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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Range-wide Determinants of Plague Distribution in North America
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010-09-01)Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is established across western North America, and yet little is known of what determines the broad-scale dimensions of its overall range. We tested whether its North American ... -
Ecological Niche Modeling of Francisella tularensis Subspecies and Clades in the United States
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010-05-01)Two subspecies of Francisella tularensis are recognized: F. tularensis subsp. tularensis (type A) and F. tularensis subsp. holartica (type B). Type A has been subdivided further into A1a, A1b, and A2, which differ ... -
Predicting Potential Risk Areas of Human Plague for the Western Usambara Mountains, Lushoto District, Tanzania
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010-03-01)A natural focus of plague exists in the Western Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. Despite intense research, questions remain as to why and how plague emerges repeatedly in the same suite of villages. We used human plague ... -
Geographic and ecologic distributions of the Anopheles gambiae complex predicted using a genetic algorithm
(American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 2004-02-01)The distribution of the Anopheles gambiae complex of malaria vectors in Africa is uncertain due to under-sampling of vast regions. We use ecologic niche modeling to predict the potential distribution of three members of ... -
LONG-TERM REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT IN WESTERN GULLS: CONSEQUENCES OF ALTERNATE TACTICS IN DIET CHOICE
(The Ecological Society of America, 1999)Abstract. Numerous studies reveal strong, positive skews in long-term breeding performance among free-living animals, yet few studies explore the mechanisms underlying such variation. We examine the results of a 12-yr study ... -
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Ecological niche and phylogeography elucidate complex biogeographic patterns in Loxosceles rufescens (Araneae, Sicariidae) in the Mediterranean Basin.
(BioMed Central, 2014-10-09)Background: Understanding the evolutionary history of morphologically cryptic species complexes is difficult, and made even more challenging when geographic distributions have been modified by human-mediated dispersal. ... -
Type specimens in modern ornithology are necessary and irreplaceable.
(Bio One, 2014-04-23)Recent years have seen a series of new species descriptions in which no type specimen or fragmentary type specimen material was provided as documentation. These descriptions have been controversial, but the Code of Zoological ... -
Defining viral species: making taxonomy useful
(BioMed Central, 2014-07-23)Virus taxonomy at present is best characterized as a categorization of convenience, without a firm basis in the principles of evolutionary biology. Specifically, virus species definitions appear to depend more on tradition ... -
The Cleptoparasitic Bee Tribe Rhathymini (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Description of a New Genus and a Tribal Review
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A replacement name for the cleptoparasitic bee genus Rhathymodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
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The North American Invasion of the Giant Resin Bee (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)
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Journal of Melittology: First year ‘abuzz’
(University of Kansas, 2014-01-18)The Journal of Melittology celebrates its first year of activity. In total 26 articles were published comprising 243 pages, and including accounts historical and biographical interest, biological and biogeographic notes, ... -
The Fusion of Ideas: An Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander
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An Interview with Edward P. Jones
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008-11-01)Edward P. Jones is a writer of the kind of fiction one might have thought was going out of style: readable, absorbing, and exquisitely literary. After a startling publishing debut with Lost in the City, stories drawn from ... -
The Merchant of Venice: Brazil and Cultural Icons
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994-12-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Paradigm Lost? The Fate of Literature in the Age of Theory
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997-12-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Documenting the Undocumented: Life Narratives of Unauthorized Immigrants
(University of Hawaii Press, 2012-06-01)Although Arizona's now-notorious anti-immigration bill SB 1070 and the plethora of copycat legislation bills in several other states,1 as well as the recent failures to pass any form of the DREAM Act at a national level,2 ... -
Literary Journalism and "Illegal" Border Crossings
(University of Arizona, 2012-09-01)The twenty-first century has been hailed as ushering in a new era of globalization and "post-nationalism," in which the nation-state is becoming an increasingly "obsolete" category (Appadurai 169). Such grand claims are ... -
Speaking In (M)other Tongues
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002-06-01)No abstract is available for this item.