CHECKLIST OF DARKLING BEETLES (COLEOPTERA, TENEBRIONIDAE) IN IRAQ by Razzaq Shalan Augul, Hanaa H. Al Saffar

“…The current paper isbased on previous studies in the literature and contains all dark beetles referred to in Iraq, except for the species within the Pimelinae subfamily. The investigation of this review showed the presence of 89 species belonging to 34 genera within fivesubfamilies. …”
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On the transfer of the genus Mesydra Ponomarenko, 1977 from Hydrophilidae into Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) by G.V. Nikolajev, A.А. Prokin

“…According to structure of pronotum the genus Mesydra is close related to the genus Annegialia Howden, 1977 of the tribe Eupariini Schmidt, 1910 of the subfamily Aphodiinae Leach, 1815…”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the lesser aspen webworm moth Meroptera pravella (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by Living Prairie Mitogenomics Consortium

“…Parsimony and maximum-likelihood phylogenetic reconstruction places M. pravella within monophyletic subfamily Phycitinae and monophyletic family Pyralidae. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Aleochara postica Walker, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) by Yanpeng Cai

“…ML phylogenetic analysis using 13 PCGs of 52 beetle species indicated that A. postica was clustered with other members of the subfamily Aleocharinae as conventional taxonomy predicted.…”
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The first DNA-assisted record of Hemelytroblatta livida (Blattodea: Corydiidae) from Georgia with notes on Corydiinae species composition in the Caucasus by Armen Seropian, Eka Arsenashvili, Natalia Bulbulashvili, Lasha-Giorgi Japaridze, Aleqsandre Zukakishvili, Shota Japarashvili, Aleksi Memishishi, Levan Mumladze

“…The fossorial sand cockroach Hemelytroblatta livida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) is reported from Georgia for the first time, with a commentary on the species composition of the Corydiinae Saussure, 1864 subfamily in the Caucasus. Collection data, pictures of the male and female, and DNA barcodes are also provided. …”
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New records of cacti (Opuntioideae, Cactaceae) for the non-native flora of Tunisia and North Africa with a key to the Cylindropuntieae tribe by Ridha El Mokni, Filip Verloove

“…The reported taxa belong to the genus Cylindropuntia (Cactaceae, subfamily Opuntioideae, tribe Cylindropuntieae). C. leptocaulis, C. prolifera and C. spinosior are here reported for the first time from North Africa. …”
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Karyotypic analyses and morphological comments on the endemic and endangered Brazilian painted tree rat Callistomys pictus (Rodentia, Echimyidae) by Karen Ventura, Gilson Evaristo Iack Ximenes, Renata Pardini, Marcos A. Nóbrega de Sousa, Yatiyo Yonenaga-Yassuda, Maria José de J. Silva

“…The genus Callistomys belongs to the rodent family Echimyidae, subfamily Echimyinae, and its only living representative is Callistomys pictus, a rare and vulnerable endemic species of the state of Bahia, Brazil. …”
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Complete mitochondrial genome of Heterostomus Sp. (Diptera, Xylophagidae) by Shuangmei Ding, Chenjing Zhao, Ding Yang

“…We sequenced and annotated the mitochondrial genome of Heterostomus sp., the first representative of subfamily Xylophaginae with complete mitochondrial data. …”
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The complete chloroplast genome of Narcissus poeticus L. (Amaryllidaceae: Amaryllidoideae) by Kálmán Könyves, Jordan Bilsborrow, John David, Alastair Culham

“…This is the first reported plastome for Amaryllidaceae subfamily Amaryllidoideae.…”
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The American Sand Wasp by Marirose P. Kuhlman, Adam G. Dale

“… This article describes the identification, biology, and importance of the American sand wasps (Bembix americana Fabricius), which are a subspecies-complex of large, robust wasps in the subfamily Bembicinae. They nest gregariously in bare soil and provision their nests with flies (order Diptera). …”
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One new species of Stegocephalus Krøyer, 1842 (Amphipoda, Stegocephalidae) described from a seamount of the Caroline Plate, NW Pacific by Yanrong Wang, Zhongli Sha, Xianqiu Ren

