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The Phylogenetics and Biogeography of the Central Asian Hawkmoths, Hyles hippophaes and H. chamyla: Can Mitogenomics and Machine Learning Bring Clarity?

Diversity, 2021
The western Palaearctic species of the hawkmoth genus Hyles (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) have long been the subject of molecular phylogenetic research. However, much less attention has been paid to the taxa inhabiting the central and eastern Palaearctic ...
Franziska Patzold, Eduardo Marabuto, Hana Daneck, Mark A. O’Neill, Ian J. Kitching, Anna K. Hundsdoerfer   +5 more
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First large‐scale quantification study of DNA preservation in insects from natural history collections using genome‐wide sequencing

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Insect declines are a global issue with significant ecological and economic ramifications. Yet, we have a poor understanding of the genomic impact these losses can have.
Victoria E. Mullin, W. Stephen, Andres N. Arce, W. Nash, Calum Raine, D. Notton, A. Whiffin, Vladimir Blagderov, K. Gharbi, James Hogan, Tony Hunter, N. Irish, Simon Jackson, Steven L. Judd, C. Watkins, W. Haerty, J. Ollerton, Selina Brace, Richard J. Gill, I. Barnes   +19 more
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Asymmetric allelic introgression across a hybrid zone of the coal tit (Periparus ater) in the central Himalayas*

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In the Himalayas, a number of secondary contact zones have been described for vicariant vertebrate taxa. However, analyses of genetic divergence and admixture are missing for most of these examples. In this study, we provide a population genetic analysis
Hannes Wolfgramm, Jochen Martens, Till Töpfer, Melita Vamberger, Abhinaya Pathak, Heiko Stuckas, Martin Päckert   +6 more
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Open Access to the Digital Biodiversity Database: A Comprehensive Functional Model of the Natural History Collections

Diversity, 2022
The Natural History Collections of Adam Mickiewicz University (AMUNATCOLL) in Poznań contain over 2.2 million specimens. Until recently, access to the collections was limited to specialists and was challenging because of the analogue data files ...
B. Jackowiak, M. Lawenda, M. Nowak, P. Wolniewicz, J. Błoszyk, M. Urbaniak, P. Szkudlarz, Damian Jędrasiak, J. Wiland-Szymańska, R. Bajaczyk, Norbert Meyer   +10 more
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Super Cooling Point Phenotypes and Cold Resistance in Hyles euphorbiae Hawk Moths from Different Climate Zones

Diversity, 2021
The spurge hawkmoth Hyles euphorbiae L. (Sphingidae) comprises a remarkable species complex with still not fully resolved taxonomy. Its extensive natural distribution range covers diverse climatic zones.
Hana Daneck, Matthias Benjamin Barth, Martin Geck, Anna K. Hundsdoerfer   +3 more
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Thiotricha sumpichi sp. nov. – a new species of Thiotrichinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from south-eastern Europe [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2023
Thiotricha sumpichi sp. nov. is described from Greece and Croatia. The systematic position of the new species within Thiotricha is discussed based on external and genitalia characters and from DNA barcodes of the mitochondrial COI gene (cytochrome c ...
Oleksiy V. Bidzilya, Peter Huemer, Ole Karsholt   +2 more
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Codes for Natural History Collections in Ichthyology and Herpetology

Copeia, 2020
Assembled here is a reasonably complete list of annotated codes for historical and modern natural history collections associated with lost and extant specimens of fossil and Recent fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.
M. Sabaj
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Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions

Journal of Ecology, 2022
Bioregionalisation partitions diversity so that similarity of the selected biological and ecological variables is higher within regions than it is outside those regions.
Timothy Harris, G. Ottaviani, M. Mulligan, N. Brummitt   +3 more
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Surprising discovery of an enigmatic geometrid in Croatia: Mirlatia arcuata, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2023
A new monotypic genus of Geometridae, Mirlatia gen. nov., and a new species, M. arcuata sp. nov., are described from Croatia. Based on external and genitalia characters, the new genus is tentatively placed in the subfamily Larentiinae.
Axel Hausmann, Gyula M. László, Toni Mayr, Peter Huemer   +3 more
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Synthesis of natural history collections data reveals patterns of US freshwater mussel diversity and decline

bioRxiv, 2022
Natural history collections are uniquely positioned to chronicle biodiversity changes across time and space and are a fundamental data source in taxon-based research and conservation.
John M. Pfeiffer, Traci P. Dubose, S. Keogh   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source