Molluscs are among the most diverse and widespread animal groups in freshwater habitats.
Unfortunately, like most freshwater taxa, they are decreasing dramatically and are now …

Delimiting species boundaries is central to understand ecological and evolutionary
processes, and to monitor biodiversity patterns over time and space. Yet, most of our current …

Africa is considered the “mother continent” from which the first hominins arose. The
diversified wildlife and flora of Africa, which ranges from those in the scorching Sahara and …

The inability to distinguish between species can be a serious problem in groups responsible
for pathogen transmission. Culicoides biting midges transmit many pathogenic agents …

Abstract The genus Potamometra Bianchi, 1896 represents big rheophilic semi‐aquatic
bugs that typically inhabit middle‐altitude mountainous streams. Here, we integrated …

DNA barcoding opens new perspectives on the way we document biodiversity. Initially
proposed to circumvent the limits of morphological characters to assign unknown individuals …

The Amazon–Orinoco plume (AOP) is the world's largest freshwater and sediment discharge
into the ocean. Previous studies limited to mtDNA suggest that the swimming crab …

Introduction Recent advances in genetic data collection utilizing next-generation DNA
sequencing technologies have the potential to greatly aid the taxonomic assessment of …

The Southern red snapper, Lutjanus purpureus, is a valuable economic resource, especially
in international market. However, no recent data are available on the reproductive biology of …

A new species of Trichomycterus endemic to the Ribeira de Iguape River basin,
southeastern Brazil, was studied based on morphological and molecular evidence. This …