The biodiversity crisis is a global phenomenon, and measures to monitor, stop, and revert
the impacts on species' extinction risk are urgently needed. Megadiverse countries …

Secondary metabolites are a crucial source of bioactive compounds playing a key role in the
development of new pharmaceuticals. Recently, biosynthetic research has benefited …

Background Understanding how coding genes and their functions evolve over time is a key
aspect of evolutionary biology. Protein coding genes poorly understood or characterized at …

Abstract Patella caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) is a mollusc limpet species of the class
Gastropoda. Endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, it is considered a keystone species due to …

Alopecurus aequalis is a winter annual or short-lived perennial bunchgrass which has in
recent years emerged as the dominant agricultural weed of barley and wheat in certain …

Somion occarium is a wood-decaying bracket fungus belonging to an order known to be rich
in useful chemical compounds. Despite its widespread distribution, S. occarium has been …

Abstract The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) consortium aims to generate a
reference genome catalogue for all of Europe's eukaryotic biodiversity. The biological …

Biodiversity is under pressure, mainly due to human activities and climate change. At the
international policy level, it is now recognised that genetic diversity is an important part of …

Abstract The European green toad (Bufotes viridis) is geographically widely distributed.
While the species global conservation status is labeled as of least concern by the IUCN, it is …

Bark and ambrosia beetles are among the most ecologically and economically damaging
introduced plant pests worldwide. Life history traits including polyphagy, haplodiploidy …