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Recovery of small rodents from open-pit marble mining: effects on communities, populations, and individuals 露天开采大理石后小型啮齿动物的恢复：对群落、种群和个体的影响。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12811

Nan WU, Yao WANG, Jie WANG, Yaqian ZHANG, Baoshuang HU, Jinyu GUO, Zhenfei ZHENG, Youbing ZHOU

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Seasonal remodeling of visceral organs in the invasive desert gecko Tarentola annularis. 入侵沙漠壁虎 Tarentola annularis 内脏器官的季节性重塑。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12814

Shahar Dubiner, Shai Meiri, Eran Levin

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DNA metabarcoding diet analysis in a generalist omnivore: feeding trials reveal the efficacy of extraction kits and a multi-locus approach for identifying diverse diets 食性杂食动物的 DNA 代谢编码饮食分析：饲养试验揭示了提取试剂盒和多焦点方法在确定多样化饮食方面的功效。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12806

Kantima THONGJUED, Karina GARCIA, Delia SCOTT, David J. GONTHIER, Julian R. DUPUIS

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Constraints of digestion on swimming performance and stress tolerance vary with habitat in freshwater fish species. 消化对淡水鱼类游泳性能和应激耐受性的影响因栖息地而异。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12807

Yongfei Zhang, Yulian Luo, Keren Huang, Qianying Liu, Cheng Fu, Xu Pang, Shijian Fu

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Combining phylogeography and ecological niche modeling to infer the evolutionary history of the Cordoba vesper mouse (Calomys venustus) 结合系统地理学和生态位模型推断科尔多瓦vesper鼠（Calomys venustus）的进化史。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12805

Juan Diego PINOTTI, María Laura MARTIN, Marina Beatriz CHIAPPERO, Verónica ANDREO, Raúl Enrique GONZÁLEZ-ITTIG

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Environment and traits affect parasite and host species positions but not roles in flea-mammal networks. 环境和性状会影响寄生虫和宿主物种的位置，但不会影响它们在跳蚤-哺乳动物网络中的作用。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12799

Boris R Krasnov, Georgy I Shenbrot, Irina S Khokhlova, M Fernanda López Berrizbeitia, Sonja Matthee, Juliana P Sanchez, Luther VAN DER Mescht

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Cryptic diversity begets challenges and opportunities in biodiversity research. 隐性多样性给生物多样性研究带来了挑战和机遇。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12809

Rui Cheng, Arong Luo, Michael Orr, Deyan Ge, Zhong'e Hou, Yanhua Qu, Baocheng Guo, Feng Zhang, Zhongli Sha, Zhe Zhao, Mingqiang Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, Hongxiang Han, Qingsong Zhou, Yuanning Li, Xingyue Liu, Chen Shao, Aibing Zhang, Xin Zhou, Chaodong Zhu

{"title":"Cryptic diversity begets challenges and opportunities in biodiversity research.","authors":"Rui Cheng, Arong Luo, Michael Orr, Deyan Ge, Zhong'e Hou, Yanhua Qu, Baocheng Guo, Feng Zhang, Zhongli Sha, Zhe Zhao, Mingqiang Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, Hongxiang Han, Qingsong Zhou, Yuanning Li, Xingyue Liu, Chen Shao, Aibing Zhang, Xin Zhou, Chaodong Zhu","doi":"10.1111/1749-4877.12809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12809","url":null,"abstract":"How many species of life are there on Earth? This is a question that we want to know but cannot yet answer. Some scholars speculate that the number of species may reach 2.2 billion when considering cryptic diversity and that each morphology-based insect species may contain an average of 3.1 cryptic species. With nearly two million described species, such high estimates of cryptic diversity would suggest that cryptic species are widespread. The development of molecular species delimitation has led to the discovery of a large number of cryptic species, and cryptic biodiversity has gradually entered our field of vision and attracted more attention. This paper introduces the concept of cryptic species, how they evolve, and methods by which they may be discovered and confirmed, and provides theoretical and methodological guidance for the study of hidden species. A workflow of how to confirm cryptic species is provided. In addition, the importance and reliability of multi-evidence-based integrated taxonomy are reaffirmed as a way to better standardize decision-making processes. Special focus on cryptic diversity and increased funding for taxonomy is needed to ensure that cryptic species in hyperdiverse groups are discoverable and described. An increased focus on cryptic species in the future will naturally arise as more difficult groups are studied, and thereby, we may finally better understand the rules governing the evolution and maintenance of cryptic biodiversity.","PeriodicalId":13654,"journal":{"name":"Integrative zoology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139541889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A review of age estimation methods in non-avian reptiles by growth marks in hard tissues. 非鸟类爬行动物通过硬组织中的生长痕迹估算年龄的方法综述。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12808

Diana Székely, Florina Stănescu, Paul Székely, Alexandra E Telea, Dan Cogălniceanu

