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Fungal heat shock proteins: molecular phylogenetic insights into the host takeover Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Abstract Heat shock proteins are constitutively expressed chaperones induced by cellular stress, such as changes in temperature, pH, and osmolarity. These proteins, present in all organisms, are highly conserved and are recruited for the assembly of protein complexes, transport, and compartmentalization of molecules. In fungi, these proteins are related to their adaptation to the environment, their
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Ice cage: new records and cryptic, isolated lineages in wingless snow flies (Diptera, Limoniidae: Chionea spp.) in German lower mountain ranges Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13
Abstract In Earth’s history warm and cold periods have alternated. Especially, during the Pleistocene, the alternation between these different climatic conditions has led to frequent range expansions and retractions of many species: while thermophilic species dispersed during warm periods, cold adapted species retracted to cold refugia and vice versa. After the last Pleistocene cycle many cold adapted
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Japanese honey bees (Apis cerana japonica) have swarmed more often over the last two decades Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Kiyohito Morii, Yoshiko Sakamoto
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Plumage and eggshell colouration covary with the level of sex-specific parental contributions to nest building in birds Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jenő Nagy, Mark E. Hauber, Viktor Löki, Mark C. Mainwaring
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Function of snail shell hairs in anti-predator defense Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Nozomu Sato, Akihiro Yoshikawa
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Quasispecies productivity Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-19
Abstract The quasispecies theory is a helpful concept in the explanation of RNA virus evolution and behaviour, with a relevant impact on methods used to fight viral diseases. It has undergone some adaptations to integrate new empirical data, especially the non-deterministic nature of mutagenesis, and the variety of behavioural motifs in cooperation, competition, communication, innovation, integration
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Life in a Central European warm-temperate to subtropical open forest: Paleoecology of the rhinocerotids from Ulm-Westtangente (Aquitanian, Early Miocene, Germany) Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Manon Hullot, Céline Martin, Cécile Blondel, Gertrud E. Rössner
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A novel approach using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometric analysis to distinguish male and female human hair samples Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Sukriti Thakur, Akanksha Sharma, Rafał Cieśla, Pawan Kumar Mishra, Vishal Sharma
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New insights into endolithic palaeocommunity development in mobile hard substrate using CT imaging of bioeroded clasts from the Pliocene (Almería, SE Spain) Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Weronika Łaska, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, Alfred Uchman
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Influences of sociality and maternal size on reproductive strategies: trade-offs between offspring size and quantity in five Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae) Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05
Abstract Individuals can experience accentuated disputes for resources when living with many conspecifics, even in situations in which cooperative behaviors assure benefits associated with an increase in the frequency of food acquisition and in diet breadth. Thus, intraspecific competition may exert a significant selective pressure on social animals. Theoretical models suggest that females of social
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UV-induced feather color change reflects its porphyrin content Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Masaru Hasegawa, Emi Arai, Shosuke Ito, Kazumasa Wakamatsu
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One elephant may sustain 2 million dung beetles in East African savannason any given day Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Frank-Thorsten Krell, Sylvia Krell-Westerwalbesloh
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Competition through ritualized aggressive interactions between sympatric colonies in solitary foraging neotropical ants Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30
Abstract Understanding the structure of food competition between conspecifics in their natural settings is paramount to addressing more complex questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation. While much research on ants focuses on aggressive food competition between large and foraging trail-using societies, we lack a thorough understanding of inter-colony competition in socially less derived, solitarily
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Harlequin frog tadpoles—comparative buccopharyngeal morphology in the gastromyzophorous tadpoles of the genus Atelopus (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae), with discussion on the phylogenetic and evolutionary implication of characters Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Pedro Henrique dos Santos Dias, Marvin Anganoy-Criollo
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Drivers of flower visit and resource sharing between the honeybee and native bees in Neotropical coastal sand dunes Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Carlos Pinilla Cruz, Brenda Ratoni, Fabricio Villalobos, Ricardo Ayala, Ismael Hinojoza-Díaz, Wesley Dáttilo
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Subterranean termites raise the alarm when their anti-fungal weapon falters Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Bhawana Luitel, Ajijola J. Johnson, Mark S. Bulmer
