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  1. Through a meta-analysis, Mupepele et al. (BMC Ecol Evol 21:1–193, 2021) assessed the effects of European agroforestry systems on biodiversity, estimated by species richness or species diversity. They showed th...

    Authors: Sébastien Boinot, Karim Barkaoui, Delphine Mézière, Pierre-Eric Lauri, Jean-Pierre Sarthou and Audrey Alignier
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:24
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    The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:65

  2. Previous cytogenetic studies show that the karyotypes of species in Ciconiiformes vary considerably, from 2n = 52 to 78. Their karyotypes include different numbers of small to minute bi-armed chromosomes that ...

    Authors: Jinhuan Wang, Weiting Su, Yi Hu, Shengbin Li, Patricia C. M. O’Brien, Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith, Fengtang Yang and Wenhui Nie
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:23
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  3. Carp gudgeons (genus Hypseleotris) are a prominent part of the Australian freshwater fish fauna, with species distributed around the western, northern, and eastern reaches of the continent. We infer a calibrated ...

    Authors: Christine E. Thacker, James J. Shelley, W. Tyler McCraney, Mark Adams, Michael P. Hammer and Peter J. Unmack
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:22
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  4. Sex-biased dispersal is a common and widespread phenomenon that can fundamentally shape the genetic structure of the social environments in which animals live. For animals that live in and move between social ...

    Authors: Aneesh P. H. Bose, Lukas Koch, Johanna Dabernig-Heinz, Jacqueline Grimm, Kristina M. Sefc and Alex Jordan
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:21
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  6. Species-rich semi-natural grasslands are impacted by the severe land-use changes that are affecting mountain regions, compromising their high biodiversity value. In particular, sprinkler irrigation and increas...

    Authors: Gerard Martínez-De León, Lauriane Dani, Aline Hayoz-Andrey, Ségolène Humann-Guilleminot, Raphaël Arlettaz and Jean-Yves Humbert
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:19
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  7. While a considerable amount of research has explored plant community composition in primary successional systems, little is known about the microbial communities inhabiting these pioneer plant species. Fungal ...

    Authors: Emily R. Wolfe, Robyn Dove, Cassandra Webster and Daniel J. Ballhorn
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:18
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  8. Ecomorphs create the opportunity to investigate ecological adaptation because they encompass organisms that evolved characteristic morphologies under similar ecological demands. For over 50 years, scorpions ha...

    Authors: Pedro Coelho, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, Pedro Sousa, Mark Stockmann and Arie van der Meijden
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:17
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  9. African pangolins are currently experiencing unprecedented levels of harvesting, feeding both local demands and the illegal international trade. So far, the lack of knowledge on the population genetics of Afri...

    Authors: Stanislas Zanvo, Chabi A. M. S. Djagoun, Akomian F. Azihou, Bruno Djossa, Komlan Afiademanyo, Ayodeji Olayemi, Clément Agbangla, Brice Sinsin and Philippe Gaubert
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:16
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  10. Heterochrony, change in the rate or timing of development, is thought to be one of the main drivers of morphological evolution, and allometry, trait scaling patterns imposed by size, is traditionally thought t...

    Authors: Carlos J. Pavón-Vázquez, Damien Esquerré and J. Scott Keogh
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:15
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Planaxis sulcatus has been touted as a textbook example of poecilogony, with members of this wide-ranging Indo-Pacific marine gastropod said to produce free-swimming veligers as well as brooded juveniles. A recen...

    Authors: Giulia Fassio, Philippe Bouchet, Marco Oliverio and Ellen E. Strong
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:13
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  13. This study was carried out in Gerba Dima Forest, South-Western Ethiopia, to determine the floristic composition, species diversity and community types along environmental gradients. Identifying and interpretin...

    Authors: Abyot Dibaba, Teshome Soromessa and Bikila Warkineh
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:12
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  14. Physiological processes, as immediate responses to the environment, are important mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity and can influence evolution at ecological time scales. In stressful environments, physiolog...

    Authors: Jelena Mausbach, Anssi Laurila and Katja Räsänen
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:11
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:26

  15. Artificial fishery habitat has been widely used in fishery resource protection and water habitat restoration. Although the bacterioplankton plays an important ecological role in fisheries ecosystems, the effec...

    Authors: Sheng Bi, Han Lai, Dingli Guo, Xuange Liu, Gongpei Wang, Xiaoli Chen, Shuang Liu, Huadong Yi, Yuqin Su and Guifeng Li
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:10
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  17. The environment is a strong driver of genetic structure in many natural populations, yet often neglected in population genetic studies. This may be a particular problem in vagile species, where subtle structur...

    Authors: Marcel Glück, Julia C. Geue and Henri A. Thomassen
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:8
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  18. Hibernation allows species to conserve energy and thereby bridge unfavorable environmental conditions. At the same time, hibernation imposes substantial ecological and physiological costs. Understanding how hi...

