Regular inbreeding by sib-mating is one of the most successful ecological strategies in the bark beetle family Scolytinae. Within this family, the many species (119) in Coccotrypes are found breeding in an exceptional variety of untraditional woody tissues different from bark and phloem. Species delineation by morphological criteria is extremely difficult, however, as in most other inbreeding g...

Multidrug resistance (MDR) of tumour cells is related to the overexpression of ATP-dependent pumps responsible for the active efflux of antitumour agents out of resistant cells. Benzoperimidine and anthrapyridone compounds exhibit comparable cytotoxic activity against sensitive and MDR tumour cells. They diffuse extremely rapidly across the plasma membrane and render the ATP-dependent efflux in...

This study aimed to investigate the morphology and reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships of Centrocestus formosanus originating from 5 species of freshwater fish, i.e., Esomus metallicus, Puntius brevis, Anabas testudineus, Parambassis siamensis, and Carassius auratus, in Chiang Mai province, Thailand. Sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) and phylogeny based on internal transcrib...

Coral reefs, the most biodiverse habitats in ocean, are formed by anthozoan cnidarians, scleractinian corals. Recently, however, ongoing climate change has imperiled corals and coral reef environments changing drastically. Thus, convenient, high-density monitoring of is essential to understand changes communities. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding potentially one effective means achieving ...

We document unrecognised diversity within the Tetramorium spininode Bolton group of Australian monsoonal tropics, which has a single described species. At time its description, T. was known from just two collections, but there have since been hundreds collections throughout Australia. morphological and genetic (CO1) variation group’s fauna Northern Territory (NT), in centre range, where collect...

Abstract Pair-wise co-mutation networks of the mitochondrial genome have already provided ample evidences about roles genetic interactions in manifestation phenotype under altered environmental conditions. Here, we present a method to construct and analyze higher-order interactions, namely, three-uniform hypergraphs for different altitude populations decipher role co-mutating variable sites bey...