The notion that men are more variable than women has become embedded into scientific
thinking. For mental traits like personality, greater male variability has been partly attributed …

What makes a model organism? Identifying the qualities of a model organism has been
given a great deal of attention in the biomolecular sciences, but less so in the fields of …

Eukaryotic genome sequencing projects often yield bacterial DNA sequences, data typically
considered as microbial contamination. However, these sequences may also indicate either …

Abstract Since South Africa boasts a high biodiversity of frog species, a multispecies
haemoparasite survey was conducted by screening the blood from 29 species and 436 …

Abstract Intracellular Haemogregarine parasites (Order Eucoccidiorida, suborder
Adeleorina) are often found in freshwater turtles, appearing ae banana-shaped structures in …

In light of the age of genomics, a compilation of small‐subunit rRNA‐encoding genes (16S
rRNA genes) from Rickettsiales is provided, with a phylogeny estimated from a subset of the …

In this project, red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, were collected from the heart
of their range (Mountain Lake, Virginia, USA), in an effort to document the typical, or …

Assessing numbers of leukocytes in salamanders and other amphibians can be useful
metrics for understanding health or stress levels of individuals in a population. In this chapter …

Emerging pathogens are a potential contributor to global amphibian declines. Ranaviruses,
which infect ectothermic vertebrates and are common in aquatic environments, have been …

abstract The horned passalus, Odontotaenius disjunctus (Illiger), is host to a variety of
parasites, including a little-studied nematode, Chondronema passali (Leidy), that can …