• Transcriptomics unravels molecular players shaping dorsal lip hypertrophy in the vacuum cleaner cichlid, Gnathochromis permaxillaris 

  Lecaudey, Laurene Alicia; Singh, Pooja; Sturmbauer, Christian; Dünser, Anna; Gessl, Wolfgang; Ahi, Ehsan Pashay (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background Teleosts display a spectacular diversity of craniofacial adaptations that often mediates ecological specializations. A considerable amount of research has revealed molecular players underlying skeletal ...

• Development of a risk assessment for sea trout in coastal areas exploited for aquaculture 

  Finstad, Bengt; Sandvik, Anne Dagrun; Ugedal, Ola; Vollset, Knut; Karlsen, Ørjan; Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Sægrov, Harald; Lennox, Robert J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  ABSTRACT: The regulation of aquaculture production in Norway considers the potential impact of salmon lice on wild fish. However, most attention has been focused on impacts on wild Atlantic salmon, despite the fact that ...

• Rapid Parallel Adaptation to Anthropogenic Heavy Metal Pollution 

  Papadopulos, Alexander; Helmstetter, A.; Osborne, Owen; Comeault, Aaron; Wood, Daniel; Straw, Edward; Mason, Laurence; Fay, Michael F; Foote, Andrew; Parker, Joe; Dunning, Luke; Smith, Rhian; Lighten, Jackie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The impact of human-mediated environmental change on the evolutionary trajectories of wild organisms is poorly understood. In particular, species’ capacities to adapt rapidly (in hundreds of generations or less), reproducibly ...

• Using historical herbarium specimens to elucidate the evolutionary genomics of plant invasion 

  Bieker, Vanessa Carina (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:77, Doctoral thesis, 2021)

  The world’s herbarium collections contain a vast number of specimens that were collected up to 400 years ago. Due to recent advances in DNA extraction and sequencing, these specimens are now readily available for use in ...

• Environmental variables driving species composition in subarctic springs in the face of climate change 

  Miller, Tara K.; Heegaard, Einar; Hassel, Kristian; Kapfer, Jutta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Questions Which environmental variables are most important in determining plant species composition in subarctic springs? Do observed patterns differ between typical wetland and general matrix‐derived species? Location ...

• Ancient and modern stickleback genomes reveal the demographic constraints on adaptation 

  Kirch, Melanie; Romundset, Anders; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Jones, Felicity C.; Foote, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Adaptation is typically studied by comparing modern populations with contrasting environments. Individuals persisting in the ancestral habitat are typically used to represent the ancestral founding population; however, it ...

• The Gällared shroud and the preservation of a clandestine early 19th century foetal burial 

  Peacock, Elizabeth E.; Tegnhed, Stina; Maltin, Emma; Turner-Walker, Gordon Howard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• Building genomic infrastructure: Sequencing platinum-standard reference-quality genomes of all cetacean species. 

  Morin, Phillip A.; Alexander, Alana; Blaxter, Mark; Caballero, Susana; Fedrigo, Olivier; Fontaine, Michaël C.; Foote, Andrew; Kuraku, Shigehiro; Maloney, Brigid; McCarthy, Morgan; McGowen, Michael; Mountcastle, Jacquelyn; Nery, Mariana; Olsen, Morten Tange; Rosel, Patricia; Jarvis, Erich D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

• Corals as substrate for tube-dwelling anemones 

  Ceriello, Hellen; Costa, Gabriel G.; Bakken, Torkild; Stampar, Sergio N. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  This study is about seven individuals of Botrucnidifer norvegicus Carlgren, 1912 (Anthozoa, Ceriantharia) that were attached to a stony deep-sea coral, Desmophyllum pertusum Linnaeus, 1758 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). They ...

• The first comprehensive DNA barcode reference library of Chinese Tanytarsus (Diptera: Chironomidae) for environmental DNA metabarcoding 

  Lin, Xiaolong; Mo, Lidong; Bu, Wen-Jun; Wang, Xin-Hua (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  Aim: Reliable DNA barcode reference libraries are critical for biodiversity monitoring based on Environmental DNA (eDNA). DNA barcoding has proven successful in species delimitation and association of life stages in many ...

