Sequence capture and restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-Seq) are two genomic enrichment strategies for applying next-generation sequencing technologies to systematics studies. At shallow timescales, such as within species, RAD-Seq has been widely adopted among researchers, although there has been little discussion of the potential limitations and benefits of RAD-Seq and sequence ca...

Published research on the diversity and evolutionary history of Arthropoda sets a high standard for data collection and the integration of novel methods. New phylogenetic estimation algorithms, divergence time approaches, collaborative tools and publishing standards, to name a few, were brought to the broader scientific audience in the context of arthropod systematics. The treatment of morpholo...

We quantify the systematic effects on the stellar mass function which arise from assumptions about the stellar population, as well as how one fits the light profiles of the most luminous galaxies at z ∼ 0.1. When comparing results from the literature, we are careful to separate out these effects. Our analysis shows that while systematics in the estimated comoving number density which arise from...

The rapid development of interest inbiodiversity has provided unprecedented opportunities for interactions among disciplines. Although systematic biology and conservation biology have developed largely independently of one another, it is clear now from the burgeoning literature that conservation concerns can motivate systematic studies and that better knowledge of the systematics of organisms c...

Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, which continues Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie), is issued by the State Museum of History and publishes articles general biological interest with a focus on morphological systematics.

INTRODUCTION This paper brings together an account of experimental work in the development of reasoning powers with a theoretical description of thinking derived from both abstract and psychological material. The general model of the mind which is ad-opted here is derived from the descriptions given in J. G. Bennett’s Dramatic Universe, Vol. III. The “forms of thought” employed are derived from...

Current practice in gregarine (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida) taxonomy does not include a standard nomenclature and metric set for plane shapes even though most taxonomic works within the group depend on shapebased descriptions. The lack of a uniform shape nomenclature and metric set has produced considerable confusion in gregarine systematics: descriptions of species often are not directly comp...

I compare the available theoretical models that describe the Cronin effect on hadron and minijet production in proton-nucleus collisions, pointing out similarities and differences among them. The effect may be summarized by the value of two variables. Their values computed in the different models are compared in the energy range 27.4 GeV 5500 GeV. Finally, I propose to use the pseudorapidity sy...

We report the results of a cosmic shear survey using the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, to a depth of R = 25.8 (zs ≈ 0.8), over 4 square degrees. The shear correlation functions are measured on scales from 1 to 15, and are used to constrain cosmological parameters. We ensure that our measurements are free from instrumental systematics, by performing a series of tests including an ...

The immature stages of the butterfl y Magneuptychia libye (L.) are described, and their morphology is compared with other Neotropical Satyrinae.