Τμήμα Βιολογικών Επιστημών / Department of Biological Sciences: Recent submissions
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Population density and food analysis of Bombina variegata and Rana graeca in mountainous riverine ecosystems of northern Pindos (Greece)
(ResearchGate, 2007-06-20)Abundance and diet of Bombina variegata and Rana graeca were investigated from August 2004to August 2005 in two permanent mountain water bodies (Zesto River and Prioni Nazeti Stream)situated in the National Park of Northern ...
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Substrate type has a limited impact on the sprint performance of a Mediterranean lizard
(Firenze University Press, 2019-12-27)Environmental factors may affect animal performance in diverse ways, even among different populations of a single species. Here, we assess the impact of substrate type on the sprint performance (maximum speed and acceleration) ...
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The role of ecological specialization in shaping patterns of insular communities
(Wiley, 2020-09-30)Aim: Research on the response of species richness to area and environmental heterogeneity so far has not addressed possible effects of species’ differences in ecological specialization. Herein we provide a new metric, ...
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The effect of fire on ant assemblages does not depend on habitat openness but does select for large, gracile predators
(2021-06-09)Ecosystems can respond in a variety of ways to the same agent of disturbance. In some con-texts,fire causes large and long-lasting changes to ecological communities. In others,fire has a limited orshort-lived impact on ...
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Simple null model analysis subsumes a new species co-occurrence index: A comment on Mainali et al. (2022)
(Wiley, 2022-10-02)Recently, Mainali et al. (2022, termed MSSF henceforth) proposed a new index of pair-wise species co-occurrence based on the log odds ratio α of conditional occurrence probability. Under the assumption that the total numbers ...
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Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities
(Wiley, 2022-06-10)Aim Whether entire communities of organisms converge towards predictable structural properties in similar environmental conditions remains controversial. We tested for community convergence in birds by comparing the ...
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Are all islands the same? A comparative thermoregulatory approach in four insular populations
(Brill, 2022-12-21)As ectotherms, lizards, among the best models in thermal studies, are influenced by many abiotic factors. Interestingly, there is a scarcity of data regarding the impact that insularity may have on thermoregulation. Islands, ...
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The story of a rock-star: multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation in the starred or roughtail rock agama, Laudakia stellio (Reptilia: Agamidae)
(Oxford Academic, 2022-01-31)Situated at the junction of three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean is an ideal region to study the effects of palaeogeography, ecology and long human presence on animal evolution. Laudakia ...
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Annual cycle of mesozooplankton at the coastal waters of Cyprus (Eastern Levantine basin)
(Oxford Academic, 2023-01-20)This study is the first to explore monthly and seasonal succession of the zooplankton community in coastal waters of Cyprus using a 12-month period time series. A total of 192 taxa of mesozooplankton (MZ), 145 of which ...
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Diversification within an oceanic Mediterranean island: Insights from a terrestrial isopod
(ScienceDirect, 2022-07-08)Understanding intra-island patterns of evolutionary divergence, including cases of cryptic diversity, is a crucial step towards deciphering speciation processes. Cyprus is an oceanic island isolated for at least 5.3 Mya ...
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An all-inclusive approach: A universal protocol for the successful amplification of four genetic loci of all Onscidea
(Elsevier, 2022-06-21)Accounting more than 3,700 described species, Oniscidea is the largest and at the same time the only terrestrial isopod suborder inhabiting almost all terrestrial biomes. Despite the great effort dedicated on describing ...
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Phytoplankton Phenology in the Coastal Zone of Cyprus, Based on Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations
(MDPI, 2021-12-21)Alterations in phytoplankton biomass, community structure and timing of their growth (phenology), are directly implicated in the carbon cycle and energy transfer to higher trophic levels of the marine food web. Due to the ...
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The Eastern Mediterranean fish fauna from the Piacenzian deposits of Polis Graben (Cyprus Island)
(2022-04)The Mediterranean fish fauna has been affected by the basin changing connections with surrounding seas and climatic changes throughout the geological history of the region. During the Eocene, the area corresponding to the ...
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Cervical Cancer Screening Programs in Europe: The Transition Towards HPV Vaccination and Population-Based HPV Testing
(2018)Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequently occurring cancer in women around the world and can affect them during their reproductive years. Since the development of the Papanicolaou (Pap) test, screening has been essential ...
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Ecological constraints from incumbent clades drive trait evolution across the tree-of-life of freshwater macroinvertebrates
(2018)The rates of species and trait diversification vary across the Tree-of-Life and over time. Whereas species richness and clade age generally are decoupled, the correlation of accumulated trait diversity of clades (trait ...
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Genomic data reveal deep genetic structure but no support for current taxonomic designation in a grasshopper species complex
(2019)Taxonomy has traditionally relied on morphological and ecological traits to interpret and classify biological diversity. Over the last decade, technological advances and conceptual developments in the field of molecular ...
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Conference Object
An energy-efficient and error-resilient server ecosystem exceeding conservative scaling limits
(2018)The explosive growth of Internet-connected devices will soon result in a flood of generated data, which will increase the demand for network bandwidth as well as compute power to process the generated data. Consequently, ...
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Single-Cell Tracing Dissects Regulation of Maintenance and Inheritance of Transcriptional Reinduction Memory
(2020)Transcriptional memory of gene expression enables adaptation to repeated stimuli across many organisms. However, the regulation and heritability of transcriptional memory in single cells and through divisions remains poorly ...
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Book Chapter
Tenebrionid Beetles of the Aegean Archipelago: Historical Review, Current Knowledge and Future Directions
(Broken Hill Publishers, 2018)
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NAA40 contributes to colorectal cancer growth by controlling PRMT5 expression
(2019)N-alpha-acetyltransferase 40 (NAA40) catalyzes the transfer of an acetyl moiety to the alpha-amino group of serine 1 (S1) on histones H4 and H2A. Our previous studies linked NAA40 and its corresponding N-terminal acetylation ...