Highlights•Glaciers act as cold condensers where the deposition of contaminants is
favored.•Cryoconite holes are efficient traps for contaminants and are biologically active …

The pericentric satellite III (SatIII or Sat3) and II tandem repeats recently appeared to be
transcribed under stress conditions, and the transcripts were shown to play an essential role …

Glaciers are considered secondary sources of pollutants, including radioisotopes such as
Cesium or Plutonium, with heightened concentrations compared to other ecosystems. The …

Overharvesting is a serious threat to many fish populations. High mortality and directional
selection on body size can cause evolutionary change in exploited populations via selection …

Many fisheries exert directional selection on traits such as body size and growth rate.
Whether directional selection impacts regions of the genome associated with traits related to …

ABSTRACT DNA in eukaryotic genomes is under constant assault from both exogenous and
endogenous sources, leading to DNA damage, which is considered a major molecular …

Animals host complex bacterial communities in their gastrointestinal tracts, with which they
share a mutualistic interaction. The numerous effects these interactions grant to the host …

Estimating the consequences of environmental changes, specifically in a global change
context, is essential for conservation issues. In the case of pollutants, the interest in using an …

Evidence that exposure to environmental pollutants can alter the gut microbiota composition
of wildlife includes studies of rodents exposed to radionuclides. Antwis et al.(2021) used …

Miniature refers to species with extraordinarily small adult body size when adult and can be
found within all major metazoan groups. It is considered that miniature species have …