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New genera of meliturguline bees from Saudi Arabia and Persia, with notes on related genera and a key to the Arabian fauna (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2019-04-30)A new genus of melitturgine bees (Panurginae: Melitturgini) is described and figured from central Saudi Arabia. Belliturgula najdica Engel, gen. et sp. n., is similar in several respects to the genus Flavomeliturgula Patiny ... -
SCRIPTS: Effects of Landscape History on Current Geographic Distributions of Four Species of Reptiles and Amphibians in Kansas
(2021-05-13)R code (for the specific example of Pseudacris crucifer) to make explicit the processing that was done to obtain species distribution models for this species. -
Phylogenomic systematics, bioacoustics, and morphology of frogs from Madagascar reveals that background noise drives the evolution of high frequency acoustic signaling
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Madagascar is considered a globally important biodiversity hotspot, having some of the highest rates of species endemism in the world and has been the focus of substantial effort from researchers to understand the evolution ... -
Evolution of Sexual Signals in the Drosophila saltans Species Group
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The complex courtship signaling of three of the four species groups of the Sophophora subgenus (e.g., melanogaster, obscura, and willistoni) has been studied. In this dissertation, I examined the complex courtship signaling ... -
Redescription of Wushaichthys exquisitus and phylogenetic revision of Thoracopteridae
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Wushaichthys exquisitus, a small fish from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou Province, China, was named and studied by Xu et al. (2015), and Xu et al. interpreted it as the most primitive species in the family Thoracopteridae ... -
Mathematical Modeling of Neisseria meningitidis: A Case Study of Nigeria
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Bacterial meningitis remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the African meningitis belt. It is defined as an acute inflammation of the meninges, the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. ... -
Collision Chronology Along the İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan Suture Zone: Insights From the Sarıcakaya Basin, Western Anatolia
(American Geophysical Union, 2019-09-10)Debate persists concerning the timing and geodynamics of intercontinental collision, style of syncollisional deformation, and development of topography and fold‐and‐thrust belts along the >1,700‐km‐long İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan ... -
A new genus of Pelecotominae from Mexico, with notes on the genera Clinops and Scotoscopus and the description of new species (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2019-06-25)Taxonomic notes are provided on species of the uncommonly encountered ripiphorid subfamily Pelecotominae. Zapotecotoma sumichrasti gen. et sp. nov., is described from southern Mexico based on a unique male likely collected ... -
Three additional new genera of acidocerine water scavenger beetles from the Guiana and Brazilian Shield regions of South America (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2019-06-13)Recent study of the water scavenger beetle subfamily Acidocerinae in the Neotropical region has uncovered numerous undescribed species that are not able to be placed in existing genera. Here, we describe three new genera ... -
Potential Spatial Distribution of the Newly Introduced Long-horned Tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis in North America
(Nature Research, 2019-01-24)The North American distributional potential of the recently invaded tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, was estimated using occurrence data from its geographic range in other parts of the world and relevant climatic data sets. ... -
A new species of Andinopanurgus (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) from the high altitudes of southern Peru
(2019-07-06)We describe and illustrate a new species of the genus Andinopanurgus Gonzalez and Engel (Andrenidae, Protandrenini) from Apurímac and Cusco, in southern Peru. Andinopanurgus vargasllosai Gonzalez and Alvarado, n. sp., is ... -
Climate change impact on endangered cloud forest tree species in Mexico
(Instituto de Biología, 2019)Ecological niche models have seen intensive exploration as a tool in biodiversity conservation and evaluation of areas for designing protected natural areas systems, including projections of potential distributions under ... -
Rates of niche and phenotype evolution lag behind diversification in a temperate radiation
(National Academy of Sciences, 2019-05-13)Environmental change can create opportunities for increased rates of lineage diversification, but continued species accumulation has been hypothesized to lead to slowdowns via competitive exclusion and niche partitioning. ... -
Earth history and the passerine superradiation
(National Academy of Sciences, 2019-04-01)Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the diversification of the hyperdiverse perching birds ... -
On the nature of genetic variation in yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus): combining theoretical and empirical approaches
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Evolution via natural selection requires standing variation in a population while simultaneously diminishing it at loci under selection, a paradox that continues to vex evolutionary biologists. The work presented here ... -
The early history of netting bats
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Genetics of adaptation in modern chicken
(Public Library of Science, 2019-04-29)We carried out whole genome resequencing of 127 chicken including red jungle fowl and multiple populations of commercial broilers and layers to perform a systematic screening of adaptive changes in modern chicken (Gallus ... -
GOOGA: A platform to synthesize mapping experiments and identify genomic structural diversity
(Public Library of Science, 2019-04-15)Understanding genomic structural variation such as inversions and translocations is a key challenge in evolutionary genetics. We develop a novel statistical approach to comparative genetic mapping to detect large-scale ...
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