Smithsonian Digital Repository: Recent submissions

  • Distribution and palaeoecology of scleractinian corals during the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) 
    Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C.; Leloux, Jacob (2024)
    Maastrichtian scleractinian corals from 94 localities in 26 Maastrichtian regions world-wide with strata of that age are taxonomically and palaeobiogeographically evaluated. A total of 205 taxa, belonging to 116 genera and ...
  • Map of collection sites in the Indian River Lagoon 
    Sweat, Lynn H.; Busch, Sidney J.; Craig, Casey; Dark, Emily; Sailor-Tynes, Tess; Wayles, Jessy; Sacks, Paul; Walters, Linda J. (National Museum of Natural History, 2023)
    Estuaries worldwide are grappling with deteriorating water quality and benthic conditions that coincide with the rising detection of pathogenic and potentially pathogenic microbes (PPM). Both indigenous PPM and those that ...
  • Structural and functional effects of global invasion pressure on benthic marine communities—patterns, challenges and priorities 
    Zaiko, Anastasija; Cardeccia, Alice; Carlton, James T.; Clark, Graeme F.; Creed, Joel C.; Davidson, Ian; Floerl, Oliver; Galil, Bella; Grosholz, Edwin; Hopkins, Grant A.; Johnston, Emma L.; Kotta, Jonne; Marchini, Agnese; Ojaveer, Henn; Ruiz, Gregory; Therriault, Thomas W.; Inglis, Graeme J. (2024)
    Aim Retrospective (pre- vs. post-invasion) and cross-sectional comparisons of ecosystems exposed to high and low bioinvasion pressure, provide an alternative approach to evaluate shifts in biological communities associated ...
  • Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean 
    Wilson, Stephanie J.; Moody, Amy; McKenzie, Tristan; Cardenas, M. B.; Luijendijk, Elco; Sawyer, Audrey H.; Wilson, Alicia; Michael, Holly A.; Xu, Bochao; Knee, Karen L.; Cho, Hyung-Mi; Weinstein, Yishai; Paytan, Adina; Moosdorf, Nils; Chen, Chen-Tung Aurthur; Beck, Melanie; Lopez, Cody; Murgulet, Dorina; Kim, Guebuem; Charette, Mathew A.; Waska, Hannelore; Ibánhez, J. Severino P.; Chaillou, Gwénaëlle; Oehler, Till; Onodera, Shin-ichi; Saito, Mitsuyo; Rodellas, Valenti; Dimova, Natasha; Montiel, Daniel; Dulai, Henrietta; Richardson, Christina; Du, Jinzhou; Petermann, Eric; Chen, Xiaogang; Davis, Kay L.; Lamontagne, Sebastien; Sugimoto, Ryo; Wang, Guizhi; Li, Hailong; Torres, Américo I.; Demir, Cansu; Bristol, Emily; Connolly, Craig T.; McClelland, James W.; Silva, Brenno J.; Tait, Douglas; Kumar, Bsk; Viswanadham, R.; Sarma, Vvss; Silva-Filho, Emmanoel; Shiller, Alan; Lecher, Alanna; Tamborski, Joseph; Bokuniewicz, Henry; Rocha, Carlos; Reckhardt, Anja; Böttcher, Michael Ernst; Jiang, Shan; Stieglitz, Thomas; Gbewezoun, Houégnon Géraud Vinel; Charbonnier, Céline; Anschutz, Pierre; Hernández-Terrones, Laura M.; Babu, Suresh; Szymczycha, Beata; Sadat-Noori, Mahmood; Niencheski, Felipe; Null, Kimberly; Tobias, Craig; Song, Bongkeun; Anderson, Iris C.; Santos, Isaac R. (2024)
    Terrestrial groundwater travels through subterranean estuaries before reaching the sea. Groundwater-derived nutrients drive coastal water quality, primary production, and eutrophication. We determined how dissolved inorganic ...
  • A New Genus of Praeaulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber: Insights into a Putative New Praeaulacinae Subclade 
    Yang, Jingtao; Jouault, Corentin; Li, Longfeng; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong (2024)
    A new praeaulacid genus and species, Azygdellitha nova gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on a male specimen from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from Hukawng Valley, Myanmar. This newly discovered taxon ...
