David L. Garshelis, Karine E. Pigeon, Mei-Hsiu Hwang, Michael F. Proctor et al.
Many wildlife species are threatened in Asia, including the five species of terrestrial bears (Asiatic black, Ursus thibetanus; brown, U. arctos; sloth, Melursus ursinus; sun, Helarctos malayanus; giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca): many populations of these bears are thought to be declining or im...
Shokoofeh Shamsi, Diane P. Barton, Xiaocheng Zhu, David Jenkins
We describe adult males and females and a nymph belonging to Linguatula serrata in Australia, based on light and scanning electron microscopies. In addition, 18S and Cox1 sequence data have also been provided and were compared with similar sequences in GenBank. Our specimens had identical 18S sequen...
Md. Shaheed Reza, Nanami Mizusawa, Ayaka Kumano, Chiharu Oikawa et al.
In an effort to determine genus- or species-level taxonomic profiles and diversity of bacterial consortia in the Tama River around urban Tokyo, next-generation sequencing technology targeting a 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene amplicon was employed. Metagenomic analysis performed by an Ion Personal Gen...
Mizanur Rahman, Kamrun Nahar, Md. Meraj Ali, Nasrin Sultana et al.
In this study, we investigated the effect of long-term pesticides and chemical fertilizers application on the microbial communities specifically anammox and denitrification bacteria in rice field soils. The abundances of microbial communities (16S rDNA), anammox (hszB), and denitrification (narG, ni...
Joana Garrido Nogueira, Ronaldo Sousa, Hassan Benaissa, Geert De Knijf et al.
Theidentification of key biodiversity areas (KBA) was initiated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2004 to overcome taxonomic biases in the selection of important areas for conservation, including freshwater ecosystems. Since then, several KBAs have been identified mainly based...
Dario Zuccon, Julien Brisset, Laure Corbari, Nicolas Puillandre et al.
The sequencing of the crustacean collection of the MNHN, Paris, constitutes a promising yet very challenging barcoding project. For the collection’s crustacean specimens preserved in ethanol, some of which were collected up to 40 years ago, the conventional COI barcoding procedure of amplification w...
Paulo A. V. Borges, Lucas Lamelas-López, Isabel R. Amorim, Anja Danielczak et al.
Azorean volcanic cave biodiversity is under considerable pressure due to ongoing threats of pollution, land use change, touristic activities or climate change. In this contribution, we present the IUCN Red List profiles of 15 cave-adapted arthropod species, endemic to the Azorean archipelago, includ...
Mamun Abdullah Al, Yuanyuan Xue, Peng Xiao, Huihuang Chen et al.
Biological monitoring and assessment are the first and most fundamental steps towards diagnosing ecological or environmental quality. Increasing anthropogenic impact on urban ecosystems has prompted the development of less expensive and more efficient bioassessment approaches. Generally, a morphospe...
Rafał Bernard, Markus Heiser, Axel Hochkirch, Thomas Schmitt
The phylogeographic structures of taiga species often support the hypothesis of East Palaearctic refugia for these taxa, but the phylogeographic structures of northern temperate and southern boreal bog species are still poorly understood. Therefore, we analysed the genetic diversity and differentiat...
Md. Shaheed Reza, Shigeharu Kinoshita, Satoshi Furukawa, Toshitaka Mochizuki et al.
Manuel Rüedi, Uttam Saikia, Adora Thabah, Tamás Görföl et al.
Abstract The systematics status of the constituent species of the M. mystacinus morphogroup in the Himalayan region has long been marred by uncertainty. Lack of integrative studies combining morphological and genetic data from specimens recently collected in this region has hampered our understandin...
Tiffany A. Kosch, María Torres‐Sánchez, H. Christoph Liedtke, Kyle Summers et al.
Amphibians represent a diverse group of tetrapods, marked by deep divergence times between their three systematic orders and families. Studying amphibian biology through the genomics lens increases our understanding of the features of this animal class and that of other terrestrial vertebrates. The ...
Shawan Chowdhury, Sultan Ahmed, Shofiul Alam, Corey T. Callaghan et al.
The expanding use of community science platforms has led to an exponential increase in biodiversity data in global repositories. Yet, understanding of species distributions remains patchy. Biodiversity data from social media can potentially reduce the global biodiversity knowledge gap. However, prac...
Cock van Oosterhout
Genomic data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models will start to play an increasingly important role in conservation biology. In a recent study, Wilder et al. (2023) analysed genomic data from 240 mammal species to predict their extinction risk categories in the Red List of the International Union...
Barbara Barta, Attila Szabó, Beáta Szabó, Robert Ptáčník et al.
Habitat loss and fragmentation are growing global threats to natural habitats and their networks, posing significant challenges to biodiversity conservation. Globally, ponds are sharply declining in number because their small size makes them highly vulnerable to land use changes. While it is general...