• The lycaenid butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera) of Cosñipata, Peru: annotated checklist, elevational patterns, and rarity 

  Lamas, Gerardo; McInnis, Michael L.; Busby, Robert C.; Robbins, Robert K. (2021)

  Peru's Cosñipata Region in Cuzco and Madre de Dios Departments is a valley between Manu National Park and the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve that ranges from 400 to 4,000 m elevation. A team of experienced lepidopterists ...
• El Salvador grasses: an updated catalogue and nomenclator 

  Menjivar Cruz, Jenny Elizabeth; Baldini, Riccardo M.; Davidse, Gerrit; Peterson, Paul M. (2021)

  An updated catalogue and nomenclator of the grasses in the Poaceae family is presented for El Salvador. The work is based on bibliographic and herbarium research and on recent collecting trips carried out by the first ...
• A DNA barcode library for the butterflies of North America 

  D'Ercole, Jacopo; Dinca, Vlad; Opler, Paul A.; Kondla, Norbert; Schmidt, Christian; Phillips, Jarrett D.; Robbins, Robert; Burns, John M.; Miller, Scott E.; Grishin, Nick; Zakharov, Evgeny V.; DeWaard, Jeremy R.; Ratnasingham, Sujeevan; Hebert, Paul D. N. (2021)

  Although the butterflies of North America have received considerable taxonomic attention, overlooked species and instances of hybridization continue to be revealed. The present study assembles a DNA barcode reference library ...
• The Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstätte, Late Pennsylvanian of New Mexico, Usa: Introduction and Overview 

  Lucas, Spencer G.; DiMichele, William A. (2021)

  The Kinney Brick Quarry, located in the Manzanita Mountains of central New Mexico, is a world-famous fossil locality in deposits of a marine embayment of Late Pennsylvanian age. The quantity and quality of fossil preservation ...
• Plant-Fossil Taphonomy, Late Pennsylvanian Kinney Quarry, New Mexico, USA 

  DiMichele, William A.; Donovan, Michael P.; Schachat, Sandra R.; Schneider, Joerg W.; Lucas, Spencer G. (2021)

  Large numbers of plant fossils have been collected from the early Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian/Kasimovian) age Kinney Brick Company Quarry, southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This location was the focus of a ...
• Atlas of Selected Kinney Quarry Plant Fossils, Late Pennsylvanian, Central New Mexico 

  Donovan, Michael P.; DiMichele, William A.; Lucas, Spencer G.; Schneider, Joerg W. (2021)

  During the Late Pennsylvanian, seasonality and rainfall increased in western Pangea, which led to the expansion of "mixed" floras composed of a combination of wetland and drought-tolerant plants. One notable example is the ...
• Fieldable Environmental DNA Sequencing to Assess Jellyfish Biodiversity in Nearshore Waters of the Florida Keys, United States 

  Ames, Cheryl L.; Ohdera, Aki H.; Colston, Sophie M.; Collins, Allen G.; Fit, William K.; Morandini, André C.; Erickson, Jefferey S.; Vora, Gary J. (2021)

  Recent advances in molecular sequencing technology and the increased availability of fieldable laboratory equipment have provided researchers with the opportunity to conduct real-time or near real-time gene-based biodiversity ...
• Ancient Egyptian mummified shrews (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) and mice (Rodentia: Muridae) from the Spanish Mission to Dra Abu el-Naga, and their implications for environmental change in the Nile valley during the past two millennia 

  Woodman, Neal; Ikram, Salima (2021)

  Excavation of Ptolemaic Period (ca. 309–30 BC) strata within Theban Tombs 11, 12, -399-, and UE194A by the Spanish Mission to Dra Abu el-Naga (also known as the Djehuty Project), on the west bank of the Nile River opposite ...
• A 313 plastome phylogenomic analysis of Pooideae: Exploring relationships among the largest subfamily of grasses 

  Orton, Lauren M.; Barberá, Patricia; Nissenbaum, Matthew P.; Peterson, Paul M.; Quintanar, Alejandro; Soreng, Robert J.; Duvall, Melvin R. (2021)
• Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time 

