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Entomology
Fang-Yu Zhao, Lan Yang, Quan-Xuan Zou, Abid Ali, Shu-Qiang Li, Zhi-Yuan Yao
Summary: Pholcus spiders were found for the first time in the Luliang Mountains of North China, and DNA analyses identified them as nine separate species, eight of which are new to science.
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Environmental Sciences
Luyanda L. Ndlela, Peter Schroeder, Bettina Genthe, Catarina Cruzeiro
Summary: The intensive use of antibiotics has led to the release of large amounts of antibiotic residues into aquatic systems due to inefficient wastewater treatment. Conventional treatments cannot effectively remove emerging contaminants like antibiotics. Algae treatment shows promise as a cost-effective and eco-friendly solution. This study demonstrates the potential of using well-established algal consortia for the removal of antibiotics in wastewater in a developing country context.
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Parasitology
Hui-Xia Chen, Xiao-Hong Gu, Xue-Feng Ni, Liang Li
Summary: Our phylogenetic results suggested that the subfamily Cruziinae should be moved from the hitherto-defined family Kathlaniidae and elevated as a separate family, and the genus Cosmocerca is closely related to the genus Aplectana in the family Cosmocercidae. The present study provided a basic molecular phylogenetic framework for the superfamily Cosmocercoidea based on 18S+28S sequence data for the first time to our knowledge. Moreover, a new species, A. xishuangbannaensis n. sp., was described using integrative approach.
PARASITES & VECTORS
(2021)
Review
Mycology
Ruvishika S. Jayawardena, Kevin D. Hyde, Antonio Roberto Gomes de Farias, Chitrabhanu S. Bhunjun, Himashi S. Ferdinandez, Dimuthu S. Manamgoda, Dhanushka Udayanga, Indunil S. Herath, Kasun M. Thambugala, Ishara S. Manawasinghe, Achala J. Gajanayake, Binu C. Samarakoon, Digvijayini Bundhun, Deecksha Gomdola, Naruemon Huanraluek, Ya-ru Sun, Xia Tang, Itthayakorn Promputtha, Marco Thines
Summary: Scientific names are crucial for communicating knowledge about fungi and fungus-like organisms, especially in the field of plant pathology. While traditional identification of species was based on morphology, there is now a shift towards molecular phylogenetic reconstructions for more accurate species delimitation.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maciej Kocinski, Beata Grzywacz, Georgi Hristov, Dragan Chobanov
Summary: The genus Poecilimon has 145 species, with the Poecilimon ornatus group having the greatest diversity in the Balkans. The study aimed to test the hypotheses of the P. affinis complex within the P. ornatus group using morphological data. Results suggest that male tegmen and male cercus are good morphostructures to distinguish taxa within the P. affinis complex.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Vladislav Susoy, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel
Summary: This study describes a case of behavioral plasticity in the nematode C. elegans. The male performs parallel mating on agar plates, but performs spiral mating in liquid media. Spiral mating improves with experience and does not require long-term environmental changes.
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Engineering, Environmental
Dokyung Kim, Yooeun Chae, Minjin Kim, Youn-Joo An
Summary: This study investigated the impact of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) on the toxicity of boron to the algae species Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Chlorella sorokiniana, and Chlorella vulgaris. C. vulgaris was the least sensitive to boron in the presence of EDTA, while C. reinhardtii and C. sorokiniana exhibited high sensitivity. The chelation of EDTA with micronutrients reduced their availability for uptake by the algae, leading to increased sensitivity to boron. These findings have implications for assessing and managing boron risk in aquatic ecosystems.
JOURNAL OF WATER PROCESS ENGINEERING
(2023)
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Microbiology
Urania Lortou, Emmanuel Panteris, Spyros Gkelis
Summary: Using a polyphasic approach, this study investigated and characterized 18 Chlorophyta isolates. Results revealed the establishment of four new genera and five new species, with some of them being reported for the first time in specific aquatic environments.
