Liberties of the genome: insertions of mitochondrial DNA fragments into nuclear genome by M. V. Golubenko, V. P. Puzyrev

“…The constant flow of functionally inactive DNA sequences from mitochondria into the nucleus and its significance could be studied in view of the modern concepts of evolutionary theory suggesting non-adaptive complexity and the key role of stochastic processes in the formation of genomic structure.…”
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Differential impacts of water diversion and environmental factors on bacterial, archaeal, and fungal communities in the eastern route of the South-to-North water diversion project by Moran Tang, Qian Chen, Xinzong Xiao, Yitao Lyu, Weiling Sun

“…Robustness analyses revealed reduced community stability during the WDP, with water diversion primarily influencing bacterial stability, while environmental factors had a greater impact on archaeal and fungal communities. Stochastic processes, primarily homogenizing dispersal and drift, intensified for bacterial and fungal communities during the WDP. …”
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Evaluation of the current status and risks of aquatic ecology in the Jialing River Basin based on the characteristics and succession trends of phytoplankton communities by Maojin Huang, Fei Xu, Jia Xia, Xue Yang, Fubin Zhang, Siyao Liu, Tuo Zhang

“…The aquatic ecosystem health was better in autumn than in spring and in the mainstem than in the tributary. 3) Ammonia nitrogen and permanganate indices were key drivers of community composition in the tributary, while the main stem was negatively correlated with total phosphorus, ammonia nitrogen, and permanganate indices. 4) Stochastic processes dominated the assembly of phytoplankton communities in spring in the Jialing River, while autumn in the Jialing and Xichong Rivers (tributary river) and spring in the Xichong River were mainly dominated by deterministic processes. …”
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The co-occurrence patterns and assembly mechanisms of microeukaryotic communities in geothermal ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by Bingjie Yan, Bingjie Yan, Xiaodong Li, Xiaodong Li, Nanqian Qiao, Nanqian Qiao, Zhen Da, Zhen Da, Jiajie Xu, Jiajie Xu, Chuanqi Jiang, Sang Ba, Sang Ba

“…The assembly mechanisms of microeukaryotic communities in both sediment and water were primarily driven by undominant processes within stochastic processes. Latitude and longitude were the key factors influencing changes in sediment community composition, while water temperature and electrical conductivity were the major environmental factors affecting water community composition. …”
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Energy Efficiency of Using Hybrid Heating Points in Conditions of Integration of Electrical and Thermal Networks of Urban Neighborhoods. Part 1. Justification of the Feasibility of... by A. V. Sednin, M. I. Pozdnyakova

“…The paper discusses the circumstances and technical solutions that contribute to the integration of electrical and thermal networks of urban neighborhoods within the framework of a surplus of electricity generating capacities arising from the imbalance in the development of energy generation and consumption, stochastic processes of market economy development, the transfer of energy-intensive industrial production to other countries, the desire to diversify fuel energy resources, passion for the construction of energy sources for alternative energy resources in counterbalance to traditional energy facilities without taking into account all aspects of the interaction of the former with the environment, etc. …”
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The dynamics of lowland river sections of Danube and Tisza in the Carpathian basin by Imre M. Jánosi, Imre M. Jánosi, István Zsuffa, István Zsuffa, Tibor Bíró, Boglárka O. Lakatos, Boglárka O. Lakatos, András Szöllősi-Nagy, Zsolt Hetesi, Zsolt Hetesi

“…The empirical histograms for half-daily water level changes can be well-fitted by piecewise-exponential functions containing four or three sections, consistent with the understanding that level changes are deterministic rather than stochastic processes, as is well known in hydrology. Such statistical tests can serve as benchmarks for modeling water levels and discharges. …”
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Effects of Different River Crab <i>Eriocheir sinensis</i> Polyculture Practices on Bacterial, Fungal and Protist Communities in Pond Water by Yun Bao, Bing Li, Rui Jia, Linjun Zhou, Yiran Hou, Jian Zhu

“…Furthermore, the PC group shifted the assembly mechanism of the bacterial community from being predominantly deterministic to predominantly stochastic processes, with relatively minor impacts on the fungal and protist communities. …”
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A novel framework unveiling the importance of heterogeneous selection and drift on the community structure of symbiotic microbial indicator taxa across altitudinal gradients in amp... by Jin Zhou, Zhidong Liu, Sishuo Wang, Jing Li, Lin Zhang, Ziyan Liao

“…In different altitude groups, we found that heterogeneous selection governed the community structure of symbiotic microbes across DSUs, while stochastic processes tended to increase with altitude. For DTUs at phylum and family levels, drift emerged as the dominant mechanism driving the community structure in the most symbiotic microbial taxa, while heterogeneous selection governs the most dominant or indicator taxa. …”
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Small molecule metabolites drive plant rhizosphere microbial community assembly patterns by Yanwei Ma, Heqi Wang, Yalong Kang, Tao Wen

“…Variable selection (βNTI &gt;2) drove phylogenetic turnover in ST, while stochastic processes (|βNTI| &lt; 2) dominated in CK. This study provides quantitative insights into the role of rhizosphere metabolites in shaping microbial community assembly and highlights their potential for targeted modulation of rhizosphere microbiomes.…”
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Spartina alterniflora invasion significantly alters the assembly and structure of soil bacterial communities in the Yellow River Delta by Pengyuan Sun, Yuxin Wu, Pengcheng Zhu, Jingfeng Wang, Jingfeng Wang, Xiaona Yu, Weihua Guo

“…In comparison, S. alterniflora-associated bacterial communities were enriched with both sulfate-reducing bacteria (SEEP-SRB1) and sulfate-oxidizing bacteria (Sulfurimonas), which maintained a dynamic balance in the local sulfur-cycle, and thereby enhanced S. alterniflora growth. In addition, stochastic processes dominated the assembly of soil bacterial communities associated with all four plant species, but were most important for the S. alterniflora community. …”
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