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Branched tyramides from males of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Tappey H. Jones, Satya P. Chinta, Robert K. Vander Meer, Kaitie C. Cartwright
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Study of repertoire use reveals unexpected context-dependent vocalizations in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Alessandro Gallo, Alice De Moura Lima, Martin Böye, Martine Hausberger, Alban Lemasson
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Development, detection and decipherment of obfuscated fingerprints in humans: Implications for forensic casework Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Tej Kaur, Nandini Chitara, Ankita Guleria, Rakesh Meena, Damini Siwan, Deepika Rani, Kawaljit Kaur, Vishal Sharma, Tanuj Kanchan, Kewal Krishan
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Species-specific traits affect bird species’ susceptibility to global change Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Javier Rivas-Salvador, Jiři Reif
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Reflections upon a new definition of life Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Jaime Gómez-Márquez
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Modelling the effects of climate and land-cover changes on the potential distribution and landscape connectivity of three earth snakes (Genus Conopsis, Günther 1858) in central Mexico Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Armando Sunny, Javier Manjarrez, Carmen Caballero-Viñas, René Bolom-Huet, Yuriana Gómez-Ortiz, Hublester Domínguez-Vega, Rosa Laura Heredia-Bobadilla, Erik Joaquín Torres-Romero, Andrea González-Fernández
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Phoretic behavior of the pseudoscorpion Megachernes ryugadensis on the Japanese wood mouse Apodemus speciosus Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Takuya Shimada, Kimiko Okabe, Shun’ichi Makino, Shoko Nakamura, Saori Fujii
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The first healed injury in a hyolith operculum Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Oldřich Fatka, Martin Valent, Petr Budil
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Epidermal and subepidermal changes during the formation of hairy galls induced by Eriophyidae on Avicennia schaueriana leaves Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Leticia Ponticel Nobrega, Bárbara de Sá Haiad, Bruno Garcia Ferreira
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Integument colouration and circulating carotenoids in relation to urbanisation in Eurasian kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Petra Sumasgutner, Tom Nilles, Alba Hykollari, Manuela Merling de Chapa, Caroline Isaksson, Lukas Hochleitner, Swen Renner, Leonida Fusani
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Homeotic transformation in a terrestrial isopod: insights into the appendage identity in crustaceans Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Naoto Inui, Toru Miura
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Cohesion depends on kinship but no permanent leadership in larval societies of a Neotropical butterfly Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Daniela Rodrigues, Felipe Lee Pinheiro Machado
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Osmophores and petal surface traits in Bignonieae species Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Karise Mamede Macedo, Priscila Tunes, Letícia de Almeida Gonçalves, Yve Canaveze, Elza Guimarães, Silvia Rodrigues Machado
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Spiro’s portrait of Arnold Berliner—a testimonial to a deep friendship Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Stefan L. Wolff
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A new large pantherine and a sabre-toothed cat (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the late Miocene hominoid-bearing Khorat sand pits, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, northeastern Thailand Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 L. de Bonis, Y. Chaimanee, C. Grohé, O. Chavasseau, A. Mazurier, K. Suraprasit, J.J. Jaeger
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Inferring the lifestyles of extinct Crocodyliformes using osteoderm ornamentation Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Mariana Valéria de Araújo Sena, Jorge Cubo
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On the way from Asia to America: eutriconodontan mammals from the Early Cretaceous of Yakutia, Russia Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Alexander O. Averianov, Thomas Martin, Alexey V. Lopatin, Pavel P. Skutschas, Dmitry D. Vitenko, Rico Schellhorn, Petr N. Kolosov
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The 2023 Arnold Berliner Award for research on spider photoreceptors Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Matthias Waltert
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Diet composition of wild columbiform birds: next-generation sequencing of plant and metazoan DNA in faecal samples Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Yvonne R. Schumm, Juan F. Masello, Jennifer Vreugdenhil-Rowlands, Dominik Fischer, Klaus Hillerich, Petra Quillfeldt
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Female solitary bees flexibly change foraging behaviour according to their floral resource requirements and foraging experiences Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Yuta Nagano, Naoto Wabiko, Tomoyuki Yokoi
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Evidence of a thoracic crop in workers, soldiers, and queens of Carebara perpusilla ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Adam Khalife, Johan Billen, Evan P. Economo
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A method for estimating colony size using queen fecundity in termites under field conditions Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Mamoru Takata, Kiyotaka Yabe, Takuya Noro, Shun Mizote, Takao Konishi, Eisuke Tasaki, Kenji Matsuura
