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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Qiwei Ma, Yonghua Li, Lihua Xu
Summary: Using Hangzhou as a case study, this research established a green infrastructure (GI) network based on the quantification and mapping of various ecosystem service (ES) values, providing valuable insights for urban planning and supporting the revision of urban master plans to coordinate conflicts between urbanization and ecological protection. The study demonstrates the effectiveness of GI networks in safeguarding ecological security and containing rapid urban sprawl, shaping sustainable urban growth patterns and offering a useful tool for environmental planning in developing countries facing ecological deterioration.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
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Entomology
Joshua Earl Arnold
Summary: Our findings support the enemies hypothesis in urban agroecosystems, showing that local factors such as mulch coverage, crop richness, and non-crop areas can predict increased abundance of parasitic Hymenoptera and aphid parasitism rates. This study provides guidance for urban farmers to diversify the spatial composition and implement agroecological pest-management practices to reduce pest impacts.
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Marine & Freshwater Biology
Hardik Shah, R. Ramesh
Summary: Mangrove protection and restoration in India, particularly in the state of Gujarat, have been successful due to the concerted efforts of the government, private sector, and coastal community. The community-based restoration model has played a crucial role in expanding mangrove regions across the country. The increase in mangrove cover in Gujarat indicates a balanced approach towards enhancing the blue economy.
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hongfeng Li, Bin Wang
Summary: Managing waste sustainably is a challenge in our symbiotic society. Green packaging design should follow the principles of sustainability, but implementing these ideas into conventional product design is the key to universal acceptance. This study aims to provide a long-term solution for single-use food packaging waste disposal by utilizing IoT technologies and alternative management techniques. Proper optimization modeling is crucial for running sustainable cold chain logistics, and the development of a data-driven modeling system is necessary. The solution also emphasizes the creation of regional socioeconomic ecosystems for a circular economy. Evaluation: 8.5/10.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2023)
Article
Biology
Fan Yang, Bing Liu, Yulin Zhu, Kris A. G. Wyckhuys, Wopke van der Werf, Yanhui Lu
Summary: This study analyzed a 3-year dataset of quantitative parasitoid-hyperparasitoid trophic networks from 25 different agro-landscapes to evaluate the impacts of landscape composition, species diversity, and trophic network structure on ecosystem functionality. The research found that functionality is primarily dictated by (hyper)parasitoid diversity, with its effects modulated by the generality and vulnerability of the food web. The study underscores the importance of considering on-farm biodiversity and trophic interactions when investigating ecosystem services within dynamic agro-landscapes.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
D. D'Amato, J. Korhonen
Summary: The green economy, circular economy, and bioeconomy are popular narratives in sustainability discussions, offering different approaches to address economic, social, and ecological goals. While individually they may not provide comprehensive solutions, collectively they point towards a society and economy based on renewable resources and biodiversity, fulfilling the needs of current and future generations. Further research on potential competing or supplementary sustainability narratives is needed for holistic and integrative sustainability transformations.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shuang Song, Shaohan Wang, Mengxi Shi, Shanshan Hu, Dawei Xu
Summary: This study constructed an assessment framework for urban blue-green space Landscape Ecological Health (LEH) and conducted an empirical analysis in Harbin. The results showed that the spatial changes in landscape ecological pattern, process, function, and sustainability were not coordinated. The overall condition of blue-green space LEH improved but still at an unhealthy level, with increasing spatial differences.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Review
Environmental Studies
Adrian C. Newton
Summary: Progress is being made in assessing the conservation status of ecosystems, but there are concerns regarding the scientific understanding of ecosystem collapse. Strengthening the scientific basis of collapse risk assessments through defining concepts and reviewing theoretical foundations is essential. Additional research is needed to improve current understanding and potential implications for conservation policy and practice.
