Water quality in Hangzhou Bay is inferior (grade 5) because of discharged from Yangtze River and Qiantang River, factories around the bay. This study analyzed relationships between environment macrobenthic communities at 44 stations throughout Bay, based on samples collected 2006, 2016–2018, 2021. Long-term spatial temporal changed macrobenthos, influence secondary water fronts community compos...

BACKGROUND Gregarines represent an important transition step from free-living predatory (colpodellids s.l.) and/or photosynthetic (Chromera and Vitrella) apicomplexan lineages to the most important pathogens, obligate intracellular parasites of humans and domestic animals such as coccidians and haemosporidians (Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, Eimeria, Babesia, etc.). While dozens of genomes of other ap...

Originally published in 1967, John H Day’s work ‘A monograph on the Polychaeta of southern Africa’ is still used widely to identify polychaetes. However, ongoing taxonomic revisions have revealed that several putative cosmopolitan or locally widespread taxa contained are complexes species with discrete distributions, globally and locally. This study therefore aimed develop lists taxa, including...