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Diversity, Volume 8, Issue 4

December 2016 - 15 articles

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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,032 Views
8 Pages

Phylogeography of Rattus norvegicus in the South Atlantic Ocean

  • Melanie Hingston,
  • Sally Poncet,
  • Ken Passfield,
  • Michael A. Tabak,
  • Sofia I. Gabriel,
  • Stuart B. Piertney and
  • James C. Russell

20 December 2016

Norway rats are a globally distributed invasive species, which have colonized many islands around the world, including in the South Atlantic Ocean. We investigated the phylogeography of Norway rats across the South Atlantic Ocean and bordering contin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,325 Views
13 Pages

19 December 2016

Melophorus is an exceptionally diverse ant genus from arid Australia that has received little taxonomic attention, such that just a fraction of its remarkable number of species is described. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,049 Views
12 Pages

Genetics and Conservation of Plant Species of Extremely Narrow Geographic Range

  • Sofia Solórzano,
  • Salvador Arias and
  • Patricia Dávila

19 December 2016

The endemic plant species with extremely narrow geographical range (<100 km2) often have few populations of small size and tend to be more vulnerable to extinction by genetic drift and inbreeding effects. For these species, we tested if intraspeci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,001 Views
15 Pages

Sustainable Stewardship of the Landrace Diversity

  • Ioannis Tokatlidis and
  • Dimitrios Vlachostergios

12 December 2016

Landraces are heterogeneous populations and their variability goes through continuous alterations because of physical, genetic, and epigenetic procedures exacerbated by the ongoing climatic changes. Appropriate stewardship of landrace diversity is pi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,647 Views
12 Pages

10 December 2016

Outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris, COTS) are one of the primary causes of coral decline in the Indo-Pacific region. Effective methods to control COTS outbreaks may therefore be one of the most direct and immediate way...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,871 Views
11 Pages

9 December 2016

Like most coral reef organisms, crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.) are expected to be highly vulnerable to predation as they transition from a planktonic larval phase to settling among reef habitats. Accordingly, crown-of-thorns starfish mig...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,183 Views
12 Pages

Differential Physiological Responses of Portuguese Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genotypes under Aluminium Stress

  • Ana Luísa Garcia-Oliveira,
  • Paula Martins-Lopes,
  • Roser Tolrà,
  • Charlotte Poschenrieder,
  • Henrique Guedes-Pinto and
  • César Benito

7 December 2016

The major limitation of cereal production in acidic soils is aluminium (Al) phytotoxicity which inhibits root growth. Recent evidence indicates that different genotypes within the same species have evolved different mechanisms to cope with this stres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,908 Views
10 Pages

25 November 2016

Outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris) threaten coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific. Movement patterns may play an important role in the spread of outbreak populations, but studies investigating adult movement beh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,877 Views
9 Pages

Using Long-Term Removal Data to Manage a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Population

  • Masako Nakamura,
  • Yoshimi Higa,
  • Naoki H. Kumagai and
  • Ken Okaji

18 November 2016

Background: Removal programs are effective strategies for short-term management of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster spp.) populations, especially on a small scale. However, management programs are costly, and, in order to be effective, they must...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,452 Views
13 Pages

3 November 2016

In recent years, the focus of disease resistance and susceptibility studies in cattle have been on determining patterns in the innate immune response of key proteins, such as Toll-like receptors (TLR). In the bovine genome, there are 10 TLR family me...

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