an updated checklist of the herpetofauna of iran is presented based on records of amphibian and reptile species whose presence has been confirmed in iran as a result of extensive field expeditions, examination of herpetological collections, literature review, and personal communications from researchers. the herpetofauna of iran consists of 13 species and five subspecies of frogs and toads belo...

Global changes are shaping the ecology and biogeography of marine species and their fisheries. Macroecology theory, which deals with large scale relationships between ecology and biogeography, can be used to develop models to predict the effects of global changes on marine species that in turn affect their fisheries. First, based on theories linking trophic energetics and allometric scaling of ...

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I seek to comprehensively evaluate the quality of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 (GAW17) data set by examining the accuracy of its genotype calls, which were based on the pilot3 data of the 1000 Genomes Project. Taking advantage of the 1000 Genomes Project/HapMap sample intersect, I compared GAW17 genotype calls to HapMap III, release 2, genotype calls for an individual. These genotype calls ...

We quantified fish assemblages in 20 streams containing mill dams in various physical conditions (dams intact, partially breached, or relict with normal flows) in Alabama, USA, during the period from 2006 to 2008. We used a backpack electroshocker to sample three 150-m reaches per stream: 500 to 1000 m downstream of the dam, 0 to 100 m downstream of the dam, and 100 m upstream of the impoundmen...

Astraptes fulgerator, first described in 1775, is a common and widely distributed neotropical skipper butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). We combine 25 years of natural history observations in northwestern Costa Rica with morphological study and DNA barcoding of museum specimens to show that A. fulgerator is a complex of at least 10 species in this region. Largely sympatric, these taxa have m...

Following recent molecular studies on avocado thrips, a new species is described from Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Colombia from the young leaves of avocado, Persea americana. Scirtothrips hansoni sp.n. is closely related to the Californian pest, S. perseae, and also to S. astrictus from Costa Rica that remains known from a single female. An illustrated key to these three species is provided.

E. PANTE1, C. SCHOELINCK2, AND N. PUILLANDRE3,∗ 1Littoral, Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs) UMR 7266 CNRS, Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France; 2Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Aquatic animal health, 343, University Avenue E1C 9B6 Moncton N.B., Canada; and 3Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, ISyEB (UMR 7205 CNRS/UPMC/MNHN/EPHE), 43, Rue Cuvier...

We investigate segregation and spatial organization in a one-dimensional system of N competing species forming a cyclic food chain. For N , 5, the system organizes into single-species domains, with an algebraically growing average size. For N ­ 3 and N ­ 4, the domains are correlated and they organize into “superdomains” which are characterized by an additional length scale. We present scaling ...

We describe a three-species mechanism for spatial pattern formation in which only one species spatially moves. We show that a bifurca-tion to traveling or standing waves occurs. We contrast this mechanism for pattern formation with the better known cases where more than one species moves.