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Article Reference Systematics and osteometry of Late Glacial foxes from Belgium
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Article Reference Systematics and phylogeny of Chalcinotrematinae (Digenea: Haploporidae): Erection of a new genus and description of two new species from South America through integrated analyses
The subfamily Chalcinotrematinae (Haploporidae) comprises an understudied group of digenean parasites infecting freshwater and brackish water fishes across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Its systematics have rarely been investigated using molecular data, with DNA sequences available for only a few species representing two of the six recognised genera. We collected chalcinotrematine trematodes from freshwater fishes in the Jari River, Amazon Basin, Brazil, and in Misiones, Argentina. Specimens from Brazil were characterised through an integrative approach combining morphological examination with molecular data (partial 28S and ITS2 rDNA sequences), whereas those from Argentina were analysed morphologically. As a result, we describe two new species from Brazil: Chalcinotrema arleneae sp. nov. from Leporinus friderici and Laemolyta proxima, and Unicoelium gerardoi sp. nov. from Hypostomus plecostomus. This study provides the first molecular data for both Chalcinotrema and Unicoelium, expanding the phylogenetic framework of Chalcinotrematinae. Paralecithobotrys brasiliensis is recorded from Argentina in Megaleporinus obtusidens, extending its geographical range. We reassessed the generic limits of Saccocoelioides, the most species-rich genus within the subfamily. Based on combined morphological, molecular, host, and distributional evidence, we propose taxonomic revisions, establishing Neosaccocoelioides gen. nov. for several South American species formerly assigned to Saccocoelioides: N. antonioi comb. nov., N. bacilliformis comb. nov., N. elongatus comb. nov., N. magnus comb. nov., N. miguelmontesi comb. nov. (type species), and N. szidati comb. nov. Additionally, N. platense comb. nov., previously placed in Chalcinotrema, is transferred to the new genus. Saccocoelioides chilkaensis and S. lizae are considered species inquirendae; and S. guaporense is considered incertae sedis. These findings refine Chalcinotrematinae relationships and highlight the need for expanded molecular datasets to resolve systematic and biogeographical uncertainties.
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Article Reference Systematics of Afrotropical Eristalinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) using mitochondrial phylogenomics
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022
Article Reference Taintignies (Rumes) – « Le Pèlerin » : site artisanal (et d’extraction ?) du Haut-Empire et réoccupation rurale tardo-romaine
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Article Reference Tale of a sleeping beauty: A new and easily cultured model organism for experimental studies on bdelloid rotifers
We present the description of a new species of bdelloid rotifer, Adineta ricciae n. sp., which emerged from dry mud of Ryan's billabong, Victoria, Australia. Its conspicuous frontal eyes easily diagnose the species; it differs from A. oculata (Milne) by the position of the eyes and its general habitus. The animal came to our attention because it is exceptionally easy to culture, so that the species already is being used in diverse experimental studies utilising bdelloid rotifers as model organisms. © Springer 2005.
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Article Reference Tale of a sleeping beauty: A new and easily cultured model organism for experimental studies on bdelloid rotifers
We present the description of a new species of bdelloid rotifer, Adineta ricciae n. sp., which emerged from dry mud of Ryan's billabong, Victoria, Australia. Its conspicuous frontal eyes easily diagnose the species; it differs from A. oculata (Milne) by the position of the eyes and its general habitus. The animal came to our attention because it is exceptionally easy to culture, so that the species already is being used in diverse experimental studies utilising bdelloid rotifers as model organisms. © Springer 2005.
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Article Reference Tale of a sleeping beauty: A new and easily cultured model organism for experimental studies on bdelloid rotifers
We present the description of a new species of bdelloid rotifer, Adineta ricciae n. sp., which emerged from dry mud of Ryan's billabong, Victoria, Australia. Its conspicuous frontal eyes easily diagnose the species; it differs from A. oculata (Milne) by the position of the eyes and its general habitus. The animal came to our attention because it is exceptionally easy to culture, so that the species already is being used in diverse experimental studies utilising bdelloid rotifers as model organisms. © Springer 2005.
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Article Reference Taming the late Quaternary phylogeography of the Eurasiatic wild ass through ancient and modern DNA
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2017
Article Reference Tanganyikacypridopsis gen.n. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Lake Tanganyika
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Article Reference Taphonomy and Age Profile of a Latest Cretaceous Dinosaur Bone Bed in Far Eastern Russia
A large dinosaur bone bed has been investigated in the Udurchukan Formation (?late Maastrichtian) at Blagoveschensk, Far Eastern Russia. The observed mixture of unstratified fine and coarse sediments in the bone bed is typical for sediment-gravity-flow deposits. It is postulated that sediment gravity flows, originating from the uplifted areas at the borders of the Zeya-Bureya Basin, reworked the dinosaur bones and teeth as a monodominant bone bed. Fossils of the lambeosaurine Amurosaurus riabinini form >90% of the recovered material. The low number of associated skeletal elements at Blagoveschensk indicates that the carcasses were disarticulated well before reworking. Although shed theropod teeth have been found in the bone bed, <2% of the bones exhibit potential tooth marks; scavenging activity was therefore limited, or scavengers had an abundance of prey at hand and did not have to actively seek out bones for nutrients. Perthotaxic features are very rare on the bones, implying that they were not exposed subaerially for any significant length of time before reworking and burial. The underrepresentation of light skeletal elements, the dislocation of the dental batteries, and the numerous fractured long bones suggest that most of the fossils were reworked. The random orientation of the elements might indicate a sudden end to transport before stability could be reached. The size-frequency distributions of the femur, tibia, humerus, and dentary elements reveal an overrepresentation of late juveniles and small subadult specimens, indicative of an attritional death profile for the Amurosaurus fossil assemblage. It is tentatively postulated that the absence of fossils attributable to nestling or early juvenile individuals indicates that younger animals were segregated from adults and could join the herd only when they reached half of the adult size.
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