Recent Submissions

  • Ice-inhabiting species of Bdelloidea Rotifera reveal a pre-Quaternary ancestry in the Arctic cryosphere 

    Shain, Daniel H.; Rogozhina, Irina; Fontaneto, Diego; Nesje, Atle; Saglam, Naim; Bartlett, Jesamine; Zawierucha, Krzysztof; Kielland, Øystein Nordeide; Dunshea, Glenn John; Arnason, Einar; Rosvold, Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Historical climate data indicate that the Earth has passed through multiple geological periods with much warmer-than-present climates, including epochs of the Miocene (23–5.3 mya BP) with temperatures 3–4°C above present, ...
  • The trophic distribution of biomass in ecosystems with co-occurring wildlife and livestock 

    Speed, James David Mervyn; Sobocinski, Anna; Kolstad, Anders Lorentzen; Linnell, John Durrus; Solberg, Erling Johan; Mattisson, Jenny; Austrheim, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)
    Trophic interactions regulate populations, but anthropogenic processes influence primary productivity and consumption by both herbivore and carnivore species. Trophic ecology studies often focus on natural systems such as ...
  • New records of aturid water mites from Portugal, with the integrative description of one new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Aturidae) 

    Pešić, Vladimir; Smit, Harry; Girão, Dinis; Iannucci, Alessio; Stur, Elisabeth; Ferreira, Sónia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    In this paper, three species of the water mite family Aturidae collected in Portugal were identified using an integrative approach that combines morphology and DNA barcodes. Parabrachypoda lusitanica sp. nov. is described ...
  • Looking Into the Abyss—How Many Species of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Are There? Their Remarkable Diversity in Costa Rica and Elsewhere 

    Borkent, Art; Spinelli, Gustavo R.; Díaz, Florentina; Steinke, Dirk; Perez, Kate H. J.; Stur, Elisabeth; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
  • A molecular phylogeny of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) unveils extensive concordance but intriguing divergences from morphological results 

    Li, Xuankun; Hash, John M.; Hartop, Emily Anne; Yang, Ding; Smith, Paul T.; Brown, Brian V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
  • Invasive plants grow taller under experimental warming, but mediated effects of biotic interactions are species-specific 

    Ivison, Katy; Vange, Vibekke; Speed, James David Mervyn; Dawson, Wayne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Understanding the responses of non-native plants to climate change while accounting for biotic interactions is key to predicting and mitigating future invasion risks. Non-native invasive plants may benefit from or decline ...
  • Non-Native, Non-Naturalised Plants Suffer Less Herbivory Than Native Plants Across European Botanical Gardens 

    Ivison, Katy; van Kleunen, Mark; Speed, James David Mervyn; Vange, Vibekke; Pujara, Sonia; Boch, Steffen; Enters, Dirk; Groom, Quentin; Janovský, Zdeněk; Jeschke, Jonathan M.; Joshi, Jasmin; Kolb, Annette; Kollmann, Johannes; Koubek, Tomáš; Lemke, Tristan; Matthies, Diethart; Raabová, Jana; Tielbörger, Katja; Dawson, Wayne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Aim The enemy release hypothesis states that the invasion success of non-native species is partly due to their escape from natural enemies, e.g., herbivores. Large-scale studies of herbivory using multiple species across ...
  • Global arthropod beta-diversity is spatially and temporally structured by latitude 