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Zoology
Emmanouela Karameta, Petros Lymberakis, Heinz Grillitsch, Cetin Ilgaz, Aziz Avci, Yusuf Kumluta, Kamil Candan, Philipp Wagner, Spyros Sfenthourakis, Panayiotis Pafilis, Nikos Poulakakis
Summary: Situated in the Eastern Mediterranean, the region offers an ideal setting to study the effects of palaeogeography, ecology, and long human presence on animal evolution. The study on Laudakia stellio reveals its high morphological variation and suggests that it represents three distinct evolutionary entities. The research also highlights the role of humans in shaping the present distribution patterns and the importance of specific areas as refugia and diversity hotspots.
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2022)
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Zoology
Gustavo Silva De Miranda, Alessandro P. L. Giupponi, Nikolaj Scharff, Lorenzo Prendini
Summary: This study investigates the phylogeny and biogeography of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae using morphology and multilocus DNA sequences. Charinidae are monophyletic, with Weygoldtia as the sister group to a monophyletic group comprising Charinus and Sarax. The divergence of Charinus and Sarax coincides with the fragmentation of Pangaea.
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2022)
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
R. Derya Gelgor, Duygu Ozcelik, Berat Zeki Haznedaroglu
Summary: This study investigated the effects of baking on Chlorella vulgaris, and the results showed that the baking process had minimal impact on the main biochemical components and water-soluble vitamins of Chlorella vulgaris. Therefore, Chlorella vulgaris can be considered as an additive for functional food recipes with short baking durations.
ALGAL RESEARCH-BIOMASS BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS
(2022)
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Mycology
Malka Saba, Abdul Nasir Khalid, Samina Sarwar
Summary: This study investigated six species of Mallocybe from Pakistan using morphological and phylogenetic methods. Two new species, M. pakistanica and M. pinicola, were discovered and described. The study also included morphological comparisons with closely-related taxa and provided a key for identifying Mallocybe species in Pakistan.
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Genetics & Heredity
Shantanu Kundu, Manokaran Kamalakannan, Ah Ran Kim, Vishwanath D. Hegde, Dhriti Banerjee, Won-Kyo Jung, Young-Mog Kim, Hyun-Woo Kim
Summary: The current study reevaluates the systematic status of Suncus niger from its original distribution in Southern India using morphology and mitochondrial genetic data. It confirms S. niger as a distinct species and adds new range extension and elevation records in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. The study highlights the importance of further genomic studies to understand the evolutionary trend of Soricomorphs.
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Plant Sciences
Itziar Arnelas, Ernesto Perez-Collazos, Josefa Lopez-Martinez, Juan Antonio Devesa, Pilar Catalan
Summary: This study examines the systematic value of carpological traits in the taxonomically complex genus Valerianella. The results show that these traits are useful in classifying the genus at higher taxonomic ranks, but not at the species level for certain species pairs. Genetic data support the taxonomic classification at the sectional level, but reveal admixture for some species pairs. The study also describes a new section within the genus to accommodate a highly divergent species.
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Plant Sciences
Bruna Ladeira Lau, Joao Aguiar Nogueira Batista, Antonio Massensini Junior, W. Mark Whitten, Eduardo Leite Borba
Summary: This study investigated the morphological and genetic relationships within the species complex of Habenaria repens using molecular phylogenetic, morphometric, and population genetics analyses. The results revealed that the complex is polyphyletic, subdivided into three distantly related clades. Population genetic analyses showed a similar structure to the phylogenetic analyses, indicating cases of diversification and convergence, possibly due to pollination processes.
BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2021)
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Geochemistry & Geophysics
T. A. Brown, C. Rad-Menendez, J. L. Ray, K. S. Skaar, N. Thomas, C. Ruiz-Gonzalez, E. Leu
ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY
(2020)
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Plant Sciences
Thomas Proeschold, Tatyana Darienko
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Biodiversity Conservation
Christian Spanner, Tatyana Darienko, Tracy Biehler, Bettina Sonntag, Thomas Proeschold
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Biodiversity Conservation
Thomas Proeschold, Gianna Pitsch, Tatyana Darienko
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Biodiversity Conservation
Felicitas E. Flemming, Alexey Potekhin, Thomas Proeschold, Martina Schrallhammer
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Plant Sciences
Nataliya Rybalka, Tatiana Mikhailyuk, Tatyana Darienko, Stefan Dultz, Matthias Blanke, Thomas Friedl
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Plant Sciences
Martina Strittmatter, Cecilia Rad-Menendez, Claire M. M. Gachon
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Microbiology
Alison H. Hughes, Florent Magot, Ahmed F. Tawfike, Cecilia Rad-Menendez, Naomi Thomas, Louise C. Young, Laura Stucchi, Daniele Carettoni, Michele S. Stanley, RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel, Katherine R. Duncan
Summary: Eukaryotic algae, including macro- and micro-algae, are rich in biological diversity but their chemical diversity remains largely unexplored. Seaweeds and microalgae exhibit promising biological activities with specialized metabolites, but the distinction of chemical profiles between the two and the chemical space their metabolites cover are still unclear. Comparative metabolomics analysis suggests that environmental factors may play a larger role than phylogeny in classifying metabolomic profiles of microalgae.
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Microbiology
Tatyana Darienko, Cecilia Rad-Menendez, Christine N. Campbell, Thomas Proeschold
Summary: Most marine coccoid and sarcinoid green algal species have traditionally been categorized within genera dominated by species from freshwater or soil habitats, such as Chlorocystis and Halochlorococcum. However, their familial and ordinal affinities are unclear. Studies have confirmed their placement in the Chlorocystidales order of the Ulvophyceae, along with the sarcinoid genus Desmochloris. The ITS-2/CBC approach identified new species and combinations within these genera.
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Chemistry, Analytical
Jaspreet K. Sound, Anna Peters, Jeddidiah Bellamy-Carter, Cecilia Rad-Menendez, Karen MacKechnie, David H. Green, Aneika C. Leney
Summary: This study demonstrates the rapid and precise identification of cyanobacteria from diverse aquatic environments using native mass spectrometry, creating unique mass spectral fingerprints by monitoring phycobiliproteins. The method is 10-fold more sensitive than current mass spectrometric methods, allowing for monitoring of cyanobacteria before bloom formation with great potential for simultaneous detection and identification of co-existing cyanobacteria in situ.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sebastiaan W. Rampen, Thomas Friedl, Nataliya Rybalka, Volker Thiel
Summary: Long chain 1,13- and 1,15-diols are lipids found in marine environments and can be used as a proxy for sea surface temperature. This study reveals that early-branching marine eustigmatophytes are the main biological source of these lipids. The Long chain Diol Index (LDI) primarily reflects temperatures from the warmest month. Factors such as diatoms and freshwater input can affect the accuracy of LDI, but can be identified and corrected for.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Andreas Weber-Theen, Saeed Albaseer, Thomas Friedl, Maike Lorenz, Antje Gutowski, Laszlo Doeren
Summary: Pollution of water bodies by metals remains a threat to ecosystems, and a study examined the effects of six metals on the benthic species Closterium ehrenbergii. The study found that these benthic algae may be more sensitive to metal toxicity compared to standard planktonic species. The toxicity of the metals ranked in descending order from highest to lowest were Cu, Ag, Cd, Ni, Cr, and Zn. This study suggests that C. ehrenbergii can be a valuable addition to ecotoxicological risk assessment.
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Diego Medina Caro, Lucas Horstmann, Lars Ganzert, Romulo Oses, Thomas Friedl, Dirk Wagner
Summary: Simultaneous extraction of intracellular DNA (iDNA) and extracellular DNA (eDNA) allows for separation of living in situ community (represented by iDNA) from background DNA. We tested different buffers with or without detergent mix (DM) to improve iDNA recovery. Sodium phosphate buffer plus DM significantly improved iDNA recovery, and sodium phosphate plus EDTA improved recovery and allowed extraction from low-biomass rock samples. We recommend a protocol with sodium phosphate and either DM or EDTA for iDNA extraction, and sodium phosphate only for eDNA extraction.
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Microbiology
Hongping Liang, Hongli Wang, Yan Xu, Li Linzhou, Barbara Melkonian, Maike Lorenz, Thomas Friedl, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Jin Yu, Huan Liu, Michael Melkonian, Sibo Wang