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Assessing groundwater habitat pollution of black proteus

Karst areas are among the world’s most vulnerable landscapes to environmental impacts. Most of pollution in karst areas is due to...

Behavioral variation and plasticity enable survival in urban environments

Urbanization has drastically changed biodiversity patterns. While the majority of species cope poorly with urban habitats, some species...

Major advance in study of spider silk genes!

Researchers from USA and Slovenia have made a major advance with the largest-ever study of spider silk genes! As they report today in an...

Scientists overcome the inaccessibility of cave habitats through molecular genetic approach

An international group of scientists has used a novel highly sensitive method for detection of environmental DNA in groundwater to extend...

Rapid inventory using COI + ITS2 + morphologhy

In the last EZ publication of 2016, we investigated how classical DNA barcoding (using the COI locus) compares to rapid DNA barcoding...

Pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism in virgin wolf spiders

Pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism (Pre-SC), where females attack and consume courting males, is considered an extreme case of sexual ...

Discovery of heterospecific mating in spiders

Researchers from Slovenia and South Africa have discovered heterospecific mating in Nephila spiders, and have published their findings on...