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Figure 4 in Moss mimesis par excellence: integrating previous and new data on the life history and larval ecomorphology of long-bodied craneflies (Diptera: Cylindrotomidae: Cylindrotominae)

Figure 4. Coloration and patterning of larval Cylindrotominae. (A) Dissected integuments of larvae with a green hue of L. brevipecten (left) and L. mikado (right). Note that there is a marked difference in integument colouration between them and that L. mikado has a yellowish tint. (B) Final-instar larva of Cylindrotoma japonica drowned in a wet spot on a leaf. The transparency of the integument is evident, with a shiny, silvery ventral side. (C–D) Colour dimorphism in Liogma mikado. (C) Late-instar larva of Liogma mikado with a green hue, blending in well in a tuft of Plagiothecium euryphyllum (Plagiotheciaceae). (D) Late-instar individual with a brown hue, occurring on the same moss patch as (C).

Figure 7 in Moss mimesis par excellence: integrating previous and new data on the life history and larval ecomorphology of long-bodied craneflies (Diptera: Cylindrotomidae: Cylindrotominae)

Figure 7. Ultrastructure of dorsal integument, SEM views. Dorsal integument with elongated cuticular lobes of abdominal segment at larval stage. Cylindrotoma japonica (A–C). (A) General dorsal integument. (B) Dorsal elongated lobe. (C) Ditto, closer view. Liogma brevipecten (D–F). (D) General dorsal integument. (E) Dorsal elongated lobe, lateral side. (F) Ditto, frontal side. Phalacrocera tipulina (G–I). (G) General dorsal integument to which diatoms and debris are sparsely attached. (H) Ditto, closer view. (I) Dorsal elongated lobe. Scales are shown in each image.

Figure 2 in Moss mimesis par excellence: integrating previous and new data on the life history and larval ecomorphology of long-bodied craneflies (Diptera: Cylindrotomidae: Cylindrotominae)

Figure 2. Eggs of Cylindrotominae (Cylindrotomidae). (A) Liogma brevipecten, dorsal (left) and ventral sides (right); micropyle at the distal end (black arrowhead) and possess a lateral adhesive region (white arrowhead). (B) Liogma brevipecten on the lower side of a liverwort thallus of Conocephalum conicum (Conocephalaceae). (C) Triogma kuwanai, on a dicot shoot. Scale = 500 µm.

Figure 1 in Moss mimesis par excellence: integrating previous and new data on the life history and larval ecomorphology of long-bodied craneflies (Diptera: Cylindrotomidae: Cylindrotominae)

Figure 1. Life history of Cylindrotominae. (A) First-instar larva of Triogma kuwanai consuming fluid within a leaf of Plagiomnium vesicatum (Mniaceae), dorsal view; cells devoid of chlorophyll (black arrowheads) indicate the piercing-andsucking feeding method. (B) Final-instar larva of Liogma brevipecten chewing a leaf margin of Rhizomnium tuomikoskii (Mniaceae), lateral view; note that the head capsule is fully retracted within the lip-like cuticular lobe. (C) Pupa of Liogma brevipecten with a green hue and displaying transverse black stripes in abdominal segments, dorsal view. (D) Copulating couple of Liogma mikado on moss tufts; the female, on the left, was dragged out of the pupal exuvium by the male and thus the body has not been completely sclerotised. (E) Leaf of Stellaria (Caryophyllaceae) with two characteristic incisions in the epidermis of the lower leaf surface (white arrowheads) due to endophytic oviposition; the eggs are absent. (F) Egg of L. mikado laid on a shoot of Hylocomnium splendens (Hylocomniaceae). (G) Larva of C. japonica, which is being preyed upon by what is presumably a third-instar nymph of Himacerus apterus (Hemiptera: Nabidae). Scale = 1 mm.

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Large-scale Three-dimensional Hydraulic Tomography Analyses of Long-term Municipal Wellfield Operations

This file includes all the datasets utilized to accomplish the above study. Basically, it includes the information of grid for groundwater modeling, the distribution of wells, as well as water-level variations for model calibration and validation.

Table e-1: Supplementary materials for association of dementia-related psychosis with long-term care use and death

International Classification of Diseases, Ninth and Tenth Revisions, Clinical Modification codes for dementia, codes used to define exclusions for conditions potentially associated with psychosis, codes for manifestations of psychosis used to establish presence of dementia-related psychosis, and antipsychotic medications. The dataset is a collection of ICD-9 and -10 codes usedd to define exclusions for conditions potentially associated with psychosis, codes for manifestations of psychosis used to establish presence of dementia-related psychosis, and antipsychotic medications used in the analysis of the attached manuscript. Data in this table was used to conduct the analyses presented in the manuscript.

