Phylogenetically independent behavior mediating geographic distributions suggests habitat is a strong driver of phenotype in crangonyctid amphipods

It is unclear if geographic distributions of animals are behaviorally mediated or simply maintained by ecologically-driven deleterious effects on fitness. Furthermore, it is not well known how behaviors that may affect geographic distributions and responses to environmental stressors evolve. To explore this, we examined behavioral and physiological reactions to light in six species of amphipods in the family Crangonyctidae collected from a variety of subterranean and epigean habitats. Stark differences between epigean and subterranean habitats occupied by different crangonyctid species allowed this clade to serve as an appropriate model system for studying the link between habitat and phenotype. We sampled habitats in or adjacent to the Edwards Aquifer in central Texas and collected two epigean and four stygobiontic species. We examined respiratory and behavioral responses to light in all study species. We found that similarities in behavioral and physiological responses to light between species were only weakly correlated with genetic relatedness but were correlated with habitat type. However, the breadth of variation in phenotype was found to be correlated with phylogenetic relationships, suggesting that population level trait evolution likely involves interactions between standing population level variation and strength of selection. Our findings suggest that natural selection via environmental conditions may outweigh history of common ancestry when predicting phenotypic similarities among species, and that behavioral and physiological phenotypes may mediate the evolution of biogeographic distributions

2000 Ohio-Grape Wine Short Course

Air, water, sun, and fire--the cooper's footprint on the barrel / Henry Work -- Keeping the bugs unhappy; successful barrel sanitation and maintenance / Henry Work -- Recommended methods for cleaning and maintaining oak cooperage / Phil Burton and Henry Work, with Jim Yerkes -- Chip me, stave me, oak me! The romance, dollars and sense of barrel alternatives / Tim DiPlacido -- Oak experiments / Roland Riesen -- Barrel experiment / Nick Ferrante -- Exploring the versatility and potential of vidal / Roland Riesen -- Ferrante: 1999 vineyard planting / Nick Ferrante -- Breeding rootstocks for current and impending viticultural problems / Andrew Walker -- Grape expectations looking toward traditional and non-traditional sponsors to enhance your event / Doniella Winchell -- Assessing grape maturity by taste and by numbers / Thomas Henick-Kling -- Influence of fruit condition on wine quality / James F. Gallander -- Influence of post bottling storage temperature and SO2 on wine quality / T. E. Steiner -- What we do at harvest to help wine quality / Tony Debevc -- Delivering wine quality / Nick Ferrante -- Criteria for selecting rootstocks / Andrew Walker -- A comparison of Pinot noir production in New York and Burgundy / Pascal Durand and Leslie Weston -- A unique approach to harvest labor / Fran Massaro -- New fungicide registrations for grapes in the year 2000 / Michael Ellis -- Studies to determine time of susceptibility of grape berry and rachis tissues to infection by Phomopsis viticola / O. Erincik, L. V. Madden, D. C. Ferree and M. A. Ellis -- Rootstock performance in Ohio / Arnie Esterer -- Growing your own: vinifera grafting experiments (1999) / Ron Barrett -- Developing an effective fungicide spray program for wine grapes in Ohio / Michael Ellis -- Light and fruit set / David C. Ferree, David M. Scurlock and John C. Schmid -- Soil amendments and mulches in tree health management / Harry Hoitink, Matthew Krause and Randy Zondag -- Report of 5th International Symposium on Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology / Roland Riesen -- Control strategies for soil insects in the vineyard / Roger Williams and Dan Fickl

The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performance of the spacecraft, telescope, science instruments, and ground system, with an emphasis on differences from pre-launch expectations. Commissioning has made clear that JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built. Moreover, almost across the board, the science performance of JWST is better than expected; in most cases, JWST will go deeper faster than expected. The telescope and instrument suite have demonstrated the sensitivity, stability, image quality, and spectral range that are necessary to transform our understanding of the cosmos through observations spanning from near-earth asteroids to the most distant galaxies.Comment: 5th version as accepted to PASP; 31 pages, 18 figures; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acb29

Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes journaltitle: Cell articlelink: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.046 content_type: article copyright: © 2018 Elsevier Inc

Randy Weston Concert

After six decades as a professional musician Randy Weston remains one of the world\u27s foremost pianists and composers, a true innovator and visionary. Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk, writes Stanley Crouch. In a career that began in the late 1940s, Weston has criss-crossed the globe connecting the African diaspora through sound. Mr. Weston is a truth seeker who sees a power in music much greater than all of us, writes The New York Times

Sexual Dimorphism in Three Species of Heterelmis Sharp (Coleoptera: Elmidae)

Nair, Parvathi, Hunter, Amelia H., Worsham, McLean L. D., Stehle, Matthew, Gibson, J. Randy, Nowlin, Weston H. (2019): Sexual Dimorphism in Three Species of Heterelmis Sharp (Coleoptera: Elmidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 73 (4): 1075-1083, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-73.4.1075, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-73.4.107

Fig 1 in Sexual Dimorphism in Three Species of Heterelmis Sharp (Coleoptera: Elmidae)

Fig 1. Heterelmis comalensis, representative female (a–c), and male (d–f) abdomens showing variation in length of the fifth (last) ventrite. Females are recognizable by noticeably more elongate fifth ventrite. Scale bar = 500 µm.Published as part of <i>Nair, Parvathi, Hunter, Amelia H., Worsham, McLean L. D., Stehle, Matthew, Gibson, J. Randy & Nowlin, Weston H., 2019, Sexual Dimorphism in Three Species of Heterelmis Sharp (Coleoptera: Elmidae), pp. 1075-1083 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 73 (4)</i> on page 1079, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-73.4.1075, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10113980">http://zenodo.org/record/10113980</a&gt

Fig. 4 in Sexual Dimorphism in Three Species of Heterelmis Sharp (Coleoptera: Elmidae)

Fig. 4. Observed frequency distributions of three body characteristics of male and female Heterelmis vulnerata (n = 61 individuals). a) