Invasive endemic fungi of the Western Hemisphere
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DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2019.1664719
Abstract: This Special Issue deals with five systemic pathogenic fungi, all endemic in the Western Hemisphere, four of which are thermally dimorphic and the fifth is Cryptococcus neoformans, an important invasive yeast that can infect apparently… read more here.
Keywords: western hemisphere; invasive endemic; endemic fungi; transformation ... See more keywords
Beringia and the peopling of the Western Hemisphere
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DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2246
Abstract: Did Beringian environments represent an ecological barrier to humans until less than 15 000 years ago or was access to the Americas controlled by the spatial–temporal distribution of North American ice sheets? Beringian environments varied… read more here.
Keywords: beringia peopling; western hemisphere; peopling western; gap ... See more keywords
Description of a new species of Laelaspis Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from Brazil, with a key to the species of the Western Hemisphere.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5133.4.7
Abstract: Laelaspis loeckii Duarte Moreira sp. nov. is described based on the morphology of adult females and males collected from soil in a survey carried out in southern Brazil, in the temperate Pampa biome. This is… read more here.
Keywords: key species; species laelaspis; description new; laelaspis berlese ... See more keywords
Relationship between Boreal Summer Circulation Trend and Destructive Stationary-Transient Wave Interference in the Western Hemisphere
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DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0530.1
Abstract: This study examines the role of the latent heating in exciting the upper-level circulation anomaly which destructively interferes with the climatological stationary wave in the Western Hemisphere during boreal summer. This destructive interference pattern closely… read more here.
Keywords: interference pattern; circulation; trend; interference ... See more keywords
Evidence that a major subpopulation of fall armyworm found in the Western Hemisphere is rare or absent in Africa, which may limit the range of crops at risk of infestation
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208966
Abstract: The introduction and establishment of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in Africa presents a major threat to agriculture in that continent and potentially to the entire Eastern Hemisphere. The species is subdivided into two subpopulations called… read more here.
Keywords: western hemisphere; armyworm; fall armyworm; strain ... See more keywords