Puerto Rico specimen reveals new giant isopod species that went unrecognized for decades

A giant isopod from Puerto Rico, rediscovered in the depository of the University of Tübingen's Paleontological Collection, ...
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Hidden Malaria Parasite Strain May Explain How Sickle Cell Trait Shields People From Disease

A large genomic study in Cameroon finds that people with sickle cell trait are infected almost exclusively by a genetically ...
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The Amoebae We Forgot: Tiny Predators May Hold the Key to Climate-Microbiome Dynamics

A new PLOS Ecosystems opinion article argues that free-living amoebae, long ignored in climate and public health surveillance ...
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University of Tübingen identifies new Caribbean giant isopod species from historic collection specimen

Ingmar Werneburg, Benedikt Kästle (2026): A new Caribbean species of the giant isopod genus Bathynomus (Crustacea, Isopoda, ...
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Tübingen Researchers Discover Giant Isopod Species

A giant isopod from Puerto Rico, rediscovered in the depository of the University of Tübingen's Paleontological Collection, ...
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Tübingen researchers discover a new species of giant isopod in the depository

Ingmar Werneburg, Benedikt Kästle (2026): A new Caribbean species of the giant isopod genus Bathynomus (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) with notes on the evolutionary history of the group based on ...
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Eine Riesenassel aus der Karibik, die Tübingen im Namen trägt

Ein im Archiv der Paläontologischen Sammlung der Universität Tübingen wiederentdecktes Exemplar einer getrockneten ...