Woody flora of the Prof. Dr. Karl Arens Reserve, Corumbataí, São Paulo, Brazil by Lilian Santos, Pedro Luís de Moraes

“…Although several studies have been conducted in the Reserve, there was no testimony material for some species in the Herbarium Rioclarense (HRCB), nor a list of vouchers for any taxon in the main publications. Thus, the objective of this work was to undertake a floristic survey of the woody species in the Reserve, based on herbarium specimens and fieldwork.The survey in HRCB recorded 510 exsiccatae belonging to 160 species and 44 families. …”
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Taxus baccata en la Sierra del Aramo (Macizo Central Asturiano) by Salvador Beato Bergua, Miguel Ángel Poblete Piedrabuena, Raquel Cunill Artigas

“…La investigación se ha fundamentado en el trabajo de campo y las herborizaciones fitosociológicas que han desvelado la relevancia de este taxón en el paisaje vegetal y la singularidad de algunos ejemplares y poblaciones. …”
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New or poorly known Neocomitidae (Ammonitina, Ammonoida) from the lower Hauterivian sedimentary series of the Jura platform and the Vocontian trough (France and Switzerland) by Antoine Pictet, Luc Georges Bulot

“…The stratigraphic position of the Jura specimens raises questions about the age of this taxon, as well as the phyletic link between the genera Bresitrofferella Thieuloy, 1971 and Acanthodiscus Uhlig, 1905. …”
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Mucilage Formation and Ecology by Ece Polat, Hülya Ünver, Mahmut Altınbaş

“…This is due to the fact that mucilage development is largely taxon-specific, and mucilage thickness and texture vary depending on environmental conditions. …”
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Diversity of Rust Fungi with Special Emphasis on <i>Hyalopsora erlangensis</i> Causing Disease in <i>Cystopteris chinensis</i> by An Yu, Xia Zhao, Xiaohong Chen

“…This study utilized both morphological analysis and molecular phylogenetic approaches to classify this fungal taxon. Artificial inoculation experiments, which involved sampling uredia from the field, were conducted to fulfill Koch’s postulates. …”
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Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny. by Maximilian Kellermann, Elena Cuesta, Oliver W M Rauhut

“…A new genus and species, Tameryraptor markgrafi gen. et sp. nov, is proposed for the Egyptian taxon. The theropods of the Bahariya Oasis and the Moroccan Kem Kem Group are thus not as closely related as previously thought, and the proposed faunal similarities between these two strata need further examination.…”
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The Aphid Fauna (Hemiptera:Aphidoidea) and Host Plants of The Büyükada Island (İstanbul, Turkey) by Hayal Akyıldırım Beğen, Gazi Görür

“…About 5100 aphid (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) species that feed on different host plants have spread all over the world. About 5000 aphid taxon feed on different plant species. Aphids are small, soft-bodied and one of the sap-feeding insect groups and also can damage almost all plants. …”
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Metaproteomic analysis decodes trophic interactions of microorganisms in the dark ocean by Zihao Zhao, Chie Amano, Thomas Reinthaler, Federico Baltar, Mónica V. Orellana, Gerhard J. Herndl

“…Close virus-host interactions of this taxon might explain the dominance of gammaproteobacterial proteins in the dissolved fraction. …”
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Water Quality Assessment of Derinçay Stream (Çorum) by Biotic Indices by Faruk Maraşlıoğlu, Süleyman İpek

“…In the study, 42 taxa belonging to Bacillariophyta were identified, and the dominant taxon of the stream was Nitschia palea. According to some biotic indices such as the Trophic Diatom Index (TDI) and Saprobic Index (SI), it was determined that the Derinçay Stream has a hypertrophic trophic structure corresponding to the "bad" ecological status with an average TDI value of 79.8, and according to the SI, the upper stations (St1, St2) were organically slightly polluted corresponding to β-mesosaprobic, while the other stations were determined to be heavily polluted corresponding to α-mesosaprobic. …”
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Gestural communication in wild spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) by Felipe Villa-Larenas, Miquel Llorente, Katja Liebal, Federica Amici