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Business
Yalcin Berberoglu, Yigit Kazancoglu, Muhittin Sagnak
Summary: The increasing global population and product demand render the linear economy ineffective, necessitating the implementation of the circular economy. Economic, social, and environmental factors all contribute to the circular economy, with logistics activities being crucial. This study aims to develop a framework for evaluating organizations' circular economy logistics performance, and its main contribution lies in creating a framework to assess circularity performance and measure the performance of logistics activities. Through expert interviews and fuzzy statements, a list of criteria was established, and the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method was employed for evaluation.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Isabelle Anguelovski, James J. T. Connolly, Helen Cole, Melissa Garcia-Lamarca, Margarita Triguero-Mas, Francesc Baro, Nicholas Martin, David Conesa, Galia Shokry, Carmen Perez del Pulgar, Lucia Arguelles Ramos, Austin Matheney, Elsa Gallez, Emilia Oscilowicz, Jesua Lopez Manez, Blanca Sarzo, Miguel Angel Beltran, Joaquin Martinez Minaya
Summary: There is a positive relationship between new greenspaces and gentrification, which can lead to social and racial inequalities, as well as environmental and climate injustice. This relationship is important for urbanization.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Agnieszka Bus, Anna Szelagowska
Summary: This paper calculates the ecological and economic effects of water harvesting via green roofs in 11 of the largest municipalities in Poland, showing that the effectiveness of green roofs is highest in cities with the largest number of green roofs. The study suggests that investments in intensive green roofs may be more significant than in extensive green roofs.
Article
Ecology
Alok Bang, Franck Courchamp
Summary: The recent surge in the edible insect market has led to industrialization and intensification without adequate regulatory policies, potentially resulting in new biological invasions. It is necessary to strengthen monitoring and regulation to prevent this outcome.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Aline Mariane de Faria, Antonio Carlos Braz, Adriana Marotti de Mello, Felipe Mendes Borini, Aldo Roberto Ometto
Summary: This article proposes a theoretical framework for managing circular ecosystems and conducts qualitative research through multiple case studies. The findings suggest that firms proactively build circular ecosystem value proposition and employ sub-processes to modify ecosystem configuration towards circularity.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Laura M. Norman, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Deborah J. Tosline, Michael K. Fell, Blair P. Greimann, Jay R. Cederberg
Summary: The study examines the performance of a natural wash stormwater retention installation using one-rock dams in an urban park in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, focusing on infiltration, peak flow mitigation, and microclimate effects. Results show that the use of rock detention structures has the potential to reduce warming or heat effects in an urban arid land setting.
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Environmental Sciences
Ai Tashiro
Summary: This study found that Eco-DRR factors and health perceptions indirectly influence residents' pro-environmental behaviors. In a case study of post-disaster community development in Japan, perceived benefits of health promotion, Eco-DRR perceptions, and social cohesion positively affected residents' ordinary green management. Green self-efficacy and mowing/weeding experience were also found to positively impact residents' green management.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Carlos E. Guarnizo, Andrew J. Crawford, Adrian A. Garda, Gabriel C. Costa
Summary: The study in Isthmian Central America (ICA) using landscape genetics approach found that different populations of regional frog assemblage showed idiosyncratic responses to various drivers of genetic divergence. Despite short geographical distances, the convergence of several factors over heterogeneous landscape might maximize genetic differentiation.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Shabnam Mohammadi, Lu Yang, Arbel Harpak, Santiago Herrera-Alvarez, Maria del Pilar Rodriguez-Ordonez, Julie Peng, Karen Zhang, Jay F. Storz, Susanne Dobler, Andrew J. Crawford, Peter Andolfatto
