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Tamiops J. A. Allen 1906
No full textTamiops J. A. Allen, 1906. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 22: 475. TYPE SPECIES: Tamiops macclellandi hainanus J. A. Allen, 1906 (= T. maritimus hainanus). COMMENTS: Tribe Callosciurini (Moore, 1959:173). Included in Callosciurus by Corbet and Hill (1992); see Osgood (1932), and Moore and Tate (1965), who revised Tamiops.Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 457, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735313
Microsciurus J. A. Allen 1895
No full textMicrosciurus J. A. Allen, 1895. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:332. TYPE SPECIES: Sciurus alfari J. A. Allen, 1895. COMMENTS: Tribe Microsciurini (Moore, 1959). See Emmons and Feer (1990).Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 433, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735313
Letter from Joseph M. Peirce to his family, 14 October 1910
No full textJoseph M. Peirce writes from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, to his family in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on 14 October 1910; he describes pledging for Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity as well as other recent news; he mentions Kenneth, Alice, Nellie, Tottie, Guy, and Mrs. Allen. The letter is addresed to Mrs. J. M. Peirce (Helen Moore Peirce) and postmarked on 15 October 1910 at 8 am.Joseph Moore Peirce graduated from Norwich University with an electrical engineering degree in 1914
The effects of nutritional and social environment on ovarian dynamics and life history strategy in Nauphoeta cinerea
No full textThe trade-off between gametes and soma is central to life-history evolution. Oosorption has been proposed as a mechanism that can mediate this trade-off. When conditions are not conducive to successful reproduction, females are expected to be able to recoup nutrients from unfertilized oocytes and reinvest them into the somatic processes that promote survival and hence future reproduction. Although positive correlations between oocyte degradation and lifespan have been documented in oviparous insects, the adaptive significance of this process in species with more complex reproductive biology has not been explored. Oocyte degradation via apoptosis (programmed cell death) occurs in response to enforced virginity in females of the ovoviviparous cockroach, Nauphoeta cinerea. Observed apoptosis may represent oosorption, however, an alternative but not mutually exclusive argument is that oocyte apoptosis may represent oocyte ageing and clearance in order to maintain reproductive synchrony. The aim of this thesis was to test the hypothesis that the function of oocyte apoptosis is oosorption in N. cinerea. I found that in addition to enforced virginity, starvation induces oocyte apoptosis. However, the life history outcome following one form of stress is the opposite of the other. Hence, the functional role of oocyte apoptosis appears to be different depending on whether apoptosis is induced through starvation or age. Following a period of starvation-induced apoptosis females exhibit the increase in survival and future reproduction predicted by oosorption. Whereas, following a period of age-induced apoptosis females suffer fecundity and longevity cuts. However, age-induced apoptosis does not appear to simply be cellular ageing and clearance. In conjugation with age-induced apoptosis, ovariole number declines whilst the size of surviving oocytes increases. Hence, it appears that resources from sacrificed oocytes are being recycled into the survivors, and that this reinvestment in current reproduction trade-offs with future reproductive capacity. My thesis shows the importance of studying proximal mechanisms alongside more traditional measures of life history, as the relationship between isolated biological levels is not always clear.NER
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: GENES, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
No full textList of contributors -- Introduction: The uphill climb of sociobiology: towards a new synthesis / Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore, and Jan Komdeur -- Profile: Undiminished passion / Tim Birkhead -- Pt. I. Foundations -- 1. Nature-nurture interactions / Marla B. Sokolowski and Joel D. Levine -- Profile: Social evolution, sexual intrigue and serendipity / Andrew Cockburn -- 2. The quantitative genetics of social behaviour / Bronwyn H. Bleakley, Jason B. Wolf, and Allen J. Moore -- Profile: Mating systems: integrating sexual conflict and ecology / Nicholas B. Davies -- 3. Social behaviour and bird song from a neural and endocrine perspective / Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, Timothy J. DeVoogd and Jordan M. Moore -- Profile: In love with Ropalidia marginata: 34 years, and still going strong / Raghavendra Gadagkar -- 4. Evolutionary game theory / John M. McNamara and Franz J. Weissing -- Profile: The huddler's dilemma: a cold shoulder or a warm inner glow / David Haig -- 5. Recent advances in comparative methods / Robert P. Freckleton and Mark Pagel -- Profile: Multi-component signals in ant communication / Bert Hölldobler -- 6. Social evolution theory: a review of methods and approaches / Tom Wenseleers, Andy Gardner, and Kevin R. Foster -- Profile: What's wrong with this picture? / Sarah B. Hrdy -- Pt. II. Themes -- 7. Aggression: towards an integration of gene, brain and behaviour / Robert Huber and Edward A. Kravitz -- Profile: From behavioural observations, to genes, to evolution / Laurent Keller -- 8. Social influences