Journal Articles (Biological Sciences)

2021-01-01

Arezoo Haratian, Hadi Fazelinia, Zeinab Maleki, Pouria Ramazi, Hao Wang, Mark A. Lewis, Russell Greiner, David Wishart

This dataset provides information related to the outbreak of COVID-19 disease in the United States, including data from each of 3142 US counties from the beginning of the outbreak (January 2020) until June 2021. This data is collected from many public online databases and includes the...

2020-02-01

Melodie Kunegel-Lion, Rory L. McIntosh, Mark A. Lewis

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled “Mountain pine beetle outbreak duration and pine mortality depend on direct control effort” [1]. This article provides presence of mountain pine beetle infested trees detected by the Saskatchewan Forest Service on a...

2009-01-01

Docking, Roderick T., Mardis, Elaine, Hamelin, Richard C., Jones, Steven J. M., Marra, Marco A., Seidel, Michael, Chan, Simon K., Breuil, Colette, Liao, Nancy Y., Birol, Inanc, Robertson, Gordon, Holt, Robert A., Platt, Darren, Bohlmann, Jörg, DiGuistini, Scott, Hirst, Martin

Sequencing-by-synthesis technologies can reduce the cost of generating de novo genome assemblies. We report a method for assembling draft genome sequences of eukaryotic organisms that integrates sequence information from different sources, and demonstrate its effectiveness by assembling an...

2021-03-22

Strong, Catherine R. C., Scherz, Mark D., Caldwell, Michael W.

This is the accepted (i.e., postprint; post-peer review) version of the following article: Strong, C. R. C., Scherz, M. D. & Caldwell, M. W. 2021. Deconstructing the Gestalt: new concepts and tests of homology, as exemplified by a re-conceptualization of “microstomy” in squamates. The Anatomical...

2010

Leo, S.S.T., Pybus, M.J., Sperling, F.A.H.

The winter tick Dermacentor albipictus (Packard) has a single-host life cycle that allows it to reach severe infestation levels on ungulates, particularly moose, Genotypic variation within these and related ticks has been a source of taxonomic confusion, although the continuity in their...

2012

Farkas, R., Kaufman, R., Jachim, A., Chomel, B., Otranto, D., Guillot, J., Franc, M., Wall, R., Pfister, K., Jongejan, F., Pollmeier, M., Inokuma, H., Beugnet, F., Baneth, G., Sainz, A., Bowman, A. S., Halos, L.

Although widely used, the term repellency needs to be employed with care when applied to ticks and other periodic or permanent ectoparasites. Repellency has classically been used to describe the effects of a substance that causes a flying arthropod to make oriented movements away from its source....

1985

Tonn, W. M.

Small, shallow seepage lakes in northern Wisconsin that have both low winter oxygen concentrations and low pH possess depauperate fish assemblages containing primarily or exclusively central mudminnows, Umbra limi, and yellow perch, Percaflavescens. Six times during three years I determined the...

1994

Tonn, W. M., Holopainen, I. J., Paszkowski, C. A.

Crucian carp (Carassius carassius) is often the only fish species present in small ponds of northern Europe. Such populations are typically at high densities and consist primarily of small, relatively slender, and short-lived fish; populations in multispecies assemblages in lakes display opposite...

1999

Smith, J.A., Bancroft, D.R., Clutton-Brock, T.H., MacColl, A.D., Pilkington, J., Coltman, D.W., Pemberton, J.M.

Variation in male lifetime breeding success (LBS) is central to understanding selection, yet it has rarely been measured in natural populations of large mammals. Here, we first describe variation in the opportunity for selection in cohorts of Soay rams (Ovis aries) on the archipelago of St....

2009

Tokarska, M., Demontis, D., Wójcik, J.M., Gregersen, V.R., Loeschcke, V., Pertoldi, C., Coltman, D.

A total of 929 polymorphic SNPs in EB (out of 54, 000 SNPs screened using a BovineSNP50 Illumina Genotyping BeadChip), and 1, 524 and 1, 403 polymorphic SNPs in WB and PB, respectively, were analysed. EB, WB and PB have all undergone recent drastic reductions in population size. Accordingly, they...