partially supported by the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund(NSFAF);Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau(KfW)-University of Namibia(UNAM,BMZ Ref.2015.67.015);funded by the project TROPIBIO NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000046;supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme(NORTE2020);developed in the framework of the“Twin Lab CIBIO/UNAM”(UNESCO Chair Life on Land)。
As the sole obligate symbiotic birds in Africa,oxpeckers offer a unique model for studying symbiotic relationships.Due to the multitrophic level they occupy and the context dependent foraging behavior they exhibit,the...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32170196 and 32030040);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFA1301400);the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(No.2019SHZDZX02).
Candida albicans deploys various morphological forms through complex switching mechanisms,ensuring its survival and thriving as a commensal or pathogen in vastly different human niches.In this study,we demonstrate tha...
The reported study was funded by RFBR and CITMA according to the research project No.18-54-34007;The review was prepared within the framework of the state assignments of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University No.121032300121-0 and 121032300117-3.
Zoo-and phyto-parasitic nematodes of the order Rhabditida and zooparasites of the subclass Dorylaimia are well known,due largely to their medical,veterinarian and agricultural significance.However,there have been many...
The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.41806179;the China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association Program under contract Nos DY135-E2-2-03 and DY135-E2-2-07
Alentiana has only one member,A.aurantiaca(Verrill,1885),commensal with sea anemone(Bolocera tuediae).Here,Alentiana palinpoda sp.nov.,a second member in the genus Alentiana(subfamily Lepidastheniinae),a new commensal...
supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation[grant numbers 148261,170645 and 180195];by the ETH Biocommunication group.
Aims Ecosystem engineers substantially modify the environment via their impact on abiotic conditions and the biota,resulting in facilitation of associated species that would not otherwise grow.Yet,reciprocal effects a...
The work of P. Georgescu was supported by a Grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS-UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID- PCE-2011-3-0557. D. Maxin acknowledges funding from Wheat Ridge Ministries -- O. P. Kretzmann Grant for Research in the Healing Arts and Sciences. The work of H. Zhang was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant ID 11201187, the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars and the China Scholarship Council.
We analyze the global stability of the coexisting equilibria for several models of commensalism, first by devising a procedure to modify several Lyapunov functionals which were introduced earlier for corresponding mod...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(2015J01012,2015J01019)
A two species discrete commensalism system is proposed and studied. By the Jury's conditions for the stability of second order discrete system, the local stability property of positive equilibrium is investigated; af...
The study of mutual interactions in an intertidal zone is important. We are interested in two sessile shellfishes, mussel (Septifer virgatus: species X) and goose barnacle (Capitulum mitella: species Y). Both species ...