As the pineal eye is relatively unimportant in vertebrates, these devices are crystallized in the two lateral eyes. These lateral eyes show a wonderful variety in structure and versatility in action.

Greenland sharks have been identified as the longest-living vertebrates on Earth, potentially reaching ages of up to 500 years. This discovery, based on radiocarbon dating of their eye lenses ...

We first established an environmental DNA metabarcoding protocol to identify the distribution of kākāpō and other vertebrate species in a highly localized manner using soil samples. Harnessing ...

The phylogenetic tree is shown as a cladogram. The core gene alignment of ARG harboring accessions showed 139,132 variable and 132,339 informative sites out of 197,279 positions. This alignment lacked ...

In this critical review, we synthesize research on the microbiota of aquatic vertebrates and discuss the impact of emerging stressors on aquatic microbial communities using two case studies, that of ...