Correction: Brad et al. The Chemoautotrophically Based Movile Cave Groundwater Ecosystem, a Hotspot of Subterranean Biodiversity. Diversity 2021, 13, 128 [PDF]
Diversity, 2021 The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
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Species of Oniscidea and Araneae from the Movile Cave drillings
Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie Emile Racovitza, 2009 Dobrogea represents a biogeographic “crossroad” between bioclimatic provinces with a complex character given by the presence of great numbers of Mediterranean, Pontic, Caucasian, etc., elements.
ANDREI GIURGINCA +2 more
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Fauna of Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from the Movile Cave area (Dobrogea, Romania)
Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie Emile Racovitza, 2010 The paper discusses the results of the investigations performed on the oribatid fauna collected from the Movile Cave area. 35 species, belonging to 25 genera and 17 families have been identified; among them 2 genera and 6 species are new for the Romanian
OTILIA IVAN, NICULAI ALEXANDRU VASILIU
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Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie Emile Racovitza, 2020 41 species of Oniscidea are recorded from Dobrogea, a crossroad of the Western, Southern and, especially, Northern and Southern spreading areas: a third of the species are endemic with Southern Dobrogea harboring a quarter of the endemic species ...
ANDREI GIURGINCA, ŞERBAN SÂRBU
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Alveolates (dinoflagellates, ciliates and apicomplexans) and Rhizarians are the most common microbial eukaryotes in temperate Appalachian karst caves. [PDF]
Environ Microbiol Rep, 2022 Summary The purpose of this study was to survey the eukaryotic microbiome of two karst caves in the Valley and Ridge physiographic region of the Appalachian Mountains. Caves are known to harbour eukaryotic microbes but their very low densities and small cell size make them difficult to collect and identify.
Cahoon AB, VanGundy RD.
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Bacterial metabolism of methylated amines and identification of novel methylotrophs in Movile Cave. [PDF]
ISME J, 2015 Abstract Movile Cave, Romania, is an unusual underground ecosystem that has been sealed off from the outside world for several million years and is sustained by non-phototrophic carbon fixation. Methane and sulfur-oxidising bacteria are the main primary producers, supporting a complex food web that includes bacteria, fungi and cave ...
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Standing genetic variation as a potential mechanism of novel cave phenotype evolution in the freshwater isopod, Asellus aquaticus. [PDF]
Evol Dev, 2023 An orange eye phenotype, hidden within cave populations (masked by absence of pigment), was uncovered through crossing cave populations with surface populations. A similar orange eye phenotype can be found within surface populations suggesting that orange alleles within the cave populations originated from standing variation in the founding surface ...
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Draft Genome Sequence of the Methane-Oxidizing Bacterium "Candidatus Methylomonas sp. LWB" Isolated from Movile Cave. [PDF]
Genome Announc, 2017 ABSTRACT We describe the draft genome sequence of “ Candidatus Methylomonas sp. LWB” isolated from Movile Cave microbial mat samples. The genome contains both the soluble and particular methane monooxygenase; however, one of the putative particulate methane monooxygenase gene clusters is ordered
Stephenson J +5 more
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Is foraging innovation lost following colonization of a less variable environment? A case study in surface- vs. cave-dwelling Asellus aquaticus. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 We showed that cave‐adapted freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus did not lose its ability to recognize and even prefer surface food after at least 60,000 years of isolation in the cave . This result suggest that adaptation to a highly specialized and stable habitat does not necessary include a decrease in behavioral innovativeness.
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Parallel morphological evolution and habitat-dependent sexual dimorphism in cave- vs. surface populations of the Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae) species complex. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 Surface‐dwelling species that repeatedly and independently colonized caves such as Asellus aquaticus provide unique models to study parallel evolution. We measured and analyzed 17 functional morphological traits on 656 individuals from 15 cave and surface populations. We found that besides the expected habitat‐related morphological changes habitat type
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