Figs 2 –32 in Identification and misidentifications in the genus Inurous (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with description of a new species

Figs 2 –32. Male (25–31) and female (32) genitalia of Inurois punctigera species-group. 25,Published as part of Beljaev, E.A., 2022, Identification and misidentifications in the genus Inurous (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with description of a new species, pp. 1-23 in Far Eastern Entomologist 461 on page 14, DOI: 10.25221/fee.461.1, http://zenodo.org/record/716698

Figs 1–10 in Identification and misidentifications in the genus Inurous (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with description of a new species

Figs 1–10. Moths of Inurois punctigera species-group (1–9 – males, 10 – female). 1 – I.Published as part of Beljaev, E.A., 2022, Identification and misidentifications in the genus Inurous (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with description of a new species, pp. 1-23 in Far Eastern Entomologist 461 on page 8, DOI: 10.25221/fee.461.1, http://zenodo.org/record/716698

Incipient allochronic speciation by climatic disruption of the reproductive period

Disruptive selection of life-cycle timing may cause temporal isolation directly and, ultimately, allochronic speciation. Despite the fact that segregation of the reproductive period among related species has been broadly observed across taxa, it remains controversial whether temporal isolation can function as the primary process of speciation. In the Japanese winter geometrid moth Inurois punctigera, allochronic divergence has resulted from climatic disruption of the reproductive period. In habitats with severe midwinter, two sympatric groups of moth reproduce allochronically in early and late winter. These groups are genetically diverging sister lineages and now co-occur allochronically throughout Japan. By contrast, in habitats with milder midwinter these lineages form a continuous adult period and gene flow has been facilitated between the lineages. These results, together with the fact that there is no difference in larval host use, indicate that temporal isolation has been the sole mechanism for allochronic isolation in colder habitats and that allochrony is not a by-product of other adaptations. Thus, the allochronic divergence of sympatric I. punctigera populations represents an incipient speciation process driven by midwinter disruption of the reproductive period

The DC-SQUID-based Magnetocardiographic Systems for Clinical Use

AbstractThe new line of dc-SQUID-based magnetocardiographic (MCG) systems (named as the “MAG-SCAN”-family) is designed, fabricated and tested. These systems are intended for routine MCG investigations of patients at conditions of real clinical electrophysiological labs. The “MAG-SCAN”-family includes the line of MCG devices compatible in terms of hardware and software with number of measuring channels from 1 to 36. Experimental prototypes of 7- and 9-channel MCG-systems (the models “MAG-SCAN-07” and “MAG-SCAN-09” fabricated at CRYOTON Co. Ltd.) were installed in a few hospitals of Moscow city and operated in an unshielded environment of usual clinical labs. Well balanced second-order gradiometers have been used for MCG data recording. They demonstrated an intrinsic noise level better than 5 fT/√Hz. The total noise level of about 20-40 fT/√Hz was measured at urban conditions of Moscow city. The package of special software (named as the “SOFTMAG”) was developed as two autonomous subsystems that allow the preprocessing of the heart magnetic signals and the spatio-temporal analysis of the field characteristics and the field sources. The software employs the algorithms for the analysis and estimation of the spatio-temporal characteristics of the heart magnetic field and the correspondent electrical currents distributions. More than 2000 investigations of different volunteers including healthy persons, patients with high blood-pressure, ischemic disease (IHD), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bronchial asthma (BA) were carried out and sets of MCG-parameters specific for each group were found