Data from: Population collapse of habitat-forming species in the Mediterranean: a long-term study of gorgonian populations affected by recurrent marine heatwaves

Understanding the resilience of temperate reefs to climate change requires exploring the recovery capacity of their habitat-forming species from recurrent marine heatwaves (MHWs). Here, we show that, in a Mediterranean highly enforced Marine Protected Area established more than 40 years ago, habitat-forming octocoral populations that were firstly affected by a severe MHW in 2003 have not recovered after 15 years. Contrarily, they have followed collapse trajectories that have brought them to the brink of local ecological extinction. Since 2003, impacted populations of the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1826) and the red coral Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758) have followed different trends in terms of size structure, but a similar progressive reduction in density and biomass. Concurrently, recurrent MHWs were observed in the area during the 2003-2018 study period, which may have hindered populations recovery. The studied octocorals play a unique habitat-forming role in the coralligenous assemblages (i.e., reefs endemic to the Mediterranean Sea home to approximately 10% of its species). Therefore, our results underpin the great risk that recurrent MHWs pose for the long-term integrity and functioning of these emblematic temperate reefs.

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Long-term memory T cells as preventive anticancer immunity elicited by TuA-derived heteroclitic peptides

The host’s immune system may be primed against antigens during the lifetime (e.g. microorganisms antigens—MoAs), and swiftly recalled upon growth of a tumor expressing antigens similar in sequence and structure. C57BL/6 mice were immunized in a preventive setting with tumor antigens (TuAs) or corresponding heteroclitic peptides specific for TC-1 and B16 cell lines. AQ1 Immediately or 2- months after the end of the vaccination protocol, animals were implanted with cell lines. The specific anti-vaccine immune response as well as tumor growth were regularly evaluated for 2 months post-implantation. The preventive vaccination with TuA or their heteroclitic peptides (hPep) was able to delay (B16) or completely suppress (TC-1) tumor growth when cancer cells were implanted immediately after the end of the vaccination. More importantly, TC-1 tumor growth was significantly delayed, and suppressed in 6/8 animals, also when cells were implanted 2-months after the end of the vaccination. The vaccine-specific T cell response provided a strong immune correlate to the pattern of tumor growth. A preventive immunization with heteroclitic peptides resembling a TuA is able to strongly delay or even suppress tumor growth in a mouse model. More importantly, the same effect is observed also when tumor cells are implanted 2 months after the end of vaccination, which corresponds to 8 – 10 years in human life. The observed potent tumor control indicates that a memory T cell immunity elicited during the lifetime by a antigens similar to a TuA, i.e. viral antigens, may ultimately represent a great advantage for cancer patients and may lead to a novel preventive anti-cancer vaccine strategy.

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FIGURES 1–6 in Three new chrysophycean stomatocysts with long spines from the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

FIGURES 1–6. Morphology of stomatocysts 3 and 4 observed in SEM. Figs. 1–3. Stomatocyst 3. Fig. 1. General view. Figs. 2, 3. Closeup view. Fig. 2. Tilted specimen. Figs. 4–6. Stomatocyst 4. Fig. 4. Close-up view of distal part of the spine. Fig. 5. General view. Fig. 6. Close-up view.

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FIGURES 7, 8 in Three new chrysophycean stomatocysts with long spines from the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

FIGURES 7, 8. Morphology of stomatocyst 5 observed in SEM. Fig. 7. General view. Fig. 8. Close-up view.

Supplementary material 1 from: Huang S, Hou Y, Zhu L, Xu Y, Wang M, Fan X, Long Y, Da W, Chen L (2021) Description of a new species of the genus Neopseustis Meyrick, 1909 from China, with a new classification of the genus (Lepidoptera, Neopseustoidea, Neopseustidae). ZooKeys 1078: 35-48. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1078.75461

Table S1. The Kimura-2-parameter distance on COI sequences between different taxon of the genus Neopseustis sampled for the current study

Long-read genome sequencing of bread wheat facilitates disease resistance gene cloning

Cloning agronomically important genes from large, complex crop genomes remains challenging. Here, we generate a 14.7-gigabase chromosome-scale assembly of the South African bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivar Kariega by combining high-fidelity long reads, optical mapping, and chromosome conformation capture. The resulting assembly is an order of magnitude more contiguous than previous wheat assemblies. Kariega shows durable resistance against the devastating fungal stripe rust disease. We identified the race-specific disease resistance gene Yr27, encoding an intracellular immune receptor, as a major contributor to this resistance. Yr27 is allelic to the leaf rust resistance gene Lr13, with the Yr27 and Lr13 proteins sharing 97% sequence identity. Our results thus demonstrate the feasibility of generating chromosome-scale wheat assemblies to clone genes and also exemplify that highly similar alleles of a single-copy gene can confer resistance to different pathogens, which might provide a basis for engineering Yr27 alleles with multiple recognition specificities in future.

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High time resolution search for prompt radio emission from the long GRB 210419A with the Murchison Widefield Array

The time series of Stokes parameters in the PSRFITS format formed from the MWA data at the position of GRB 210419A.

