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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions
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Synchrony is more than its top-down and climatic parts: Interacting Moran effects on phytoplankton in British seas
(Public Library of Science, 2019-03-28)Large-scale spatial synchrony is ubiquitous in ecology. We examined 56 years of data representing chlorophyll density in 26 areas in British seas monitored by the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey. We used wavelet methods ... -
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 ... -
Insecticide resistance profiles of Anopheles gambiae s.l. in Togo and genetic mechanisms involved, during 3-year survey: Is there any need for resistance management?
(BMC, 2019-05-22)Background Malaria, one of the world’s greatest public health challenges, is an endemic disease with stable transmission in Togo. Combating malaria requires an effective vector control. This study provides temporal data ... -
Using GIS to examine biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns in some late Paleozoic cephalopods from the North American Midcontinent Sea
(PeerJ, 2019-05-13)Geographic range is an important macroevolutionary parameter frequently considered in paleontological studies as species’ distributions and range sizes are determined by a variety of biotic and abiotic factors well known ... -
Birth, School, Work, Death, and Resurrection: The Life Stages and Dynamics of Transposable Element Proliferation
(MDPI, 2019-05-03)Transposable elements (TEs) can be maintained in sexually reproducing species even if they are harmful. However, the evolutionary strategies that TEs employ during proliferation can modulate their impact. In this review, ... -
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. ... -
Optimal control and cost-effective analysis of the 2017 meningitis outbreak in Nigeria
(KeAi Communications, 2019-05-17)This paper presents a deterministic model for Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterium that causes meningitis. The model was parameterized using data from the 2017 meningitis outbreak in Nigeria. Optimal control theory was ... -
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 ... -
Evolutionary Proteomics Reveals Distinct Patterns of Complexity and Divergence between Lepidopteran Sperm Morphs
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-04-20)Spermatozoa are one of the most strikingly diverse animal cell types. One poorly understood example of this diversity is sperm heteromorphism, where males produce multiple distinct morphs of sperm in a single ejaculate. ... -
Quantitative Genetic Mapping and Genome Assembly in the Lesser Wax Moth Achroia grisella
(Genetics Society of America, 2019-05-17)Specific characteristics of the male Achroia grisella acoustic mating signal determine a male’s attractiveness toward females. These features are genetically variable in populations, and mapping experiments have been used ... -
Ultraconserved element (UCE) probe set design: Base genome and initial design parameters critical for optimization
(Wiley Open Access, 2019-06-11)Targeted capture and enrichment approaches have proven effective for phylogenetic study. Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) in particular have exhibited great utility for phylogenomic analyses, with the software package phyluce ... -
Impact of Mobility on Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Injection Drug Users
(MDPI, 2019-06-17)In this study, we develop and present a deterministic model for the transmission dynamics of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among injection drug users. The model consists of non-injection drug users as ... -
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 ... -
Species complexes and the importance of Data Deficient classification in Red List assessments: The case of Hylobatrachus frogs
(Public Library of Science, 2019-08-14)Taxonomy is the cornerstone of extinction risk assessments. Currently, the IUCN Red List treats species complexes either under a single overarching species name—resulting in an unhelpfully broad circumscription and ... -
Review of the genus Chasmogenus Sharp, 1882 of northeastern South America with an emphasis on Venezuela, Suriname, and Guyana (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2020-05-19)The water scavenger beetle genus Chasmogenus Sharp, 1882 is reviewed in northeastern South America using an integrative approach that combines adult morphology and molecular data from the gene cytochrome c oxidase I (COI). ... -
Self‐organizing cicada choruses respond to the local sound and light environment
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-04-20)1. Periodical cicadas exhibit an extraordinary capacity for self‐organizing spatially synchronous breeding behavior. The regular emergence of periodical cicada broods across the United States is a phenomenon of longstanding ... -
Mimicry in Cretaceous Bugs
(Cell Press, 2020-06-16)Mimicry is ubiquitous in nature, yet understanding its origin and evolution is complicated by the scarcity of exceptional fossils that enable behavioral inferences about extinct animals. Here we report bizarre true bugs ... -
Liver fluke infections by Amphimerus sp. (Digenea: Opisthorchiidae) in definitive and fish intermediate hosts in Manabí province, Ecuador
(Public Library of Science, 2020-06-14)Amphimerus sp. is a fluke that dwells in the biliary tracts of vertebrate definitive hosts including humans, domestic, and wild mammals in Latin America. Opisthorchiid liver infections are rarely studied in the Americas ... -
Effects of the soil microbiome on the demography of two annual prairie plants
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-06-14)1. Both mutualistic and pathogenic soil microbes are known to play important roles in shaping the fitness of plants, likely affecting plants at different life cycle stages. 2. In order to investigate the differential ... -
Transcriptomic Analysis of Four Cerianthid (Cnidaria, Ceriantharia) Venoms
(MDPI, 2020-08-05)Tube anemones, or cerianthids, are a phylogenetically informative group of cnidarians with complex life histories, including a pelagic larval stage and tube-dwelling adult stage, both known to utilize venom in stinging-cell ...