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  1. Lygodactylus geckos represent a well-documented radiation of miniaturized lizards with diverse life-history traits that are widely distributed in Africa, Madagascar, and South America. The group has diversified i...

    Authors: Javier Lobón-Rovira, Jesus Marugán-Lobón, Sergio M. Nebreda, David Buckley, Edward L. Stanley, Stephanie Köhnk, Frank Glaw, Werner Conradie and Aaron M. Bauer
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:150
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  3. Citizen Science (CS) offers a promising approach to enhance data collection and engage communities in conservation efforts. This study evaluates the use of CS in environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring for Mediter...

    Authors: Sofia Bonicalza, Elena Valsecchi, Emanuele Coppola, Valeria Capatano and Harriet Thatcher
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:148
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  4. The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is one of the carnivore species that frequently comes into conflict with humans. These conflicts are attributed to their scavenging foraging behaviour and their ability to occu...

    Authors: Noela Samwel Hello, Rosemary Peter Mramba and Doreen Jeremiah Mrimi
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:147
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  5. Under the background of global climate change, climate warming has led to an increase in insect herbivory, which significantly affects the growth, survival, and regeneration of forest plants in the warm temper...

    Authors: Ning Wang, Qiang Li, Pan Wu, Shijie Yi, Hongliang Ji, Xiao Liu and Tongli He
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:146
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  7. Evolutionary divergence and genetic variation are often linked to differences in microbial community structure and diversity. While environmental factors and diet heavily influence gut microbial communities, h...

    Authors: Hugo Pereira, Nayden Chakarov, Barbara A. Caspers, Marc Gilles, William Jones, Tafitasoa Mijoro, Sama Zefania, Tamás Székely, Oliver Krüger and Joseph I. Hoffman
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:144
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  8. The invasion of non-native species into ecosystems is a growing human-induced problem. To control their spread and population growth, knowledge is needed on the factors that facilitate or impede their invasion...

    Authors: Alfredo Escanciano Gómez, Charlotte Ipenburg and Ulrika Candolin
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:143
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  9. We focus on Haldane’s familial selection in monogamous families in a diploid population, where the survival probability of each sibling is determined by altruistic food sharing with its siblings during starvat...

    Authors: József Garay, Inmaculada López, Zoltán Varga, Villő Csiszár and Tamás F. Móri
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:142
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  10. Floodplains harbor highly biodiverse ecosystems, which have been strongly affected by both past climate change and by recent human activities, resulting in a high prevalence of many endangered species in these...

    Authors: Keisuke Onuki, Ryosuke K. Ito, Tappei Mishina, Yasuyuki Hashiguchi, Koki Ikeya, Kazuhiko Uehara, Masaki Nishio, Ryoichi Tabata, Seiichi Mori and Katsutoshi Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:141
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  11. Understanding the interplay between genetic drift, natural selection, gene flow, and demographic history in driving phenotypic and genomic differentiation of insular populations can help us gain insight into t...

    Authors: María Recuerda, Julio César Hernández Montoya, Guillermo Blanco and Borja Milá
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:140
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  12. Montane ecosystems play crucial roles as global biodiversity hotspots. However, climatic changes and anthropogenic pressure increasingly threaten the stability of montane community dynamics, such as diversity-...

    Authors: Kenneth Otieno Onditi, Noé U. de la Sancha, Simon Musila, Esther Kioko and Xuelong Jiang
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:139
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  13. Geographic distribution, as well as evolutionary and biogeographic processes and patterns of marine invertebrate benthic species are strongly shaped by dispersal ability during the life cycle. Remote oceanic i...

    Authors: Livia Sinigaglia, L Baptista, C Alves, F Feldmann, C Sacchetti, C Rupprecht, T Vijayan, E Martín-González, SP Ávila, AM Santos, M Curto and H Meimberg
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:138
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  14. The ecological importance of great apes is widely recognised, yet few studies have highlighted the role of protecting great apes’ habitats in mitigating climate change, particularly through carbon sequestratio...

