Phylogenetic relationships of African Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences [PDF]
Africa (excluding the Seychelles) has a diverse caecilian fauna, including the endemic family Scolecomorphidae and six endemic genera of the more cosmopolitan Caeciliidae.
Mark Wilkinson +14 more
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A reassessment of the phylogenetic position of the family Cobitidae (ostariophysi) [PDF]
PhDThe m. adductor mandibulae of members of the Cobitidae and of representatives of other ostariophysean taxa is dissected and a cladistic analysis of the muscle characters is carried out.
Parshall, Alice Margret
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Phylogenomic analysis reveals extensive phylogenetic mosaicism in the Human GPCR Superfamily [PDF]
A novel high throughput phylogenomic analysis (HTP) was applied to the rhodopsin G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family. Instances of phylogenetic mosaicism between receptors were found to be frequent, often as instances of correlated mosaicism and ...
Allaby, Robin G. +3 more
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Two distinct new species of the ant genus Crematogaster, C. khmerensis sp. nov. and C. pfeifferi sp. nov., are described from Cambodia and Malaysia, respectively.
Shingo Hosoishi, Kazuo Ogata
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The complete chloroplast genome of Swertia tetraptera and phylogenetic analysis
Swertia tetraptera, native to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, is an important traditional Chinese medicine. Although researchers have done a lot of work on it, the phylogenetic position of S. tetraptera within Swertia has still not been solved.
Lucun Yang +5 more
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Three new species of Nigrograna (Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales) associated with Arabica coffee from Yunnan Province, China [PDF]
Coffee is one of the most important cash crops in Yunnan Province, China. Yunnan is ranked as the biggest producer of high-quality coffee in China.
Li Lu +5 more
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The first complete mitogenome of Cervus canadensis nannodes (Merriam, 1905)
Cervus canadensis nannodes (Merriam, 1905) is one of the subspecies of elk distributed only in California, USA. We completed the first mitogenome of C. canadensis nannodes. Its length is 16,428 bp, which is in middle among 24 available Cervus mitogenomes.
Hyo-Jin Kim +6 more
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Partial biological and molecular characterization of Iranian isolates of Tomato aspermy virus [PDF]
Tomato aspermy virus (TAV) has a wide host range and usually infects ornamental plants. To identify and characterize molecular and biological properties of the virus, 436 samples were collected from various provinces of Iran.
Mohammad Madahian, Hossein Masoomi
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Phylogenetic position of the enigmatic termite family Stylotermitidae (Insecta : Blattodea)
Termites are eusocial insects currently classified into nine families, of which only Stylotermitidae has never been subjected to any molecular phylogenetic analysis.
Jan Šobotník +6 more
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Complete chloroplast genome sequence of Fagus hayatae Palib. (Fagaceae)
Complete chloroplast genome (cpDNA) sequence of Fagus hayatae Palib. is yet to be reported, and the phylogenetic position of this species is still under debate. In this study, the complete cpDNA sequence of F. hayatae was determined from Illumina NovaSeq
Chaoyang Jiang +3 more
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