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DNA metabarcoding of mites from small soil samples: limited agreement with morphological identifications but improved results from long-read sequencing
Identifying knowledge gaps in hypersaline systems supporting the global electrical transition: invertebrate community structure in salars from the lithium triangle
Evidence of positive selection and a novel phylogeny among five subspecies of song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) in Alaska
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) reveals high diversity of setae on the hind tibiae and basitarsi of Peruvian Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini)
Trade-offs between aquatic and terrestrial locomotion and functional parallelism in Desmognathus salamanders
Two new free-living marine species of Desmodorella (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) from the continental shelf of northeastern Brazil, with an emended generic diagnosis and a dichotomous key to the species
Electroantennogram and Olfactory behavioral responses of Trabala vishnou gigantina (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) to herbivore induced Hippophae rhamnoides leaf volatiles
Geographic distributions and patterns of co-occurrence among black-bellied and shovel-nosed salamanders (Desmognathus spp.) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Estimating ankle joint angle from skeletal geometry: a mechanical model of the calcaneal lever in terrestrial mammals
Taxonomic status of Coryphophylax maximiliani Fitzinger in: Steindachner, 1867 with notes on Coryphophylax subcristatus (Blyth, “1860” 1861)
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