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Supplementary material 4 from: Corbin LA-J, Awde DN, Richards MH (2021) Phenological and social characterization of three Lasioglossum (Dialictus) species inferred from long-term trapping collections. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 88: 17-38. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.88.73220

Figure S4. Head width comparisons among weeks suggest a mix of social traits in L. hitchensi summer females

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Assessing short and long-term variations in diversity, timing, and body condition of frugivorous birds

Seed dispersal by frugivorous bird species involves a fine temporal tuning between fruiting plants and birds. However, this interaction may be severely threatened by anthropogenic climate and land-use change, which may result in phenological mismatches and pervasive ecological consequences for avian communities. In this study, we evaluate changes at long (~40 years) and short-time (seasonal) spans in an avian frugivore community using a snapshot resampling. Particularly, we focus on changes in composition, abundance, migratory timing (i.e., phenology), and physical condition in relation to variations in fruit supply. We used bird and fruit data collected during 1981-1983 and 2019-2021 in a Mediterranean scrubland site in Doñana Natural Area, SW Spain. Our findings indicate a profound transformation of species composition, bird phenology, and body condition: in ~40 years, the avian community showed a 66% and 13% decrease of the wintering and seed-disperser species, respectively. Seasonal abundance peaks were advanced for at least one month in 9 out of 11 frugivorous bird species included in the analyses. Avian body condition during the migratory passage has worsened, with fewer individuals showing a high-fat percentage now than in the past. Finally, we report a fruit production decrease of almost half in 2019-2021 compared to 1981-1983, probably linked to habitat encroachment by pine trees and replacement of fleshy-fruited shrubs. Vegetation encroachment and climate change are the most plausible explanations for the observed changes in the avian community, but the relative importance of these factors is yet unknown. Our results at a local scale mirror the dramatic consequences of global change affecting the diversity, phenology, and physical condition of frugivorous bird species reported in multiple studies across the globe. The loss of frugivores may trigger feedback mechanisms in which seed dispersal is disrupted, leading to impaired recruitment of fruiting plants and hence less food availability for the avian community.

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Data from: Insect visual sensitivity to long wavelengths enhances colour contrast against vegetation

The sensitivity of animal photoreceptors to different wavelengths of light strongly influence the perceived visual contrast of objects in the environment. Outside of the human visual wavelength range, ultraviolet sensitivity in many species provides important and behaviourally relevant visual contrast between objects. However, at the opposite end of the spectrum, the potential advantage of red sensitivity remains unclear. We investigated the potential benefit of long wavelength sensitivity by modelling the visual contrast of a wide range of jewel beetle colours against flowers and leaves of their host plants to hypothetical insect visual systems. We find that the presence of a long wavelength sensitive photoreceptor increases estimated colour contrast, particularly of beetles against leaves. Moreover, under our model parameters, a trichromatic visual system with ultraviolet (λmax = 355 nm), short (λmax = 445 nm) and long (λmax = 600 nm) wavelength photoreceptors performed as well as a tetrachromatic visual system, which had an additional medium wavelength photoreceptor (λmax = 530 nm). When we varied λmax for the long wavelength sensitive receptor in a tetrachromatic system, contrast values between beetles, flowers and leaves were all enhanced with increasing λmax from 580 nm to at least 640 nm. These results suggest a potential advantage of red sensitivity in visual discrimination of insect colours against vegetation and highlight the potential adaptive value of long wavelength sensitivity in insects.

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Data from: Schneider et al. (2021). Predominantly eastward long-distance dispersal in pantropical Ochnaceae inferred from ancestral range estimation and phylogenomics. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

The data contains (a) DNA sequence alignments of concatenated nuclear loci, near-complete plastid genomes and plastid genomes with sites removed at a 10% gap threshold; (b) maximum clade credibility trees obtained from divergence time estimation in BEAST with each of the alignments; (c) area codings and the input tree (nuclear DNA only) for the ancestral area analysis in BioGeoBears.

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FIGURE 5 in Changminia gen. nov., a new genus of daddy-long-leg spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from karst caves in Southeast Asia

FIGURE 5. Changminia dao sp. nov., holotype male (D–H, IZCAS-Ar 42496) and paratype female (A–C, I–J; IZCAS-Ar 42497). A–B. External female genitalia (A. Ventral view; B. Lateral view); C. Vulva, dorsal view, arrow indicates nearly nshaped sclerite; D. Bulb, prolateral view; E–F. Chelicerae (E. Frontal view, arrow indicates blunt proximal part; F. Lateral view); G–J. Habitus (G, I. Dorsal view; H. Lateral view; J. Ventral view). b = bulb, da = distal apophysis, e = embolus, ma = median apophysis, fa = frontal apophysis, pa = proximo-lateral apophysis. Scale bars: 0.10 (A–F), 0.30 (G–J).

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FIGURE 4 in Changminia gen. nov., a new genus of daddy-long-leg spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from karst caves in Southeast Asia

FIGURE 4. Changminia dao sp. nov., holotype male (IZCAS-Ar 42496). A–B. Pedipalp (A. Prolateral view; B. Retrolateral view); C–D. Distal part of procursus (C. Prolateral view, arrows 1 and 2 indicate elongated prolatero-subdistal apophysis and dorso-distal protrusion, respectively; D. Dorsal view). b = bulb, e = embolus, pr = procursus. Scale bars: 0.10 (A–B), 0.05 (C–D).