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Diversity, Volume 14, Issue 8

August 2022 - 111 articles

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Cover Story: Although trophic diversification is one of the main mechanisms of adaptive radiation, it is still little known how novel feeding strategies evolve. Studying the trophic diversity of Garra elucidates this issue. Generally, Garra is a highly specialized periphyton feeder with widened jaws modified as scrapers. However, it could give rise to six sympatric ecomorphs that are strikingly diverse in mouth morphology in a river of the White Nile basin (East Africa). Our study revealed three feeding modes, with a transition from periphytonophagy to zoophagy. It appears to be the case that Garra could re-specialize out of its ancestral specialization despite narrow trophic adaptation. This does not support the generalists-to-specialists hypothesis on the origin of specializations, and provides an insight into the feeding novelty origin. View this paper

Articles (111)

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,682 Views
10 Pages

22 August 2022

In ethnobotany, the availability hypothesis predicts that plants that are abundant and easily accessible to people are more likely to be medicinal than not. By protecting species diversity away from people, protected areas (PAs) may act as a limiting...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,552 Views
9 Pages

Genome-Wide Screening for SNPs Associated with Stature in Diverse Cattle Breeds

  • Alexandra S. Abdelmanova,
  • Alexander A. Sermyagin,
  • Arsen V. Dotsev,
  • Nikolay V. Bardukov,
  • Margaret S. Fornara,
  • Gottfried Brem and
  • Natalia A. Zinovieva

22 August 2022

Cattle breeds used in industrial production tend to be larger than local cattle, as increased dairy and beef productivity is closely related to stature. This study aimed to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) significantly associated with...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,274 Views
16 Pages

Phylogeography of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems: Squirrelfish and Soldierfish (Holocentriformes: Holocentridae)

  • Joshua M. Copus,
  • Cameron A. J. Walsh,
  • Mykle L. Hoban,
  • Anne M. Lee,
  • Richard L. Pyle,
  • Randall K. Kosaki,
  • Robert J. Toonen and
  • Brian W. Bowen

21 August 2022

Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs: ~30 to 100+ m depth) may be older and more stable than shallow coral ecosystems that are more prone to disturbances in both the long term (glacial sea level cycles) and short term (heavy weather and anthropogenic ac...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,974 Views
11 Pages

21 August 2022

Plecia nearctica Hardy, commonly referred to as lovebugs, is a species of march fly with a subtropical American distribution. The northern range limits of P. nearctica could alter due to climate change, which is a worldwide issue. It has been reporte...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,248 Views
31 Pages

Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Man-Made Lakes at the Northeast Part of the United Arab Emirates with a Hypothesis on Their Origin

  • Alexey A. Kotov,
  • Anna N. Neretina,
  • Shamma Eisa Salem Al Neyadi,
  • Dmitry P. Karabanov and
  • Waleed Hamza

21 August 2022

A study of the water fleas (Crustacea: Cladocera) in man-made lakes in the northeast part of the United Arab Emirates revealed five species: Ceriodaphnia cf. cornuta Sars, 1885; Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) arabica Neretina, Al Neyadi et Hamza, 2022; Moina...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,713 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2022

Rockfish (genus Sebastes) assemblages can inform mechanisms of coexistence and maintenance of diversity in ecological communities. Coexistence theory characterizes ecological assemblages as following either a deterministic niche differentiation model...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,292 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2022

Mediterranean marine fauna is constantly changing due to the entry of non-indigenous (NI) species and the loss of endemic biodiversity. In this framework, it is very important to monitor this constant change and investigate possible new pathways of d...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,425 Views
23 Pages

Ethnobotanical and Ethnopharmacological Study in the Bulgarian Rhodopes Mountains—Part _I

  • Irena Mincheva,
  • Zheko Naychov,
  • Christo Radev,
  • Ina Aneva,
  • Luca Rastrelli and
  • Ekaterina Kozuharova

21 August 2022

Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants and their uses has been well documented in Bulgaria in the past. However, we know little about the contemporary traditional application of medicinal plants. Rhodopes Mountain is an ethnobotanically poorly stu...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,229 Views
11 Pages

Phylogenetic Study of Alternaria Potato and Tomato Pathogens in Russia

  • Lyudmila Yu. Kokaeva,
  • Maria M. Yarmeeva,
  • Zarema G. Kokaeva,
  • Elena M. Chudinova,
  • Petr N. Balabko and
  • Sergey N. Elansky

20 August 2022

Early blight (EB) is a destructive disease affecting potato and tomato plants in Russia, caused by a heterogeneous group of plant pathogenic Alternaria fungi. The current species delimitation in Alternaria sect. Porri with medium to large conidia and...

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4 Citations
3,808 Views
13 Pages

Using Global Red List Data to Inform Localised Research and Conservation Priorities—A Case Study in the Republic of Seychelles

  • Robert W. Bullock,
  • Henriette M. V. Grimmel,
  • Ellie E. Moulinie,
  • Dillys K. Pouponeau and
  • James S. E. Lea

20 August 2022

Global Red List assessments are powerful tools for informing large-scale conservation decision-making processes, however, they can also be used to inform more localised research and conservation priorities. Here, a conservation status assessment was...

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