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1. Protecting the environment through insect farming as a means to produce protein for use as livestock, poultry, and aquaculture feed

Author:
Tomberlin, J.K.; van Huis, A.; Benbow, M.E.; Jordan, H.; Astuti, D.A.; Azzollini, D.; Banks, I.; Bava, V.; Borgemeister, C.; Cammack, J.A.; Chapkin, R.S.; Čičková, H.; Crippen, T.L.; Day, A.; Dicke, M.; Drew, D.J.W.; Emhart, C.; Epstein, M.; Finke, M.; Fischer, C.H.; Gatlin, D.; Grabowski, N.Th.; He, C.; Heckman, L.; Hubert, A.; Jacobs, J.; Josephs, J.; Khanal, S.K.; Kleinfinger, J.-F.; Klein, G.; Leach, C.; Liu, Y.; Newton, G.L.; Olivier, R.; Pechal, J.L.; Picard, C.J.; Rojo, S.; Roncarati, A.; Sheppard, C.; Tarone, A.M.; Verstappen, B.; Vickerson, A.; Yang, H.; Yen, A.L.; Yu, Z.; Zhang, J.; Zheng, L.
Source:
Journal of insects as food and feed 2015 v.1 no.4 pp. 307-309
ISSN:
2352-4588
Subject:
Hermetia illucens; aquaculture feeds; aquaculture industry; entrepreneurship; humans; insect rearing; models; pets; poultry; protein products; universities; Africa; Asia; Australia; Europe; South America
Abstract:
... Securing protein for the approximate 10 billion humans expected to inhabit our planet by 2050 is a major priority for the global community. Evidence has accrued over the past 30 years that strongly supports and justifies the sustainable use of insects as a means to produce protein products as feed for pets, livestock, poultry, and aquacultured species. Researchers and entrepreneurs affiliated with ...
DOI:
10.3920/JIFF2015.0098

2. Genomic legacy of the African cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus

Author:
Dobrynin, Pavel; Liu, Shiping; Tamazian, Gaik; Xiong, Zijun; Yurchenko, Andrey A.; Krasheninnikova, Ksenia; Kliver, Sergey; Schmidt-Küntzel, Anne; Koepfli, Klaus-Peter; Johnson, Warren; Kuderna, Lukas F.K.; García-Pérez, Raquel; Manuel, Marc de; Godinez, Ricardo; Komissarov, Aleksey; Makunin, Alexey; Brukhin, Vladimir; Qiu, Weilin; Zhou, Long; Li, Fang; Yi, Jian; Driscoll, Carlos; Antunes, Agostinho; Oleksyk, Taras K.; Eizirik, Eduardo; Perelman, Polina; Roelke, Melody; Wildt, David; Diekhans, Mark; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Marker, Laurie; Bhak, Jong; Wang, Jun; Zhang, Guojie; O’Brien, Stephen J.
Source:
Genome biology 2015 v.16 no.1 pp. 277
ISSN:
1474-760X
Subject:
Acinonyx jubatus; Gorilla; amino acids; cats; dogs; functional diversity; gene deletion; genes; graft rejection; homozygosity; humans; mitochondrial DNA; models; natural history; nucleotide sequences; population dynamics; spermatozoa; variance; Africa; Eurasia; North America; South America
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Patterns of genetic and genomic variance are informative in inferring population history for human, model species and endangered populations. RESULTS: Here the genome sequence of wild-born African cheetahs reveals extreme genomic depletion in SNV incidence, SNV density, SNVs of coding genes, MHC class I and II genes, and mitochondrial DNA SNVs. Cheetah genomes are on average 95 % homoz ...
DOI:
10.1186/s13059-015-0837-4
PubMed:
26653294
PubMed Central:
PMC4676127

