The family Lumbricidae is arguably the most well-known and well-studied earthworm group due to its dominance in the European earthworm fauna and its invasion in temperate regions worldwide. However, its North American members, especially the genus Bimastos Moore, 1893, are poorly understood. We revised the systematics of the genus Bimastos and tested the hypothesis of the monophyly of North Ame...

We have performed laboratory experiments to determine the impact of earthworms (exotic Eisenia ventripapillata and peregrine Aporrectodea caliginosa) on water-soluble forms ammonium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium in Calcic Chernozem, Greyic Phaeozem, Haplic which are widespread south Western Siberia. The differences between impacts made by two above-mentioned species been estimated acco...

The scale of variation in species sensitivity to toxicants has been theoretically linked mode action. Specifically, it proposed there will be greater variations for chemicals with a putative specific biological target than non-specific narcotic mechanism. Here we test the hypothesis that action is related specifically designed experiment from single ecologically important terrestrial taxa, name...

Earthworm collectings on Corsica and Sardinia resulted in recording eight species belonging to the families Lumbricidae Hormogastridae. Among them, Octodrilus transpadanus represents a new record for fauna of Eumenescolex zoltani sp. nov. from is science.

Annelida represents a large and morphologically diverse group of bilaterian organisms. The recently published polychaete and leech genome sequences revealed an equally dynamic range of diversity at the genomic level. The availability of more annelid genomes will allow for the identification of evolutionary genomic events that helped shape the annelid lineage and better understand the diversity ...