Ecology

Hypolithic horizon: types and transitions Hypolithic horizons most widely occurred in soils of the valley floors and flanks, which were elevated at least ten centimeters above the zone of meltwater streams at the peak of the warm season. We observed two distinct morphotypes of hypolithic horizons (Fig. 2): (1) cyanobacteria-dominated, which comprised biofilm-covered sandy particles several […] More

Study areas We used data from 53 African MIKE sites that began reporting prior to 2010 (Fig. 1). Additional sites in Asia as well as African sites added to the program in 2018 were not considered here. MIKE sites tend to be protected areas, though some sites are unprotected or include both protected and unprotected areas. […] More

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Database and conventional phylogenetic analysis A 628 bp-long sequence of the control region of mtDNA were sequenced from 193 Moroccan individuals, belonging to 6 breeds (access numbers in GenBank: MN229085-MN229277). To enrich the database, the use of these sequences as seeds allowed retrieving from NCBI Blastn tool 652 foreign sequences, distributed in 9 Iberian, 7 […] More

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From 2007, when ASF entered Georgia, until the first case was detected in EU in 2014, the disease was mainly seen in domestic pig farms with low levels of biosecurity13. Since 2014, Chenais et al.13 describe direct transmission between wild boar as well as indirect transmission between wild boar via the habitat, suggesting that the […] More