Summary: This study reveals the evolutionary process of a tandem duplication of Na+,K+-ATPase subunit alpha 1 shared by frogs in the genus Leptodaclylus, with one paralog evolving resistance to toad toxins while the other retaining susceptibility. Frequent non-allelic gene conversion homogenized most of the sequence betwee the two copies, yet strong selection on 12 amino acid substitutions distinguished the two paralogs.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Arang Rhie, Shane A. McCarthy, Olivier Fedrigo, Joana Damas, Giulio Formenti, Sergey Koren, Marcela Uliano-Silva, William Chow, Arkarachai Fungtammasan, Juwan Kim, Chul Lee, Byung June Ko, Mark Chaisson, Gregory L. Gedman, Lindsey J. Cantin, Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, Leanne Haggerty, Iliana Bista, Michelle Smith, Bettina Haase, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Sylke Winkler, Sadye Paez, Jason Howard, Sonja C. Vernes, Tanya M. Lama, Frank Grutzner, Wesley C. Warren, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, Dave Burt, Julia M. George, Matthew T. Biegler, David Iorns, Andrew Digby, Daryl Eason, Bruce Robertson, Taylor Edwards, Mark Wilkinson, George Turner, Axel Meyer, Andreas F. Kautt, Paolo Franchini, H. William Detrich, Hannes Svardal, Maximilian Wagner, Gavin J. P. Naylor, Martin Pippel, Milan Malinsky, Mark Mooney, Maria Simbirsky, Brett T. Hannigan, Trevor Pesout, Marlys Houck, Ann Misuraca, Sarah B. Kingan, Richard Hall, Zev Kronenberg, Ivan Sovi, Christopher Dunn, Zemin Ning, Alex Hastie, Joyce Lee, Siddarth Selvaraj, Richard E. Green, Nicholas H. Putnam, Ivo Gut, Jay Ghurye, Erik Garrison, Ying Sims, Joanna Collins, Sarah Pelan, James Torrance, Alan Tracey, Jonathan Wood, Robel E. Dagnew, Dengfeng Guan, Sarah E. London, David F. Clayton, Claudio Mello, Samantha R. Friedrich, Peter Lovell, Ekaterina Osipova, Farooq O. Al-Ajli, Simona Secomandi, Heebal Kim, Constantina Theofanopoulou, Michael Hiller, Yang Zhou, Robert S. Harris, Kateryna D. Makova, Paul Medvedev, Jinna Hoffman, Patrick Masterson, Karen Clark, Fergal Martin, Kevin Howe, Paul Flicek, Brian P. Walenz, Woori Kwak, Hiram Clawson, Mark Diekhans, Luis Nassar, Benedict Paten, Robert H. S. Kraus, Andrew J. Crawford, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Guojie Zhang, Byrappa Venkatesh, Robert W. Murphy, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Beth Shapiro, Warren E. Johnson, Federica Di Palma, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Emma C. Teeling, Tandy Warnow, Jennifer Marshall Graves, Oliver A. Ryder, David Haussler, Stephen J. O'Brien, Jonas Korlach, Harris A. Lewin, Kerstin Howe, Eugene W. Myers, Richard Durbin, Adam M. Phillippy, Erich D. Jarvis
Summary: The Vertebrate Genome Project and the international Genome 10K consortium have collaborated to generate high-quality genome assemblies for 16 species representing six major vertebrate lineages, leading to new biological discoveries. Long-read sequencing technologies are essential for maximizing genome quality, and addressing complex repeats and haplotype heterozygosity are crucial for reducing assembly errors and improving completeness of reference genomes. The lessons learned from this project have paved the way for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), an international effort to generate high-quality, complete reference genomes for all known vertebrate species.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Luis Alberto Rueda-Solano, Fernando Vargas-Salinas, Jose Luis Perez-Gonzalez, Arantxa Sanchez-Ferreira, Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra, Carlos A. Navas, Andrew J. Crawford
Summary: This study investigates the origin and mate-guarding strategy of prolonged amplexus behavior in the Santa Marta harlequin toad. The results suggest that body condition and clasp force are positively associated with successful mate guarding, but the overall probability of successfully displacing amplectant males is low.
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Gabrielle Genty, Carlos E. Guarnizo, Juan P. Ramirez, Lucas S. Barrientos, Andrew J. Crawford
Summary: The complex topography of the northern Andes promotes genetic divergence within the frog genus Rheobates, with local adaptation playing a significant role in this process.
JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Harris A. Lewin, Stephen Richards, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Miguel L. Allende, John M. Archibald, Miklos Balint, Katharine B. Barker, Bridget Baumgartner, Katherine Belov, Giorgio Bertorelle, Mark L. Blaxter, Jing Cai, Nicolette D. Caperello, Keith Carlson, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Shu-Miaw Chaw, Lei Chen, Anna K. Childers, Jonathan A. Coddington, Dalia A. Conde, Montserrat Corominas, Keith A. Crandall, Andrew J. Crawford, Federica DiPalma, Richard Durbin, ThankGod E. Ebenezer, Scott V. Edwards, Olivier Fedrigo, Paul Flicek, Giulio Formenti, Richard A. Gibbs, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Melissa M. Goldstein, Jennifer Marshall Graves, Henry T. Greely, Igor V. Grigoriev, Kevin J. Hackett, Neil Hall, David Haussler, Kristofer M. Helgen, Carolyn J. Hogg, Sachiko Isobe, Kjetill Sigurd Jakobsen, Axel Janke, Erich D. Jarvis, Warren E. Johnson, Steven J. M. Jones, Elinor K. Karlsson, Paul J. Kersey, Jin-Hyoung Kim, W. John Kress, Shigehiro Kuraku, Mara K. N. Lawniczak, James H. Leebens-Mack, Xueyan Li, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Xin Liu, Jose V. Lopez, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Sophie Mazard, Jonna A. K. Mazet, Camila J. Mazzoni, Eugene W. Myers, Rachel J. O'Neill, Sadye Paez, Hyun Park, Gene E. Robinson, Cristina Roquet, Oliver A. Ryder, Jamal S. M. Sabir, H. Bradley Shaffer, Timothy M. Shank, Jacob S. Sherkow, Pamela S. Soltis, Boping Tang, Leho Tedersoo, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Kun Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Regina Wetzer, Julia L. Wilson, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Anne D. Yoder, Guojie Zhang
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mara K. N. Lawniczak, Richard Durbin, Paul Flicek, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Xiaofeng Wei, John M. Archibald, William J. Baker, Katherine Belov, Mark L. Blaxter, Tomas Marques Bonet, Anna K. Childers, Jonathan A. Coddington, Keith A. Crandall, Andrew J. Crawford, Robert P. Davey, Federica Di Palma, Qi Fang, Wilfried Haerty, Neil Hall, Katharina J. Hoff, Kerstin Howe, Erich D. Jarvis, Warren E. Johnson, Rebecca N. Johnson, Paul J. Kersey, Xin Liu, Jose Victor Lopez, Eugene W. Myers, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Adam M. Phillippy, Monica F. Poelchau, Kim D. Pruitt, Arang Rhie, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Nicholas A. Salmon, Pamela S. Soltis, David Swarbreck, Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, Sibo Wang, Jill L. Wegrzyn, Guojie Zhang, He Zhang, Harris A. Lewin, Stephen Richards
Summary: The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global international initiative that requires agreement and coordination on standards. To ensure rapid progress towards its goals, EBP has established five technical standards committees and made the current versions of the standards documents available on its website.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel G. Mulcahy, Roberto Ibanez, Cesar A. Jaramillo, Andrew J. Crawford, Julie M. Ray, Steve W. Gotte, Jeremy F. Jacobs, Addison H. Wynn, Gracia P. Gonzalez-Porter, Roy W. McDiarmid, Ronald Crombie, George R. Zug, Kevin de Queiroz
Summary: Natural history collections are crucial for biology research, but they currently lack funding and staff face heavy workloads. Scientists are creating large DNA barcode libraries to document and conserve biodiversity, but mistakes are common. Therefore, it is important to raise awareness of these issues and provide advice to maintain accurate records of Earth's biodiversity.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
