Comprehensive GC-MS Characterization and Histochemical Assessment of Various Parts of Three <i>Colchicum</i> Species from Bulgarian Flora by Ivayla Dincheva, Ilian Badjakov, Vasil Georgiev, Ivanka Semerdjieva, Radka Vrancheva, Ivan Ivanov, Atanas Pavlov

“…They underscore the ecological and pharmacological importance of endemic taxa and provide a framework for future research into their sustainable utilization and potential bioactivities.…”
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A QUALIDADE DOS PRIVILÉGIOS PATENTÁRIOS CONCEDIDOS NO BRASIL SOB A ÓTICA DAS AÇÕES JUDICIAIS DE NULIDADE DE PATENTES by Sílvio Sobral Garcez Júnior, Bruno Ramos Eloy, João Antonio Belmino dos Santos

“…A literatura aponta que uma forma de avaliar a qualidade de um sistema patentário é determinar a taxa com que as decisões técnicas tomadas pelo escritório de patentes são contestadas na esfera jurídica. …”
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Preliminary study on mercury pollution affecting soil bacteria near a mercury mining area by Jianxiong Du, Yili Yuan, Jianfeng Li, Shuqing Zhang, Yuxiang Ren

“…The survival of high relative abundance bacterial community taxa in the microbial communities provides compelling evidence of the high adaptability of bacteria to long-term mercury contamination of the soil environment. …”
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Changes in Microbial Community Diversity and the Formation Mechanism of Flavor Metabolites in Industrial-Scale Spontaneous Fermentation of Cabernet Sauvignon Wines by Chunyan Bai, Boyuan Fan, Jinmei Hao, Yuan Yao, Shiming Ran, Hua Wang, Hua Li, Ruteng Wei

“…Metagenomic analysis revealed that <i>Saccharomyces</i>, <i>Hanseniaspora</i>, <i>Zygosaccharomyces</i>, <i>Wickerhamiella</i>, <i>Lactobacillus</i>, and <i>Fructobacillus</i> were the dominant taxa during spontaneous fermentation. They were significantly positively correlated with organic acids, fatty acids, esters, phenols, aldehydes, terpenes, and phenols. …”
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Distinct relative abundances in pathogens detected in mechanically ventilated patients with suspected pneumonia in the intensive care unit at King Abdulaziz University Hospital by Haifa Algethamy, Diyaa H. Bokhary, Ibrahim Abushoshah, Abdulrahman A. Alalyani, Maan K. Baamer, Dalya M. Attallah, Ruba M. Alotaibi, Shehla N. Amin, Shaza A. Mass, Nisreen R. Tashkandy

“…K. pneumoniae and S. maltophilia were the most common taxa detected in the samples, although some variations in microbial composition were observed. …”
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Attraction points: A new sampling design method to quantify common finches’ population by Lorenzo Marazuela Pinela, Ángel Julián Martín Fernández, Pablo-Luis López-Espí

“…Consequently, its applicability is limited to other bird taxa with similar behavioural traits.The “Attraction Points Method” (APM), which uses the songs of live congeners, as described here, has been employed and evaluated in several projects for tracking finch populations in Spain, particularly in the Community of Madrid, where a continuous study of their populations has been conducted since 2018. …”
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Nutritional and Microbiome Effects of a Partial Substitution of Poultry Meat with Hydrolyzed Feather Meal in Dog Diets by Fatemeh Balouei, Bruno Stefanon, Rosangela Armone, Andrea Randazzo, Biagina Chiofalo

“…Sex differences were also significant, with 25 taxa differing between male and female dogs. Overall, the study underscores the impact of HFM and sex on gut microbiota composition in dogs, with potential implications for dietary interventions and microbiome research.…”
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Phytochemical Characterisation of <i>Sorbus</i> Species: Unveiling Flavonoid Profiles Related to Ploidy and Hybrid Origin by Emina Korić, Violeta Milutinović, Alma Hajrudinović-Bogunić, Faruk Bogunić, Tatjana Kundaković-Vasović, Irma Gušić, Jelena Radović Selgrad, Kemal Durić, Haris Nikšić

“…The sampling design included leaf material of the following <i>Sorbus</i> accessions from ten natural localities: parental taxa (di-, tri- and tetraploids of <i>S. aria</i>; diploid <i>S. torminalis</i> and <i>S. aucuparia</i>) and their di-, tri- and tetraploid hybrid derivatives from crosses of <i>S. aria</i> × <i>S. torminalis</i> (subg. …”
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THE STRUCTURE OF THE SIBERIAN GEOGRAPHICAL FLORAL ELEMENT IN THE MIDDLE SIBERIAN FOREST STEPPES by E. M. Antipova

“…The ultimate goal of studies of any flora is the clarification of the history of vegetation cover and individual taxa formation in the studied region, determination of the degree of its individuality, of floristic links with other territories, and of regularities in flora formation.Materials and methods. …”
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Computational analysis of spliced leader trans-splicing in the regenerative flatworm <i>Macrostomum lignano</i> reveals its prevalence in conserved and stem cell related genes by K. V. Ustyantsev, E. V. Berezikov

“…In eukaryotes, trans-splicing is a process of nuclear pre-mRNA maturation where two different RNA molecules are joined together by the spliceosomal machinery utilizing mechanisms similar to cis-splicing. In diverse taxa of lower eukaryotes, spliced leader (SL) trans-splicing is the most frequent type of trans-splicing, when the same sequence derived from short small nuclear RNA molecules, called SL RNAs, is attached to the 5’ ends of different non-processed pre-mRNAs. …”
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EXCEPTIONAL AND STRIKING 3D TRACK-DETACHED UNDERTRACK SPECIMENS FROM THE UPPER JURASSIC OF ASTURIAS (N SPAIN) by LAURA PIÑUELA, JOSÉ CARLOS GARCÍA-RAMOS, KAREN MORENO, GIUSEPPE LEONARDI, OSCAR EUGENIO FINSTERBUSCH-LAGOS