“…A new species of the subfamily Stegocephalinae, Stegocephalus carolus sp. nov., is described from a seamount in the Caroline Plate. …”
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First record of the genus Olepa Watson, 1980 from China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) by Yulong Zhang, Siyao Huang, Min Wang

“…The tribe Arctiini is a species-rich tribe of the subfamily Arctiinae of the family Erebidae. The genus Olepa Watson, 1980 is distributed in the Oriental and Palearctic Regions and the diversity reaches its peak in south Asia.We herein describe the first record of the genus Olepa from China and re-describe Olepa ricini (Fabricius, 1775), together with illustrations of its adult and male genitalia. …”
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Anatomy of two species of Megalobulimus (Strophocheilidae, Megalobuliminae) from South-Central Bahia, Brazil by Fernanda dos Santos Silva, Luiz Ricardo L. Simone

“…A taxonomical discussion is presented, including several characters confirmed as typical of the genus and subfamily, such as buccal flange, prerectal valve and pulmonary septum.…”
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Definiteness in Argobba NPs by Getahun Amare Agegnehu

“…Unlike in other sister languages in Ethio-Semitic subfamily, in Argobba, a singular noun qualified by a demonstrative, possessive pronoun and genitive NP obligatorily carries a definite article. …”
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Progress interrogating TRPMPZQ as the target of praziquantel. by Jonathan S Marchant

“…However, a flatworm transient receptor potential ion channel from the melastatin subfamily (TRPMPZQ) was recently identified as a target for PZQ action. …”
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First report of mitogenome of Subclytia rotundiventris (Diptera, Tachinidae) yielded by next-generation sequencing by Wenya Pei, Liping Yan, Nan Yang, Chuntian Zhang, Changyan Zheng, Jun Yang, Dong Zhang

“…The mitochondrial genome of Subclytia rotundiventris (Fallén, 1820) belongs to the subfamily Phasiinae of Tachinidae, was obtained using a next-generation sequencing approach. …”
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Tegument proteins of Epstein-Barr virus: Diverse functions, complex networks, and oncogenesis by Takayuki Murata

“…Some Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) tegument proteins are conserved widely in Herpesviridae, but others are shared only by members of the gamma-herpesvirus subfamily. As the interface to envelope and nucleocapsid, the tegument functions in virion morphogenesis and budding of the nucleocapsid during progeny production. …”
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Long-Term Outcomes of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia by Anna Nordenström, Svetlana Lajic, Henrik Falhammar

“…The causes are multiple and involve supra-physiological gluco- and mineralocorticoid replacement, excess adrenal androgens both intrauterine and postnatal, elevated steroid precursor and adrenocorticotropic hormone levels, living with a congenital condition as well as the proximity of the cytochrome P450 family 21 subfamily A member 2 (CYP21A2) gene to other genes. …”
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Laurostrongylus hoineffae n. gen., n. sp., a relict trichostrongylid from an endemic madagascan rodent by Marie-Claude Durette-Desset, Alain G. Chabaud

“…This ensemble of relict species seems thus to support the concept of a common ancestor for the Libyostrongylinae and Graphidiinae. The two subfamilies were supposed to originate in the Ethipian region. …”
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Staring at the onco-exaptation: the two-faced medley of an ancient retrovirus, HERVH by Manvendra Singh, Aleksandra M. Kondraskhina, Laurence D. Hurst, Zsuzsanna Izsvák

“…In this issue of the JCI, Attig and Pape et al. describe the role of chimeric calbindin 1 (CALB1) transcripts, which are driven by an upstream human endogenous retrovirus subfamily H (HERVH) element. The authors propose that in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), HERVH-driven isoforms of calbindin (HERVH-CALB1) counteract SASP. …”
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