Background All-Food-Sequencing (AFS) is an untargeted metagenomic sequencing method
that allows for the detection and quantification of food ingredients including animals, plants, …

Chironomus riparius is of great importance as a study species in various fields like ecotoxicology,
molecular genetics, developmental biology and ecology. However, only a fragmented …

Background Seisonidea (also Seisonacea or Seisonidae) is a group of small animals living
on marine crustaceans (Nebalia spec.) with only four species described so far. Its …

Thorny-headed worms (Acanthocephala) are endoparasites exploiting Mandibulata (Arthropoda)
and Gnathostomata (Vertebrata). Despite their world-wide occurrence and economic …

Active transposable elements ( TE s) may result in divergent genomic insertion and
abundance patterns among conspecific populations. Upon secondary contact, such divergent …

Background With the expansion of animal production, parasitic helminths are gaining increasing
economic importance. However, application of several established deworming agents …

DNA-based methods to detect and quantify taxon composition in biological materials are
often based on species-specific polymerase chain reaction, limited to detecting species …

Complex food matrices bear the risk of intentional or accidental admixture of non-declared
species. Moreover, declared components can be present in false proportions, since …

Rearing conditions may elicit noticeable plastic responses in life‐history traits of living organisms.
Diet composition and the social environment have proven to influence prominent traits …

The loggerhead Shnke (Lanius ludavicianus), a bird indigenous to the North American Prairies,
is considered endangered under the Manitoba Endangered Species Act. The purpose of …