04.09.2020 News item in frontiers in Pharmacology:
Unraveling the Pharmacological Potential of Lichen Extracts in the Context of Cancer and Inflammation With a Broad Screening Approach
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18.08.2020 (online) News item in Science of The Total Environment:
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in raw and treated wastewater in Germany – Suitability for COVID-19 surveillance and potential transmission risks
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15.08.2020 News item in Salamandra:
Epidemiological screening of captive salamanders reveals current absence of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in private collections throughout the federal state of Hesse (Germany)
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13.08.2020 News item in Current Biology:
Pre-extinction Demographic Stability and Genomic Signatures of Adaptation in the Woolly Rhinoceros
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07.08.2020 News item in PeerJ:
High antibody titres induced by protein subunit vaccines using Mycobacterium ulcerans antigens Hsp18 and MUL_3720 with a TLR-2 agonist fail to protect against Buruli ulcer in mice
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05.08.2020 News item in Nature:
The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution
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04.08.2020 News item in Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology:
An overview on the biology and phylogeny of the early-diverging oomycetes
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02.08.2020 (online) News item in Chemosphere:
A multigenerational approach can detect early Cd pollution in Chironomus riparius
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01.08.2020 News item in Marine Drugs:
Proteo-Transcriptomic Analysis Identifies Potential Novel Toxins Secreted by the Predatory, Prey-Piercing Ribbon Worm Amphiporus lactifloreus
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22.07.2020 News item in Science Advances:
Peptidoglycan editing provides immunity to Acinetobacter baumannii during bacterial warfare
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21.07.2020 News item in frontiers in Ecology and Evolution:
Climate Change Genomics Calls for Standardized Data Reporting
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10.07.2020 News item in Science:
Rigorous wildlife disease surveillance. A decentralized model could address global health risks associated with wildlife exploitation
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10.07.2020 News item in IMA Fungus:
Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?
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08.07.2020 News item in frontiers in Immunology:
From Cancer to Immune-Mediated Diseases and Tolerance Induction: Lessons Learned From Immune Oncology and Classical Anti-cancer Treatment
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07.07.2020 News item in Laborjournal (in German):
Mit dem Rucksacklabor in den Dschungel – transportable PCR- und Sequenziergeräte revolutionieren genomische Feldstudien
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03.07.2020 News item in frontiers in Plant Science:
The Genome of Microthlaspi erraticum (Brassicaceae) Provides Insights Into the Adaptation to Highly Calcareous Soils
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30.06.2020 News item in Biomolecules:
An Economic Dilemma between Molecular WeaponSystems May Explain an Arachno-Atypical Venom in Wasp Spiders (Argiope bruennichi)
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25.06.2020 News item in Molecular Biology and Evolution:
Interspecific gene flow and the evolution of specialisation in black and white rhinoceros
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10.06.2020 News item in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences:
Reprograming of epigenetic mechanisms controlling host insect immunity and development in response to egg-laying by a parasitoid wasp
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03.06.2020 News item in BMC Evolutionary Biology (in Englisch):
An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)
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03.06.2020 News item in GigaScience:
Education in the genomics era: Generating high-quality genome assemblies in university courses
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22.05.2020 News item in Genome Biology and Evolution:
Sawfly genomes reveal evolutionary acquisitions that fostered the mega-radiation of parasitoid and eusocial Hymenoptera
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08.05.2020 News item in G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics:
Improving the Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens) in a University Master’s Course
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06.05.2020 News item in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine:
Natural antiviral compound silvestrol modulates human monocyte-derived macrophages and dendritic cells
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05.05.2020 News item in Scientific Reports:
In-vitro safety and off-target profile of the anti-parasitic arylmethylaminosteroid 1o
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19.04.2020 News item in Mycological Progress:
Phylogeny and cultivation of the holocarpic oomycete Diatomophtora perforans comb. nov., an endoparasitoid of marine diatoms
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18.04.2020 News item in Genes:
MinION-Based DNA Barcoding of Preserved and Non-Invasively Collected Wildlife Samples
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16.04.2020 News item in PLOS Biology:
Portable sequencing as a teaching tool in conservation and biodiversity research
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16.04.2020 News item in Fungal Systematics and Evolution:
Bolbea parastica gen. et sp. nov., a cultivable holocarpic parasitoid of the early-diverging Saprolegniomycetes
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12.04.2020 News item in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution:
