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Diversity and evolution of amphibian pupil shapes

Pupil constriction has important functional consequences for animal vision, yet the evolutionary mechanisms underlying diverse pupil sizes and shapes are poorly understood. We...
Kate N Thomas; Caitlyn Rich; Rachel Quock; Jeffrey Streicher et al. Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

References that cite the John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology (JWIP)

This document is a compilation of publications that cite the use of the John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology which is based in Micropalaeontology, Earth Sciences.
Stephen Stukins Collections License not specified

Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on trop...

How will organisms cope when forced into warmer-than-preferred thermal environments? This is a key question facing our ability to monitor and manage biota as average annual...
J Labisko; Nancy Bunbury; Richard Griffiths; Jim Groombridge et al. Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Phylogeny of terraranan frogs based on 2,665 loci and impacts of missing data...

Terraranae is a large clade of New World direct-developing frogs that includes 3–5 families and >1,100 described species (∼15% of all named frog species). The relationships...
Lucas Barrientos; Jeffrey Streicher; Elizabeth Miller; Marcio Pie; John Wiens; Andrew Crawford Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Eye‐body allometry across biphasic ontogeny in anuran amphibians

Animals with biphasic lifecycles often inhabit different visual environments across ontogeny. Many frogs and toads (Amphibia: Anura) have free-living aquatic larvae (tadpoles)...
Samuel J Shrimpton; Jeffrey Streicher; David J Gower; Kate N Thomas Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Amphibian taxonomy: early 21st century case studies

These are data files associated with the editorial for 'Amphibian taxonomy: Early 21st century case studies' in Journal of Natural History (Streicher et al. 2020). In this...
Jeffrey Streicher; Rowland Sadler; Simon Loader Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Analysis of ultraconserved elements supports African origins of narrow-mouthe...

Narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura: Microhylidae) are globally distributed and molecular data suggest the rapid evolution of multiple subfamilies shortly after their origin. Despite...
Jeffrey Streicher; Simon Loader; Andrea Varela-Jaramillo; Paola Montoya; Rafael Omar de Sá Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Molecular insights into the phylogenetic placement of the poorly known genus ...

Among New World direct-developing frogs belonging to the clade Brachycephaloidea (= Terraranae), there are several genera with uncertain phylogenetic placements. One notable...
Andrés R Acosta-Galvis; Jeffrey Streicher; Luigi Manuelli; Travis Cuddy; Rafael Omar de Sá Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Integrative taxonomy at the nexus of population divergence and speciation in ...

We describe two diminutive species of rattlesnakes (Genus Crotalus) from small nearshore islands off the coast of Baja California in the western Gulf of California, Mexico. In...
Jesse M Meik; Sarah Schaack; Oscar Flores-Villela; Jeffrey Streicher Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Unexpected trans-Tasman species diversity of the bryozoan family Horneridae (...

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Abigail Smith; Peter Batson; Andrea Waeschenbach; Paul Taylor; Paulina Jenkins; Dennis Gordon Research

Deepak_Paraxenodermus

Alignments and datasets
Natural History Museum Research License not specified

Darwin's Fossil Mammals

View and interact with this this Toxodon cranium model on Sketchfab 3D scans of fossil mammal specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle. The initial...
Philippa Brewer; Kaitlyn Burton; Adrian Lister; Amy Scott-Murray et al. Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Bee Land-use Change Project

The Bee Land-use Change Project dataset comprises the records of all pinned Bombus hortorum, B.hypnorum, B.lapidarius, B.muscorum, B.pascuorum, B.ruderatus and B.sylvarum...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Coccoidea Slide Collection

The Coccoidea slide collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted scale insect material housed at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project...
Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish; Phaedra Kokkini; Krisztina Lohonya et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Solanum phylogenomics dataset

Supporting sequence and alignment data for the publication Gagnon E, Hilgenhof R, Orejuela A, McDonnell A, Sablok G, Aubriot X, Giacomin L, Gouvêa Y, Bragonis T, Stehmann JR,...
Edeline Gagnon; Rebecca Hilgenhof; Andrés Orejuela; Angela McDonnell et al. Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

New species of Athenaea from Brazil

Specimens use in the description of two new species of Athenaea (Solanaceae) Rodrigues IMC, Knapp S, Stehmann JR (2021) Two new species of Athenaea Sendtn. (Solanaceae) from the...
Sandra Knapp Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

A new species of tapeworm from Compsophis infralineatus (Pseudoxyrhophiidae),...

Nexus file of concatenated 18S, 28S, 16S and cox1 alignment with exclusion set indicated. This dataset was used to produce the main tree figure.A new species of proteocephalid...
Andrea Waeschenbach; Lana Diard; Alain De Chambrier; Tomáš Scholz Research

Annual country-level summaries of BII and land use (2001-2012) for tropical a...

Here we provide machine-readable (csv files) and human readable (pdf files) tables of country, subregion and region averages for the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) and land...
Adriana De Palma; Andrew Hoskins; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Luca Borger et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Sampaio_Rhinophis

mtDNA alignments and p-distances
F L Sampaio; S Narayanan; V P Cyriac; G Venu; David J Gower Research Creative Commons Attribution

ALICE test images

Images used to test different software pipelines for label extraction.
Benjamin Price; Steen Dupont; Louise Allan; Vladimir Blagoderov et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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