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Advancing the central role of non-model biorepositories in predictive modeling of emerging pathogens
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Biodiversity of Philippine marine fishes: A DNA barcode reference library based on voucher specimens
(Nature Research, 2023-06-24)Accurate identification of fishes is essential for understanding their biology and to ensure food safety for consumers. DNA barcoding is an important tool because it can verify identifications of both whole and processed ... -
Advancing the central role of non-model biorepositories in predictive modeling of emerging pathogens
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Two Decades of Wildlife Pathogen Surveillance: Case Study of Choclo orthohantavirus and Its Wild Reservoir Oligoryzomys costaricensis
(MDPI, 2023-06-17)The Costa Rican pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys costaricensis) is the primary reservoir of Choclo orthohantavirus (CHOV), the causal agent of hantavirus disease, pulmonary syndrome, and fever in humans in Panama. Since the ... -
Ethnodemographic characterization of stroke incidence and burden of disease in hospital discharge records in Ecuador
(Frontiers Media, 2023-02-08)Introduction: Stroke is the second most common cause of death and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) globally. However, the incidence and impact of stroke by ethnicity and gender is frequently distinct. This is ... -
What constitutes a community? A co-occurrence exploration of the Costa Rican avifauna
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-04-27)The concept of a “community” as a form of organization for natural biological systems is both widespread and widely accepted within the ecological and biological sciences. Communities have been defined as groups of organisms ... -
Mapping the global distribution of invasive pest Drosophila suzukii and parasitoid Leptopilina japonica: Implications for biological control
(PeerJ, 2023-04-24)Insect pest invasions cause significant damage to crop yields, and the resultant economic losses are truly alarming. Climate change and trade liberalization have opened new ways of pest invasions. Given the consumer ... -
Simulating the dynamics of dispersal and dispersal ability in fragmented populations with mate-finding Allee effects
(Wiley Open Access, 2023-04-21)We consider the spatial propagation and genetic evolution of model populations comprising multiple subpopulations, each distinguished by its own characteristic dispersal rate. Mate finding is modeled in accord with the ... -
Leptospirosis in Ecuador: Current Status and Future Prospects
(MDPI, 2023-03-29)The location of Ecuador—an equatorial nation—favors the multiplication and dispersal of the Leptospira genus both on the Pacific Coast and in the Amazon tropical ecoregions. Nevertheless, leptospirosis epidemiology has not ... -
A braconid wasp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of San Just, eastern Iberian Peninsula
(Pensoft Publishers, 2022-05-30)Braconid parasitoid wasps are a widely diversified group today, while their fossil record from the Mesozoic is currently poorly known. Here, we describe Utrillabracon electropteron Álvarez-Parra & Engel, gen. et sp. nov., ... -
The end of the line: competitive exclusion and the extinction of historical entities
(The Royal Society, 2023-02-22)Identifying competitive exclusion at the macroevolutionary scale has typically relied on demonstrating a reciprocal, contradictory response by two co-occurring, functionally similar clades. Finding definitive examples of ... -
Interspecific hybridization explains rapid gorget colour divergence in Heliodoxa hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae)
(The Royal Society, 2023-03-01)Hybridization is a known source of morphological, functional and communicative signal novelty in many organisms. Although diverse mechanisms of established novel ornamentation have been identified in natural populations, ... -
Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
(Nature Research, 2022-09-29)Fully shaped, morphologically standardized bone tools are generally considered reliable indicators of the emergence of modern behavior. We report the discovery of 23 double-beveled bone tools from ~ 80,000–60,000-year-old ... -
Digital Extended Specimens: Enabling an Extensible Network of Biodiversity Data Records as Integrated Digital Objects on the Internet
(Oxford University Press, 2022-08-03)The early twenty-first century has witnessed massive expansions in availability and accessibility of digital data in virtually all domains of the biodiversity sciences. Led by an array of asynchronous digitization activities ... -
Basal Primatomorpha colonized Ellesmere Island (Arctic Canada) during the hyperthermal conditions of the early Eocene climatic optimum
(Public Library of Science, 2023-01-25)Anthropogenically induced warming is transforming Arctic ecosystems across a geologically short timescale, but earlier episodes of Earth history provide insights on the nature and limitations of biotic change in a rapidly ... -
Repeated evolution of blanched coloration in a lizard across independent white-sand habitats
(Wiley Open Access, 2022-12-07)The White Sands lizards of New Mexico are a rare and classic example of convergent evolution where three species have evolved blanched coloration on the white gypsum dunes. Until now, no geological replicate of the pattern ... -
Low risk of acquiring melioidosis from the environment in the continental United States
(Public Library of Science, 2022-07-29)Melioidosis is an underreported human disease of tropical and sub-tropical regions caused by the saprophyte Burkholderia pseudomallei. Although most global melioidosis cases are reported from tropical regions in Southeast ... -
A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology
(National Academy of Sciences, 2022-08-16)Field biology is an area of research that involves working directly with living organisms in situ through a practice known as “fieldwork.” Conducting fieldwork often requires complex logistical planning within multiregional ... -
A New Subgenus and Species of Priochirus from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae)
(MDPI, 2022-05-30)As one of the largest families of beetles (Coleoptera), the Staphylinidae (rove beetles and their relatives) are rich not only in extant species but also in a comparatively robust fossil record. Despite this preponderance ... -
Climate change influences on the geographic distributional potential of the spotted fever vectors Amblyomma maculatum and Dermacentor andersoni
(PeerJ, 2022-05-03)Amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast tick), and Dermacentor andersoni (Rocky Mountain wood tick) are two North American ticks that transmit spotted fevers associated Rickettsia. Amblyomma maculatum transmits Rickettsia parkeri ...