Formally described species woefully underrepresented phylogentic diversity in the common lichen photobiont genus Trebouxia (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta): An impetus for developing an intergrated taxonomy
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01.04.2020 News item in Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions:
The Genome of Peronospora belbahrii Reveals High Heterozygosity, a Low Number of Canonical Effectors and CT-Rich Promotors
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16.03.2020 News item in Plant Cell & Environment:
Adjustment of photosynthetic activity to drought and fluctuating light in wheat
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12.03.2020 News item in Genome Biology and Evolution:
What is in Umbilicaria pustulata? A metagenomic approach to reconstruct the holo-genome of a lichen
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09.03.2020 News item in Mycologia:
Multiple evolutionary origins of sequestrate species in the agaricoid genus Chlorophyllum
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03.03.2020 News item in Fungal Systematics and Evolution:
Two new species of the Peronospora balbahrii speces complex, Pe. choii sp. nov. and Pe. salviae-pratensis sp. nov., and a new host for Pe. salviae-officinalis
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17.02.2020 News item in Nature Biotechnology:
Engineering bacterial symbionts of nematodes improves their biocontrol potential of the western corn rootworm
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14.02.2020 News item in G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics:
A high-quality genome assembly from short and long reads for the non-biting midge Chironomus riparius (Diptera)
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12.02.2020 News item in Biofilms and Microbiomes:
The insect antimicrobial peptide cecropin A disrupts uropathogenic Escherichia coli biofilms
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10.02.2020 News item in Development Genes and Evolution:
High-throughput sequencing for community analysis: the promise of DNA barcoding to uncover diversity, relatedness, abundances and interactions in spider communities
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25.01.2020 News item in Conservation Genetics:
Range-wide patterns of human-mediated hybridisation in European wildcats
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14.01.2020 News item in Evolution Letters:
Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species’ responses to climate change
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10.01.2020 News item in Molecular Ecology Resources:
Applying genomic data in wildlife monitoring: Development guidelines for genotyping degraded samples with reduced single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panels
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30.12.2019 News item in Molecular Ecology:
Genomic processes underlying rapid adaptation of a natural Chironimus riparius population to unintendedly applied experimental selection pressures
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30.12.2019 News item in Scientific Reports:
Phenylethylamides derived from bacterial secondary metabolites specifically inhibit an insect serotonin receptor
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19.12.2019 News item in Microorganisms:
Tissue- and population-level microbiome analysis of the wasp spider Argiope bruennichi identified a novel dominant bacterial symbiont
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10.12.2019 News item in Toxins:
Proteo-Transcriptomic Characterization of the Venom from the Endoparasitoid Wasp Pimpla turionellae with Aspects on Its Biology and Evolution
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09.12.2019 News item in Pest Management Science:
Global occurrence data improve potential distribution models for Aedes japonicus japonicus in non-native regions
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09.12.2019 News item in Infection and Immunity:
Vaccine-specific immune responses against Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in a low-dose murine challenge model
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04.12.2019 News item in PNAS:
Efficient nonenzymatic cyclization and domain shuffling drive pyrrolopyrazine diversity from truncated variants of a fungal NRPS
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27.11.2019 News item in Genome Biology and Evolution:
Annotated draft genomes of two caddisfly species Plectrocnemia conspersa CURTIS and Hydropsyche tenuis NAVAS (Insecta: Trichoptera)
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14.11.2019 News item in Ecology and Evolution:
Abdominal microbial communities in ants depend on colony membership rather than caste and are linked to colony productivity
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11.11.2019 News item in ChemBioChem:
New vocabulary for bacterial communication
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07.11.2019 News item in PeerJ:
Vector distribution and transmission risk of the Zika virus in South and Central America
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04.11.2019 News item in Ecological Applications:
Combining environmental DNA and species distribution modeling to evaluate reintroduction success of a freshwater fish
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06.11.2019 News item in Angewandte Chemie International Edition:
Promoter activation in Δhfq mutants as an efficient tool for specialized metabolite production enabling direct bioactivity testing
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30.10.2019 News item in Nature Communications:
The oomycete Lagenisma coscinodisci hijacks host alkaloid synthesis during infection of a marine diatom
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29.10.2019 News item in Genes:
Genetic Biomonitoring and Biodiversity Assessment Using Portable Sequencing Technologies: Current Uses and Future Directions
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14.10.2019 News item in Nature Microbiology:
CRAGE enables rapid activation of biosynthetic gene clusters in undomesticated bacteria
