Effect of postural changes on the reliability of volume estimations from bioimpedance
spectroscopy data. Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) has been suggested for the assessment of …

Large plants are often more conspicuous and more attractive for associated animals than small
plants, eg due to their wider range of resources. Therefore, plant size can positively affect …

Bats are important zoonotic reservoirs for many pathogens worldwide. Although their highly
specialized ectoparasites, bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea), can transmit Bartonella …

Habitat loss and fragmentation causes a decline in insect populations. Odonata (both
dragonflies and damselflies) are especially threatened by the destruction of both aquatic and …

Cultivating the top 0-25 cm soil layer by ploughing cultivating method requires considerable
energy, labor, and additional costs. Also, the larger soil surface caused by cultivation, the …

Regeneration of body parts and their interaction with the immune response is a poorly
understood aspect of earthworm biology. Consequently, we aimed to study the mechanisms of …

Both predators and parasitoids can have significant effects on species’ life history traits, such
as longevity or clutch size. In the case of gall inducers, sporadically there is evidence to …

We demonstrate by multivariate ratio analysis ( MRA ) the validity of two female colour morphs
as separate species in what was previously regarded as a single species, Trigonoderus …

In this study, the enteric virome of diarrheic caprine was investigated using next-generation
sequencing, reverse transcription PCR methods, and bioinformatics analyses. The complete …

Background The aims of this study were to evaluate whether HPV infection has a prognostic
role in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent oncological …