“…Overall, our study provides first evidence of gestural production in a Platyrrhine species, and confirms this taxon as a valid candidate for research on animal communication.…”
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New evidence for the earliest ornithischian dinosaurs from Asia by Xi Yao, Qi Zhao, Tingcong Ren, Guangbiao Wei, Xing Xu

“…Summary: The Early Jurassic ornithischian dinosaurs in Laurasia are dominated by armored dinosaurs, with other early ornithischian groups being rare. Here, a new taxon, Archaeocursor asiaticus gen. et sp. nov., is reported from the Lower Jurassic of southwestern China. …”
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Sufetula culshawi sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Lathrotelinae): a previously unrecognised species affecting cultivated palms by Mark R. Young, Peter R. Hall, Nigel G.J. Richards, David C. Lees

“…Phylogenetic analysis, including 14 other exemplars with DNA barcodes from BOLD/GenBank, failed to place the new taxon with any existing lathroteline species group. …”
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Nidoviruses associated with aquatic animals by L. P. Buchatsky, V. V. Makarov

“…Nidoviruses comprise the most complex grouping among other viruses with respect to their multiplicity, phylogeny, systematics, species identification, genetic relationships within a taxon, progressive variability. Like other single-stranded RNA viruses, nidoviruses have a relatively high ability to mutate and recombine, which allows them to quickly adapt to new hosts and new ecological niches. …”
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Genome-scale metabolic modelling reveals interactions and key roles of symbiont clades in a sponge holobiont by Shan Zhang, Weizhi Song, Geogios Marinos, Silvio Waschina, Johannes Zimmermann, Christoph Kaleta, Torsten Thomas

“…The analysis further reveals the key role that a newly discovered bacterial taxon has in cross-feeding activities and how it dynamically adjusts with nutrient inputs. …”
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Forgotten but not lost: Notes about the status of the often overlooked Chilean desert endemic Loasa rotundifolia (Loasaceae) by Rafael Acuña-Castillo, María Teresa Eyzaguirre, Ludovica Santilli, Nicolás Lavandero, Dylan Cohen

“…The main objective of this contribution is to provide a modern revision for this rare taxon, including an amended description, a description of its distributional range, ecological notes, and a preliminary assessment of its conservation status. …”
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Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes from Buthidae (Scorpiones): gene rearrangement and phylogenetic implications by Wei Xu, Gaoji Zhang, Tangjun Xu, Ke He, Jiachen Wang, Zeyang Liu, Hongyi Liu

“…Phylogenetic analyses based on PCGs supported taxonomic relationships in this taxon. Our results might provide useful insights into the gene arrangement features of scorpion mitogenomes and lay the foundation for further studies on the family Buthidae.…”
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The effect of temperature regimes on laboratory germination rates and germination energy of <i>Astragalus</i> L. by T. V. Kornievskaya

“…The optimum temperature depends on the environmental and geographical conditions in the area of a taxon’s origin and is determined experimentally.Materials and methods. …”
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A new species of parrot snake, Leptophis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Brazilian Cerrado by Nelson R. Albuquerque, Roullien H. Martins, Priscila S. Carvalho, Donald B. Shepard, Diego J. Santana

“…Phylogenetic analysis of 16S mtDNA sequences indicate the new species is the sister taxon of L. dibernardoi, a species occurring in the neighboring Caatinga ecoregion.…”
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Revision of the thylacocephalan biota from the Upper Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte, Austria by Thomas Laville, Petra Lukeneder, Alexander Lukeneder

“…., which was previously assigned to Austriocaris and later to Atropicaris, and Paraostenia cf. ambatolokobensis correspond to the first mention of Paraostenia in the Late Triassic. A new taxon, Atropicaris? sp, is reported for the first time from Polzberg. …”
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Phylogenomics of North American cybaeid spiders (Araneae, Cybaeidae), including the description of new taxa from the Klamath Mountains Geomorphic Province by Marshal Hedin, Martín J. Ramírez, Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas

“…We greatly increase generic-level sampling, assembling ultraconserved element (UCE) data for 18 of 22 described cybaeid genera, including all North American genera, and rigorously test family monophyly using a comprehensive outgroup taxon sample. We also conduct analyses of traditional Sanger loci, allowing curation of some previously published data. …”
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