    Seymour, Mathew; Roslin, Tomas; deWaard, Jeremy R.; Perez, Kate H. J.; D’Souza, Michelle L.; Ratnasingham, Sujeevan; Ashfaq, Muhammad; Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie; Blagoev, Gergin A.; Bukowski, Belén; Cale, Peter; Crosbie, Denise; Decaëns, Thibaud; deWaard, Stephanie L.; Ekrem, Torbjørn; El-Ansary, Hosam O.; Evouna Ondo, Fidèle; Fraser, David; Geiger, Matthias F.; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Hallwachs, Winnie; Hanisch, Priscila E.; Hausmann, Axel; Heath, Mark; Hogg, Ian D.; Janzen, Daniel H.; Kinnaird, Margaret; Kohn, Joshua R.; Larrivée, Maxim; Lees, David C.; León-Règagnon, Virginia; Liddell, Michael; Lijtmaer, Darío A.; Lipinskaya, Tatsiana; Locke, Sean A.; Manjunath, Ramya; Martins, Dino J.; Martins, Marlúcia B.; Mazumdar, Santosh; McKeown, Jaclyn T. A.; Anderson-Teixeria, Kristina; Miller, Scott E.; Milton, Megan A.; Miskie, Renee; Morinière, Jérôme; Mutanen, Marko; Naik, Suresh; Nichols, Becky; Noguera, Felipe A.; Novotny, Vojtech; Penev, Lyubomir; Pentinsaari, Mikko; Quinn, Jenna; Ramsay, Leah; Rochefort, Regina; Schmidt, Stefan; Smith, M. Alex; Sobel, Crystal N.; Somervuo, Panu; Sones, Jayme E.; Staude, Hermann S.; St. Jaques, Brianne; Stur, Elisabeth; Telfer, Angela C.; Tubaro, Pablo L.; Wardlaw, Tim J.; Worcester, Robyn; Yang, Zhaofu; Young, Monica R.; Zemlak, Tyler; Zakharov, Evgeny V.; Zlotnick, Bradley; Ovaskainen, Otso Tapio; Hebert, Paul D. N. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Global biodiversity gradients are generally expected to reflect greater species replacement closer to the equator. However, empirical validation of global biodiversity gradients largely relies on vertebrates, plants, and ...
  • When birds of a feather flock together: Severe genomic erosion and the implications for genetic rescue in an endangered island passerine 

    Cavill, Emily L.; Morales, Hernán E.; Sun, Xin; Westbury, Michael V.; van Oosterhout, Cock; Accouche, Wilna; Zora, Anna; Schulze, Melissa J.; Shah, Nirmal; Adam, Pierre-André; Brooke, M. de L.; Sweet, Paul; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    The Seychelles magpie-robin's (SMR) five island populations exhibit some of the lowest recorded levels of genetic diversity among endangered birds, and high levels of inbreeding. These populations collapsed during the 20th ...
  • A practical introduction to holo-omics 

    Odriozola, Iñaki; Rasmussen, Jacob A.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Limborg, Morten T.; Alberdi, Antton (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Holo-omics refers to the joint study of non-targeted molecular data layers from host-microbiota systems or holobionts, which is increasingly employed to disentangle the complex interactions between the elements that compose ...
  • Three-dimensional genome architecture persists in a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin sample 

    Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Dudchenko, Olga; Rodríguez, Juan Antonio; Pérez Estrada, Cynthia; Dehasque, Marianne; Fontsere, Claudia; Mak, Sarah S.T.; Khan, Ruqayya; Contessoto, Vinícius G.; Oliveira Junior, Antonio B.; Kalluchi, Achyuth; Zubillaga Herrera, Bernardo J.; Jeong, Jiyun; Roy, Renata P.; Christopher, Ishawnia; Weisz, David; Omer, Arina D.; Batra, Sanjit S.; Shamim, Muhammad S.; Durand, Neva C.; O'Connell, Brendan; Roca, Alfred L.; Plikus, Maksim V.; Kusliy, Mariya A.; Romanenko, Svetlana A.; Lemskaya, Natalya A.; Serdyukova, Natalya A.; Modina, Svetlana A.; Perelman, Polina L.; Kizilova, Elena A.; Baiborodin, Sergei I.; Rubtsov, Nikolai B.; Machol, Gur; Rath, Krisha; Mahajan, Ragini; Kaur, Parwinder; Gnirke, Andreas; Garcia-Treviño, Isabel; Coke, Rob; Flanagan, Joseph P.; Pletch, Kelcie; Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora; Plotnikov, Valerii; Pavlov, Innokentiy S.; Pavlova, Naryya I.; Protopopov, Albert V.; Di Pierro, Michele; Graphodatsky, Alexander S.; Lander, Eric S.; Rowley, M. Jordan; Wolynes, Peter G.; Onuchic, José N.; Dalén, Love; Marti-Renom, Marc A.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Aiden, Erez Lieberman (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Analyses of ancient DNA typically involve sequencing the surviving short oligonucleotides and aligning to genome assemblies from related, modern species. Here, we report that skin from a female woolly mammoth (†Mammuthus ...
  • Temporal dynamics of woolly mammoth genome erosion prior to extinction 

    Dehasque, Marianne; Morales, Hernán E.; Díez-del-Molino, David; Pečnerová, Patrícia; Chacón-Duque, J. Camilo; Kanellidou, Foteini; Muller, Héloïse; Plotnikov, Valerii; Protopopov, Albert; Tikhonov, Alexei; Nikolskiy, Pavel; Danilov, Gleb K.; Giannì, Maddalena; van der Sluis, Laura; Higham, Tom; Heintzman, Peter D.; Oskolkov, Nikolay; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Götherström, Anders; van der Valk, Tom; Vartanyan, Sergey; Dalén, Love (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    A number of species have recently recovered from near-extinction. Although these species have avoided the immediate extinction threat, their long-term viability remains precarious due to the potential genetic consequences ...
  • Opening science to society: how to progress societal engagement into (open) science policies 

