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Ian J. Kitching

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Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

2009

12 páginas, 4 figuras, 3 tablas.

EcologyOrdinary least squaresLinear regressionAutocorrelationRange (statistics)ResidualPatterns of DiversitySpatial analysisEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsRegressionMacroecologyMathematicsEcography
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Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richn…

2011

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0106 biological sciencesOrder Lepidoptera0303 health sciencesbiologyEcologyZhàngBiodiversity15. Life on landbiology.organism_classification010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesNoctuoideaLepidoptera genitalia03 medical and health sciencesBombycoideaAnimal Science and ZoologySpecies richnessEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics030304 developmental biologyZootaxa
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Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an initial molecular study

2009

AbstractBackgroundIn the mega-diverse insect order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths; 165,000 described species), deeper relationships are little understood within the clade Ditrysia, to which 98% of the species belong. To begin addressing this problem, we tested the ability of five protein-coding nuclear genes (6.7 kb total), and character subsets therein, to resolve relationships among 123 species representing 27 (of 33) superfamilies and 55 (of 100) families of Ditrysia under maximum likelihood analysis.ResultsOur trees show broad concordance with previous morphological hypotheses of ditrysian phylogeny, although most relationships among superfamilies are weakly supported. There are als…

0106 biological sciencesEntomologyNuclear geneUNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA::Biología animal (Zoología) ::InvertebradosEvolutionmedia_common.quotation_subjectInitial molecular studyZoologyInsect010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesProtein-coding nuclear genesLepidoptera genitaliaLepidoptera; Protein-coding nuclear genes; Initial molecular study03 medical and health sciencesDitrysiaPhylogenetics:CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA::Biología animal (Zoología) ::Invertebrados [UNESCO]Research articleQH359-425AnimalsCladeEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsPhylogeny030304 developmental biologymedia_common0303 health sciencesbiologyBayes TheoremSequence Analysis DNAbiology.organism_classificationBiological EvolutionLepidopteraEvolutionary biologyBombycoideaBMC Evolutionary Biology
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UNA LISTA COMENTADA DE LOS SPHINGIDAE DE BOLIVIA (INSECTA: LEPIDOPTERA)

2001

An annotated checklist of the Sphingidae (hawkmoths) of Bolivia is presented. A total of 189 species and subspecies are confirmed. Locality data derived from specimens in the collections of the Department of Entomology of the Natural History Museum Noel Kempff Mercado of Santa Cruz de la Sierra; the Bolivian Collection of Fauna, La Paz; The Natural History Museum, London; and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, are given. A map of these localities and a synoptic discussion of their geography and ecology are also provided. Data on species not represented in these collections are collated from the publications of J. Haxaire and D. Herbin and presented. Diagnostic features to e…

Lepidoptera genitaliaBoliviaGeographyhawkmothesfíngidosAnimal Science and ZoologySphingidaeAquatic SciencelistaHumanitieschecklistfauna
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