    Authors: Prince Degny Vale, Ernest Dadis Bush Fotsing, Samedi Jean Pierre Mucyo, Williams Danladi Abwage, Serge Ely Dibakou, Kouame Paul N’Goran, Tenekwetche Sop, Yntze van der Hoek, Stefanie Heinicke, Lars Kulik, Inza Kone and Hjalmar Kuehl
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:137
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  15. This review compiles and synthesises the existing information concerning non-native poeciliid introductions to Africa. The recent upsurge in research on invasive poeciliids has revealed their widespread occurr...

    Authors: Joshua Pritchard Cairns, Pedro Henrique Negreiros de Bragança and Josie South
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:136
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  16. A terrace in a phylogenetic tree space is a region where all trees contain the same set of subtrees, due to certain patterns of missing data among the taxa sampled, resulting in an identical optimality score f...

    Authors: Mursalin Habib, Kowshic Roy, Saem Hasan, Atif Hasan Rahman and Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:135
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  17. Great apes are a global conservation concern, with anthropogenic pressures threatening their survival. Genetic analysis can be used to assess the effects of reduced population sizes and the effectiveness of co...

    Authors: Ettore Fedele, Jon H. Wetton and Mark A. Jobling
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:134
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  18. In order to clarify the chloroplast genomes and structural features of ten Ilex species and provide insights into the phylogeny and genome evolution of the genus Ilex, we conducted a comparative analysis of chlor...

    Authors: Jiaxin Hu, Daoliang Yan, Huwei Yuan, Jianhong Zhang and Bingsong Zheng
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:133
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  19. Fish early-stages constitute useful indicators of the states of marine ecosystems, as well as important fishery resources. Given the spectacular phenotypic changes during ontogeny, and the paucity of diagnosti...

    Authors: Changping Jiang, Fengming Liu, Jiao Qin, Nicolas Hubert, Bin Kang, Liangliang Huang and Yunrong Yan
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:132
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  20. The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) subspecies exhibit local adaptive traits that evolved in response to the different environments that characterize their native distribution ranges. An important trait is the...

    Authors: Daniel Sebastián Rodríguez-León, Aleksandar Uzunov, Cecilia Costa, Dylan Elen, Leonidas Charistos, Thomas Galea, Martin Gabel, Ricarda Scheiner, M. Alice Pinto and Thomas Schmitt
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:131
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  21. Heelwalkers possess a highly modified tarsal attachment system. All extant species lift the distalmost tarsomere permanently off the substrate and primarily use their euplantulae for locomotion. The combinatio...

    Authors: Thies H. Büscher, Stanislav N. Gorb and Monika J. B. Eberhard
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:130
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  22. Sanniang Bay (SNB) and Dafeng River (DFR), located in the northern Beibu Gulf, is well-known as one of the eight habitats for humpback dolphins in China. This region is representative of typical estuarine and ...

    Authors: Zheng Xiong, Zongsheng Xie, Haochen Li, Chunyan Peng, Jixin Jia, Xiaobo Liu, Jingjing Song, Ying Liu, Yuyue Qin and Bin Gong
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:129
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  23. With the advances in high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatic pipelines, mitochondrial genomes have become increasingly popular for phylogenetic analyses across different clades of invertebrates. Despite t...

    Authors: Franziska S. Bergmeier, Andreas Brachmann, Kevin M. Kocot, Francesca Leasi, Albert J. Poustka, Michael Schrödl, Joseph L. Sevigny, W. Kelley Thomas, Christiane Todt and Katharina M. Jörger
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:128
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  24. Isolating phylogenetic signal from morphological data is crucial for accurately merging fossils into the tree of life and for calibrating molecular dating. However, subjective character definition is a major l...

    Authors: Emma J. Holvast, Mélina A. Celik, Matthew J. Phillips and Laura A. B. Wilson
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:127
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  25. Some snakes emit hissing calls which are imitated by birds to deter potential predators. However, the effect of these snake and bird hisses on anuran risk recognition is not yet explored. Here we hypothesize t...

