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私は、水陸両用蛾の記事の全文PDFに出くわしたと水陸両用形質のこの種のグループの放射と考えられる進化を示すツリーを抽出. ケースの形状は興味深い, そしてそれぞれの蛾は、ハワイの列島で、独自の火山に流行している.
This is a Bayesian analysis of a three gene phylogeny constructed with EF1-alpha, CAD and COI. If anyone wants a copy of the paper, send me a note. Pulled from: Rubinoff D., P.シュミッツ, 風土病による複数水生侵略, 地上の, ハワイの蛾の放射線. PNASマーチ 2010. これを共有!UR6FVJ2S3B8H 確立された宗教には何も問題ない… You can read all about his story from the NY Times. 私は、この全体の虐待スキャンダル約怖い事を思う (スキャンダラス) 教会は実際に、これは悪魔の仕事であると考えていることである – 個々の人間のいないねじれた心. はい, “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”, so why punish a man who just needs the devil vanquished? Oh wait, they don’t even exorcise priests because it is just a “temptation” with young, deaf, boys. Then how is it that these priests who are so easily tempted left in positions of power? The answer is easy… just like any government, the Catholic church is profoundly incompetent. これを共有!棄権すべての人のための (私は、一部の読者を想定したい私たちの謎キャタピラの身元を知られている必要があります, しかし、コメントするのが面倒だった), ここに答えがある (休憩後に).
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ハワイからのもう一つの驚くべき動物 – a completely amphibious caterpillar (3月に公開 22 PNAS). いくつかの水生鱗翅目がありますが, all of them have gills that keep them restricted to the water (あなたを気に, we are talking only about the larval stage). If their stream dries up, so does the caterpillar. The novel adaptation in these insects is the ability to live comfortably, and apparently indefinitely, on dry land または submerged in fresh water – a trait distinctive to these 12 new species of Hyposmocoma (Cosmopterigidae). This is unique not only to Insects, but to all known animals. があります, もちろん, amphibians. But unlike these caterpillars they require moisture to survive and often desiccate rapidly. Hyposmocoma thrive in desert like conditions, or submerged for weeks. Not only were 12 different species discovered (that are also the first known caterpillars to eat snails), but it even appears as if this amphibious ability has evolved three separate times. Clearly the selective pressures on small lepidoptera in these areas are extreme. The Lepidoptera as a whole have evolved a full range of adaptations, including species that are parasitic, detritivorous, fungivorous, endophagous, carnivorous (also on Hawaii), aquatic and now fully amphibious. Hummm, sounds like a bad song (to this music). Clearly, leps are cooler than any other order. Perhaps if I were Rubinoff I may have named one moth Hyposmocoma aquamana. Of course, Aquaman was pretty worthless on the land… so maybe it should have been H. potioaquamana (potio- coming from the Latin for superior or more effective).
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Spring has come to northern California and moths are on the wing. I took a quick trip up to the Sierra foothills over the weekend and hiked up the steep slopes above the American River. Above is pictured Xanthothrix ranunculi f. albipuncta (ヤガ科: Stiriinae). It happens to be sitting on a beautiful california poppy. The hostplant, しかしながら, です Coreopsis stillmanii and grows in small patches of serpentine soils on southern facing slopes along the central valley. ここにある Xanthothrix sitting on the host.
This moth was originally described as a form of バツ. ranunculi で 1925 (form roughly equals subspecies today), and then completely forgotten about and unseen until 1990. It was left out of a major revision of the subfamily, so the legitimate status as a subspecies or full species remains unknown. 乞うご期待. これを共有!
君主は、彼らの春の渡りの北側を開始している、あなたもかもしれない 1すぐにを参照してください (ではないエキサイティングなあなたはフロリダ州やハワイに住んでいれば年間住民が存在する場合に, またはCAに個別の越冬スポットが存在する場合に). メキシコでの冬の場所からのレポートは、しかし憂鬱です; コロニーは70年代に発見されて以来、おそらく最低の人口規模を持つ. 蝶のルートに沿っていくつかの悪い嵐, 生息地の分断とロギングと相まって, おそらく死亡している 50-60% メキシコ君主の人口の (下記の報道によると).