  • Specialized ovipositor sensilla of Cretaceous wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera) possibly reveal a unique way of host detection 
    Wang, Zhen; Vilhelmsen, Lars; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Viertler, Alexandra; Shih, Chungkun; Wen, Shanshan; Yang, Hongru; Wu, Qiong; Zhang, Yanjie; Ren, Dong; Gao, Taiping (2024)
    Insects have evolved complex sensory systems that are important for feeding, defence and reproduction. Parasitoid wasps often spend much time and effort in searching for concealed hosts with the help of specialized sensilla. ...
  • Thresholds of Temperature and Time for Mars Sample Return: Final Report of the Mars Sample Return Temperature-Time Tiger Team 
    Sephton, Mark A.; Freeman, Kate; Hays, Lindsay; Thiessen, Fiona; Benison, Kathleen; Carrier, Brandi; Dworkin, Jason P.; Glamoclija, Mihaela; Gough, Raina; Onofri, Silvano; Peterson, Ron; Quinn, Richard; Russell, Sara; Stüeken, Eva E.; Velbel, Michael A.; Zolotov, Mikhail (2024)
  • Sustaining HIV service delivery to key population clients using client-centered models during the debate and enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda 
    Vasireddy, Vamsi; Brown, Natalie E.; Shah, Neha; Crowell, Trevor A. (2024)
  • Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization 
    Sarneel, Judith M.; Hefting, Mariet M.; Sandén, Taru; Van Den Hoogen, Johan; Routh, Devin; Adhikari, Bhupendra S.; Alatalo, Juha M.; Aleksanyan, Alla; Althuizen, Inge H. J.; Alsafran, Mohammed H. S. A.; Atkins, Jeff W.; Augusto, Laurent; Aurela, Mika; Azarov, Aleksej V.; Barrio, Isabel C.; Beier, Claus; Bejarano, María D.; Benham, Sue E.; Berg, Björn; Bezler, Nadezhda V.; Björnsdóttir, Katrín; Bolinder, Martin A.; Carbognani, Michele; Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto; Chelli, Stefano; Chistotin, Maxim V.; Christiansen, Casper T.; Courtois, Pascal; Crowther, Thomas W.; Dechoum, Michele S.; Djukic, Ika; Duddigan, Sarah; Egerton-Warburton, Louise M.; Fanin, Nicolas; Fantappiè, Maria; Fares, Silvano; Fernandes, Geraldo W.; Filippova, Nina V.; Fliessbach, Andreas; Fuentes, David; Godoy, Roberto; Grünwald, Thomas; Guzmán, Gema; Hawes, Joseph E.; He, Yue; Hero, Jean-Marc; Hess, Laura L.; Hogendoorn, Katja; Høye, Toke T.; Jans, Wilma W. P.; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S.; Keller, Sabina; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Kuz'menko, Natalya N.; Larsen, Klaus S.; Laudon, Hjalmar; Lembrechts, Jonas J.; Li, Junhui; Limousin, Jean-Marc; Lukin, Sergey M.; Marques, Renato; Marín, César; McDaniel, Marshall D.; Meek, Qi; Merzlaya, Genrietta E.; Michelsen, Anders; Montagnani, Leonardo; Mueller, Peter; Murugan, Rajasekaran; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Nolte, Stefanie; Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl; Okafor, Bernard N.; Okorkov, Vladimir V.; Onipchenko, Vladimir G.; Orozco, María C.; Parkhurst, Tina; Peres, Carlos A.; Petit Bon, Matteo; Petraglia, Alessandro; Pingel, Martin; Rebmann, Corinna; Scheffers, Brett R.; Schmidt, Inger; Scholes, Mary C.; Sheffer, Efrat; Shevtsova, Lyudmila K.; Smith, Stuart W.; Sofo, Adriano; Stevenson, Pablo R.; Strouhalová, Barbora; Sundsdal, Anders; Sühs, Rafael B.; Tamene, Gebretsadik; Thomas, Haydn J. D.; Tolunay, Duygu; Tomaselli, Marcello; Tresch, Simon; Tucker, Dominique L.; Ulyshen, Michael D.; Valdecantos, Alejandro; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vanguelova, Elena I.; Verheyen, Kris; Wang, Xuhui; Yahdjian, Laura; Yumashev, Xaris S.; Keuskamp, Joost A. (2024)
    The breakdown of plant material fuels soil functioning and biodiversity. Currently, process understanding of global decomposition patterns and the drivers of such patterns are hampered by the lack of coherent large-scale ...