{"title":"A review of age estimation methods in non-avian reptiles by growth marks in hard tissues.","authors":"Diana Székely, Florina Stănescu, Paul Székely, Alexandra E Telea, Dan Cogălniceanu","doi":"10.1111/1749-4877.12808","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1749-4877.12808","url":null,"abstract":"Age and growth-related data are basic biological parameters, essential in population ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. There is a growing body of published information on reptile demography derived from sclerochronology, a technique based on counting the growth layers deposited in bones (skeletochronology) and other hard body structures. Since the data are not always easily available, we compiled the existing published data, described the current status of knowledge, synthetized the conclusions of disparate studies, and identified patterns of research and information gaps, prioritizing the needs for future research. Our database includes the results of 468 published studies covering 236 reptile species from 41 families. These represent less than 2% of the total number of known extant species. Turtles and crocodiles are proportionally better studied, while snakes are the least examined group. The distribution of the research does not reflect conservation needs; we found an important geographic bias, with an overrepresentation of Northern temperate species. Only 23% of the studies checked the assumption of periodicity of growth marks deposition, and the method was found to be reliable or adequate in 79% of the cases. Overall, the data obtained through sclerochronology can be considered robust, especially if validation methods are employed, since the general goal is to characterize population parameters, trends, and dynamics, rather than determining the exact age of any specimen in particular.","PeriodicalId":13654,"journal":{"name":"Integrative zoology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139520553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Blind date: female fossorial amphisbaenians prefer scent marks of large and healthy males. 相亲：雌性化石两栖动物更喜欢体型大且健康的雄性的气味标记。

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-01-21 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12802

José Martín, Gonzalo Rodríguez-Ruiz, Álvaro Navarro-Castilla, Isabel Barja, Pilar López

{"title":"Blind date: female fossorial amphisbaenians prefer scent marks of large and healthy males.","authors":"José Martín, Gonzalo Rodríguez-Ruiz, Álvaro Navarro-Castilla, Isabel Barja, Pilar López","doi":"10.1111/1749-4877.12802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12802","url":null,"abstract":"Selecting a good mate is a decision with important fitness consequences. For this reason, mate choice has promoted the evolution of sexual ornaments signaling the quality of an individual. In fossorial animals, inhabiting visually restricted underground environments, chemical senses should be very important for mate choice. We examined whether sexual chemical signals (substrate scent marks) produced by males of the Iberian worm lizard, Blanus cinereus, a strictly fossorial blind amphisbaenian, provide information to females on morphological traits and health state. We administered corticosterone (CORT) to males simulating a continuous stressor affecting their health. Females preferred settling at sites scent-marked by males in comparison with similar sites with female scent or unmarked sites, but the attractiveness of males' scent differed between individuals. Females preferred scent marks of larger/older males and with a higher immune response, while their body condition and CORT treatment were unrelated to female preferences. Chemical analyses showed that proportions of some compounds in precloacal secretions of males (used to produce scent marks) were correlated with the morphological (body size) and health state (immune response and body condition, but not CORT treatment) of these males. These results suggest that females may make site-selection decisions based on assessing the chemical characteristics of males' scent marks, which were reliably related to some of the traits of the male that produced the scent. Therefore, females might use chemical senses to increase the opportunities to find and mate with males of high quality, coping with the restrictions of the subterranean environment.","PeriodicalId":13654,"journal":{"name":"Integrative zoology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139512400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Introduced and extinct: neglected archival specimens shed new light on the historical biogeography of an iconic avian species in the Mediterranean 引进与灭绝：被忽视的档案标本为地中海地区一种标志性鸟类的历史生物地理学提供了新线索

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Integrative zoology Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12801

Giovanni FORCINA, Miguel CLAVERO, Marie MEISTER, Christina BARILARO, Monica GUERRINI, Filippo BARBANERA

{"title":"Introduced and extinct: neglected archival specimens shed new light on the historical biogeography of an iconic avian species in the Mediterranean","authors":"Giovanni FORCINA, Miguel CLAVERO, Marie MEISTER, Christina BARILARO, Monica GUERRINI, Filippo BARBANERA","doi":"10.1111/1749-4877.12801","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1749-4877.12801","url":null,"abstract":"Collection specimens provide valuable and often overlooked biological material that enables addressing relevant, long-unanswered questions in conservation biology, historical biogeography, and other research fields. Here, we use preserved specimens to analyze the historical distribution of the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus, Phasianidae), a case that has recently aroused the interest of archeozoologists and evolutionary biologists. The black francolin currently ranges from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent, but, at least since the Middle Ages, it also had a circum-Mediterranean distribution. The species could have persisted in Greece and the Maghreb until the 19th century, even though this possibility had been questioned due to the absence of museum specimens and scant literary evidence. Nevertheless, we identified four 200-year-old stuffed black francolins—presumably the only ones still existing—from these areas and sequenced their mitochondrial DNA control region. Based on the comparison with conspecifics (n = 396) spanning the entirety of the historic and current species range, we found that the new samples pertain to previously identified genetic groups from either the Near East or the Indian subcontinent. While disproving the former occurrence of an allegedly native westernmost subspecies, these results point toward the role of the Crown of Aragon in the circum-Mediterranean expansion of the black francolin, including the Maghreb and Greece. Genetic evidence hints at the long-distance transport of these birds along the Silk Road, probably to be traded in the commerce centers of the Eastern Mediterranean.","PeriodicalId":13654,"journal":{"name":"Integrative zoology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139461961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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