Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

AM Potapov, F Beaulieu, K Birkhofer… - Biological …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the molecular mechanisms of acaricide resistance in mites and ticks

S De Rouck, E İnak, W Dermauw… - Insect Biochemistry and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Arachnida subclass of Acari comprises many harmful pests that threaten
agriculture as well as animal health, including herbivorous spider mites, the bee parasite …

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

S Díaz, J Settele, ES Brondízio, HT Ngo, J Agard… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Human actions have long been known to drive declines in nature, and there
is growing awareness of how globalization means that these drivers increasingly act at a …

A life-and-death struggle: interaction of insects with entomopathogenic fungi across various infection stages

M Ma, J Luo, C Li, I Eleftherianos, W Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Insects constitute approximately 75% of the world's recognized fauna, with the majority of
species considered as pests. Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are parasitic microorganisms …

How many species of insects and other terrestrial arthropods are there on Earth?

NE Stork - Annual review of entomology, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
In the last decade, new methods of estimating global species richness have been developed
and existing ones improved through the use of more appropriate statistical tools and new …

Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions

P Pottier, S Burke, RY Zhang, DWA Noble… - Ecology …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the factors affecting thermal tolerance is crucial for predicting the impact
climate change will have on ectotherms. However, the role developmental plasticity plays in …

Toward a genome sequence for every animal: where are we now?

S Hotaling, JL Kelley, PB Frandsen - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021‏ - pnas.org
In less than 25 y, the field of animal genome science has transformed from a discipline
seeking its first glimpses into genome sequences across the Tree of Life to a global …

Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

NA O'Leary, MW Wright, JR Brister, S Ciufo… - Nucleic acids …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
The RefSeq project at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) maintains
and curates a publicly available database of annotated genomic, transcript, and protein …

A review of Sarcoptes scabiei: past, present and future

LG Arlian, MS Morgan - Parasites & vectors, 2017‏ - Springer
The disease scabies is one of the earliest diseases of humans for which the cause was
known. It is caused by the mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, that burrows in the epidermis of the skin …

Quantifying the unquantifiable: why Hymenoptera, not Coleoptera, is the most speciose animal order

AA Forbes, RK Bagley, MA Beer, AC Hippee… - BMC ecology, 2018‏ - Springer
Background We challenge the oft-repeated claim that the beetles (Coleoptera) are the most
species-rich order of animals. Instead, we assert that another order of insects, the …