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Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum: Recent submissions
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The mid-Miocene Zhangpu biota reveals an outstandingly rich rainforest biome in East Asia
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021-04-30)During the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum [MMCO, ~14 to 17 million years (Ma) ago], global temperatures were similar to predicted temperatures for the coming century. Limited megathermal paleoclimatic and fossil data are ... -
Adapting for the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador, a characterization of hospital strategies and patients
(Public Library of Science, 2021-05-17)The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. In Ecuador, the first case of COVID-19 was recorded on 29 February 2020. Despite efforts to control its ... -
Limited Evidence for Parallel Evolution Among Desert-Adapted Peromyscus Deer Mice
(Oxford University Press, 2021-03-04)Warming climate and increasing desertification urge the identification of genes involved in heat and dehydration tolerance to better inform and target biodiversity conservation efforts. Comparisons among extant desert-adapted ... -
Cenozoic evolution of the steppe-desert biome in Central Asia
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-10-09)The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It is unclear how Cenozoic climatic, ... -
Cycle Threshold Values in the Context of Multiple RT-PCR Testing for SARS-CoV-2
(Dove Medical Press, 2021-03-29)Purpose: Discharge or follow up of confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases depend on accurate interpretation of RT-PCR. Currently, positive/negative interpretations are based on amplification instead of ... -
Transcriptomic Analysis of Skin Color in Anole Lizards
(Oxford University Press, 2021-05-14)Color and color pattern are critical for animal camouflage, reproduction, and defense. Few studies, however, have attempted to identify candidate genes for color and color pattern in squamate reptiles, a colorful group ... -
Phylogenetic relationships, origin and historical biogeography of the genus Sprattus (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae)
(PeerJ, 2021-08-18)The genus Sprattus comprises five species of marine pelagic fishes distributed worldwide in antitropical, temperate waters. Their distribution suggests an ancient origin during a cold period of the earth’s history. In this ... -
Likely Geographic Distributional Shifts among Medically Important Tick Species and Tick-Associated Diseases under Climate Change in North America: A Review
(MDPI, 2021-03-05)Ticks rank high among arthropod vectors in terms of numbers of infectious agents that they transmit to humans, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colorado tick fever, human monocytic ehrlichiosis, ... -
Rivers, not refugia, drove diversification in arboreal, sub-Saharan African snakes
(Wiley Open Access, 2021-05-01)The relative roles of rivers versus refugia in shaping the high levels of species diversity in tropical rainforests have been widely debated for decades. Only recently has it become possible to take an integrative approach ... -
Collision Chronology Along the İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan Suture Zone: Insights From the Sarıcakaya Basin, Western Anatolia
(American Geophysical Union, 2019-09-10)Debate persists concerning the timing and geodynamics of intercontinental collision, style of syncollisional deformation, and development of topography and fold‐and‐thrust belts along the >1,700‐km‐long İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan ... -
A revised definition for copal and its significance for palaeontological and Anthropocene biodiversity-loss studies
(Nature Research, 2020-11-16)The early fossilization steps of natural resins and associated terminology are a subject of constant debate. Copal and resin are archives of palaeontological and historical information, and their study is critical to the ... -
A symmoriiform from the Late Devonian of Morocco demonstrates a derived jaw function in ancient chondrichthyans
(Nature Research, 2020-11-17)The Palaeozoic record of chondrichthyans (sharks, rays, chimaeras, extinct relatives) and thus our knowledge of their anatomy and functional morphology is poor because of their predominantly cartilaginous skeletons. Here, ... -
The Status and Distribution of Birds of Missouri, 2nd edition
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Participation in the convention on migratory species: A biogeographic assessment
(Springer, 2018-02-24)The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) is a Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) focused on species that regularly travel across international borders. Despite covering an ... -
Data Leakage and Loss in Biodiversity Informatics
(Pensoft Publishers, 2018-11-07)The field of biodiversity informatics is in a massive, “grow-out” phase of creating and enabling large-scale biodiversity data resources. Because perhaps 90% of existing biodiversity data nonetheless remains unavailable ... -
Reproduction and metamorphosis in the Myristica Swamp tree frog, Mercurana myristicapalustris (Anura: Rhacophoridae)
(PeerJ, 2018-11-21)The reproductive biology of the Myristica Swamp tree frog (Mercurana myristicapalustris), a monotypic rhacophorid frog endemic to the foothills of the Western Ghats mountains of India, has remained unknown since the ... -
Importance of biotic predictors in estimation of potential invasive areas: The example of the tortoise beetle Eurypedus nigrosignatus, in Hispaniola
(PeerJ, 2018-12-05)Climatic variables have been the main predictors employed in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling, although biotic interactions are known to affect species’ spatial distributions via mechanisms such ... -
Potential Spatial Distribution of the Newly Introduced Long-horned Tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis in North America
(Nature Research, 2019-01-24)The North American distributional potential of the recently invaded tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, was estimated using occurrence data from its geographic range in other parts of the world and relevant climatic data sets. ... -
Kuenm: An R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent
(PeerJ, 2019-02-06)Background Ecological niche modeling is a set of analytical tools with applications in diverse disciplines, yet creating these models rigorously is now a challenging task. The calibration phase of these models is critical, ... -
Factors driving adaptive radiation in plants of oceanic islands: A case study from the Juan Fernández Archipelago
(Springer, 2018-03-13)Adaptive radiation is a common evolutionary phenomenon in oceanic islands. From one successful immigrant population, dispersal into different island environments and directional selection can rapidly yield a series of ...