• Leech blood-meal invertebrate-derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats 

  Drinkwater, Rosie; Jucker, Tommaso; Potter, Joshua H. T.; Swinfield, Tom; Coomes, D; Slade, Eleanor M.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Lewis, Owen T.; Bernard, Henry; Struebig, Matthew J.; Clare, Elizabeth; Rossiter, Stephen J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  The application of metabarcoding to environmental and invertebrate‐derived DNA (eDNA and iDNA) is a new and increasingly applied method for monitoring biodiversity across a diverse range of habitats. This approach is ...

• Sensor-Carrying Platforms 

  Sørensen, Asgeir Johan; Ludvigsen, Martin; Norgren, Petter; Ødegård, Øyvind; Cottier, Finlo Robert (Chapter, 2020)

  Information and communication technology, autonomy, and miniaturization in terms of, for example, microelectromechanical systems are enabling technologies with significant impact on the development of sensors, sensor-carrying ...

• Overvåkning av anadrome laksefisk i Botnvassdraget i Nordland 2018-2020 

  Sjursen, Aslak Darre; Rønning, Lars; Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud (NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet naturhistorisk rapport;, Research report, 2021)

• Multi-marker DNA metabarcoding reflects tardigrade diversity in different habitats 

  Topstad, Lasse; Guidetti, Roberto; Majaneva, Markus; Ekrem, Torbjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Like meiofauna in general, tardigrades are often neglected in ecological and environmental surveys. Tardigrades occur in all parts of the world, from deep marine sediments to alpine environments, and are present in most ...

• Phylogenetic structure in the Sphagnum recurvum complex (Bryophyta: Sphagnaceae) relative to taxonomy and geography 

  Duffy, A; Aguero, Blanka; Stenøien, Hans K.; Flatberg, Kjell Ivar; Ignatov, MS; Hassel, Kristian; Shaw, AJ (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Premise The Sphagnum recurvum complex comprises a group of closely related peat mosses that are dominant components of many northern wetland ecosystems. Taxonomic hypotheses for the group range from interpreting the whole ...

• The genus Cosmophorus Ratzeburg, 1848 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) in Norway 

  Staverløkk, Arnstein; Ødegaard, Frode; Hansen, Lars Ove (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• Diverse variola virus (smallpox) strains were widespread in northern Europe in the Viking Age 

  Mühlemann, Barbara; Vinner, Lasse; Margaryan, Ashot; Wilhelmson, Helene; Castro, Constanza De La Fuente; Allentoft, Morten E.; Damgaard, Peter De Barros; Hansen, Anders J.; Nielsen, Sofie Holtsmark; Strand, Lisa Mariann; Bill, Jan; Buzhilova, Alexandra; Pushkina, Tamara; Falys, Ceri; Khartanovich, Valeri; Moiseyev, Vyacheslav; Jørkov, Marie Louise Schjellerup; Sørensen, Palle Østergaard; Magnusson, Yvonne; Gustin, Ingrid; Schroeder, Hannes; Sutter, Gerd; Smith, Geoffrey L.; Drosten, Christian; Fouchier, Ron A. M.; Smith, Derek J.; Willerslev, Eske; Jones, Terry C.; Sikora, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  Humans have a notable capacity to withstand the ravages of infectious diseases. Smallpox killed millions of people but drove Jenner's invention of vaccination, which eventually led to the annihilation of this virus, declared ...

• Dorytomus carpathicus Petryszak, 1984 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) a new weevil for the Nordic countries. 

  Ødegaard, Frode (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• On the occurrence of Stratiomys validicornis (Loew, 1854) (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) in Fennoscandia 

  Ødegaard, Frode (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• Genomic adaptations and evolutionary history of the extinct scimitar-toothed cat, Homotherium latidens 

  Barnett, Ross; Westbury, Michael V; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Vieira, Filipe G.; Jeon, Sungwon; Zazula, Grant; Martin, Michael David; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Mather, Niklas; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; de Manuel, Marc; Zepeda-Mendoza, Marie Lisandra; Antunes, Agostinho; Carmona Baez, Aldo; De Cahsan, Binia; Larson, Greger; O'Brien, Stephen J.; Eizirik, Eduardo; Johnson, Warren E.; Koepfli, Klaus-Peter; Wilting, Andreas; Fickel, Jörns; Dalén, Love; Lorenzen, Eline D.; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Hansen, Anders J.; Zhang, Guojie; Bhak, Jong; Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Homotherium was a genus of large-bodied scimitar-toothed cats, morphologically distinct from any extant felid species, that went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene [1, 2, 3, 4]. They possessed large, saber-form serrated ...

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