The use of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) is still controversial, especially in managed forests, due to its invasive nature. has been proven effective reclamation degraded lands when native species are not an alternative the face climate change and desertification. Therefore, importance European ecosystems remains a matter debate. Of course, it adventitious originating from another cont...

Characterization of Indian livestock breeds has mostly been limited to single breed/population focused on either physical description of traditionally recognized breeds/populations or to their genetic description. Usually, morphological and genetic characterization has taken place in isolation. A parallel morphological characterization of genetically identified breeds or genetic characterizatio...

The palaemonid shrimp Macrobrachium amazonicum shows an unusually large geographic range (ca. 4000km across) living in coastal, estuarine, and limnic inland habitats of the upper Amazon, Orinoco, and La Plata basins. This raises doubts whether allopatric, ecologically diverse populations belong to the same species. While shrimps from estuarine and Amazonian habitats have been studied in great d...

To study the intraspecific diversity of Caspian Asp, Leuciscus aspius in South Sea region, Iran, we collected 2016–2017 a total 101 specimens from Aras River and Astara, Anzali, Kiashahr Langeroud shores, analysed 41 morphometric nine meristic characteristics with multivariate statistical methods. Significant differences were found between these populations 27 traits. A Principal Component Anal...

Genetic theory predicts that directional selection should deplete additive genetic variance for traits closely related to fitness, and may favor the maintenance of alleles with antagonistically pleiotropic effects on fitness-related traits. Trait heritability is therefore expected to decline with the degree of association with fitness, and some genetic correlations between selected traits are e...

Remote sensing is increasingly used in forest inventories. However, its application to assess genetic variation trees still rare, particularly conifers. Here we evaluate the potential of LiDAR and RGB imagery obtained through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as high-throughput phenotyping tools for characterization tree growth crown structure two representative Mediterranean pine species. To thi...

Elucidating the genetic basis of fitness-related traits is a major goal of molecular ecology. Traits subject to sexual selection are particularly interesting, as non-random mate choice should deplete genetic variation and thereby their evolutionary benefits. We examined the genetic basis of three sexually selected morphometric traits in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis): horn length, horn base ci...

The objective of this work was to estimate genetic parameters and evaluate trends over 26 years for morphometric traits in Mangalarga Marchador horses. Twelve were evaluated (withers croup heights; length head, body, shoulder, croup, neck, back, loins; width head cannon bone thorax perimeters). These 38,341 animals born between 1987 2012 with a relationship matrix 77,719 animals. Gibbs sampler ...

The Institute of Forensic Medicine, Copenhagen, houses a collection of historical skulls of unclear origin, marked with a general geographic or "racial descriptor". Would these historical skulls be of any value for the forensic odontologist and anthropologist concerned with teaching and casework? We tried to clarify this question by recording non-metric dental traits and by performing craniomet...

Global warming may affect species abundance and distribution, as well as temperature-dependent morphometric traits. In this study, we first used historical data to document changes in Orius (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) species assemblage and individual morphometric traits over the past seven decades in Israel. We then tested whether these changes could have been temperature driven by searching f...