Category Archives: Literature

Three recent publications in Nature, PNAS and Nature Ecology and Evolution

 

Reconciling taxon senescence with the Red Queen’s hypothesis (Zliobaite, Fortelius, Stenseth)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24656

About it:

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/science/new-interpretation-of-the-red-queens-hypothesis-its-about-expansion

https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/channels/521-behind-the-paper/posts/25646-do-species-age

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07440-0

 

Productivity, biodiversity, and pathogens influence the global hunter-gatherer population density (Tallavaara, Eronen, Luoto)

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/26/1715638115.abstract

Press release in English:

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/science/bound-by-nature-cultural-evolution-has-not-freed-hunter-gatherers-from-environmental-forcing-0

Press release in Finnish:

https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/luonnontieteet/kulttuurievoluutio-ei-ole-vapauttanut-metsastaja-kerailijayhteisoja-luonnonymparistostaan

 

The rise and fall of the Old World savannah fauna and the origins of the African savannah biome (Kaya, Bibi, Zliobaite, Eronen, Tang, Fortelius)

(Access unfortunately not provided by our university):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0414-1?WT.feed_name=subjects_evolution

About it:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0450-x

Kirjauutuus: Jääkauden jälkeläiset

Pirkko Ukkonen ja Kristiina Mannermaa
JÄÄKAUDEN JÄLKELÄISET
Suomen lintujen ja nisäkkäiden varhainen historia

Museovirasto 2017, 240 s.

“Museoviraston uunituore Jääkauden jälkeläiset -julkaisu on kertomus Suomessa jääkauden aikana eläneistä eläimistä, niiden väistymisestä ilmaston muuttuessa ja nykyisten lintu- ja nisäkäslajien saapumisesta maahan sen vapautuessa lopullisesti jäästä ja jäätikön sulavesistä. Yleistajuinen kirja on suunnattu kaikille muinaisuudesta kiinnostuneille lukijoille, mutta se toimii myös tietolähteenä, oppikirjana ja hakuteoksena tutkijoille, opettajille, opiskelijoille ja medialle.”

Lehdistötiedote

JEZ Special Issue on Turtle Origins and Evolution, freely available

Dear colleagues:

The new Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 324(3): 169–314 is a Special Issue on Turtle Origins and Evolution that I have edited.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.v324.3/issuetoc

This issue is inspired by a symposium that was held at the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, and many participants from that symposium have contributed papers here. All articles are “Freely Available” for the next three months.

Sincerely,
Jacqueline

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The dawn of chelonian research: Turtles between comparative anatomy and embryology in the 19th century (pages 169–180)
Kate MacCord, Guido Caniglia, Jacqueline E. Moustakas-Verho and Ann C. Burke
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22587
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22587/abstract

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The origin of turtles: A paleontological perspective (pages 181–193)
Walter G. Joyce
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22609
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22609/abstract

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The evolutionary origin of the turtle shell and its dependence on the axial arrest of the embryonic rib cage (pages 194–207)
Tatsuya Hirasawa, Juan Pascual-Anaya, Naoki Kamezaki, Mari Taniguchi, Kanako Mine and Shigeru Kuratani
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22579
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22579/abstract

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Emerging from the rib: Resolving the turtle controversies (pages 208–220)
Ritva Rice, Paul Riccio, Scott F. Gilbert and Judith Cebra-Thomas
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22600
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22600/abstract

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The integumental appendages of the turtle shell: An evo-devo perspective (pages 221–229)
Jacqueline E. Moustakas-Verho and Gennadii O. Cherepanov
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22619
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22619/abstract

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Modeling neck mobility in fossil turtles (pages 230–243)
Ingmar Werneburg, Juliane K. Hinz, Michaela Gumpenberger, Virginie Volpato, Nikolay Natchev and Walter G. Joyce
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22557
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22557/abstract

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On the homology of the shoulder girdle in turtles (pages 244–254)
Hiroshi Nagashima, Fumiaki Sugahara, Masaki Takechi, Noboru Sato and Shigeru Kuratani
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22584
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22584/abstract

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A comparative examination of odontogenic gene expression in both toothed and toothless amniotes (pages 255–269)
Alexis J. Lainoff, Jacqueline E. Moustakas-Verho, Diane Hu, Aki Kallonen, Ralph S. Marcucio and Leslea J. Hlusko
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22594
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22594/abstract

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Do turtles follow the rules? Latitudinal gradients in species richness, body size, and geographic range area of the world’s turtles (pages 270–294)
Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Robert W. Burroughs and Chris. R. Feldman
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22602
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22602/abstract

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Loggerhead sea turtle environmental sex determination: Implications of moisture and temperature for climate change based predictions for species survival (pages 295–314)
Jeanette Wyneken and Alexandra Lolavar
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22620
Wiley has published a version of this article without corrections following review, and we are currently waiting for them to publish the finished article as an erratum.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22620/abstract

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Island Biogeography Revisited: an online experiment on book reading club

GrrlScientist (of the Guardian, among other things) and BiK-F / Senckenberg are doing an interesting reading experiment:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/apr/09/island-biogeography-revisited-an-online-experiment

Discussion of the first chapter online:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/apr/15/island-biogeography-revisited-online-book-club-chapter-one?CMP=share_btn_tw

Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data

‘Today, most research projects are considered complete when a journal article based on the analysis has been written and published. The trouble is, the amount of real data and data description in modern publications is almost never sufficient to repeat or even statistically verify a study being presented. Worse, researchers wishing to build upon and extend work presented in the literature often have trouble recovering data associated with an article after it has been published. More often than scientists would like to admit, they cannot even recover the data associated with their own published works.

So how do we go about caring for and feeding data? This article offers a short guide to the steps scientists can take to ensure that their data and associated analyses continue to be of value and to be recognized.’

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003542

Festschrift in Honor of Mikael Fortelius published

Hi all,

We are glad to inform that the Festschrift in Honor of Mikael Fortelius has now been published in the latest online issue of Annales Zoologici Fennici vol. 51(1-2) (open access). Please visit http://www.annzool.net/. Printed version will be in distribution as of 7 April 2014.

Best regards,
 
Krzysztof Raciborski, Ph.D.

Managing editor

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Anu, Jussi, Jukka, Pirkko and Suvi