Association of hard fescue (Festuca brevipila) stress tolerances with genome mapped markers

B Bushman, M Robbins, Y Qiu, E Watkins… - Crop …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hard fescue is an allo‐hexaploid, caespitose, cool‐season grass that is part of the fine‐
leaved ovina complex of the Lolium–Festuca clade in Poaceae. It is predominantly used as …

[HTML][HTML] Low genetic diversity and small effective population size in the endangered Hopea reticulata (Dipterocarpaceae) on Hainan Island, China

L Tang, J Duan, Y Cai, W Wang, Y Liu - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Hopea reticulata Tardieu (Dipterocarpaceae) represents a critically endangered
tree species primarily confined to the Ganza Ridge of Hainan Island, China, with a couple of …

The dilemma of underestimating freshwater biodiversity: morphological and molecular approaches

A Schoenle, D Scepanski, A Floß, P Büchel… - BMC Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Background Anthropogenic impacts on freshwater habitats are causing a recent biodiversity
decline far greater than that documented for most terrestrial ecosystems. However …

An historical “wreck”: A transcriptome assembly of the naval shipworm, Teredo navalis Linnaeus, 1978

A Gomes-dos-Santos, M Domingues, R Ruivo… - Marine Genomics, 2024 - Elsevier
Historically famous for their negative impact on human-built marine wood structures, mollusc
shipworms play a central ecological role in marine ecosystems. Their association with …

Towards reliable detection of introgression in the presence of among-species rate variation

T Koppetsch, M Malinsky, M Matschiner - Systematic biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The role of interspecific hybridization has recently seen increasing attention, especially in
the context of diversification dynamics. Genomic research has now made it abundantly clear …

Genomic richness enables worldwide invasive success

C Galià-Camps, T Schell, C Pegueroles, D Baranski… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity. Therefore, monitoring genomic
features of invasive species is crucial to understand their population structure and adaptive …

[HTML][HTML]  Philippine herpetology (Amphibia, Reptilia), 20 years on: two decades of progress towards an increasingly collaborative, equitable, and inclusive approach to …

CG Meneses, KME Pitogo, CE Supsup, RM Brown - ZooKeys, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract A first review of the history, status, and prospects for Philippine herpetology
conducted more than two decades ago (2002) summarized the diverse topics studied and …

Small but mitey: long-read assembly of a streamlined mite genome from contaminated host plant sequencing data

SH Chen, A Jones, P Lu-Irving, JYS Yap… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Technological advances have propelled DNA sequencing of non-model organisms, making
sequencing more accessible and cost effective, which has also increased the availability of …

A highly contiguous reference genome for the Alpine ibex (Capra ibex)

FG Çilingir, F Landuzzi, A Brambilla, D Charrance… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Anthropogenic hybridization, the unintentional hybridization with a non-native or domestic
species in human-dominated environments, is a major concern for species conservation and …

On the potential for GWAS with phenotypic population means and allele-frequency data (popGWAS)

M Pfenninger - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
This study explores the potential of a novel genome-wide association study (GWAS)
approach for identifying loci underlying quantitative polygenic traits in natural populations …