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05.09.2019 News item in Journal of Natural History:
Noninvasive DNA sampling and camera trapping suggest dramatic regional conservation status of an understudied carnivore: the Rüppell’s fox in Tunisia
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04.09.2019 News item in Molecular Ecology:
Host And Geography Together Drive Early Adaptive Radiation Of Hawaiian Planthoppers
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25.08.2019 News item in Toxins:
Phylogeny-Guided Selection of Priority Groups for Venom Bioprospecting: Harvesting Toxin Sequences in Tarantulas as a Case Study
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16.08.2019 News item in Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases:
Antibacterial and antifungal activity of defensins from the Australian paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus
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14.08.2019 News item in The Journal of Organic Chemistry:
(±) Alternarlactones A and B, Two Antiparasitic Alternariol-like Dimers from the Fungus Alternaria alternata P1210 Isolated from the Halophyte Salicornia sp.
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08.08.2019 News item in Molecular Biology and Evolution:
Parallel evolution of complex centipede venoms revealed by comparative proteotranscriptomic analyses
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07.08.2019 News item in Molecular Ecology:
Conservation genetics: linking science with practice
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06.08.2019 News item in The FEBS Journal:
Functional analysis of natural PCSK9 mutants in modern and archaic humans
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05.08.2019 News item in New Phytologist:
An evolutionary framework for host shifts – jumping ships for survival
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22.07.2019 News item in Genome Biology and Evolution:
Hybrid genome assembly of a neotropical mutualistic ant
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15.07.2019 News item in Zoosymposia:
Gene expression profiling in the aquatic caddisfly larvae Micropterna lateralis (Insecta: Trichoptera) in relation to stream drying
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09.07.2019 News item in The ISME Journal:
Microbe-driven chemical ecology: past, present and future
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09.07.2019 News item in GigaScience:
Toxins from scratch? Diverse, multimodal gene origins in the predatory robber fly Dasypogon diadema indicate a dynamic venom evolution in dipteran insects
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26.06.2019 News item in Molecular Biology and Evolution:
Advances and Applications in the Quest for Orthologs
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20.06.2019 News item in IMA Fungus:
A glimpse into the biogeography, seasonality, and ecological functions of arctic marine Oomycota
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10.06.2019 News item in Nature Chemistry:
Modification and de novo design of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases using specific assembly points within condensation domains
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22.05.2019 News item in Royal Society Open Science:
Leishmaniasis in Eurasia and Africa: geographical distribution of vector species and pathogens
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18.05.2019 News item in Environmental Microbiology:
Cyclo(tetrahydroxybutyrate) production is sufficient to distinguish between Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus isolates in Thailand
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09.05.2019 News item in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution:
The significance of comparative genomics in modern evolutionary venomics
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29.04.2019 News item in Molecular Ecology:
DNA metabarcoding – Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions
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18.04.2019 News item in Parasitology Research:
The Drosophila melanogaster antimicrobial peptides Mtk-1 and Mtk-2 are active against the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum
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16.04.2019 News item in Helgoland Marine Research:
Dual culture of the oomycete Lagenisma coscinodisci Drebes and Coscinodiscus diatoms as a model for plankton/parasite interactions
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15.04.2019 Nes item in Mitochondrial DNA Part B:
The complete mitochondrial genome of the hymenopteran hunting robber fly Dasypogon diadema
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15.04.2019 News item in Mycological Progress:
Saprotrophic yeasts formerly classified as Pseudozyma have retained a large effector arsenal, including functional Pep1 orthologs
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01.04.2019 News item in Nature Ecology & Evolution:
Dynamic evolutionary history and gene content of sex chromosomes across diverse songbirds
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22.03.2019 News item in Fungal Systematics and Evolution:
Revisiting Salisapiliaceae
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18.03.2019 News item in Nature Chemical Biology:
Dual phenazine gene clusters enable diversification during biosynthesis
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02.03.2019 News item in GigaScience:
Nanopore sequencing of long ribosomal DNA amplicons enables portable and simple biodiversity assessments with high phylogenetic resolution across broad taxonomic scale
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28.02.2019 News item in Current Biology:
Natural C. elegans Microbiota Protects against Infection via Production of a Cyclic Lipopeptide of the Viscosin Group
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27.02.2019 News item in Flora:
Out of Transcaucasia: Origin of Western and Central Palearctic populations of Microthlaspi perfoliatum
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08.02.2019 News item in Parasitology Research:
Aedes koreicus– a new member of the genus Aedes establishing in Germany?
