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  • Lecidea toensbergii, the first described sorediate species in Lecidea sensu stricto 
    Haugan, Reidar; Timdal, Einar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    A molecular phylogenetic analysis based on the DNA barcode marker (nrITS) of 12 specimens of Lecidea leucothallina revealed three monophyletic clades, two apotheciate and one sorediate. The sorediate clade is described as ...
  • Ledra aurita (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hem., Cicadellidae) rediscovered in Norway 
    Hansen, Lars Ove; Fjellstad, Bjørn, M. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1998)
    The remarkable leafhopper Ledra aurita (Linnaeus, 1758) has been rediscovered in Norway. Three specimens were captured at light at Ø, Hvaler: Asmaløy (EIS 12) in July-Aug. 1995. An unpublished record from AK, Frogn: Drøbak ...
  • Linking geology and microbiology: Inactive pockmarks affect sediment microbial community structure 
    Haverkamp, Thomas Hendricus Augustus; Hammer, Øyvind; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    Pockmarks are geological features that are found on the bottom of lakes and oceans all over the globe. Some are active, seeping oil or methane, while others are inactive. Active pockmarks are well studied since they harbor ...
  • Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect 
    Alsos, Inger Greve; Ehrich, Dorothee; Eidesen, Pernille Bronken; Solstad, Heidi Merethe; Westergaard, Kristine Bakke; Schonswetter, Peter; Tribsch, Andreas; Birkeland, Siri; Elven, Reidar; Brochmann, Christian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    Long-distance dispersal (LDD) processes influence the founder effect on islands.We use genetic data for 25 Atlantic species and similarities among regional floras to analyse colonization, and test whether the genetic founder ...
  • Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: An analysis of ongoing critiques 
    Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Wolfe, Alexander P.; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Cearreta, Alejandro; Edgeworth, Matt; Ellis, Erle C.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Gradstein, Felix M; Grinevald, Jacques; Haff, Peter K.; Head, Martin J; do Sul, Juliana A. Ivar; Jeandel, Catherine; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John R.; Oreskes, Naomi; Poirier, Clement; Revkin, Andrew; Richter, Daniel DeB.; Steffen, Will; Summerhayes, Colin; Syvitski, James P.; Vidas, Davor; Wagreich, Michael; Wing, Scott L.; Williams, Mark (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    A range of published arguments against formalizing the Anthropocene as a geological time unit have variously suggested that it is a misleading term of non-stratigraphic origin and usage, is based on insignificant temporal ...
  • Mapping of marine benthic invertebrates in the Oslofjord and the Skagerrak: sampling data of museum collections from 1950–1955 and from recent investigations 
    Oug, Eivind; Christiansen, Marit Ellen; Dobbe, Kristine; Rønning, Ann-Helen; Bakken, Torkild; Kongsrud, Jon Anders (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    Data from large sampling programmes for the mapping of marine invertebrates in the Oslofjord, Norway, and the Skagerrak, spanning more than six decades, are compiled and digitized to provide easy access in modern data ...
  • Medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation in the Swat valley, north-western Pakistan, for economic development and biodiversity conservation 
    Sher, Hassan; Barkworth, Mary E.; de Boer, Hugo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Most people in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan practice subsistence farming, supplementing their income by collecting and selling wild harvested plants for use in herbal medicine. Previous work showed that the ...
  • Meeting Report: GBIF hackathon-workshop on Darwin Core and sample data (22-24 May 2013) 
    Wieczorek, John; Bánki, Olaf; Blum, Stan; Deck, John; Döring, Markus; Dröge, Gabriele; Endresen, Dag Terje Filip; Goldstein, Philip; Leary, Patrick; Krishtalka, Leonard; Ó Tuama, Éamonn; Robbins, Robert J.; Robertson, Tim; Yilmaz, Pelin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The workshop-hackathon was convened by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) at its secretariat in Copenhagen over 22-24 May 2013 with additional support from several projects (RCN4GSC, EAGER, VertNet, BiSciCol, ...
