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LIFE PREDATOR: Prevent, detect, combat the spread of Silurus glanis in south Eu...
De Santis, Vanessa; Brignone, Stefano; Čech, Martin; Eckert, Ester M.; Fontaneto, Diego; Magalhães, Maria Filomena; Martelo, Joana; Ribeiro, FilipeThe management of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) is often hindered by ecological, social and economic factors, resulting in inadequate biodiversity protection and inefficient use of public money. A clear example of such inefficient management in aquatic ecosystems is the European catfish Silurus glanis L. in southern Europe. Native to central Eurasia, S. glanis is an emblematic and controversial freshwater fish, ...
How much biodiversity is concealed in the word ‘biodiversity’?
Mammola, Stefano; Fukushima, Caroline S.; Biondo, Girolama; Bongiorni, Lucia; Cianferoni, Fabio; Domenici, Paolo; Fruciano, CarmeloAmidst a global biodiversity crisis1, the word ‘biodiversity’ has become indispensable for conservation and management2. Yet, biodiversity is often used as a buzzword in scientific literature. Resonant titles of papers claiming to have studied ‘global biodiversity’ may be used to promote research focused on a few taxonomic groups, habitats, or facets of biodiversity — taxonomic, (phylo)genetic, or functional. T...
DNA metabarcoding methods for the study of marine benthic meiofauna: A review
Gielings, Romy; Fais, Maria; Fontaneto, Diego; Creer, Simon; Costa, Filipe O.; Renema, Willem; Macher, Jan-NiklasMeiofaunal animals, roughly between 0.045 and 1 mm in size, are ubiquitous and ecologically important inhabitants of benthic marine ecosystems. Their high species richness and rapid response to environmental change make them promising targets for ecological and biomonitoring studies. However, diversity patterns of benthic marine meiofauna remain poorly known due to challenges in species identification using cla...
Every fifth published metagenome is not available to science
Eckert, Ester M.; Cesare, Andrea Di; Fontaneto, Diego; Berendonk, Thomas U.; Bürgmann, Helmut; Cytryn, Eddie; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Franzetti, AndreaHave you ever sought to use metagenomic DNA sequences reported in scientific publications? Were you successful? Here, we reveal that metagenomes from no fewer than 20% of the papers found in our literature search, published between 2016 and 2019, were not deposited in a repository or were simply inaccessible. The proportion of inaccessible data within the literature has been increasing year-on-year. Noncomplian...
Brachionus rotundiformis Tschugunoff, 1921 from the Brachionus plicatilis speci...
López, Carlos; Steinitz-Kannan, Miriam; Stamou, Georgia; Michaloudi, Evangelia; Papakostas, Spiros; Fontaneto, Diego; Segers, HendrikThe presence of the rotifer species Brachionus rotundiformis from the B. plicatilis species complex in Lake Arcturo, a saline lake in the Genovesa Island of the Galápagos Islands, is here reported. This is the first record of the species for the rotifer fauna of Ecuador as well as of the species complex to the Galápagos Islands. This finding is consistent with the idea of high dispersion capacity, and of c...
Why we need sustainable networks bridging countries, disciplines, cultures and ...
Leese, Florian; Bouchez, Agnes; Abarenkov, Kessy; Altermatt, Florian; Borja, Angel; Bruce, Kat; Ekrem, Torbjorn; Ciampor, Fedor, Jr.Aquatic biomonitoring has become an essential task in Europe and many other regions as a consequence of strong anthropogenic pressures affecting the health of lakes, rivers, oceans and groundwater. A typical assessment of the environmental quality status, such as it is required by European but also North American and other legislation, relies on matching the composition of assemblages of organisms identified us...
Integrative taxonomy does not support the occurrence of two species of the Squa...
Lucentini, Livia; Chiesa, Stefania; Giannetto, Daniela; Pompei, Laura; Natali, Mauro; Sala, Paolo; Volta, Pietro; Lorenzoni, Massimo; Fontaneto, DiegoThe systematic is still unresolved for the genus Squalius (Cyprinidae, Leuciscinae), a rich group of small to large fishes widely distributed throughout Europe. The distinction of one of the Italian narrowly endemic species, Squalius albus (Bonaparte, 1838), described for the area surrounding lake Trasimeno, from the more common and widespread Squalius squalus (Bonaparte, 1837) is doubtful. The application of i...