    Authors: Frauke Meier, Leo Grosche, Christine Reusch, Volker Runkel, Jaap van Schaik and Gerald Kerth
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:7
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  19. The ability of overstory tree species to regenerate successfully is important for the preservation of tree species diversity and its associated flora and fauna. This study investigated forest regeneration dyna...

    Authors: Van Vien Pham, Christian Ammer, Peter Annighöfer and Steffi Heinrichs
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:6
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  20. Under strong sexual selection, certain species evolve distinct intrasexual, alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs). In many cases, ARTs can be viewed as environmentally-cued threshold traits, such that ARTs c...

    Authors: Adam N. Zeeman, Isabel M. Smallegange, Emily Burdfield Steel, Astrid T. Groot and Kathryn A. Stewart
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:5
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  21. Sexual signals produced by males play a central role in sexual selection, but the relationship between these traits and the quality of the bearer are often ambiguous. Secondary sexual traits may represent gene...

    Authors: Violette Chiara, Alberto Velando and Sin-Yeon Kim
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:4
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  22. The teleost fish Fundulus heteroclitus inhabit estuaries heavily polluted with persistent and bioaccumulative chemicals. While embryos of parents from polluted sites are remarkably resistant to toxic sediment and...

    Authors: Goran Bozinovic, Zuying Feng, Damian Shea and Marjorie F. Oleksiak
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:3
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  23. Visual opsins are expressed in the compound eyes and ocelli of insects and enable light detection. Three distinct phylogenetic groups of visual opsins are found in insects, named long (LW), short (SW) and ultr...

    Authors: Quentin Guignard, Jeremy D. Allison and Bernard Slippers
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:2
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  24. The recent rise in cultivation-independent genome sequencing has provided key material to explore uncharted branches of the Tree of Life. This has been particularly spectacular concerning the Archaea, projecting ...

    Authors: Monique Aouad, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Frédéric Jauffrit, Manolo Gouy, Simonetta Gribaldo and Céline Brochier-Armanet
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2022 22:1
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  25. The soft-bodied cladobranch sea slugs represent roughly half of the biodiversity of marine nudibranch molluscs on the planet. Despite their global distribution from shallow waters to the deep sea, from tropica...

    Authors: Dario Karmeinski, Karen Meusemann, Jessica A. Goodheart, Michael Schroedl, Alexander Martynov, Tatiana Korshunova, Heike Wägele and Alexander Donath
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:226
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  26. Hangadi watershed is endowed with the only virgin forest in Odo shakisso harbouring high biodiversity, but it has been suffered from anthropogenic activities. This study was conducted to investigate compositio...

    Authors: Berhanu Tamiru, Teshome Soromessa, Bikila Warkineh, Gudina Legesse and Merga Belina
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:225
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  27. To set up successful conservation measures, detailed knowledge on the dispersal and colonization capacities of the focal species and connectivity between populations is of high relevance. We developed species-...

    Authors: Annelore De Ro, An Vanden Broeck, Leen Verschaeve, Ilf Jacobs, Filiep T’Jollyn, Hans Van Dyck and Dirk Maes
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:224
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  28. Wnt genes code for ligands that activate signaling pathways during development in Metazoa. Through the canonical Wnt (cWnt) signaling pathway, these genes regulate important processes in bilaterian development...

    Authors: Raul A. Chavarria, Mandy Game, Briana Arbelaez, Chloe Ramnarine, Zachary K. Snow and Frank W. Smith
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:223
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  29. Habitat disturbance affects the biology and health of animals globally. Understanding the factors that contribute to the differential responses of animals to habitat disturbance is critical for conservation. T...

    Authors: Nicolette McManus, Sheila M. Holmes, Edward E. Louis Jr., Steig E. Johnson, Andrea L. Baden and Katherine R. Amato
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:222
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  30. Non-random associations within and among groups of social animals can provide valuable insight into the function of group living and the evolution of social behaviour. Damaraland mole-rats (Fukomys damarensis) de...

    Authors: Samantha Mynhardt, Lorraine Harris-Barnes, Paulette Bloomer and Nigel C. Bennett
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:221
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  31. Rooted phylogenetic networks are used to display complex evolutionary history involving so-called reticulation events, such as genetic recombination. Various methods have been developed to construct such netwo...

    Authors: Rosanne Wallin, Leo van Iersel, Steven Kelk and Leen Stougie
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:220
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  32. In insect species like Drosophila melanogaster, evolution of increased resistance or evolution of particular traits under specific environmental conditions can lead to energy trade-offs with other crucial life-hi...

    Authors: Karan Singh, Ekta Kochar, Prakhar Gahlot, Karan Bhatt and Nagaraj Guru Prasad
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:219
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  33. Airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) research is an emerging field that focuses on the detection of species from their genetic remnants in the air. The majority of studies into airborne eDNA of plants has until n...