3. New chronology for Ksâr ‘Akil (Lebanon) supports Levantine route of modern human dispersal into Europe

Author:
Bosch, Marjolein D.; Mannino, Marcello A.; Prendergast, Amy L.; O’Connell, Tamsin C.; Demarchi, Beatrice; Taylor, Sheila M.; Niven, Laura; van der Plicht, Johannes; Hublin, Jean-Jacques
Source:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2015 v.112 no.25 pp. 7683-7688
ISSN:
0027-8424
Subject:
fossils; humans; models; molluscs; Africa; Eurasia; Europe; Lebanon
Abstract:
... Modern human dispersal into Europe is thought to have occurred with the start of the Upper Paleolithic around 50,000–40,000 y ago. The Levantine corridor hypothesis suggests that modern humans from Africa spread into Europe via the Levant. Ksâââr ‘Akil (Lebanon), with its deeply stratified Initial (IUP) and Early (EUP) Upper Paleolithic sequence containing modern human remains, has played an im ...
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1501529112
PubMed:
26034284
PubMed Central:
PMC4485136

4. Invasion success of a global avian invader is explained by within‐taxon niche structure and association with humans in the native range

Author:
Strubbe, Diederik; Jackson, Hazel; Groombridge, Jim; Matthysen, Erik; Duncan, Richard
Source:
Diversity & distributions 2015 v.21 no.6 pp. 675-685
ISSN:
1366-9516
Subject:
Psittacula; biogeography; climate; colonizing ability; ecological invasion; ecosystems; habitats; humans; indigenous species; invasive species; models; parakeets; prediction; risk; risk assessment; Africa; Asia; Europe
Abstract:
... AIM: To mitigate the threat invasive species pose to ecosystem functioning, reliable risk assessment is paramount. Spatially explicit predictions of invasion risk obtained through bioclimatic envelope models calibrated with native species distribution data can play a critical role in invasive species management. Forecasts of invasion risk to novel environments, however, remain controversial. Here, ...
DOI:
10.1111/ddi.12325

5. Selecting CMIP5 GCMs for downscaling over multiple regions

Author:
McSweeney, C. F.; Jones, R. G.; Lee, R. W.; Rowell, D. P.
Source:
Climate dynamics 2015 v.44 no.11-12 pp. 3237-3260
ISSN:
0930-7575
Subject:
climate; climate change; humans; models; risk assessment; surface temperature; Africa; Europe; South East Asia
Abstract:
... The unprecedented availability of 6-hourly data from a multi-model GCM ensemble in the CMIP5 data archive presents the new opportunity to dynamically downscale multiple GCMs to develop high-resolution climate projections relevant to detailed assessment of climate vulnerability and climate change impacts. This enables the development of high resolution projections derived from the same set of model ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00382-014-2418-8

6. Geographical distribution modelling of the bronze bug: a worldwide invasion

Author:
Montemayor, Sara I.; Dellapé, Pablo M.; Melo, María C.
Source:
Agricultural and forest entomology 2015 v.17 no.2 pp. 129-137
ISSN:
1461-9555
Subject:
Eucalyptus; climate; data collection; databases; environmental factors; geographical distribution; humans; model validation; models; planting; probability; Africa; Central America; China; South America
Abstract:
... The present study investigated the environmental variables that define a suitable climate for the bronze bug, Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero & Dellapé, using presence‐only data, with the aim of identifying areas that have a suitable climate (and thus high probability) for future colonization and generating a spatially explicit predictive map of environmental suitability. An occurrence databa ...
DOI:
10.1111/afe.12088

7. Inferring population structure and demographic history using Y-STR data from worldwide populations

Author:
Xu, Hongyang; Wang, Chuan-Chao; Shrestha, Rukesh; Wang, Ling-Xiang; Zhang, Manfei; He, Yungang; Kidd, Judith R.; Kidd, Kenneth K.; Jin, Li; Li, Hui
Source:
Molecular genetics and genomics 2015 v.290 no.1 pp. 141-150
ISSN:
1617-4615
Subject:
Y chromosome; ancestry; data collection; genetic distance; genetic variation; humans; males; microsatellite repeats; models; population size; population structure; Africa
Abstract:
... The Y chromosome is one of the best genetic materials to explore the evolutionary history of human populations. Global analyses of Y chromosomal short tandem repeats (STRs) data can reveal very interesting world population structures and histories. However, previous Y-STR works tended to focus on small geographical ranges or only included limited sample sizes. In this study, we have investigated p ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00438-014-0903-8
PubMed:
25159112