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J R Soc Interface
January 2025
Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AZ, UK.
An increasing number of evolutionary studies seek to quantify the morphological complexity of organisms, particularly those comprising serially homologous elements at different hierarchical levels of organization. Numerous operational frameworks have been proposed for doing this, but most focus on one or multiple conflated aspects of what is really a multidimensional concept. Here, we advocate the use of 'complexity spaces': multidimensional spaces defined by different vectors of complexity.
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February 2025
State Key Laboratory on Technologies for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process Control and Intelligent Manufacture (Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. & Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine), Jiangsu, Nanjing, 211112, China.; Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Nanjing 211100, China. Electronic address:
Polyrhachis dives (P. dives) is a traditional edible insect with high nutritional value and is the only ant species that is administered as medicine and food. Therefore, it is of great significance to identify the authenticity of the species.
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January 2025
Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna-son, Japan.
The ant genus are fascinating ants due to their distinctive morphology, ecology, and rarity. In this study, a comprehensive revision of in the Afrotropical region is presented, through a combination of morphological examination under the light microscope and three-dimensional (3D) cyber-taxonomy based on microtomography (micro-CT). Micro-CT based 3D surface models of all species were used for virtual morphological visualisation and examination.
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December 2024
Department of Experimental Biology, Genetics Area, University of Jaén, Paraje las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaen, Spain.
Using next-generation sequencing data, the complete mitogenomes of six species from the genus were assembled. This study explores the mitochondrial genomes of species, among them the five species from the complex, comparing them with each other and with other species from Dolichoderinae subfamily to understand their evolutionary relationships and evolution. mitochondrial genomes contain the typical set of 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNAs, and the A + T-rich control region.
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November 2024
BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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