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The paper examines how early-life adversity in zebra finches affects DNA methylation in adulthood, identifying 149 differentially methylated sites linked to biological processes.

This study uses microalgal motility to assess marine pollutant toxicity, finding significant inhibition of locomotory behavior by copper and phenol with dose-response relationships and strong correlation with traditional toxicity tests.

This study monitors biogeochemical dynamics in oak root zone soils under different health statuses, finding altered microbial communities, increased macronutrient availability, and reduced CO2 emissions in Acute Oak Decline trees.

This study examines circadian regulation of eclosion and clock gene expression in Spodoptera frugiperda, finding sexually dimorphic patterns in timing and gene expression.

This study investigates how adult crowding affects fitness in Drosophila melanogaster, finding that smaller flies experience less stress and even show increased fecundity under crowded conditions.

The paper uses dynamical statistical indicators of locomotor activity in Drosophila to predict infection-related mortality with high accuracy using a Random Forest model.

This study investigates how heat stress affects immune responses and nutrient exchange in Exaiptasia diaphana, linking bleaching to increased disease susceptibility.

This study examines how extreme drought and high-temperature events affect water quality and phytoplankton biomass in Nanwan Reservoir, finding shifts in nutrient limitation and altered stratification patterns.

This study develops a mathematical framework to predict how temperature affects pairwise interactions among heterotrophic microbes, revealing that interactions are more thermally sensitive than metabolic traits and show systematic temperature-dependent changes.

The paper shows how spatial interactions enable stable coexistence and transport of virulent phages with migrating bacteria, using theory, simulation, and experiments across multiple systems.

The paper tests soil surface manipulations to enhance ground-nesting bee habitats across urban gradients, finding that treatments increased colonization rates and revealed preferences for specific substrates.

This study provides a high-frequency dataset from Lake Greifen, integrating physical, chemical, and biological parameters to study lake dynamics and plankton ecology.

This paper presents an image processing pipeline for analyzing insect camera trap data, enabling detection, tracking, and classification of nocturnal insects, with evaluation of edge computing devices for real-time processing.

This study evaluates nine taxonomic classifiers for marine vertebrate eDNA studies, finding MMSeqs2 and Metabuli outperform BLAST in accuracy and reducing false positives.

The paper decomposes a phylogenetically-informed distance into basal and terminal components, showing that basal structure dominates and demonstrates applications in simulated and real datasets.

This paper introduces a model to study microbial community dynamics by focusing on physiological state transitions rather than fixed interactions, identifying key features of dynamic coexistence.

This study shows that simulated climate warming leads to earlier emergence and more weight loss in solitary bees but does not affect their overwintering survival.

The paper tests if long-term lab populations of Drosophila subobscura show plasticity in response to different fruit hosts and finds higher fecundity and reproductive success in fruit media compared to control conditions.

The paper tracks plastid and mitochondrial integration in a polar planktonic host over months, showing sustained benefits and highlighting a new strategy in plastid symbiosis.

The paper examines the impact of different linear infrastructures on bird communities in a tropical dry forest, finding that they reduce species richness and abundance and alter community composition.