The History of the Brazilian Sardine (<i>Sardinella brasiliensis</i>) Between Two Fishery Collapses: An Ecosystem Modeling Approach to Study Its Life Cycle by Rafael Schroeder, Angélica Petermann, Alberto Teodorico Correia

“…This study evaluates the trophic relationships of the main species exploited by this fishery and the importance of its biomass for the southeast–south Brazil marine ecosystem (22° S–34° S). …”
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Butyrate Supplementation Improves Intestinal Health and Growth Performance in Livestock: A Review by Wenting Chen, Qingshan Ma, Yan Li, Lin Wei, Zhenwei Zhang, Adnan Khan, Muhammad Zahoor Khan, Changfa Wang

“…Its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects have been demonstrated across various species, positioning butyrate as a potential therapeutic agent in animal nutrition. …”
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Apolar Compounds in Seaweeds from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago (Northeastern Coast of Brazil) by Leandro De Santis Ferreira, Izabel Cristina Casanova Turatti, Norberto Peporine Lopes, Thais Guaratini, Pio Colepicolo, Eurico Cabral Oliveira Filho, Ricardo Clapis Garla

“…Hyphenated techniques of gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometer were used to determine fatty acids in eleven species of seaweeds from Fernando de Noronha archipelago. …”
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Systematic application of UPLC-Q-ToF-MS/MS coupled with chemometrics for the identification of natural food pigments from Davidson plum and native currant by Thomas Owen Hay, Melissa A. Fitzgerald, Joseph Robert Nastasi

“…This study investigates the potential of Australian Traditional foods as novel sources of natural colourants for food applications, employing untargeted metabolomics and chemometrics. Two native species were analysed: Davidson plum and native currant. …”
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Allometric equations for estimating above and belowground biomass of Colophospermum mopane in Mozambique by Sá Nogueira Lisboa, Severino Macôo, Almeida Alberto Sitoe

“…This is largely due to the lack of species-specific allometric models tailored to these ecosystems. …”
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Fungal Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Comprehensive Narrative Review by Maria Mazzitelli, Federico Nalesso, Alberto Enrico Maraolo, Vincenzo Scaglione, Lucrezia Furian, Annamaria Cattelan

“…Results: The most common fungal pathogens in KTRs include <i>Candida</i> species (up to 70% of the overall FIs), <i>Aspergillus</i> species, <i>Pneumocystis jiroveci</i>, and <i>Cryptococcus</i> species. …”
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Scaling up uncertain predictions to higher levels of organisation tends to underestimate change by James A. Orr, Jeremy J. Piggott, Andrew L. Jackson, Jean‐François Arnoldi

“…We focus on ecosystem‐level predictions generated from the combination of predictions at the species level. In this setting, the ecosystem's relevant dimensionality is a measure of its diversity (and not simply the number of species). …”
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The Genetic Structure of Wild Orobanche cumana Wallr. (Orobanchaceae) Populations in Eastern Bulgaria Reflects Introgressions from Weedy Populations by Rocío Pineda-Martos, Antonio J. Pujadas-Salvà, José M. Fernández-Martínez, Kiril Stoyanov, Leonardo Velasco, Begoña Pérez-Vich

“…Orobanche cumana is a holoparasitic plant naturally distributed from central Asia to south-eastern Europe, where it parasitizes wild Asteraceae species. It is also an important parasitic weed of sunflower crops. …”
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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

“…The compiled dataset consists of species lists generated by eDNA surveys, paired conventional surveys, and historical records. …”
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Craniology of Nyctereutes procyonoides (Carnivora) based on materials from Ukraine by Denys Lazariev

“…Additionally, a sample that includes materials from the native range of the species (Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, and Chita Oblast of Russia) was also analysed. …”
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Biodiversité et viabilité de l'agriculture paysanne dans la Réserve de Biosphère Sierra de Manantlán, Mexique by Enrique J. Jardel Peláez, Sergio H. Graf Montero, Eduardo Santana C., Ricardo Ávila Palafox