    Wehn, U.; Ajates, R.; Mandeville, Caitlin Marie; Somerwill, L.; Kragh, G.; Haklay, M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    A broad understanding of the aims and objectives of the international open science movement was recently adopted with the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, expanding the focus of open science to include scientific ...
  • Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants 

    Barnes, Christopher James; Bahram, Mo; Nicolaisen, Mogens; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Vestergård, Mette (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Microbes are ubiquitously found across plant surfaces and even within their cells, forming the plant microbiome. Many of these microbes contribute to the functioning of the host and consequently affect its fitness. Therefore, ...
  • DNA barcode library of Portuguese water mites, with the descriptions of two new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia) 

    Pešić, Vladimir; Zawal, Andrzej; Ferreira, Sónia; Benitez-Bosco, Laura; Cruz-Oliveira, Ana; Girão, Dinis; Padilha, Adriana; Turaccio, Paolo; Rossini, Samantha; Ballini, Lorenzo; Staffoni, Giorgia; Fratini, Sara; Ciofi, Claudio; Iannucci, Alessio; Ekrem, Torbjørn; Stur, Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    This study presents the first results from the analysis of water mites collected in Portugal as part of the Biodiversity Genomics Europe project. 307 COI DNA barcodes clustered into 75 BINs are provided, with 38 BINs being ...
  • The role of evolutionary processes in determining trophic structure 

    Furness, Euan N.; Speed, James David Mervyn; Garwood, Russell J.; Sutton, Mark D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    The productivity of populations can limit the biomass of their consumers, while consumption by these consumers can in turn limit the biomass of the populations they feed on. These two mechanisms, known as bottom–up and ...
  • Application of conservation genomics to investigate the role of pathogens on the migration of sea-run brown trout (Salmo trutta) 

    Lennox, Robert; Eldøy, Sindre Håvarstein; Schulze, Angela D; Miller, Kristina M.; Isaksen, Trond Einar; Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Nilsen, Cecilie Iden; Dahlmo, Lotte Svengård; Vollset, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)
    Pathogens play a key role in individual function and the dynamics of wild populations, but the link between pathogens and individual performance has rarely been investigated in the wild. Migrating salmonids offer an ideal ...
  • The ancestral environment of teosinte populations shapes their root microbiome 

    Barnes, Christopher J.; Bünner, Maria Sophie; Ramírez-Flores, M. Rosario; Nielsen, Ida Broman; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmin; Zharikova, Daria; McLaughlin, Chloee M.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sawers, Ruairidh J.H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Background: The composition of the root microbiome affects the host’s growth, with variation in the host genome associated with microbiome variation. However, it is not known whether this intra-specific variation of root ...
  • Long-term changes in herbivore community and vegetation impact of wild and domestic herbivores across Iceland 

    Defourneaux, Mathilde; Barrio, Isabel C.; Boulanger-Lapointe, Noémie; Speed, James David Mervyn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Changes in wild and domestic herbivore populations significantly impact extensive grazing systems, particularly in low productive environments, where increasing wild herbivore populations are perceived as a threat to ...
  • On the terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate diversity of the High Arctic archipelago of Svalbard: a revised species inventory and synopsis of the community composition. 

    Coulson, Stephen J.; Bartlett, Jesamine; Boström, Sven; Brittain, John Edward; Christoffersen, Kirsten S.; Convey, Peter; De Smet, Willem H.; Dózsa-Farkas, Klára; Ekrem, Torbjørn; Fjellberg, Arne; Füreder, Leopold; Gillespie, Mark A.K.; Gustafsson, Daniel; Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J.; Kaczmarek, Łukasz; Kolicka, Małgorzata; Laniecki, Ronald; Moerman, Tirza M.; Seniczak, Stanislaw; Seniczak, Anna; Simon, Jean-Christophe; Stur, Elisabeth; Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen; Wieczorek, Karina; Zawierucha, Krzysztof; Zmudczynska-Skarbek, Katarzyna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Arctic terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity is generally poorly known, but the archipelago of Svalbard has one of the most up-to-date inventories of its terrestrial and freshwater faunas of any Arctic region, offering a ...

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