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Was Coccidioides a Pre-Columbian Hitchhiker to Southcentral Washington? [PDF]

mBio, 2023
Coccidioides immitis, a pathogenic environmental fungus that causes Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) primarily in the American Southwest and parts of Central and South America, has emerged over the past 12 years in the Columbia River Basin region, near ...
David M. Engelthaler, James C. Chatters, Arturo Casadevall   +2 more
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Unexpected malocclusion in a 13,000-Year-old Late Pleistocene young woman from Mexico [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2022
To analyze the etiological factors behind the malocclusion of a Late Pleistocene woman (named Naia), who is the best-preserved of the earliest individuals of the American continent.
José Rubén Herrera-Atoche, James C. Chatters, Andrea Cucina   +2 more
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The South African Pollen Monitoring Network: Insights from 2 years of national aerospora sampling (2019–2021) [PDF]

Clinical and Translational Allergy, 2023
Background Pollen monitoring has been discontinuously undertaken in South Africa, a country with high biodiversity, a seasonal rainfall gradient, and nine biomes from arid to subtropical.
Nanike Esterhuizen, Dilys M. Berman, Frank H. Neumann, Linus Ajikah, Lynne J. Quick, Erin Hilmer, Andri VanAardt, Juanette John, Rebecca Garland, Trevor Hill, Jemma Finch, Werner Hoek, Marion Bamford, Riaz Y. Seedat, Ahmed I. Manjra, Jonny Peter   +15 more
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Ambrosia (ragweed) pollen — A growing aeroallergen of concern in South Africa [PDF]

World Allergy Organization Journal
Background: Ragweed is an invasive, highly allergenic weed predicted to expand its habitat with warming global temperatures. Several Ambrosia species have been identified in South Africa for well over a century; however, its presence remained undetected ...
Dorra Gharbi, PhD, Dilys Berman, PhD, Frank H. Neumann, PhD, Trevor Hill, PhD, Siyavuya Sidla, BSc, Sarel S. Cillers, PhD, Jurgens Staats, MD, Nanike Esterhuizen, PhD, Linus Ajikah, PhD, Moteng E. Moseri, MSc, Lynne J. Quick, PhD, Erin Hilmer, BSc, Andri Van Aardt, PhD, Juanette John, PhD, Rebecca Garland, PhD, Jemma Finch, PhD, Werner Hoek, MD, Marion Bamford, PhD, Riaz Y. Seedat, MD, Ahmed I. Manjra, MD, Jonny Peter, MD, PhD   +20 more
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Reply to Jaffe et al.: Paleoscience precision in an archeological or historical context. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019
Jaffe et al. (1) present some of the many challenges faced in attempting to integrate climate science and archeological records. We accept that these challenges exist, and thank the authors for their comments. Our response to the four points made by Jaffe et al. (1) follows: [↵][1]1To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Carolin SA, Walker RT, Day CC, Ersek V, Sloan RA, Dee MW, Talebian M, Henderson GM.   +7 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Opinion: Distribute paleoscience information across the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports [PDF]

Climate of the Past
In this opinion piece, we evaluate two approaches for incorporating paleoscience information into future assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
D. Kaufman, V. Masson-Delmotte
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Gamifying Virtual Exploration of the Past 350 Million Years of Vertebrate Evolution

Frontiers in Education, 2022
Surviving Extinction is an interactive, adaptive, digital learning experience through which students learn about the history of vertebrate evolution over the last 350 million years.
Chris Mead, Geoffrey Bruce, Wendy Taylor, Sanlyn Buxner, Ariel D. Anbar, Ariel D. Anbar   +5 more
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'Muknalia' is a Collared Peccary ('Pecari tajacu'): A Reply to Stinnesbeck et al.

Open Quaternary, 2021
Several years ago, a new genus and species of peccary, “'Muknalia minima'”, was described from the Pleistocene of Mexico. We previously examined that specimen and concluded that it was synonymous with the extant collared peccary, 'Pecari tajacu', but ...
Blaine W. Schubert, Joshua X. Samuels, James C. Chatters, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales   +3 more
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'Muknalia minima' from the Yucatán of Mexico is synonymous with the collared peccary, 'Pecari tajacu' (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae)

Open Quaternary, 2020
Ongoing investigation of peccary remains from fossiliferous deposits in the Yucatán resulted in re-examination of previously identified tayassuid fossils from the region.
Blaine W. Schubert, Joshua X. Samuels, James C. Chatters, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales   +3 more
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Early-Career Scientists Discuss Paleoscience, Future Challenges

Eos, 2017
3rd PAGES Young Scientists Meeting; Morillo de Tou, Spain, 7–9 May ...
Vachel Carter, Liv Heinecke, S. Maezumi
openaire   +1 more source