomorphism in Diploderma slowinskii underscores ecological ...
Yuning Cao, Lin Shi, Yin Qi
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