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A revisited history of cacao domestication in pre-Columbian times revealed by archaeogenomic approaches

Scientific Reports
Humans have a long history of transporting and trading plants, contributing to the evolution of domesticated plants. Theobroma cacao originated in the Neotropics from South America.
Claire Lanaud, Hélène Vignes, José Utge, Gilles Valette, Bénédicte Rhoné, Mariella Garcia Caputi, Natalia Sofía Angarita Nieto, Olivier Fouet, Nilesh Gaikwad, Sonia Zarrillo, Terry G. Powis, Ann Cyphers, Francisco Valdez, S. Quirino Olivera Nunez, Camilla Speller, Michael Blake, Fred Jr. Valdez, Scott Raymond, Sarah M. Rowe, Guy S. Duke, Francisco Ernesto Romano, Rey Gaston Loor Solórzano, Xavier Argout   +22 more
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Phylogeography and population genetics of the endemic Malagasy bat, Macronycteris commersoni s.s. (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Macronycteris commersoni (Hipposideridae), a bat species endemic to Madagascar, is widespread across the island and utilizes a range of habitat types including open woodland, degraded habitats, and forested areas from sea level to 1,325 m.
Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Steven M. Goodman, M. Corrie Schoeman, Sandi Willows-Munro   +3 more
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Survivors and colonizers: Contrasting biogeographic histories reconciled in the Antarctic freshwater copepod Boeckella poppei

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain the contemporary distribution of Antarctic terrestrial biota. We assess whether the current distribution of maritime Antarctic populations of the freshwater copepod Boeckella poppei is the result of (1) a
Claudia S. Maturana, Claudia S. Maturana, Claudia S. Maturana, Claudia S. Maturana, Elisabeth M. Biersma, Elisabeth M. Biersma, Angie Díaz, Angie Díaz, Angie Díaz, Claudio González-Wevar, Claudio González-Wevar, Claudio González-Wevar, Tamara Contador, Tamara Contador, Tamara Contador, Peter Convey, Peter Convey, Peter Convey, Peter Convey, Jennifer A. Jackson, Elie Poulin, Elie Poulin   +21 more
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Spatial and temporal uplift history of South America from calibrated drainage analysis [PDF]

, 2017
A multidisciplinary approach is used to analyze the Cenozoic uplift history of South America.Residual depth anomalies of oceanic crust abutting this continent help to determine the pattern of present-day dynamic topography.
Hoggard, MJ, Roberts, GG, Tribaldos, VR, White, NJ   +3 more
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History of inclusive physical education in South America

, 2019
We examined how the origins of education and special education have influenced inclusion in schools and in physical education (PE) in the South American region. National and constitutional legislation in every country in the region has followed international recommendations (e.g., the many campaigns and directives from the United Nations and others ...
Mauerberg-deCastro, Eliane, Campbell, Debra Frances   +1 more
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Archaeometric Study of Iron Age Pottery Production in Central Sicily: A Case of Technological Conservatism

Open Archaeology
This study presents an in-depth archaeometric investigation of Iron Age ceramic assemblage dating from 950 to 750 BCE from the sanctuary at Polizzello Mountain, Sicily.
Tanasi Davide, Levi Sara Tiziana, Caso Gianpiero, Tykot Robert H., Greco Enrico   +4 more
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South Korea is the center for the origin and emanation of soybean mosaic virus with Bayesian phylogeographic inference

Microbiology Spectrum
Soybean mosaic virus (SMV) is one of the most serious viral pathogens, causing reductions in soybean yield worldwide. Using more than 350 time-stamped SMV coat protein encoding gene sequences from more than a dozen countries and regions in Central Asia ...
Shiqing Wei, Lei Zhang, Liang Cheng, Linwen Liu, Guoliang Chen, Hui Yang, Xiaoyan Qiu, Liya Luo, Guoshu Gong, Min Zhang   +9 more
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Female Gothic, Modernity and the Aesthetics of Change: Demythologising the South in Eudora Welty

Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2023
Eudora Welty, an American fiction writer, brings forth women’s issues and promotes feminist ethics in her writings: novels and short stories. Her stories reveal her concern with the extended subordination of women under machismo in Southern America ...
Shabbir Ahmad, Khadija Khalid, Azra Khanam   +2 more
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Constructing the Global Irish Woman Traveller: Cynthia Longfield’s Scientific Researches in South America, 1921-27

ABEI Journal, 2020
Irish-born Cynthia Longfield (1896-1991) became a leading entomologist after participating in three expeditions to South America in the 1920s. Working unpaid in the British Museum for 30 years, she catalogued Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) from ...
Angela Byrne
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An ecological niche model to predict the geographic distribution of Haemagogus janthinomys, Dyar, 1921 a yellow fever and Mayaro virus vector, in South America.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Yellow fever virus (YFV) has a long history of impacting human health in South America. Mayaro virus (MAYV) is an emerging arbovirus of public health concern in the Neotropics and its full impact is yet unknown. Both YFV and MAYV are primarily maintained
Michael Celone, David Brooks Pecor, Alexander Potter, Alec Richardson, James Dunford, Simon Pollett   +5 more
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