Variability of issr markers and estimation of inheritance of diagnostic characters among StY-genome species of Elymus pendulinus, E. brachypodioides and E. vernicosus (Poaceae: Tri... by E. V. Kobozeva, S. V. Asbaganov, O. V. Dorogina, A. V. Agafonov

“…In F2 populations no sterile individuals or increase of SF up to normal values were observed. Hence, three taxa form a unified recombination gene pool. The diagnostic characters were found to be controlled by one pair of alternative alleles for glabrous vs. hairy stem nodes, and by one or two pairs of alleles in different cross combinations for glabrous vs. hairy lemmas. …”
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Biodiversity Change in Cultural Landscapes—The Rural Hotspot Hypothesis by Carsten Neumann, Robert Behling, Gabriele Weiss

“…In old cultural landscapes of Central and East European (CEE) countries, a vast species decline has been reported for various taxa although intensive land cultivation has been reduced in favor of agroecological transformation, nature conservation and sustainable land management in the past 30 years. …”
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Hologenomic data generation and analysis in wild vertebrates by Carlotta Pietroni, Nanna Gaun, Aoife Leonard, Jonas Lauritsen, Garazi Martin‐Bideguren, Iñaki Odriozola, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Antton Alberdi, Raphael Eisenhofer

“…Leveraging the first 2025 samples sourced from 151 wild vertebrate species analysed in the Earth Hologenome Initiative, we scrutinise hologenomic data generation steps, including laboratory and bioinformatic procedures. Comparisons across taxa and sample types provide novel insights into the relationships between laboratory quality metrics and derived data, the variation of host, prokaryotic and non‐prokaryotic fractions of shotgun data, and the relationship between data quality and quantity with genome and metagenome reconstruction. …”
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Molecular Characterization of the CYTB Gene of Radix auricularia Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae) in Al-Chibayish of Thi-Qar Province, Southern Iraq by Sarmad A. M. Al-Asadi

“…The partially overlapped CYTB gene is a suitable molecular marker in the identification of infraspecific R. auricularia snails in Al-Chibayish and could be broadly applied in the intraspecies recognition of molluscan taxa …”
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Toll-like receptor 4 pathway evolutionary trajectory and functional emergence by Shailya Verma, Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Ramanathan Sowdhamini

“…Our previous work on pan-genome-wide survey, indicates Callorhincus milli to be the ancestral organism with both TRAM and TRIF proteins.MethodsTo gain a deeper insight into the protein function and to compare them with Homo sapiens adaptor proteins, we modeled the docking of the TRAM–TRIF complex of representative organisms across various taxa. These modeling experiments provide insights to ascertain a possible interaction surface and calculate the energetics and electrostatic potential of the complex. …”
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Small-scale land use effects on plant communities in Mediterranean urban ecosystems by Vincenzo Baldi, Alessandro Bellino, Daniela Baldantoni

“…For the structural biodiversity, taxa were identified at the species level, estimating their abundance through several measures (number, dry mass, Braun-Blanquet cover), whereas functional traits (biological form, chorological type, Ellenberg indices) were adopted in evaluating vegetation functional diversity. …”
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Molecular reassessment of diaporthalean fungi associated with strawberry, including the leaf blight fungus, Paraphomopsis obscurans gen. et comb. nov. (Melanconiellaceae) by Dhanushka Udayanga, Shaneya D. Miriyagalla, Dimuthu S. Manamgoda, Kim S. Lewers, Alain Gardiennet, Lisa A. Castlebury

“…Fresh collections and new molecular data were incorporated for Paragnomonia fragariae (Sydowiellaceae), which causes petiole blight and root rot of strawberry and is distinct from the above taxa. An updated multilocus phylogeny for the Diaporthales is provided with representatives of currently known families.…”
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Spatial and temporal variability of hyporheic invertebrate community within a stream reach of the River Bača (W Slovenia) by Nataša Mori, Anton Brancelj

“…Altogether, 21,657 specimens from 63 taxa were collected. Cyclopoida juveniles, Leuctra sp. …”
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Microbiome response to cadmium and copper ingestion in the spider Steatoda grossa (Theridiidae): short-term and long-term effects of metal intoxication by G. Wilczek, M. Malicka, K. Kasperkiewicz, J. Łukasiak, C. A. Panek, J. Strzelczyk

“…Spiders cultured for 1 year, whether fed with or without metal-treated food, exhibited a microbiome rich in species diversity, with an equal distribution of individual bacterial taxa. It is possible that the microbiome itself actively participated in alleviating problems associated with food metal contamination.…”
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Intraspecific diversity of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.): a unif ied classif ication by О. A. Lyapunova

