Recent advances in museomics: revolutionizing biodiversity research

JJ Fong, MPK Blom, A Aowphol, JA McGuire… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Museomics, a term coined by Drs. Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller in∼ 2009, refers to
“the large-scale analysis of the DNA content of museum collections”(http://mammoth. psu …

[HTML][HTML] Insights on the existence of ancient glacial refugee in the Northern Black/Azov Sea Lowland, with the description of the first stygobiotic microcrustacean …

IN Marin, DM Palatov - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
A new species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Crustacea: Amphipoda:
Niphargidae), co-existing with other stygobiotic amphipods, Diasynurella kiwi Marin and …

Movement of Southern European aquatic alien invertebrate species to the north and south

A Dobrzycka-Krahel - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to globalisation and anthropopressure (intensification of shipping, creation of water
corridors connecting seas, cultivation of commercial species), the movement of aquatic …

Disentangling structural and functional responses of native versus alien communities by canonical ordination analyses and variation partitioning with multiple matrices

I Sîrbu, AM Benedek, BL Brown, M Sîrbu - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Freshwaters are under accelerated human pressure, and mollusk communities are among
its most sensitive, threatened, and valuable components. To the best of our knowledge, the …

Keyhole into a Lost World: The First Purely Freshwater Species of the Ponto-Caspian Genus Clathrocaspia (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae)

VV Anistratenko, DM Palatov, EM Chertoprud… - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
The species of the Ponto-Caspian gastropod genus Clathrocaspia Lindholm, 1930 have
been recorded so far from the Caspian Sea Basin only from marine waters, whereas they …

The first records of Niphargus hrabei and N. potamophilus in Ukraine and Bulgaria significantly enlarge the ranges of these species

H Morhun, MO Son, T Rewicz… - The European …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Niphargus comprises hundreds of narrowly-endemic West Palaearctic subterranean taxa.
However, a few exceptional species inhabit surface waters and have remarkably large …

Legal framework for pontocaspian biodiversity conservation in the Danube Delta (Romania and Ukraine)

A Gogaladze, JC Biesmeijer, MO Son… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The declining biodiversity has upsetting consequences for social and economic
development and represents a major concern for humanity. Legal and political framework …

Poor hDNA-derived NGS data may provide sufficient phylogenetic information of potentially extinct taxa

C Clewing, C Kehlmaier, B Stelbrink… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Museum material is an important source of metadata for past and recent biological events.
With current sequencing technologies, it is possible to obtain historical DNA (hDNA) from …

New official Bulgarian list of seafood trade names: coping with EU labelling requirements and market trends to enhance consumers' informed choice

L Tinacci, D Stratev, M Strateva, G Zhelyazkov… - Journal of Consumer …, 2022 - Springer
The present study aimed at assessing the validity and accuracy of the new official Bulgarian
list of seafood trade names in compliance with EU requirements, and the list evolution and …

Not a Silent Invasion: The Reaction of European Naturalists to the Spread of Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) in the 19th—Early 20th Century

MV Vinarski - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The case of naturalization of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771), in
countries lying beyond its native Ponto–Caspian range is remarkable as one of the first …