    Authors: Mark D. Johnson, Mohamed Fokar, Robert D. Cox and Matthew A. Barnes
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:218
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  35. To determine the presence and abundance of an aquatic species in large waterbodies, especially when populations are at low densities, is highly challenging for conservation biologists. Environmental DNA (eDNA)...

    Authors: Dan Yu, Zhongyuan Shen, Tao Chang, Sha Li and Huanzhang Liu
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:216
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  36. The process of photoreception in most animals depends on the light induced isomerization of the chromophore retinal, bound to rhodopsin. To re-use retinal, the all-trans-retinal form needs to be re-isomerized ...

    Authors: Oliver Vöcking, Lucas Leclère and Harald Hausen
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:215
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  37. Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) represent the fundamental unit of data inputted to most comparative sequence analyses. In phylogenetic analyses in particular, errors in MSA construction have the potential ...

    Authors: Stephanie J. Spielman and Molly L. Miraglia
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:214
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  38. The islands in the Persian Gulf are home to several species of gazelles, i.e., Gazella bennettii, G. subgutturosa, and a new subspecies of Mountain gazelles which was discovered on Farur Island and described for ...

    Authors: Davoud Fadakar, Mojdeh Raam, Hannes Lerp, Ali Ostovar, Hamid Reza Rezaei and Eva V. Bärmann
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:213
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  39. Trophic shifts from one dietary niche to another have played major roles in reshaping the evolutionary trajectories of a wide range of vertebrate groups, yet their consequences for morphological disparity and ...

    Authors: Vicente García-Navas, Joseph A. Tobias, Manuel Schweizer, Daniel Wegmann, Richard Schodde, Janette A. Norman and Les Christidis
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:212
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  41. The contribution of North Africa to the assembly of biodiversity within the Western Palaearctic is still poorly documented. Since the Miocene, multiple biotic exchanges occurred across the Strait of Gibraltar,...

    Authors: Luis Machado, D. James Harris and Daniele Salvi
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:210
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  42. Divergence time estimation is fundamental to understanding many aspects of the evolution of organisms, such as character evolution, diversification, and biogeography. With the development of sequence technolog...

    Authors: De Chen, Peter A. Hosner, Donna L. Dittmann, John P. O’Neill, Sharon M. Birks, Edward L. Braun and Rebecca T. Kimball
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:209
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  43. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a crucial role in immunity and development. They contain leucine-rich repeat domains, one transmembrane domain, and one Toll/IL-1 receptor domain. TLRs have been classified into...

    Authors: Andrea Orús-Alcalde, Tsai-Ming Lu, Aina Børve and Andreas Hejnol
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:208
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  45. Considering wild inter-populational phenotypic differentiation can facilitate domestication and subsequent production of new species. However, comparing all populations across a species range to identify those...

    Authors: Lola Toomey, Simon Dellicour, Andrzej Kapusta, Daniel Żarski, Frederik Buhrke, Sylvain Milla, Pascal Fontaine and Thomas Lecocq
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:206
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  46. Biological evolution exhibits an extraordinary capability to adapt organisms to their environments. The explanation for this often takes for granted that random genetic variation produces at least some benefic...

    Authors: Miguel Brun-Usan, Alfredo Rago, Christoph Thies, Tobias Uller and Richard A. Watson
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:205
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  47. To understand which reproductive barriers initiate speciation is a major question in evolutionary research. Despite their high species numbers and specific biology, there are only few studies on speciation in ...

    Authors: Pawel Malec, Justus Weber, Robin Böhmer, Marc Fiebig, Denise Meinert, Carolin Rein, Ronja Reinisch, Maik Henrich, Viktoria Polyvas, Marie Pollmann, Lea von Berg, Christian König and Johannes L. M. Steidle
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:204
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  48. Sri Lanka is a continental island separated from India by the Palk Strait, a shallow-shelf sea, which was emergent during periods of lowered sea level. Its biodiversity is concentrated in its perhumid south-we...

    Authors: Hiranya Sudasinghe, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Jayampathi Herath, Kumudu Wijesooriya, Rohan Pethiyagoda, Lukas Rüber and Madhava Meegaskumbura
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:203
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  49. Dinosaurs dominated terrestrial environments for over 100 million years due in part to innovative feeding strategies. Although a range of dental adaptations was present in Late Jurassic dinosaurs, it is unclea...

    Authors: Keegan M. Melstrom, Luis M. Chiappe and Nathan D. Smith
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:202
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  50. Autotetraploid Carassius auratus (4n = 200, RRRR) (abbreviated as 4nRR) is derived from whole genome duplication of Carassius auratus red var. (2n = 100, RR) (abbreviated as RCC). Ribosome DNA (rDNA) is often use...

    Authors: Chun Zhao, Yuxin Zhang, Huan Qin, Chongqing Wang, Xu Huang, Li Yang, Tingting Yu, Xidan Xu, Xiang Luo, Qinbo Qin and Shaojun Liu
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021 21:201
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