    Authors: Longhui Zhao, Yuanyu Qin, Yanjun Jin, Jichao Wang and Wei Liang
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:126
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  26. Few animal populations have been studied under the framework of the OCBIL theory, which addresses the ecology and evolution of biodiversity on old climatically buffered infertile landscapes. Available genetic ...

    Authors: Philippe J. R. Kok, Tessa L. Broholm, Loïc van Doorn, Bruno Ferreto Fiorillo and Carl Smith
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:125
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  27. Invasive species such as Xanthium strumarium L., can disrupt ecosystems, reduce crop yields, and degrade pastures, leading to economic losses and jeopardizing food security and biodiversity. To address the challe...

    Authors: Muhammad Waheed, Sheikh Marifatul Haq, Fahim Arshad, Ivana Vitasović-Kosić, Rainer W. Bussmann, Abeer Hashem and Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:124
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  28. White forsythia (Abeliophyllum distichum) is an endangered Korean Peninsula endemic that has been subjected to recent population genomics studies using SNPs via RAD sequencing. Here, we primarily employed the oft...

    Authors: Homervergel G. Ong, Eui‑Kwon Jung, Yong‑In Kim, Jung‑Hoon Lee, Bo‑Yun Kim, Dae-Hyun Kang, Jae-Seo Shin and Young‑Dong Kim
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:123
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  29. Hybrids are expected to show greater phenotypic variation than their parental species, yet how hybrid phenotype expression varies with genetic distances in closely-related parental species remains surprisingly...

    Authors: Joanna Malukiewicz, Kerryn Warren, Vanner Boere, Illaira L. C. Bandeira, Nelson H. A. Curi, Fabio T. das Dores, Lilian S. Fitorra, Haroldo R. Furuya, Claudia S. Igayara, Liliane Milanelo, Silvia B. Moreira, Camila V. Molina, Marcello S. Nardi, Patricia A. Nicola, Marcelo Passamani, Valeria S. Pedro…
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:122
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  30. The evolution of extracellular matrix is tightly linked to the evolution of organogenesis in metazoans. Tenascins are extracellular matrix glycoproteins of chordates that participate in integrin-signaling and ...

    Authors: Josephine C. Adams and Richard P. Tucker
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:121
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  31. Mollusca is a morphologically diverse phylum, exhibiting an immense variety of calcium carbonate structures. Proteomic studies of adult shells often report high levels of rapidly-evolving, ‘novel’ shell matrix...

    Authors: Rebecca N. Lopez-Anido, Grant O. Batzel, Gabriela Ramirez, Yiqun Wang, Stephanie Neal, Maryna P. Lesoway, Jessica A. Goodheart and Deirdre C. Lyons
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:120
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  32. Volvocales in green algae have evolved by multicellularity of Chlamydomonas-like unicellular ancestor. Those with various cell numbers exist, such as unicellular Chlamydomonas, four-celled Tetrabaena, and Volvox ...

    Authors: Noriko Ueki and Ken-ichi Wakabayashi
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:119
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  33. Microbiota plays an essential role in fish growth and health and may be influenced by the changing environmental conditions. Here, we explored the microbiota of wild common sole, one of the most important fish...

    Authors: Marco Basili, Laura Sabatini, Giulio Pellini, Naomi Massaccesi, Elena Manini, Fortunata Donato, Giuseppe Scarcella, Gian Marco Luna and Grazia Marina Quero
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:118
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  34. Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) plays a critical role in the ecology and economy of Western North America. This conifer species comprises two distinct varieties: the coastal variety (var. menzi...

    Authors: Pablo Peláez, Gustavo P. Lorenzana, Kailey Baesen, Jose Ruben Montes and Amanda R. De La Torre
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:117
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  36. Rivea ornata, a rare species from the morning glory family, exhibits uncommon characteristics compared to other typical morning glories, including nocturnal flowers that fit the classic moth pollination syndrome....