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The written history of plant phenology: shaping primary sources for secondary publications Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Jari Holopainen, Samuli Helama, Henry Väre
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Animals evoking fear in the Cradle of Humankind: snakes, scorpions, and large carnivores Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Daniel Frynta, Hassan Sh Abdirahman Elmi, Kateřina Rexová, Markéta Janovcová, Veronika Rudolfová, Iveta Štolhoferová, David Král, David Sommer, Daniel Alex Berti, Petra Frýdlová
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Is it possible to estimate sex from signatures and handwriting? A review of literature, observations, and future perspectives Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Rakesh Meena, Kewal Krishan, Abhik Ghosh, Tanuj Kanchan
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Trees harbouring ants are better defended than con-generic and sympatric ant-free trees Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Inácio José de Melo Teles e Gomes, Matheus Oliveira Neves, Lucas Navarro Paolucci
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Eurasian beavers in Central Italy: perceptions in the local community Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Andrea Viviano, Roger E. Auster, Giuseppe Mazza, Alessandro Lagrotteria, Chiara Pucci, Davide Senserini, Roisin Campbell-Palmer, Robert Needham, Davide Curci, Emiliano Mori
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Eggs in faeces: defensive mechanisms and effects of faecal coating by a water scavenger beetle, Coelostoma stultum (Coleopterea: Hydrophilidae) Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Ryosuke Matsushima, Tomoyuki Yokoi
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Wings are not perfect: increased wing asymmetry in a tropical butterfly as a response to forest fragmentation Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Thaís Pignataro, Giselle Martins Lourenço, Marina Beirão, Tatiana Cornelissen
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The maxillary canal of the titanosuchid Jonkeria (Synapsida, Dinocephalia) Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Julien Benoit, Luke A. Norton, Sifelani Jirah
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Are males just passive? Coupling mechanism of the Brazilian cave insects with inverted genitalia Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Zixin Cheng, Yoshitaka Kamimura, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Charles Lienhard, Kazunori Yoshizawa
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Chemical signatures of egg maternity and Dufour’s gland in Vespine wasps Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Rafael Carvalho da Silva, Fabio Santos do Nascimento, Tom Wenseleers, Cintia Akemi Oi
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Unexpected discovery: an enclave of East-Siberian plants in Northern Europe Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Igor Popov
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Visual antipredator effects of web flexing in an orb web spider, with special reference to web decorations Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Luis E. Robledo-Ospina, Nathan Morehouse, Federico Escobar, Horacio Tapia-McClung, Ajay Narendra, Dinesh Rao
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Pigmentary colouration of hairy carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Doekele G. Stavenga
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An evaluation of the three-component pubic symphyseal human age estimation method: a CT-based exploration in an Indian population Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Varsha Warrier, Rutwik Shedge, Pawan Kumar Garg, Shilpi Gupta Dixit, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan
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Wild social behavior differs following experimental loss of vision in social hermit crabs Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Elliott P. Steele, Mark E. Laidre
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Morphology, anatomy and sleep movements of Ludwigia sedoides Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Katharina Heyder, Christoph Neinhuis, Thea Lautenschläger
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Effects of floral symmetry and orientation on the consistency of pollinator entry angle Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Nina Jirgal, Kazuharu Ohashi
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Complex preference relationships between native and non-native angiosperms and foraging insect visitors in a suburban greenspace under field and laboratory conditions Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Scarlett R. Howard, Matthew R. E. Symonds
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Impact of genetic relatedness on reproductive behavior in Pelvicachromis pulcher, a biparental cichlid fish with mutual mate choice and ornamentation Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Leonie Gussone, Anna Hüllen, Simon Vitt, Ulrike Scherer, Timo Thünken
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Bactericidal activity of Ag nanoparticles biosynthesized from Capsicum annuum pericarps against phytopathogenic Clavibacter michiganensis Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Oleksandr Smirnov, Vitalii Kalynovskyi, Pavlina Zelena, Yuliia Yumyna, Volodymyr Dzhagan, Mariia Kovalenko, Yevheniia Konotop, Nataliya Taran
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Bombus terrestris terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) and hybrids with the endemic Bombus xanthopus spotted on Capraia Island (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy): some conservation management implications Sci. Nat. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Chiara Benedetta Boni, Francesca Coppola, Marino Quaranta, Francesca Giannini, Antonio Felicioli