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A new approach to interspecific synchrony in population ecology using tail association
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-11-10)Standard methods for studying the association between two ecologically important variables provide only a small slice of the information content of the association, but statistical approaches are available that provide ... -
Geographic potential of the world’s largest hornet, Vespa mandarinia Smith (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), worldwide and particularly in North America
(PeerJ, 2021-01-13)The Asian giant hornet (AGH, Vespa mandarinia) is the world’s largest hornet, occurring naturally in the Indomalayan region, where it is a voracious predator of pollinating insects including honey bees. In September 2019, ... -
Electron microscopy reveals novel external specialized organs housing bacteria in eagle ray tapeworms
(Public Library of Science, 2021-01-22)Nutritionally-based mutualisms with bacteria are known to occur in a wide array of invertebrate phyla, although less commonly in the Platyhelminthes. Here we report what appears to be a novel example of this type of ... -
Evolutionary Dynamics of the Pericentromeric Heterochromatin in Drosophila virilis and Related Species
(MDPI, 2021-01-27)Pericentromeric heterochromatin in Drosophila generally consists of repetitive DNA, forming the environment associated with gene silencing. Despite the expanding knowledge of the impact of transposable elements (TEs) on ... -
Predicting evolutionary change at the DNA level in a natural Mimulus population
(Public Library of Science, 2021-01-13)Evolution by natural selection occurs when the frequencies of genetic variants change because individuals differ in Darwinian fitness components such as survival or reproductive success. Differential fitness has been ... -
Review of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Tobochares Short & García, 2007 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae): new lineages, new species, and new records
(Pensoft Publishers, 2021-02-22)The water scavenger beetle genus Tobochares Short & García, 2007 currently contains ten species, including one known but formally undescribed taxon. Although Tobochares was revised in 2017, ongoing fieldwork as well as an ... -
Impact of Public Health Education Program on the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak in the United States
(Frontiers Media, 2021-03-15)The coronavirus outbreak in the United States continues to pose a serious threat to human lives. Public health measures to slow down the spread of the virus involve using a face mask, social-distancing, and frequent hand ... -
Incorporating the speciation process into species delimitation
(Public Library of Science, 2021-05-13)The “multispecies” coalescent (MSC) model that underlies many genomic species-delimitation approaches is problematic because it does not distinguish between genetic structure associated with species versus that of populations ... -
Predicting the potential distribution of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) infestation in New Zealand, using maximum entropy-based ecological niche modelling
(Springer, 2020-01-21)Although currently exotic to New Zealand, the potential geographic distribution of Amblyomma americanum (L.), the lone star tick, was modelled using maximum entropy (MaxEnt). The MaxEnt model was calibrated across the ... -
Plant Genetics as a Tool for Manipulating Crop Microbiomes: Opportunities and Challenges
(Frontiers Media, 2021-05-31)Growing human population size and the ongoing climate crisis create an urgent need for new tools for sustainable agriculture. Because microbiomes have profound effects on host health, interest in methods of manipulating ... -
The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species
(Pensoft Publishers, 2021-06-18)The cosmopolitan subfamily Acidocerinae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) is one of the largest and most taxonomically challenging lineages of water scavenger beetles. Recent phylogenetic studies have substantially advanced our ... -
A single QTL with large effect is associated with female functional virginity in an asexual parasitoid wasp
(Wiley, 2021-02-26)During the transition from sexual to asexual reproduction, a suite of reproduction-related sexual traits become superfluous, and may be selected against if costly. Female functional virginity refers to asexual females ... -
Climatic suitability of the eastern paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, and its likely geographic distribution in the year 2050
(Nature Research, 2021-07-28)The eastern paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus is one of two ticks that cause potentially fatal tick paralysis in Australia, and yet information on the full extent of its present or potential future spatial distribution is ... -
A synopsis of the Bee occurrence data of northern Tanzania
(Pensoft Publishers, 2021-08-17)Background Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) are the most important group of pollinators with about 20,507 known species worldwide. Despite the critical role of bees in providing pollination services, studies aiming ... -
Early observations on the use of termite nests by bats; Primeras observaciones sobre el uso de nidos de termitas por murciélagos
(2021-10)The remarkable discovery of Neotropical round-eared bats (Phyllostomidae, Lophostoma) actively hollowing out cavities in termite nests for roosting sites has enabled researchers to explore several aspects of their previously ... -
The dogs of Roman Vindolanda, Part IV: Large sighthounds and guard and utility dogs
(2021-10)In this report we investigate the origin and nature of morphological diversity in domestic dogs utilizing a database of over 1,000 recent and ancient canid skulls and skeletons. Integrated skull-skeleton analysis reveals ... -
Specialized and Generalized Pollen-Collection Strategies in an Ancient Bee Lineage
(Elsevier, 2015-11-12)Iconic examples of insect pollination have emphasized narrowly specialized pollinator mutualisms such as figs and fig wasps [1] and yuccas and yucca moths [2]. However, recent attention by pollination ecologists has focused ... -
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Global Land-Use and Land-Cover Data: Historical, Current and Future Scenarios
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-01)Land-use land-cover (LULC) data are important predictors of species occurrence and biodiversity threat. Although there are LULC datasets available under current conditions, there is a lack of such data under historical and ...
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