    Authors: Natthaphong Chitchak, Alyssa B. Stewart and Paweena Traiperm
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:115
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  37. Shellfish reef restoration is relatively new in Australia, particularly to intertidal estuarine environments. In late 2019/early 2020 the first large-scale shellfish reef restoration project of the Sydney rock...

    Authors: Victoria J Cole, David Harasti, S Kirk Dahle and Kylie Russell
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:114
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  39. Artificial linear landscape elements, including roads, pipelines, and drainage channels, are main sources of global habitat fragmentation. Restoration of natural habitats on unused linear landscape elements ca...

    Authors: Orsolya Valkó, András Kelemen, Orsolya Kiss, Zoltán Bátori, Réka Kiss and Balázs Deák
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:112
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  40. Anthropogenic threats are causing alteration of coastal areas worldwide. Most of the coastal biodiversity is endangered, taking a particular toll on island ecosystems, like the Azores. To better understand the...

    Authors: Rúben M. Correia Rego, Mónica Moura, Maria Olangua-Corral, Guilherme Roxo, Roberto Resendes and Luís Silva
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:111
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  42. The songs of birds are complex signals that may have several functions and vary widely among species. Different ecological, behavioural and morphological factors, as well as phylogeny, have been associated as ...

    Authors: Natália S. Porzio, Angelica Crottini, Rafael N. Leite and Paulo G. Mota
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:109
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  43. In 2024, researchers from around the world entered the joint BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition. The photos, a celebration of the wonders and mysteries of the natural world, emphasise the...

    Authors: Jennifer Harman, Marie-Therese Nödl, Brock Fenton, Christy A. Hipsley, David A. Liberles, Edward Narayan, Josef Settele and Arne Traulsen
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:102
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  44. It has been widely demonstrated that air and sand temperatures influence the anatomy of sea turtle hatchlings. We examined the impact of precipitation during the nesting season on the hatchling body size of lo...

    Authors: Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández, Parima Parsi-Pour, John A. Nyakatura, Jeanette Wyneken and Ingmar Werneburg
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:108
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  45. Biogeographic barriers to gene flow are central to studies of plant phylogeography. There are many physical and geographic barriers in China, but few studies have used molecular ecological evidence to investig...

    Authors: Chunxue Jiang, Tian Shi, Zhongmei Mo and Cai Zhao
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:107
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  46. Understanding how endangered species respond to climatic changes is fundamental for their conservation. Due to its restricted geographic range, its sensitivity to the ongoing global warming and its continuing ...

    Authors: Filippo Milano, Gabriele Casazza, Andrea Galimberti, Davide Maggioni and Marco Isaia
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:106
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  47. Even though the high plateaus of Qinghai-Tibet and Iran share many faunal elements, the historical biogeography of the species present in this area are not very well understood. We present a complete COI barco...

    Authors: Vazrick Nazari, Vladimir Lukhtanov, Alireza Naderi, Costantino Della Bruna, Reza Zahiri, Donatella Cesaroni, Valerio Sbordoni and Valentina Todisco
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:105
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  48. Understanding connections between biodiversity and ecosystem services can be enhanced by shifting focus from species richness to functional trait-based approaches, that when paired with comparative phylogeneti...

    Authors: Olivia M. Bernauer, Michael G. Branstetter, James M. Cook and Simon M. Tierney
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:104
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  49. Tongoloa is a genus comprising approximately 20 species, primarily distributed in the mountainous regions of southwest China. The insufficiency of specimen materials and morphological similarities among species r...

    Authors: Lingjian Gui, Chang Peng, Liying Yu, Lijia Liu, Shugen Wei, Zhigang Yan, Xiaomei Zhang, Songdong Zhou and Xingjin He
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:103
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  50. Epidemic of Cashew Fusarium wilt disease (CFWD) has been a continuous focal challenge in the cashew farming, in Tanzania. Limited to edaphic conditions as a major factor in its epidemic, the current study aime...

    Authors: William V. Mbasa, Wilson A. Nene, Fortunus A. Kapinga, Stella G. Temu and Donatha D. Tibuhwa
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:101
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