This paper explores the use of sonification, the conversion of data into sound, to convey the significance of SARS-COV-2 and its global impact. It emphasizes sonification as a valuable tool for making complex data accessible, particularly in high school education. Sonification, an interdisciplinary field, leverages the human auditory system's pattern...
Direct behavioral observations of multiple free-ranging animals over long periods of time and large geographic areas is
prohibitively difficult. However, recent improvements in technology, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) collars
equipped with motion-sensitive activity monitors, create the potential to remotely monitor animal behavior.
Accelerometer-equipped activity monitors quantify animal motion...
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collars require correction for timing errors
Adam J. Gaylord*, DanaM. Sanchez
Department of
Direct behavioral observations of multiple free-ranging animals over long periods of time and large geographic areas is
prohibitively difficult. However, recent improvements in technology, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) collars
equipped with motion-sensitive activity monitors, create the potential to remotely monitor animal behavior.
Accelerometer-equipped activity monitors quantify animal motion...
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Positioning System Collar Accelerometer
Activity Monitors
Adam J. Gaylord,* DanaM. Sanchez
Department of
Direct behavioral observations of multiple free-ranging animals over long periods of time and large geographic areas is
prohibitively difficult. However, recent improvements in technology, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) collars
equipped with motion-sensitive activity monitors, create the potential to remotely monitor animal behavior.
Accelerometer-equipped activity monitors quantify animal motion...
Bacterial mutualists can modulate the biochemical capacity of animals. Highly coevolved nutritional mutualists do this by synthesizing nutrients missing from the host’s diet. Genomics tools have advanced the study of these partnerships. Here we examined the endosymbiont Xiphinematobacter (phylum Verrucomicrobia) from the dagger nematode Xiphinema americanum, a migratory ectoparasite of...
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Endosymbiont
Suggest a Role in Nutritional Symbiosis
Brown, A. M., Howe, D. K., Wasala, S. K., Peetz, A. B
Bacterial mutualists can modulate the biochemical capacity of animals. Highly coevolved nutritional mutualists do this by synthesizing nutrients missing from the host’s diet. Genomics tools have advanced the study of these partnerships. Here we examined the endosymbiont Xiphinematobacter (phylum Verrucomicrobia) from the dagger nematode Xiphinema americanum, a migratory ectoparasite of...
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), a mysticete with a cosmopolitan distribution, demonstrate
marked behavioural plasticity. Recent studies show evidence of social learning in the transmission of specific
population level traits ranging from complex singing to stereotyped prey capturing behaviour. Humpback
whales have been observed to employ group foraging techniques, however details...
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., Cusano, D. A., Stimpert, A. K., Weinrich, M. T., Friedlaender, A. S., &
Wiley, D. N. (2014). Evidence
Nematodes within the Xiphinema americanum species complex are economically important because they vector
nepoviruses which cause considerable damage to a variety of agricultural crops. The taxonomy of X. americanum species
complex is controversial, with the number of putative species being the subject of debate. Accurate phylogenetic
knowledge of this group...
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americanum Species Complex
Inga A. Zasada1*, Amy Peetz1, Dana K. Howe2, Larry J. Wilhelm2, Daravuth Cheam2
Evolutionary interactions across levels of biological organization contribute to a variety of fundamental processes including genome evolution, reproductive mode transitions, species diversification, and extinction. Evolutionary theory predicts that so-called “selfish” genetic elements will proliferate when the host effective population size (N[subscrit]e) is small, but direct tests of this prediction remain...
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, Anna L. Coleman-Hulbert2, Emily S. Weiss1, Dana K. Howe1, Sita Ping1, Riana I. Wernick1,
Suzanne Estes2