Five million years in the darkness: A new troglomorphic species of Cryptops Leach, 1814 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) from Movile Cave, Romania. [PDF]
Zookeys, 2020 A new species of Cryptops Leach, 1814, C. speleorexsp. nov., is described from Movile Cave, Dobrogea, Romania. The cave is remarkable for its unique ecosystem entirely dependent on methane- and sulfur-oxidising bacteria. Until now, the cave was thought to be inhabited by the epigean species C. anomalans, which is widespread in Europe.
Vahtera V, Stoev P, Akkari N.
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Life without light: microbial diversity and evidence of sulfur- and ammonium-based chemolithotrophy in Movile Cave [PDF]
ISME Journal, 2009 Abstract Microbial diversity in Movile Cave (Romania) was studied using bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA gene sequence and functional gene analyses, including ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO), soxB (sulfate thioesterase/thiohydrolase) and amoA (ammonia monooxygenase). Sulfur oxidizers from both Gammaproteobacteria
Yin Chen, Liqin Wu, Rich Boden
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Diploures Campodéidés de la Pestera de la Movile (Movile Cave), Dobroudja méridionale (Roumanie) [PDF]
Revue Suisse De Zoologie, 1996 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Bruno Conde
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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 ...
Rodas LR +5 more
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A glimpse into the biosynthetic potential and resistome of microbial communities inhabiting sulfidic, chemoautotrophic Movile Cave ecosystem [PDF]
ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 2022 Background: Microbial secondary metabolites (SM), especially those produced by soil microorganisms, have been a valuable source of antibiotics, antitumor agents, pigments, growth-promoting substances, etc., with tremendous market potential. These molecules are encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) within the bacterial genome.
Chiciudean,Iulia +3 more
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Kryptonesticus georgescuae spec. nov. from Movile Cave, Romania (Araneae: Nesticidae) [PDF]
Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2018 Kryptonesticus georgescuae spec. nov., a blind troglobitic spider species from the mesothermal sulfidic Movile Cave (Romania), is described and illustrated based on two female specimens. The male is unknown. The relationship between this new species and other European species of Nesticidae is discussed.
Nae, Augustin +2 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.
Herczeg G +5 more
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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
Balázs G +4 more
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Comparative Embryology and Transcriptomics of Asellus infernus, an Isopod Crustacean From Sulfidic Groundwater. [PDF]
Evol DevIndividuals of Asellus infernus, a sulfidic subterranean population of the Asellus aquaticus species complex from southeastern Romania (left) and surface individuals of A. aquaticus (right). Extreme differences in phenotype are seen comparing the subterranean and surface individuals as adults (top panels) and as embryonic samples (bottom panels ...
Lomheim HJ +8 more
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Large sulfur oxidizing bacteria of the Thiovulaceae (Campylobacterota) thriving in the sulfidic groundwater of Movile Cave, in Romania [PDF]
ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 2022 Life in Movile Cave (Romania) relies entirely on carbon fixation by bacteria oxidizing sulfide, methane and ammonia, using oxygen, nitrate, sulfate, and ferric iron as electron acceptors. There, our attention was drawn by a white veil-like structure at the water surface.
Traian Brad +11 more
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