Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions
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Neocolonial Thinking and Respect for Nature: Do Indigenous People have Different Relationships with Wildlife than Europeans?
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2020-08-01)We respond to Mech (2019) “Do Indigenous American Peoples’ Stories Inform the Study of Dog Domestication” and point out a number of errors and omissions in Mech’s essay. These include: 1) assuming that the behavior of all ... -
The Semantics of Color: Reply to Response to Review
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The ecology and evolution of human-wildlife cooperation
(Wiley Open Access, 2022-07-31)1. Human-wildlife cooperation is a type of mutualism in which a human and a wild, free-living animal actively coordinate their behaviour to achieve a common beneficial outcome. 2. While other cooperative human-animal ... -
The potter wasp genus Allorhynchium from Vietnam, with descriptions of three new species and a new country record (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2023-06-06)Species of the potter wasp genus Allorhynchium van der Vecht (Eumeninae: Odynerini) occurring in Vietnam are presented. Seven species have been recorded from Vietnam. Of them, three species are described as new to science: ... -
Genome sequence of Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, an apicomplexan parasite of monarch butterflies: cryptic diversity and response to host-sequestered plant chemicals
(BMC, 2023-05-24)Apicomplexa are ancient and diverse organisms which have been poorly characterized by modern genomics. To better understand the evolution and diversity of these single-celled eukaryotes, we sequenced the genome of Ophryocystis ... -
First occurrence of the little-known genus Noteriades (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) from Vietnam: discovery of a new species and a key to the Southeast Asian fauna
(Pensoft Publishers, 2022-05-20)The little-known megachiline genus Noteriades Cockerell, 1931 is recorded from Vietnam for the first time. A new species, Noteriades hangkia Tran, Engel & Nguyen sp. nov. is described and figured based on a series of females ... -
High acoustic diversity and behavioral complexity of katydids in the Mesozoic soundscape
(National Academy of Sciences, 2022-12-15)Acoustic communication has played a key role in the evolution of a wide variety of vertebrates and insects. However, the reconstruction of ancient acoustic signals is challenging due to the extreme rarity of fossilized ... -
Transmission risk of Oropouche fever across the Americas
(BMC, 2023-05-06)Background Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are important contributors to the global burden of infectious diseases due to their epidemic potential, which can result in significant population and economic impacts. Oropouche ... -
Filtration of Gene Trees From 9,000 Exons, Introns, and UCEs Disentangles Conflicting Phylogenomic Relationships in Tree Frogs (Hylidae)
(Oxford University Press, 2023-05-02)An emerging challenge in interpreting phylogenomic data sets is that concatenation and multi-species coalescent summary species tree approaches may produce conflicting results. Concatenation is problematic because it can ... -
Obituary: Terry A. Vaughan (1928–2022)
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The oldest known bat skeletons and their implications for Eocene chiropteran diversification
(Public Library of Science, 2023-04-12)The Fossil Lake deposits of the Green River Formation of Wyoming, a remarkable early Eocene Lagerstätte (51.98 ±0.35 Ma), have produced nearly 30 bat fossils over the last 50 years. However, diversity has thus far been ... -
Morphological and organic spectroscopic studies of a 44-million-year-old leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in amber with endogenous remains of chitin
(Nature Research, 2023-04-11)This study details the quality of preservation of amber deposits in the Eocene. Through Baltic amber crack-out studies using Synchrotron Micro-Computed Tomography and Scanning Electron Microscopy it was found that the ... -
Rapid differentiation of soil and root microbiomes in response to plant composition and biodiversity in the field
(Springe, 2023-04-19)Research suggests that microbiomes play a major role in structuring plant communities and influencing ecosystem processes, however, the relative roles and strength of change of microbial components have not been identified. ... -
Localization of Multiple Jellyfish Toxins Shows Specificity for Functionally Distinct Polyps and Nematocyst Types in a Colonial Hydrozoan
(MDPI, 2023-02-13)Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is a colonial hydrozoan that displays a division of labor through morphologically distinct and functionally specialized polyp types. As with all cnidarians, their venoms are housed in nematocysts, ... -
Revision of the water scavenger beetle genus Notionotus Spangler, 1972 in the Neotropical Region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Enochrinae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2022-07-01)The Neotropical species of the water scavenger beetle genus Notionotus Spangler, 1972 are revised using an integrative taxonomic approach combining morphology with DNA sequence data from two genes. Support exists for four ... -
Off-target piRNA gene silencing in Drosophila melanogaster rescued by a transposable element insertion
(Public Library of Science, 2023-02-21)Transposable elements (TE) are selfish genetic elements that can cause harmful mutations. In Drosophila, it has been estimated that half of all spontaneous visible marker phenotypes are mutations caused by TE insertions. ... -
The oldest known bat skeletons and their implications for Eocene chiropteran diversification
(Public Library of Science, 2023-04-12)The Fossil Lake deposits of the Green River Formation of Wyoming, a remarkable early Eocene Lagerstätte (51.98 ±0.35 Ma), have produced nearly 30 bat fossils over the last 50 years. However, diversity has thus far been ... -
Broad-scale factors shaping the ecological niche and geographic distribution of Spirodela polyrhiza
(Public Library of Science, 2023-05-04)The choice of appropriate independent variables to create models characterizing ecological niches of species is of critical importance in distributional ecology. This set of dimensions in which a niche is defined can inform ... -
Impact of genus (Geotrigona, Melipona, Scaptotrigona) on the targeted 1H-NMR organic profile, and authenticity test by interphase emulsion of honey processed in cerumen pots by stingless bees in Ecuador
(Elsevier, 2023)The biodiversity of Ecuadorian stingless bees is almost 200 species. Traditional pot-honey harvest in Ecuador is mostly done from nests of the three genera selected here Geotrigona Moure, 1943, Melipona Illiger, 1806, and ...