  Fraser, Danielle; Soul, Laura C.; Toth, Aniko B.; Balk, Meghan A.; Eronen, Jussi T.; Pineda-Munoz, Silvia; Shupinski, Alexandria B.; Villasenor, Amelia; Barr, W. Andrew; Behrensmeyer, Anna K.; Du, Andrew; Faith, J. Tyler; Gotelli, Nicholas J.; Graves, Gary R.; Jukar, Advait M.; Looy, Cindy V.; Miller, Joshua H.; Potts, Richard; Lyons, S. Kathleen (2021)

  Recent renewed interest in using fossil data to understand how biotic interactions have shaped the evolution of life is challenging the widely held assumption that long-term climate changes are the primary drivers of ...
• One side makes you taller: a mushroom–eating butterfly caterpillar (Lycaenidae) in Costa Rica 

  Nishida, Kenji; Robbins, Robert K. (2020)

  Electrostrymon denarius is the first mushroom-feeding butterfly caterpillar discovered in the New World. It belongs to the Calycopidina, a subtribe of lycaenid butterflies whose caterpillars eat detritus and seeds in the ...
• The Early Evolution of the Saxophone Mouthpiece 

  Rose, Timothy R. (2020)
• Pogostemon guamensis Lorence & W.L.Wagner (Lamiaceae), a new species from Guam, Mariana Islands 

  Lorence, David H.; Wagner, Warren L.; Wood, Kenneth R.; Johnson, Gabriel (2020)

  While undertaking a botanical survey of the Andersen Air Force Base on Guam (Mariana Islands) in 1994, botanists from the National Tropical Botanical Garden collected an unusual suffrutescent, non-aromatic member of the ...
• The Future for a Prominent Taxonomy 

  Hamilton, Chris A.; Shockley, Floyd W.; Simmons, Rebecca; Smith, Aaron; Ware, Jessica; Zaspel, Jennifer M. (2021)
• Museum and Material Culture Research 

  Nichols, Catherine (Loyola University Chicago and Smithsonian Institute in Museum Anthropology, 2020)

  This undergraduate course is an anthropology elective at Loyola University Chicago. It relies on the use of objects from the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, a research and teaching collection. Originally conceptualized ...
• ND2 as an Additional Genetic Marker to Improve Identification of Diving Ducks Involved in Bird Strikes 

  Luttrell, Sarah A. M.; Drovetski, Sergei; Dahlan, Nor Faridah; Eubanks, Damani; Dove, Carla J. (2020)

  Knowing the exact species of birds involved in damaging collisions with aircraft (bird strikes) is paramount to managing and preventing these types of human–wildlife conflicts. While a standard genetic marker, or DNA barcode ...
• The identification and use of fur and feathers excavated from the late iron age and early medieval (12th-13th) centuries) Ravattula Ristimaki Cemetery in Kaarina, Southwest Finland 

  Kirkinen, Tuija; Riikonen, Jaana; Dove, Carla J.; Ruohonen, Juha (2020)

  The Ristimäki ('Cross Hill') inhumation cemetery in Ravattula village in Kaarina municipality, Southwest Finland, dates to the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval times (12th–13th centuries). In addition to a large cemetery, ...
• <I>Duobrachium sparksae (incertae sedis</I> Ctenophora Tentaculata Cydippida)<I>:</I> A new genus and species of benthopelagic ctenophore seen at 3,910 m depth off the coast of Puerto Rico 

  Ford, Michael; Bezio, Nicholas; Collins, Allen (2020)
• New species and new record in Lamiinae from Espírito Santo (Brazil) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) 

  Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto de Lima; Nearns, Eugenio H.; Botero, Juan Pablo; Santos-Silva, Antonio; Martins, David dos Santos (2020)

  Four new species are described from Brazil (Espírito Santo): Xylergates quinquetuberculatus (Acanthocinini); Trichonius w-notatus (Acanthocinini); Pseudobeta casariae (Onciderini); Xenofrea mariae (Xenofreini). Additionally, ...
• Wing size and parity as markers of cohort demography for potential <I>Anopheles</I> (Culicidae: Diptera) malaria vectors in the Republic of Korea 

  Foley, Desmond H.; Wilkerson, Richard C.; Kim, Heung Chul; Klein, Terry A.; Kim, Myung-Soon; Li, Cong; Levin, David M.; Rueda, Leopoldo M. (2020)

  Wing lengths of parous (P) and nulliparous (NP) PCR-identified female Anopheles belenrae, An. kleini, An. pullus, and An. sinensis were determined from weekly trap collections at Camp Humphreys (CH), Ganghwa Island (GH), ...

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