期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Family Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats), Hipposideridae (leaf-nosed bats) and Rhinonycteridae (trident bats) are exclusively distributed in t......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background As the major suppliers of food for higher consumers, phytoplankton are closely related to the yield, nutritional ingredients and even toxin......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
The arms race between humans and pathogens drives the evolution of the human genome. It is thus expected that genes from the interferon-regulatory fac......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background A small hyolith, with a triangular operculum and a conical-pyramidal conch with a sharp apex, originally documented as Ambrolinevitus ventr......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background During the past three decades, sustained population decline or disappearance of cycles in small rodents have been observed. Both anthropoge......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Laurasiatheria contains taxa with diverse diets, while the molecular basis and evolutionary history underlying their dietary diversificatio......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Previous cytogenetic studies show that the karyotypes of species in Ciconiiformes vary considerably, from 2n = 52 to 78. Their karyotypes i......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variations are often associated with bioenergetics, disease, and speciation and can be used to track the history ......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Artificial fishery habitat has been widely used in fishery resource protection and water habitat restoration. Although the bacterioplankton......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background The genus Ligusticum belongs to Apiaceae, and its taxonomy has long been a major difficulty. A robust phylogenetic tree is the basis of acc......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Guangdedendron micrum is the Late Devonian tree lycopsid that made up Xinhang fossil forest in Anhui, China, showing the earliest stigmaria......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background The metabolic cold-climate adaption hypothesis predicts that animals from cold environments have relatively high metabolic rates compared w......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background: The phylogenetic ecology of the Afro-Asian dragonfly genus Trithemis has been investigated previously by Damm et al. (in Mol Phylogenet Ev......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background The ecology and evolution of phoretic mites and termites have not been well studied. In particular, it is unknown whether the specific rela......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Social wasps Polistes, Ropalidia, and Parapolybia, belonging to the subfamily Polistinae, have obviously different distribution patterns, y......