“…This is the world’s first standardized system that contains all known intraspecific (infraspecific) taxa of wild and cultivated wheat species. A detailed classification makes it possible to identify a wide variety of forms in the genus Triticum L. and its individual species, which is especially important for collections preserved in genetic seed banks. …”
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Similar Conditions With Opposite Effects: Predation‐Risk Effects on Prey Abundance Are Highly Contingent by Scott D. Peacor, Clayton E. Cressler, Kevin L. Pangle, Alexandra V. Rafalski, Chao Song, Earl E. Werner

“…., they were performed with diverse prey assemblages (≥ 11 taxa) over multiple prey generations). Our results highlight the potentially profound context dependence of risk effects: risk effects on the density of some zooplankton species varied between a significant negative effect in one experiment to a significant positive effect in another, whereas other species showed significant negative or positive effects in one experiment and no effect in another. …”
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The Role of Artificial Lakes Located in Forests in the Context of Small Retention, Biodiversity and Climatic Changes—Evidence From Southern Poland by Rafał Starzak, Anna Cieplok, Robert Czerniawski, Aneta Spyra

“…Along with the phytolittoral changes, benthos communities change, their density and the number of taxa also fluctuate. It should be assumed that with ongoing climate change, these phenomena will probably intensify, which will lead to changes in entire ecosystems at plant and animal levels.…”
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Characterization of soundscapes with acoustic indices and clustering reveals phenology patterns in a subtropical rainforest by Yan-Tin Lai, Sheng-Shan Lu, Ming-Tang Shiao

“…The combination of these methods has led to the development of non-species-specific soundscape classification, which not only facilitates the monitoring of phenological dynamics across multiple biological groups in the face of climate change but also lays the foundation for further exploration of key taxa.…”
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Pyriproxyfen, villain or good guy? A brief review by Andressa Pereira Cabral, Fabrício Pereira dos Santos Maia, D’Angelo Carlo Magliano, Jones Bernardes Graceli, Paula Soares, Eduardo Andrés Rios Morris, Leandro Miranda-Alves

“…Future research must prioritize comprehensive assessments of PPF's ecological impact across various habitats and taxa to inform evidence-based policymaking.…”
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Taxonomic Blind Spots: A Limitation of Environmental DNA Metabarcoding‐Based Detection for Canadian Freshwater Fishes by Kevin C. Morey, Erika Myler, Robert Hanner, Gerald Tetreault

“…Taxonomic blind spots, defined as consistent false negatives for specific taxa despite known presence, reduce corroboration with conventional surveys and can limit the uptake of eDNA metabarcoding for biomonitoring. …”
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Influence of Vinasse Application in the Structure and Composition of the Bacterial Community of the Soil under Sugarcane Cultivation by Wellington Pine Omori, André Ferreira de Camargo, Karla Cristina Stropa Goulart, Eliana Gertrudes de Macedo Lemos, Jackson Antônio Marcondes de Souza

“…The actual impacts of vinasse application on the selection of bacterial taxa are not understood because no studies have addressed this phenomenon directly. …”
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Using unmanned aerial vehicles to estimate body volume at scale for ecological monitoring by Thomas C. Stone, Katrina J. Davis

“…While the approach is applied to pinnipeds here, the method could be adapted to further taxa that are otherwise challenging to obtain direct measurements from. …”
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Saúde mental no Brasil: desafios para as políticas públicas e legislação by César Augusto Trinta Weber, Antônio Geraldo da Silva

“…Cerca de 18 milhões de brasileiros convivem com transtornos mentais graves, e a taxa de suicídio no país segue uma trajetória de crescimento que contrasta com a redução global. …”
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Beyond Microbial Variability: Disclosing the Functional Redundancy of the Core Gut Microbiota of Farmed Gilthead Sea Bream from a Bayesian Network Perspective by Federico Moroni, Fernando Naya-Català, Ahmed Ibrahem Hafez, Ricardo Domingo-Bretón, Beatriz Soriano, Carlos Llorens, Jaume Pérez-Sánchez

“…Functional enrichment identified 11 relevant pathways expressed by different taxa across the different BNs, confirming the high metabolic plasticity and taxonomic heterogeneity. …”
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Interstitial fauna of the Sava River in Eastern Slovenia by Simona Prevorčnik, Anja Remškar, Cene Fišer, Boris Sket, Gregor Bračko, Teo Delić, Nataša Mori, Anton Brancelj, Maja Zagmajster

“…Altogether, 33 invertebrate taxa with 16 stygobionts were recorded, which increased the previously known interstitial stygobiotic richness of the Sava River in Slovenia by eight species (to 37 species). …”
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