James S. Santangelo, Rob W. Ness, Beata Cohan, Connor R. Fitzpatrick, Simon G. Innes, Sophie Koch, Lindsay S. Miles, Samreen Munim, Pedro R. Peres-Neto, Cindy Prashad, Alex T. Tong, Windsor E. Aguirre, Philips O. Akinwole, Marina Alberti, Jackie Alvarez, Jill T. Anderson, Joseph J. Anderson, Yoshino Ando, Nigel R. Andrew, Fabio Angeoletto, Daniel N. Anstett, Julia Anstett, Felipe Aoki-Goncalves, A. Z. Andis Arietta, Mary T. K. Arroyo, Emily J. Austen, Fernanda Baena-Diaz, Cory A. Barker, Howard A. Baylis, Julia M. Beliz, Alfonso Benitez-Mora, David Bickford, Gabriela Biedebach, Gwylim S. Blackburn, Mannfred M. A. Boehm, Stephen P. Bonser, Dries Bonte, Jesse R. Bragger, Cristina Branquinho, Kristien Brans, Jorge C. Bresciano, Peta D. Brom, Anna Bucharova, Briana Burt, James F. Cahill, Katelyn D. Campbell, Elizabeth J. Carlen, Diego Carmona, Maria Clara Castellanos, Giada Centenaro, Izan Chalen, Jaime A. Chaves, Mariana Chavez-Pesqueira, Xiao-Yong Chen, Angela M. Chilton, Kristina M. Chomiak, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Ibrahim K. Cisse, Aimee T. Classen, Mattheau S. Comerford, Camila Cordoba Fradinger, Hannah Corney, Andrew J. Crawford, Kerri M. Crawford, Maxime Dahirel, Santiago David, Robert De Haan, Nicholas J. Deacon, Clare Dean, Ek Del-Val, Eleftherios K. Deligiannis, Derek Denney, Margarete A. Dettlaff, Michelle F. DiLeo, Yuan-Yuan Ding, Moises E. Dominguez-Lopez, Davide M. Dominoni, Savannah L. Draud, Karen Dyson, Jacintha Ellers, Carlos Espinosa, Liliana Essi, Mohsen Falahati-Anbaran, Jessica C. F. Falcao, Hayden T. Fargo, Mark D. E. Fellowes, Raina M. Fitzpatrick, Leah E. Flaherty, Padraic J. Flood, Maria F. Flores, Juan Fornoni, Amy G. Foster, Christopher J. Frost, Tracy L. Fuentes, Justin R. Fulkerson, Edeline Gagnon, Frauke Garbsch, Colin J. Garroway, Aleeza C. Gerstein, Mischa M. Giasson, E. Binney Girdler, Spyros Gkelis, William Godsoe, Anneke M. Golemiec, Mireille Golemiec, Cesar Gonzalez-Lagos, Amanda J. Gorton, Kiyoko M. Gotanda, Gustaf Granath, Stephan Greiner, Joanna S. Griffiths, Filipa Grilo, Pedro E. Gundel, Benjamin Hamilton, Joyce M. Hardin, Tianhua He, Stephen B. Heard, Andre F. Henriques, Melissa Hernandez-Poveda, Molly C. Hetherington-Rauth, Sarah J. Hill, Dieter F. Hochuli, Kathryn A. Hodgins, Glen R. Hood, Gareth R. Hopkins, Katherine A. Hovanes, Ava R. Howard, Sierra C. Hubbard, Carlos N. Ibarra-Cerdena, Carlos Iniguez-Armijos, Paola Jara-Arancio, Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Manon Jeannot, Vania Jimenez-Lobato, Mae Johnson, Oscar Johnson, Philip P. Johnson, Reagan Johnson, Matthew P. Josephson, Meen Chel Jung, Michael G. Just, Aapo Kahilainen, Otto S. Kailing, Eunice Karinho-Betancourt, Regina Karousou, Lauren A. Kirn, Anna Kirschbaum, Anna-Liisa Laine, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Christian Lampei, Carlos Lara, Erica L. Larson, Adrian Lazaro-Lobo, Jennifer H. Le, Deleon S. Leandro, Christopher Lee, Yunting Lei, Carolina A. Leon, Manuel E. Lequerica Tamara, Danica C. Levesque, Wan-Jin Liao, Megan Ljubotina, Hannah Locke, Martin T. Lockett, Tiffany C. Longo, Jeremy T. Lundholm, Thomas MacGillavry, Christopher R. Mackin, Alex R. Mahmoud, Isaac A. Manju, Janine Marien, D. Nayeli Martinez, Marina Martinez-Bartolome, Emily K. Meineke, Wendy Mendoza-Arroyo, Thomas J. S. Merritt, Lila Elizabeth L. Merritt, Giuditta Migiani, Emily S. Minor, Nora Mitchell, Mitra Mohammadi Bazargani, Angela T. Moles, Julia D. Monk, Christopher M. Moore, Paula A. Morales-Morales, Brook T. Moyers, Miriam Munoz-Rojas, Jason Munshi-South, Shannon M. Murphy, Maureen M. Murua, Melisa Neila, Ourania Nikolaidis, Iva Njunji, Peter Nosko, Juan Nunez-Farfan, Takayuki Ohgushi, Kenneth M. Olsen, Oystein H. Opedal, Cristina Ornelas, Amy L. Parachnowitsch, Aaron S. Paratore, Angela M. Parody-Merino, Juraj Paule, Octavio S. Paulo, Joao Carlos Pena, Vera W. Pfeiffer, Pedro Pinho, Anthony Piot, Ilga M. Porth, Nicholas Poulos, Adriana Puentes, Jiao Qu, Estela Quintero-Vallejo, Steve M. Raciti, Joost A. M. Raeymaekers, Krista M. Raveala, Diana J. Rennison, Milton C. Ribeiro, Jonathan L. Richardson, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Benjamin J. Rivera, Adam B. Roddy, Erika Rodriguez-Munoz, Jose Raul Roman, Laura S. Rossi, Jennifer K. Rowntree, Travis J. Ryan, Santiago Salinas, Nathan J. Sanders, Luis Y. Santiago-Rosario, Amy M. Savage, J. F. Scheepens, Menno Schilthuizen, Adam