Large male bias in collection of Micropterix facetella Zeller, 1851 (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae)

Plotkin, David; Nazari, Vazrick; Homziak, Nicholas T.; Kawahara, Akito Y.

doi:10.3897/nl.41.23626

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Section: Arthropod Surveysmentioning

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Genetic underpinnings of arthropod community distributions in Populus trichocarpa

Simon,

Furches,

Chhetri

et al. 2024

New Phytologist

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Summary Community genetics seeks to understand the mechanisms by which natural genetic variation in heritable host phenotypes can encompass assemblages of organisms such as bacteria, fungi, and many animals including arthropods. Prior studies that focused on plant genotypes have been unable to identify genes controlling community composition, a necessary step to predict ecosystem structure and function as underlying genes shift within plant populations. We surveyed arthropods within an association population of Populus trichocarpa in three common gardens to discover plant genes that contributed to arthropod community composition. We analyzed our surveys with traditional single‐trait genome‐wide association analysis (GWAS), multitrait GWAS, and functional networks built from a diverse set of plant phenotypes. Plant genotype was influential in structuring arthropod community composition among several garden sites. Candidate genes important for higher level organization of arthropod communities had broadly applicable functions, such as terpenoid biosynthesis and production of dsRNA binding proteins and protein kinases, which may be capable of targeting multiple arthropod species. We have demonstrated the ability to detect, in an uncontrolled environment, individual genes that are associated with the community assemblage of arthropods on a host plant, further enhancing our understanding of genetic mechanisms that impact ecosystem structure.

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Section: Arthropod Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Genetic underpinnings of arthropod community distributions in Populus trichocarpa

Simon,

Furches,

Chhetri

et al. 2024

New Phytologist

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Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections

Wainwright,

Trevena,

Alewijnse

et al. 2023

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Natural history specimens are a widely used and valuable resource for conservation, ecology, and evolutionary biology. One might assume that these collections are representative of natural populations, but recent work has suggested that many collections have disproportionately more male than female specimens. Here, we investigate sex ratios in > 5 000 000 amphibian and reptile specimen records from global natural history collections. We found a slight bias towards males in amphibians (39% females) and reptiles (47% females), but this varied among orders and families. Body size, sexual size dimorphism, and year of collection had little effect. Strikingly however, > 95% of herpetology specimen records had no sex data associated with them at all, even from recent collections. This lack of sex data substantially limits the utility of herpetological museum collections in many ways. We propose that enhanced efforts to train taxonomic specialists and support their careers would unlock the potential of sex-based research using museum collections and their associated public databases.

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Large male bias in collection of Micropterix facetella Zeller, 1851 (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae)

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Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Genetic underpinnings of arthropod community distributions in Populus trichocarpa

Genetic underpinnings of arthropod community distributions in Populus trichocarpa

Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections

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