Biodiversity conservation is a global issue where the challenge is to integrate all levels of
biodiversity to ensure the long‐term evolutionary potential and resilience of biological …

Mediterranean rivers are probably one of the most singular and endangered ecosystems
worldwide due to the presence of many endemic species and a long history of …

Each year ecotoxicological problems become increasingly complex and encompass
broader spatial and temporal scales. Our practical understanding must evolve accordingly to …

Methylation of cytosines is a prototypic epigenetic modification of the DNA. It has been
implicated in various regulatory mechanisms across the animal kingdom and particularly in …

Many pollutants cause endocrine disruption in aquatic organisms. While studies of the direct
effects of toxicants on exposed organisms are commonplace, little is known about the …

Blood analyses have great potential in studies of ecology, ecotoxicology and veterinary
science in wild vertebrates based on advances in human and domestic animal medicine …

Identifying the molecular basis of environmentally induced phenotypic variation presents
exciting opportunities for furthering our understanding of how ecological processes and the …

Endocrine‐disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can alter biological function in organisms at
environmentally relevant concentrations and are a significant threat to aquatic biodiversity …

Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) is a transcriptional regulator that is highly abundant
in the brain. It binds to methylated genomic DNA to regulate a range of physiological …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) approaches contributing to species identifications are quickly
becoming the new norm in biomonitoring and ecosystem assessments. Yet, information …