Publications by authors named "Paul S P Bischof"
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- Coelopidae, or kelp flies, thrive in environments with beached kelp and rotting seaweeds, leading to specific adaptations for their algal diet.
- The study assessed the microbiome composition of adult and larval Coelopa frigida using 16S rRNA metabarcoding, revealing that larvae have less microbial diversity and are dominated by just a few taxonomic units.
- Notably, there was a significant difference in functional composition between larval and adult stages, indicating that the larvae's microbiome supports their feeding habits in a unique way.
Sex is evolutionarily more costly than parthenogenesis, evolutionary ecologists therefore wonder why sex is much more frequent than parthenogenesis in the majority of animal lineages. Intriguingly, parthenogenetic individuals and species are as common as or even more common than sexuals in some major and putative ancient animal lineages such as oribatid mites and rotifers. Here, we analyzed oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) as a model group because these mites are ancient (early Paleozoic), widely distributed around the globe, and include a high number of parthenogenetic species, which often co-exist with sexual oribatid mite species.
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