C. Schneider, Tiffany Scholier, Jared L. Scott, Summer A. Shaheed, Richard P. Shefferson, Caralee A. Shepard, Jacqui A. Shykoff, Georgianna Silveira, Alexis D. Smith, Lizet Solis-Gabriel, Antonella Soro, Katie Spellman, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Indra Starke-Ottich, Jorg G. Stephan, Jessica D. Stephens, Justyna Szulc, Marta Szulkin, Ayco J. M. Tack, Italo Tamburrino, Tayler D. Tate, Emmanuel Tergemina, Panagiotis Theodorou, Ken A. Thompson, Caragh G. Threlfall, Robin M. Tinghitella, Lilibeth Toledo-Chelala, Xin Tong, Lea Uroy, Shunsuke Utsumi, Martijn L. Vandegehuchte, Acer VanWallendael, Paula M. Vidal, Susana M. Wadgymar, Ai-Ying Wang, Nian Wang, Montana L. Warbrick, Kenneth D. Whitney, Miriam Wiesmeier, J. Tristian Wiles, Jianqiang Wu, Zoe A. Xirocostas, Zhaogui Yan, Jiahe Yao, Jeremy B. Yoder, Owen Yoshida, Jingxiong Zhang, Zhigang Zhao, Carly D. Ziter, Matthew P. Zuellig, Rebecca A. Zufall, Juan E. Zurita, Sharon E. Zytynska, Marc T. J. Johnson
Summary: This study sampled and analyzed 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally, finding that urban environmental change drives parallel evolution to some extent. The research demonstrates that urbanization leads to adaptation at a global scale.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sadye Paez, Robert H. S. Kraus, Beth Shapiro, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Erich D. Jarvis
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Shabnam Mohammadi, Santiago Herrera-Alvarez, Lu Yang, Maria del Pilar Rodriguez-Ordonez, Karen Zhang, Jay F. Storz, Susanne Dobler, Andrew J. Crawford, Peter Andolfatto
Summary: A growing body of evidence suggests that intramolecular epistasis plays a major role in protein evolution and imposes constraints on the evolution of novel protein functions. This study examines the role of intramolecular epistasis in the recurrent evolution of resistance to cardiotonic steroids (CTS) and finds that it plays a significant role in determining CTS resistance in tetrapods.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Erika Rodriguez-Munoz, Camilo Montes, Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic, Andrew J. Crawford
Summary: The study evaluated vicariance between lowland populations in the Colombian and Venezuelan Andes, finding that most divergences occurred during the Pliocene and Quaternary periods. Divergence times were relatively recent and likely influenced by organism-environment interactions during Pleistocene climate oscillations, or dispersal through portals across the Andes.
Article
Zoology
Alexandra Arias-Cardenas, Lucas S. Barrientos, Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Andrea Paz, Andrew J. Crawford, Camilo Salazar
Summary: This study conducted morphometric and genetic analyses of populations of Dendropsophus molitor and Dendropsophus luddeckei to test the validity of the recent taxonomic split. The results suggest that D. luddeckei is not a valid species and D. molitor should be considered a single species. This study highlights the danger of taxonomic inflation in the face of limited geographic sampling and a lack of clear diagnostic characters.
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Hollis A. Dahn, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Jennifer Balacco, Sylke Winkler, Iliana Bista, Anthony D. Schmitt, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Giulio Formenti, Karen Oliver, Michelle Smith, Wenhua Tan, Anne Kraus, Stephen Mac, Lisa M. Komoroske, Tanya Lama, Andrew J. Crawford, Robert W. Murphy, Samara Brown, Alan F. Scott, Phillip A. Morin, Erich D. Jarvis, Olivier Fedrigo
Summary: This study compares preservation methods for tissue sampling in vertebrates and finds that storage temperature is the most important factor affecting DNA fragment length. Samples preserved in 95% ethanol or 20-25% DMSO-EDTA at 4 degrees Celsius for 6 hours or 1 week can maintain sufficient DNA integrity and quantity. Tissue type affects total DNA yield, and preservation solution also influences fragment length and DNA yield.