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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions
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Evolution of the ASM’s pronghorn
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A Cladistic Analysis of Hawaiian Ophionine Wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
(The University of Kansas, 2004)A cladistic analysis was performed on 29 of the 31 known species of Hawaiian ichneumonid wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae, based upon 64 adult morphological characters. Outgroups consisted of 17 species of Enicospilus, ... -
Review of the whirligig beetle genus Gyrinus of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae)
(Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 2018-03-31)The Venezuelan species of the genus Gyrinus Geoffroy, 1762 are reviewed (Gyrinidae: Gyrininae: Gyrinini). The Venezuelan Gyrinus fauna is found to be comprised of nine species distributed among the subgenera Neogyrinus ... -
Neo-sex Chromosomes in the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus
(Genetics Society of America, 2017-10-01)We report the discovery of a neo-sex chromosome in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, and several of its close relatives. Z-linked scaffolds in the D. plexippus genome assembly were identified via sex-specific ... -
Rapid surrogate testing of wavelet coherences
(EDP Sciences, 2017-05-24)Background: The use of wavelet coherence methods enables the identification of frequency-dependent relationships between the phases of the fluctuations found in complex systems such as medical and other biological timeseries. ... -
Fatiga de vigilancia (fatigatio vigilantiae) durante epidemias
(SciELO, 2017)Se presenta el concepto de "fatiga de vigilancia" (fatigatio vigilantiae) para describir un escenario epidemiológico en el que es evidente el subreporte de casos durante epidemias abrumadoras. Revisamos epidemias pasadas ... -
Diferencias conceptuales entre modelación de nichos y modelación de áreasde distribución
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2017)The ideas of modeling niches of species and modeling areas of distribution, for some reason are confused terminologically. The terms " Species Distribution Models (SDM), and" Ecological Niche Models "(ENM) are very often ... -
Hydrocarbon secretions and internal secretory systems of the Carduaceae, Ambrosiaceae, and Cichoriaceae
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Typhoon frequency and intensity across the Western Pacific Ocean north of the Equator, 1951 – 2014
(Computer Network Information Center, 2017-10-20)Disturbance has been a repeated theme in ecology in recent decades, yet incorporating its frequency and pattern at broad spatial scales into ecological analyses has been difficult – rather, most environmental datasets used ... -
Changes in biomass allocation buffer low CO2 effects on tree growth during the last glaciation
(Nature Research, 2017-02-24)Isotopic measurements on junipers growing in southern California during the last glacial, when the ambient atmospheric [CO2] (ca) was ~180 ppm, show the leaf-internal [CO2] (ci) was approaching the modern CO2 compensation ... -
Conserved Patterns of Sex Chromosome Dosage Compensation in the Lepidoptera (WZ/ZZ): Insights from a Moth Neo-Z Chromosome
(Oxford University Press, 2017-03-01)Where previously described, patterns of sex chromosome dosage compensation in the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) have several unusual characteristics. Other female-heterogametic (ZW/ZZ) species exhibit female Z-linked ... -
Contrasting patterns of evolutionary constraint and novelty revealed by comparative sperm proteomic analysis in Lepidoptera
(BMC, 2017-12-02)Background: Rapid evolution is a hallmark of reproductive genetic systems and arises through the combined processes of sequence divergence, gene gain and loss, and changes in gene and protein expression. While studies ... -
Multidimensional metrics of niche space for use with diverse analytical techniques
(Nature Research, 2017)Multidimensional data are integral to many community-ecological studies and come in various forms, such as stable isotopes, compound specific analyses (e.g., amino acids and fatty acids), and both biodiversity and life ... -
Assessing Monkeypox Virus Prevalence in Small Mammals at the Human-Animal Interface in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(MDPI, 2017-10-03)During 2012, 2013 and 2015, we collected small mammals within 25 km of the town of Boende in Tshuapa Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The prevalence of monkeypox virus (MPXV) in this area is unknown; however, ... -
Potential distribution of mosquito vector species in a primary malaria endemic region of Colombia
(Public Library of Science, 2017-06-08)Rapid transformation of natural ecosystems changes ecological conditions for important human disease vector species; therefore, an essential task is to identify and understand the variables that shape distributions of these ... -
Phylogeography of Rift Valley Fever Virus in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
(Public Library of Science, 2017-01-09)Rift Valley Fever is an acute zoonotic viral disease caused by Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV) that affects ruminants and humans in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. We used phylogenetic analyses to understand ... -
Automated identification of insect vectors of Chagas disease in Brazil and Mexico: the Virtual Vector Lab
(PeerJ, 2017-04-18)Identification of arthropods important in disease transmission is a crucial, yet difficult, task that can demand considerable training and experience. An important case in point is that of the 150+ species of Triatominae, ... -
Reconstructing the geographic origin of the New World jays
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2017-03-05)We conducted a biogeographic analysis based on a dense phylogenetic hypothesis for the early branches of corvids, to assess geographic origin of the New World jay (NWJ) clade. We produced a multilocus phylogeny from sequences ...