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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Oladoyin Grace Famutimi, Isaac Olusanjo Adewale
Summary: Insects fed on cassava leaves showed the highest induction of GST, followed by those fed on bitter leaf. Allelochemicals in food plants may have compensatory toxicity-alleviating actions on one another. The catalytic properties of GST induced by different diets vary, and hindgut seems to be the primary organ of detoxication.
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Pilar Benites, Alejandro Zaldivar-Riveron, Rubi N. Meza-Lazaro, Ernesto Samaca-Saenz, Jorge Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Antonio Hernandez-Lopez
Summary: By analyzing the Sphenarium genus, we identified four undescribed species and found evidence of mitochondrial and nuclear introgression, highlighting the importance of gene flow in speciation.
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
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Evolutionary Biology
Raul Cueva Del Castillo, Miguel Gonzalez-Zertuche, Victor Hugo Ramirez-Delgado
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Sundus Zahid, Ricardo Marino-Perez, Hojun Song
Summary: The grasshopper family Pyrgomorphidae is diverse and colorful, with convergent morphological traits causing conflicts in phylogenetic reconstruction studies. Some morphological characters, previously considered taxonomically important, have evolved convergently across the phylogeny, leading to discrepancies in phylogenies and proposing a natural classification approach.
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Environmental Sciences
Jian Wen, Song-lin Chen, Wen-ya Xu, Guo-dong Zheng, Shu-ming Zou
Summary: With the decrease in freshwater resources, saline-alkaline water aquaculture has become an important method to meet the increasing demand. This study investigates the impact of alkaline water on the growth performance, tissues, digestive enzyme activity, and intestinal microbiology in grass carp. The findings reveal that alkalinity stress adversely affected the growth performance, tissue morphology, intestinal enzyme activity, and composition of intestinal bacteria in grass carp.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
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Entomology
Md Anwar Hossain, Jose J. Lahoz-Monfort, Michael R. Kearney
Summary: The baseline distribution data of grasshoppers in Australia, obtained through extensive surveys conducted over 54 years, provides valuable insights into their historic patterns of species richness, population trends, and extinction. The data, digitized from field notebooks and geocoded using historic maps and Google Earth, revealed spatial variation in species richness, with higher richness in arid interior and northwestern regions. The surveys were non-randomly distributed, with higher intensity along coastal areas. Despite variations among surveyors, this dataset is one of the most comprehensive continent-wide surveys of Australian invertebrates, assisting future research on their ecology, biogeography, conservation, and responses to environmental change.
AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Srinivas Gurram, V. Chinni Preetam, K. Vijaya Lakshmi, M. V. L. N. Raju, M. Venkateswarlu, Swathi Bora
Summary: This study evaluated the synergistic effect of probiotics, chicory root powder, and coriander seed powder on the performance and gut health of broiler chickens. The results showed that these additives in combination significantly improved weight gain and feed conversion ratio, while promoting gut health.
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Soil Science
Yanyu Deng, Xinyue Chen, Xiaodong Yao, Lizheng Dong, Hongjin Zhang, Hui Zeng, Wei Wang
Summary: The decomposition rates of soil organic matter are affected by thermal adaptation, which is related to the average annual temperature of the soil environment. This study found that soil extracellular enzyme activity and its temperature sensitivity were not related to the mean annual temperature in grassland sites. Factors like soil pH, substrates, and texture had a greater influence on the extracellular enzyme activity. The positive correlation between the temperature sensitivity of extracellular enzyme activity and mean annual temperature contradicted the thermodynamic theory.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2022)
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Mulyani Putri Dwi, Nashrurrokhman Muh, Handayani Setya, Ardiansyah Syamsul Arif, Purwestri Yekti Asih
Summary: Bacillus licheniformis from milkfish gut has cellulolytic ability and can potentially be used as a Chlorella cell walls degradation agent for the production of Single-cell proteins. This research identified optimal conditions for the activities of cellulase and hemicellulase enzymes, laying a foundation for the production of single cell proteins using alternative enzymes.
RESEARCH JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Ecology
Shayeb Shahariar, Bobbi Helgason, Raju Soolanayakanahally, Angela Bedard-Haughn
Summary: Changes in groundwater table and salinity can significantly affect extracellular enzyme activities in wetland soils, with differences observed among different land-uses and groundwater depths. However, the impact of groundwater salinity on soil enzyme activities was found to be non-significant.