on communication signals: from honesty to exploitation / Mark E. Hauber and Marlene Zuk -- Profile: Reputation can make the world go round - or why we are sometimes social / Manfred Milinski -- 9. Important topics in group living / Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton -- Profile: A haphazard career / Ronald Noë -- 10. Sexual behaviour: conflict, cooperation and coevolution / Tommaso Pizzari and Russell Bonduriansky -- Profile: In celebration of questions, past, present and future / Geoff A. Parker -- 11. Pair bonds and parental behaviour / Lisa McGraw, Tamás Székely, and Larry J. Young -- Profile: Mating systems and genetic variation / Marion Petrie -- 12. Adaptations and constraints in the evolution of delayed dispersal: implications for cooperation / Jan Komdeur and Jan Ekman -- Profile: Selections from a life in social selection / David C. Queller -- 13. Social behaviour in microorganisms / Kevin R. Foster -- Profile: The de novo evolution of cooperation: an unlikely event / Paul B. Rainey -- 14. Social environments, social tactics and their fitness consequences in complex mammalian societies / Marion L. East and Heribert Hofer -- Profile: Evolutionary genetics and social behaviour: changed perspectives on sexual coevolution / Michael G. Ritchie -- 15. Social behaviour in humans / Ruth Mace -- Profile: Genes and social behaviour: from gene to genome to 1000 genomes / Gene E. Robinson -- Pt. III. Implications -- 16. Personality and individual social specialization / Denis Réale and Niels J. Dingemanse -- Profile: Behavioural ecology, why do I love thee? Let me count the reasons / Paul W. Sherman -- 17. Molecular and genetic influences on the neural substrate of social cognition in humans / Louise Gallagher and David Skuse -- Profile: Anonymous (and other) social experience and the evolution of cooperation by reciprocity / Michael Taborsky -- 18. Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation / Suzanne H. Alonzo and Ben C. Sheldon -- Profile: Social theory based on natural selection / Robert Trivers -- 19. Social behaviour and speciation / Gerald S. Wilkinson and Leanna M. Birge -- Profile: Look to the ants / Edward O. Wilson -- 20. Social behaviour in conservation / Daniel T. Blumstein -- Profile: The handicap principle and social behaviour / Amotz Zahavi -- 21. Prospects for research in social behaviour: systems biology meets behaviour / Allen J. Moore, Tamás Székely and Jan Komdeur -- Species index -- Subject inde
Hopwood-etal-male reproductive competition in burying beetles JEB-2015-00671-data
No full textThese data relate to "The effect of size and sex-ratio experiences on reproductive competition in Nicrophorus vespilloides burying beetles in the wild." Hopwood, Paul E., Moore, Allen J., Tregenza, Tom, Royle, Nick J
Miss Mary Bednar and J. D. Moore
No full textMiss Mary Bednar, president of the Fort Worth Women\u27s Credit Club, and J. D. Moore, president of the Fort Worth Retail Credit Managers\u27 Club, discuss plans for a barbecue dance Saturday, August 22, at Ernest Allen Ranch for the benefit of Girlstown, U.S.A.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/28111/thumbnail.jp
Tamiops J. A. Allen 1906
No full textTamiops J. A. Allen, 1906. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 22:475. COMMENT: Formerly included in Callosciurus; see Moore and Tate, 1965, Fieldiana ZooL, 48:1 -351, who revised Tamiops. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410002037000000.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 1), pp. 345-382 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 376, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735302
Bees collect polyurethane and polyethylene plastics as novel nest materials
No full textPlastic waste pervades the global landscape. Although adverse impacts on both species and ecosystems have been documented, there are few observations of behavioral flexibility and adaptation in species, especially insects, to increasingly plastic-rich environments. Here, two species of megachilid bee are described independently using different types of polyurethane and polyethylene plastics in place of natural materials to construct and close brood cells in nests containing successfully emerging brood. The plastics collected by each bee species resembled the natural materials usually sought; Megachile rotundata, which uses cut plant leaves, was found constructing brood cells out of cut pieces of polyethylene-based plastic bags, and Megachile campanulae, which uses plant and tree resins, had brood cells constructed out of a polyurethane-based exterior building sealant. Although perhaps incidentally collected, the novel use of plastics in the nests of bees could reflect ecologically adaptive traits necessary for survival in an increasingly human-dominated environment.We thank Dr. Laurence Packer, Sheila Dumesh, Bahar Salehi and Erik Glemser for comments and discussion for the manuscript. Funding was provided by Dr. Packer’s NSERC Discovery Grant and an NSERC-CGS awarded to the first author. J. S. MacIvor
conceived and implemented the study, found the bee nests and reared the larvae. A. E. Moore analyzed the M. campanulae cells. J. S. MacIvor compiled and wrote the manuscript, A. E. Moore collaborated on the methods. A. E. Moore provided the graphs for the figures. J. S. MacIvor imaged the brood cells. Both authors critically revised the manuscript and approved it for publication. Publication was made possible by the York University Libraries' Open Access Author Fun
Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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