In July 2023, an adult female Aesculapian Snake, Zamenis longissimus (Laurenti, 1768), was found emaciated during routine field work, with multiple skin lesions spread across the dorsal, ventral and lateral sides of itd body. Leer más.
Comparisons of our sequences with those available in GenBank indicates that four individuals were conspecific with T. mauritanica while a single individual was a member of the T. fascicularis/deserti complex. Leer más.
The results showed that at the phylum level, Bacteroidota, Firmicutes, Fusobacteriota, and Actinobacteriota were abundant in the wild group, but Chloroflexi was only dominant in the farm and released groups. Leer más.
In summary, habitat protection alone cannot protect species that are affected by invasive diseases, but simple manipulations to microhabitat structure could spell the difference between the extinction and the persistence of endangered amphibians. Leer más. Noticia en castellano.
