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How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr (A Book Review)

Review of International American Studies, 2020
Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Elena Furlanetto
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Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

eLife, 2021
Teeth are present in most clades of vertebrates but have been lost completely several times in actinopterygian fishes and amniotes. Using phenotypic data collected from over 500 genera via micro-computed tomography, we provide the first rigorous ...
Daniel J Paluh, Karina Riddell, Catherine M Early, Maggie M Hantak, Gregory FM Jongsma, Rachel M Keeffe, Fernanda Magalhães Silva, Stuart V Nielsen, María Camila Vallejo-Pareja, Edward L Stanley, David C Blackburn   +10 more
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Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Vermetid worm-snails are sessile and irregularly coiled marine mollusks common in warmer nearshore and coral reef environments that are subject to high predation pressures by fish. Often cryptic, some have evolved sturdy shells or long columellar muscles
Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, John M. Healy, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald   +6 more
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Long-Term Shifts in Faunal Composition of Freshwater Mollusks in Spring-Fed Rivers of Florida

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Florida’s freshwater spring and river ecosystems have been deteriorating due to direct and indirect human impacts. However, while the conservation and restoration strategies employed to mitigate these effects often rely on faunal surveys that go back ...
Kristopher M. Kusnerik, Guy H. Means, Roger W. Portell, Alshina Kannai, Mariah M. Monroe, Ryan Means, Michal Kowalewski   +6 more
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Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
In the early days of the Iraq War, the United States used the power of images, such as those of the “mother of all bombs” and a wide array of weapons, as well as aesthetic techniques to influence and shape the consciousness of millions and to generate ...
Emory Elliott
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Teaching the History of American Rivers

Open Rivers, 2021
Like Open Rivers, I have long tried to answer the question of the value of river history and how can it be put to work to achieve environmental justice.
Scot McFarlane
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The Effects of Herbarium Specimen Characteristics on Short-Read NGS Sequencing Success in Nearly 8000 Specimens: Old, Degraded Samples Have Lower DNA Yields but Consistent Sequencing Success

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Phylogenetic datasets are now commonly generated using short-read sequencing technologies unhampered by degraded DNA, such as that often extracted from herbarium specimens.
Heather R. Kates, Joshua R. Doby, Carol M. Siniscalchi, Raphael LaFrance, Douglas E. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Robert P. Guralnick, Robert P. Guralnick, Ryan A. Folk   +13 more
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Watershed Colonialism and Popular Geographies of North American Rivers

Open Rivers, 2017
Rivers have long been the subject and vehicle for compelling stories. As physical features that tie natural and human history, rivers in narratives have hidden as much as they’ve revealed by naturalizing cultural practices and human values...
Sigma Colon
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Morning on Chesapeake

Open Rivers, 2023
I slide my kayak into the tranquil waters of the Chesapeake Bay as the first glow of sunrise is appearing behind me in the eastern sky. The bay is quiet today, waters smooth as glass as only happens a few times during the summer.

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Modern approaches for leveraging biodiversity collections to understand change in plant-insect interactions

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Research on plant-pollinator interactions requires a diversity of perspectives and approaches, and documenting changing pollinator-plant interactions due to declining insect diversity and climate change is especially challenging.
Behnaz Balmaki, Behnaz Balmaki, Masoud A. Rostami, Masoud A. Rostami, Tara Christensen, Tara Christensen, Elizabeth A. Leger, Elizabeth A. Leger, Julie M. Allen, Julie M. Allen, Chris R. Feldman, Chris R. Feldman, Matthew L. Forister, Matthew L. Forister, Lee A. Dyer, Lee A. Dyer   +15 more
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