  • Skimming genomes for systematics and DNA barcodes of corals 
    Quattrini, Andrea M.; McCartin, Luke J.; Easton, Erin E.; Horowitz, Jeremy; Wirshing, Herman H.; Bowers, Hailey; Mitchell, Kenneth; González-García, María Del P.; Sei, Makiri; McFadden, Catherine S.; Herrera, Santiago (2024)
    Numerous genomic methods developed over the past two decades have enabled the discovery and extraction of orthologous loci to help resolve phylogenetic relationships across various taxa and scales. Genome skimming (or ...
  • Historical baleen plates indicate that once abundant Antarctic blue and fin whales demonstrated distinct migratory and foraging strategies 
    Smith, Malia E. K.; Ososky, John J.; Hunt, Kathleen E.; Cioffi, William R.; Read, Andy J.; Friedlaender, Ari S.; McCarthy, Matt; Fleming, Alyson H. (2024)
    Southern hemisphere blue ( Balaenoptera musculus intermedia ) and fin ( Balaenoptera physalus ) whales are the largest predators in the Southern Ocean, with similarities in morphology and distribution. Yet, understanding ...
  • On the importance of sequence alignment inspections in plastid phylogenomics – an example from revisiting the relationships of the water-lilies 
    Roestel, Jessica A.; Wiersema, John H.; Jansen, Robert K.; Borsch, Thomas; Gruenstaeudl, Michael (2024)
    The water-lily clade represents the second earliest-diverging branch of angiosperms. Most of its species belong to Nymphaeaceae, of which the “core Nymphaeaceae”—comprising the genera Euryale , Nymphaea and Victoria —is ...
  • Empowering African-American museums: The vital role of black museum anthropologists in grantmaking 
    Walker, Leslie P. (2024)
    Many African American museums face financial constraints and need resources to preserve their collections, create exhibits, and offer educational programs. Grant funding is crucial for the sustainability of these museums. ...
  • Overcoming Challenges to Extracting and Sequencing Historical DNA to Support Primate Evolutionary Research and Conservation, with an Application to Galagos 
    Penna, Anna; Blair, Mary E.; Lui, Hsiao-Lei; Peters, Elsa; Kistler, Logan J.; Pozzi, Luca (2024)
  • The Draft Genome Sequences of 50 Salamander species (Caudata, Amphibia) 
    Pyron, R. A.; Pirro, Stacy; Hains, Taylor; Colston, Timothy J.; Myers, Edward A.; O’Connell, Kyle A.; Beamer, David A. (2024)
    We present partial genome sequences of 50 salamander species (Urodela) from 10 genera and 4 families. These span nearly the entire range of genome sizes in salamanders, from ~14–130GB, the latter of which is among the ...
  • Microbial central carbon metabolism in a tidal freshwater marsh and an upland mixed conifer soil under oxic and anoxic conditions 
    Martinez, Ayla; Dijkstra, Paul; Megonigal, J. P.; Hungate, Bruce A. (2024)
    The central carbon (C) metabolic network is responsible for most of the production of energy and biosynthesis in microorganisms and is therefore key to a mechanistic understanding of microbial life in soil communities. ...
  • Substantial unrealised global biodiversity of continental microcrustaceans 
    Macêdo,Rafael, L.; Toutain, Mathieu; Reid, Janet; Soto, Ismael; Haubrock, Phillip J.; Cuthbert, Ross N.; Rocha, Odete (2024)
    Freshwater ecosystems provide essential services for human well-being, with their conservation success reliant on the precise quantification of biodiversity. Diplostraca (= Cladocera) and Copepoda are diverse groups of ...
  • We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery, edited by Carl Lindahl, Michael Dylan Foster, and Kate Parker Horigan 
    Kaneko, Nana (2024)
  • Environmentally associated colour divergence does not coincide with population structure across Lesser Antillean anoles 
    Jung, Catherine; Frederick, Jeffrey H.; Graham, Natalie R.; Wang, Ian J.; Fenton, Calvin; De Queiroz, Kevin; Bell, Rayna C.; Yuan, Michael L. (2024)
    Species distributed across heterogeneous environments may undergo local adaptation, which can be limited by the homogenizing effects of gene flow. Lesser Antillean anoles exhibit dorsal colour variation associated with ...
  • Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) from Delaware 
    Kennedy, Ashley C.; Winter, Wil S.; Gardner, Alfred L.; Woodman, Neal; Shifflett, Scarlet A.; Redus, Sierra; Newcomer, Jeffrey R.; Eckerlin, Ralph P. (2024)
    We present an annotated checklist of fleas (Siphonaptera) known to occur in the state of Delaware based on an examination of Siphonaptera collections at the University of Delaware and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, ...

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