“… Vertebrate palaeoichnology often aims at the identification of the trackmaker by associating diagnostic features from the known taxa’s skeletal anatomy with its inferred footprint morphology, but deep penetrative tracks and/or deep, detached undertracks (DDU) are providing conflicting morphological/extra-morphological information, bringing into question the initially assumed close anatomical correlation. …”
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Potential Medicinal Fungi from Freshwater Environments as Resources of Bioactive Compounds by Ilenia Cicero, Giulia Mirabile, Giuseppe Venturella

“…Most of these surveys are focused on macrofungi belonging to the genera <i>Pleurotus</i>, <i>Ganoderma</i>, or specific taxa such as <i>Agaricus bisporus</i>, <i>Agaricus blazei</i>, <i>Boletus eduliInonotus obliquus</i>, <i>Hericium erinaceus</i>, <i>Lentinula edodes</i>, and <i>Grifola frondose</i>. …”
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Harnessing the synergy of Urochloa brizantha and Amazonian Dark Earth microbiomes for enhanced pasture recovery by Anderson Santos de Freitas, Luís Felipe Guandalin Zagatto, Gabriel Silvestre Rocha, Franciele Muchalak, Guilherme Lucio Martins, Solange dos Santos Silva-Zagatto, Rogério Eiji Hanada, Aleksander Westphal Muniz, Siu Mui Tsai

“…This balance supported plant growth and increased the general availability of beneficial bacteria in the soil, such as Chujaibacter and Curtobacterium while reducing the presence of potentially pathogenic taxa. This research provided valuable insights into the intricate dynamics of plant-soil feedback, emphasizing the potential for complementary interactions between specific plant species and unique soil environments like ADEs. …”
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Ancient and contemporary shellfish cultivation practices bolster bivalve communities and diversity‐biomass relationships by Kieran D. Cox, Hailey L. Davies, Ben Millard‐Martin, Morgan Black, Margot Hessing‐Lewis, Nicole F. Smith, Francis Juanes, Sarah E. Dudas

“…Increases in bivalve biomass were comparable across cultivation methods but varied considerably among taxa. We identify a previously undocumented correlation between bivalve biomass and species richness, which is highly influenced by habitat complexity. …”
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Distinct gut microbial signature and altered short chain fatty acid metabolism at disease onset in a rat preclinical model of superimposed preeclampsia by Moumen M. Alhasan, María S. Landa, Silvia I. García, Roman G. Gerlach, Hani Harb, Fabian B. Fahlbusch, Melanie L. Conrad, Gabriela Barrientos

“…Considering short-chain fatty acids, acetate, propionate and valerate were increased in the SHRSP model, showing a strong positive correlation with the relative abundance of enriched taxa. We show that on GD14, at the asymptomatic SPE onset stage, pregnant SHRSP display a distinct gut microbiome signature and altered short chain fatty acid metabolism compared to control animals.…”
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The neuroendocrine stress-response in insects: the history of the development of the concept by M. A. Eremina, N. E. Gruntenko

“…The study of stress reaction in insects has both theoretical importance, as it demonstrates the convergence of evolutionary pathways of adaptive transformations in such distant taxa as insects and mammals, and practical importance, since the patterns of this reaction’s mechanisms can be used in modeling hereditary or acquired human diseases, in developing breeding methods for economically valuable insects and in finding ways to fight insect pests…”
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Synapsis and recombination of autosomes and sex chromosomes in two terns (Sternidae, Charadriiformes, Aves) by A. P. Lisachov, L. P. Malinovskaya, A. V. Druzyaka, P. M. Borodin, A. A. Torgasheva

“…Therefore it is important to study recombination rate and distribution in more karyologically stable taxa, such as reptiles and birds. We used immunolocalization of SYCP3, the protein of the lateral element of the synaptonemal complex (SC), centromere proteins and the mismatch-repair protein MLH1, which is associated with the recombination nodules, at the synaptonemal complex spreads of prophase oocytes of two tern species, black tern (Chlidonias niger) and common tern (Sterna hirundo). …”
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Effect of Multiradiance Low-Level Laser Therapy and Topical Silver Sulfadiazine on Healing Characteristics of Dermal Wounds in Marine Toads (Rhinella marina) by Kate E. Archibald, Tara Harrison, Brigid Troan, Dustin Smith, Larry J. Minter

“…Current recommendations for wound management in amphibians are based primarily on clinical experience and on extrapolation from other taxa, whereas controlled clinical studies are lacking. …”
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Unraveling Biogeographic Boundaries Within the Sierra Madre Oriental, México: An Endemicity Analysis Using a Taxonomically Diverse Dataset by Irene Goyenechea Mayer‐Goyenechea, Gustavo Montiel‐Canales, Juan Márquez, Claudia T. Hornung‐Leoni, Jesús M. Castillo‐Cerón, Norma L. Manríquez‐Morán

“…These areas are supported by several taxa, except mammals, which did not significantly contribute to the identified AEs. …”
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Comprehensive Chloroplast Genome Analysis of Four <i>Callitriche</i> (Plantaginaceae) Species for Phylogenetic and Conservation Insights by Zirui Zhang, Wenbo Shi, Siqi Hu, Lanruo Mou, Chao Shi, Bingyue Zhu, Jing Yang

“…Notably, the phylogeny also resolved <i>Hemiphragma</i> and <i>Veronicastrum</i> as sister taxa, contributing insights into evolutionary relationships within Plantaginaceae. …”
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