Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
A dynamic continental moisture gradient drove Amazonian bird diversification
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-07-03)The Amazon is the primary source of Neotropical diversity and a nexus for discussions on processes that drive biotic diversification. Biogeographers have focused on the roles of rivers and Pleistocene climate change in ... -
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 ... -
Climate change implications for the distribution of the babesiosis and anaplasmosis tick vector, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus
(BMC, 2020-06-17)Climate change ranks among the most important issues globally, affecting geographic distributions of vectors and pathogens, and inducing losses in livestock production among many other damaging effects. We characterized ... -
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 ... -
Climate change influences on the potential distribution of Dianthus polylepis Bien. ex Boiss. (Caryophyllaceae), an endemic species in the Irano-Turanian region
(Public Library of Science, 2020-08-18)Endemic and restricted-range species are considered to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of environmental change, which makes assessing likely climate change effects on geographic distributions of such species ... -
Evaluating the capacity of species distribution modeling to predict the geographic distribution of the mangrove community in Mexico
(Public Library of Science, 2020-08-20)Mangroves are highly productive ecosystems that provide important environmental services, but have been impacted massively in recent years by human activities. Studies of mangroves have focused on their ecology and function ... -
Genomic Data Reveal Conserved Female Heterogamety in Giant Salamanders with Gigantic Nuclear Genomes
(Genetics Society of America, 2019-10-01)Systems of genetic sex determination and the homology of sex chromosomes in different taxa vary greatly across vertebrates. Much progress remains to be made in understanding systems of genetic sex determination in non-model ... -
The ecology of chronic wasting disease in wildlife
(Wiley, 2020-04-01)Prions are misfolded infectious proteins responsible for a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases termed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion diseases. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is the prion disease with ... -
Inventory statistics meet big data: complications for estimating numbers of species
(PeerJ, 2020-05-13)We point out complications inherent in biodiversity inventory metrics when applied to large-scale datasets. The number of units of inventory effort (e.g., days of inventory effort) in which a species is detected saturates, ... -
Mouthpart homologies and life habits of Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-03-04)Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies (Mesopsychoidea) provide important clues to ancient plant-pollinator interactions. Among them, the family Aneuretopsychidae is especially important because its mouthparts are vital to ... -
Diversity, above-ground biomass, and vegetation patterns in a tropical dry forest in Kimbi-Fungom National Park, Cameroon
(Elsevier, 2020-01-31)Research highlights This study is one of few detailed analyses of plant diversity and vegetation patterns in African dry forests. We established permanent plots to characterize plant diversity, above-ground biomass, and ... -
Crustacean remains from the Yuka mammoth raise questions about non-analogue freshwater communities in the Beringian region during the Pleistocene
(Nature Research, 2020-01-21)Frozen permafrost Pleistocene mammal carcasses with soft tissue remains are subject to intensive study and help elucidate the palaeoenvironment where these animals lived. Here we present an inventory of the freshwater fauna ... -
Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time
(Public Library of Science, 2018-11-14)Island biotas have disproportionately influenced the history and development of evolutionary biology, but understanding their genesis and evolution across geological timescales has been hindered by a poor fossil record. ... -
Advertisement calls and DNA sequences reveal a new species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) on the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador
(Public Library of Science, 2018-09-26)Scinax is a speciose genus of Neotropical hylid frogs. We describe a new species from western Ecuador (elevations between 0 and 1207 m) using morphology, vocalizations, and DNA sequences. We also present a new phylogeny ... -
Insight on the Ancient Arabian Horse from North Arabian Petroglyphs
(Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa, 2017)The origin of the Arabian horse breed has been the topic of much speculation. The earliest clear depictions of horses with Arabian attributes are in Egyptian New Kingdom tomb art, although they were likely first obtained ... -
Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time
(Public Library of Science, 2018-11-14)Island biotas have disproportionately influenced the history and development of evolutionary biology, but understanding their genesis and evolution across geological timescales has been hindered by a poor fossil record. ... -
Coprolites in the Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte of northwestern Canada: implications for the middle Cambrian food web
(Society for Sedimentary Geology, 2018-04-03)The Rockslide Formation (middle Cambrian, Drumian, Bolaspidella Zone) of the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada, hosts the Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte, which consists of two, 1-m thick intervals of greenish, ...