心配するような特別なこの何かはありますか? 私は特にそうは思わない. 天気は、今年の記録的に低い人口のキープレーヤーだった, と私は、人間がそれらを数えるために周りました私たちの前に蝶がこの悪い数字を見てきました想像することができます. 私は、今後数年間で回復を行う集団に対して何かを賭けます, 悲鳴の周りに実行する必要はありません, 君主は、あなたの庭で、この夏と次になります. 君主はかなりあり、子供たちはそれらを愛する, ので、そのように多くの努力が彼らを監視しに置かれた理由を把握するために想像力のストレッチを取りません. しかし、鱗翅類として, 何も上のさらに別の報告書と同じくらい退屈ではない “窮状” 君主の Zzzzzzzzzzzz. 私が心配するより差し迫った問題があると信じてする傾向, そのような科学的な無知に直面して生物多様性の損失を加速率など. 君主は、公共のマスコットとして、さらには貴重な生息地の保全お飾り種として重要な役割を果たして – しかしそれでは、さらに教育のためのドアに足としてそれらを使用してみましょう. はい, インクルード オオカバマダラ基金, 生息地の保護と持続可能性のために努力されている. 良いこと. 私は、これは肯定的な結果を達成することを理解する, なぜ唯一の君主の名の下に? これはちょうどに切り捨て科学教育のための壮大な機会のように思える “君主を保存”. これらの森林は、1蝶種に避難所よりも同じくらいますますよりもさらにサービスを提供 “重要な炭素吸収源と酸素発生器”. 私の解釈. 代わりに、私はこれを示唆している. それははるかにある, 桁違い, もっと面白い: [youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGYAMDGMraA&hl = en_US&fs = 1&] これを共有!Published in the Santa Barbara News Press, ウインター 2009. Who can tell me what’s wrong with these captions?
Page scan credit: Stuart Wilson. これを共有!教育水準は、この国では十分に悪いではなかったかのように, Texas has decided to make them worse. 保守的な教育委員会からの最近のプッシュは、再書かれた歴史を持っています, 文字通り. 追従するロジックは少し難しいかもしれ, しかし、彼らはしようと試みてきた “バランス” より保守的な理想を注入することにより歴史 (あなたを気に, no one is a historian on the board). What is to be changed:
This entire change is ghastly. I don’t have a problem mentioning some republican presidents and their positive role in history, or the role of the GOP. History may be written by the victors, but it should strive towards fair and balanced. The alterations made above are absolute bullshit and only serve to further their conservative, religious, agenda. What really pisses me off is the alteration of the civil rights movement and Japanese internment. Just because a bunch of old, fat, white men in congress realized they better pass civil rights laws does not mean they should deserve credit for it. そして, are they really expecting us to believe that internment was not focused on the Japanese? That entire chapter in our US history is undeniably horrible and shameful, it was also fueled by racism. I do not understand how supporting bigotry and racism is considered a conservative value. Why must they unashamedly, and ignorantly, re-write history to further their agenda? The poisoning of the GOP and conservative values by religion is all to clear in this case. The bread and butter of religious fundamentalism is inculcating the youth. This strategy is very successful when you encourage large families and insane devotion. Now that the majority of conservatives are religious they are spinning their webs onto our children (よく, your children). The worst is yet to come. Texas and California are the largest textbook markets in the country. If they pass legislation mandating the alteration of texts then the publishing companies must fall into line. Since printing different versions of books for different states is financially unfeasible, then only ONE book gets printed for US schools. If Texas successfully adds this BS to the history books then every public school in the US gets force fed (or as republicans like to say – rammed down our throats) these books. What is a conservative today if not religious? What is coming next: insertion of more “balanced” ideals of global warming, cloning and evolutionary biology. 乞うご期待. Fail to Texas. これを共有! |
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