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06.02.2019 News item in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution:
The conspicuous postmetamorphic coloration of fire salamanders, but not their toxicity, is affected by larval background albedo
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04.02.2019 News item in Genome Biology and Evolution:
Whole-genome sequence data uncover widespread heterothallism in a largest group of lichen-forming fungi
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24.01.2019 News item in Nature Scientific Reports:
Role of ceramide synthase 2 in G-CSF signaling and G-CSF-R translocation into detergent-resistant membranes
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22.01.2019 News item in Mobile DNA:
Retrophylogenomics in rorquals indicate large ancestral population sizes and a rapid radiation
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21.01.2019 News item in Genome Biology and Evolution:
The evolutionary traceability of a protein
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17.01.2019 News item in Clinical and Experimental Immunology:
Immunogenicity assay development and validation for biological therapy as exemplified by ustekinumab
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15.01.2019 News item in Bioinformatics and Biology Insights:
HEATSTER: A Database and Web Server for Identification and Classification of Heat Stress Transcription Factors in Plants
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08.01.2019 News item in Molecules:
Biosynthetic Gene Content of the ‘Perfume Lichens’ Evernia prunastri and Pseudevernia furfuracea
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03.12.2018 News item in Nature Microbiology:
Neofunctionalization of the secreted Tin2 effector in the fungal pathogen Ustilago maydis
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21.11.2018 News item on Biological Invasions:
eDNA-based crayfish plague detection as practical tool
for biomonitoring and risk assessment of A. astaci-positive
crayfish populations
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17.10.2018 News item on Ecology & Evolution:
Transcriptomic responses to predator kairomones in embryos of the aquatic snail Radix balthica
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09.10.2018 News item on Trends in Ecology & Evolution on ScienceDirect:
Environmental DNA Time Series in Ecology
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October 2018 News item in Trends in Microbiology:
Refining the Natural Product Repertoire in Entomopathogenic Bacteria
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26.09.2018 News item in Mammalion Biology:
Genetic diversity of the genus Vulpes (Red fox and Fennec fox) in Tunisia based on mitochondrial DNA and noninvasive DNA sampling
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08.09.2018 News item in Conservation Genetics Resources:
An environmental DNA assay for the detection of the regionally endangered freshwater fish Alburnoides bipunctatus in Germany
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29.08.2018 News item on Molecular Ecology Resources:
Accuracy, limitations and cost efficiency of eDNA‐based community survey in tropical frogs
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16.07.2018 News item on Toxins:
Studying Smaller and Neglected Organisms in Modern Evolutionary Venomics Implementing RNASeq (Transcriptomics)
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28.05.2019 News item in IMA Fungus:
Ten reasons why a sequence-based nomenclature is not useful for fungi anytime soon
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28.05.2018 News item in GigaScience:
A reference genome of the European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)
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04.04.2018 News item in Science Advances:
Whole-genome sequencing of the blue whale and other rorquals finds signatures for introgressive gene flow
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