“…The conservation of the téosinte Zea diploperennis and other wild relatives of cultivated plants, of land-races of traditional crops such as corn and other species and habitats associated with the agricultural landscape, has been one of the goals of the SMBR since its foundation 25 years ago. …”
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Unraveling Community Potential Interactions by Environmental DNA in the Hong Kong Coastal Waters by Sangwook Scott Lee, Zhimeng Xu, Yingdong Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Jinping Cheng, Hongbin Liu

“…ABSTRACT Traditional approaches for studying potential interactions in marine ecosystems often struggle to fully capture all taxa in a community, especially rare species. This issue is particularly challenging in coastal waters with high biodiversity and spatiotemporal dynamics. …”
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Setting scientific names at all taxonomic ranks in italics facilitates their quick recognition in scientific papers by Marco Thines, Takayuki Aoki, Pedro W. Crous, Kevin D. Hyde, Robert Lücking, Elaine Malosso, Tom W. May, Andrew N. Miller, Scott A. Redhead, Andrey M. Yurkov, David L. Hawksworth

“…Abstract It is common practice in scientific journals to print genus and species names in italics. This is not only historical as species names were traditionally derived from Greek or Latin. …”
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Occurrence of <i>Pestalotiopsis</i> sp. on Ornamental Plants <i>Camellia japonica</i> L. in Romanian Public Gardens by Andreea-Mihaela Florea, Andrei-Mihai Gafencu, Florin-Daniel Lipșa, Iulian Gabur, Eugen Ulea

“…<i>Pestalotiopsis</i> species have a worldwide distribution and are pathogenic to a wide range of hosts. …”
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PRV-1b and PRV-3a infection is associated with the same clinical disease in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) farmed in Chile: unraveling the pathogenesis of the orthoreoviral car... by Marco Rozas-Serri, Ricardo Ildefonso, Andrea Peña, Victoria Jaramillo, Rodolfo Correa, Soraya Barrientos, Ariel Muñoz, Lucerina Maldonado, Estefanía Peñaloza

“…Abstract Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) is a virus that is widely distributed among global aquaculture populations of salmonid species. The coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) is a species of increasing productive and economic importance in Chile. …”
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Exceptional Enlargement of the Mitochondrial Genome Results from Distinct Causes in Different Rain Frogs (Anura: Brevicipitidae: Breviceps) by Keitaro Hemmi, Ryosuke Kakehashi, Chiaki Kambayashi, Louis Du Preez, Leslie Minter, Nobuaki Furuno, Atsushi Kurabayashi

“…The major cause of genome size enlargement in this species is the duplication of multiple genomic regions. …”
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First records of the genus Pyrolirion Herb. (Liliopsida, Asparagales, Amaryllidaceae) in Ecuador by Nora H. Oleas, Lou Jost, Ricardo Zambrano C., Cristian Guzmán Torres, Jorge Heredia, Martin Bustamante, Hugo Romero-Saltos, María Paulina Moreno-Armijos, Alan W. Meerow, Catalina Quintana

“…Roem. located in four provinces along the Ecuadorian Andes. This species has been previously recorded in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. …”
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“There she was, looking at me with those eyes of her”: l’animal mis en regard dans le théâtre d’Edward Albee by Valentine Vasak

“…Yet, although theater is etymologically bound up with the act of seeing, the audience hardly ever sets eye on non-human species. This paper seeks to investigate this paradoxical dramatization through speech of animals lurking offstage. …”
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A Systematic Mapping Study of Coffee Quality throughout the Production-to-Consumer Chain by Alicia María Rendón-Mera, David Camilo Corrales, Gustavo Antonio Peñuela Mesa

“…Several techniques are used to measure the different metrics to assess coffee quality, across different types of coffee samples and species, and throughout the entire process from farm to cup. …”
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Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud by Dominique Gommery, Laura Bento Da Costa

“…During the same geological period, the fauna from South Africa differs from the East African one by the different diversity of Cercopithecoidea by which colobines and theropithecines are poorly represented but also by a greater number of species of Parapapio, a form close to baboons. Also in South Africa, we discovered the oldest baboon remains belonging to the genus Papio similar to the extant South African species, the chacma. …”
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