  • MIAT: Modular R-wrappers for flexible implementation of MaxEnt distribution modelling 
    Mazzoni, Sabrina; Halvorsen, Rune; Bakkestuen, Vegar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    The maximum entropy (MaxEnt) method has gained widespread use for distribution modelling, mostly because of the practical simplicity offered by the maxent.jar software. Whilst MaxEnt was originally described as a machine ...
  • Microhabitat change drives diversification in pholcid spiders 
    Eberle, Jonas; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro; Huber, Bernhard A (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Background Microhabitat changes are thought to be among the main drivers of diversification. However, this conclusion is mostly based on studies on vertebrates. Here, we investigate the influence of ...
  • MicroRNA preparations from individual monogenean Gyrodactylus salaris-a comparison of six commercially available totalRNA extraction kits 
    Fromm, Bastian; David Harris, Philip; Bachmann, Lutz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
    Background Describing and evaluating miRNA inventories with Next Generation Sequencing is a goal of scientists from a wide range of fields. It requires high purity, high quality, and high yield RNA extractions ...
  • Microsatellite evolution: Mutations, sequence variation, and homoplasy in the hypervariable avian microsatellite locus HrU10 
    Anmarkrud, Jarl A; Kleven, Oddmund; Bachmann, Lutz; Lifjeld, Jan T (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
    Background Microsatellites are frequently used genetic markers in a wide range of applications, primarily due to their high length polymorphism levels that can easily be genotyped by fragment length analysis. ...
  • Migration corridors for alpine plants among the `sky islands? of eastern Africa: do they, or did they exist? 
    Chala, Desalegn; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Brochmann, Christian; Bakkestuen, Vegar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    The tropical alpine ecosystem in eastern Africa is highly fragmented among biological ‘sky islands’, where populations of frost-tolerant organisms are isolated from each other by a ‘sea’ of tropical lowlands. One-third of ...
  • Migration distance is positively associated with sex-linked genetic diversity in passerine birds 
    Gohli, Jostein; Lifjeld, Jan Terje; Albrecht, Tomas (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    A recent comparative analysis of passerine birds found that the frequency of extra-pair paternity was positively associated with neutral genetic diversity. It has been hypothesised that migratory species have more extra-pair ...
  • Mineralogy and geochemistry of pegmatites in the Larvik Plutonic Complex, Norway 
    Sunde, Øyvind (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
    Peculiar rocks consisting of large and rare minerals are known as nepheline syenite pegmatites and can be found in larvikite (national rock of Norway!) around the Larvik area. Detailed chemical analyses of a mineral called ...
  • Molecular analyses confirm Brevicellicium in Trechisporales 
    Telleria, M. T; Melo, Ireneia; Dueñas, Margarita; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Paz Martín, Maria P (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The genus Brevicellicium encompasses wood-inhabiting corticioid fungi characterized by isodiametric subhymenial hyphae, short basidia, and smooth, often subangular spores with a distinct apiculus. Eight new LSU nrDNA ...
  • Molecular evolution of the pDo500 satellite DNA family in Dolichopoda cave crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) 
    Martinsen, Lene; Venanzetti, Federica; Johnsen, Arild; Sbordoni, Valerio; Bachmann, Lutz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
    Background Non-coding satellite DNA (satDNA) usually has a high turn-over rate frequently leading to species specific patterns. However, some satDNA families evolve more slowly and can be found in several ...
  • Molecular systematics, taxonomy, and museomics of tropical Ramalinaceae 
    Kistenich, Sonja (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
    This thesis focuses on the molecular systematics of the lichen family Ramalinaceae and is based on both freshly collected and archived specimens. Tropical members of the family remain particularly understudied, including ...
  • Morphology, fossils and molecules elucidate the mystery of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) evolution using novel Bayesian and parsimony approaches 
    Tarasov, Sergei (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
    A plethora of studies published over the last two decades produced numerous contradictory phylogenies leading to the lack of consensus on phylogenetic history in dung beetles. Thus, due to those contradictions, the community ...
  • Mycetophilidae (Fungus Gnats) 
    Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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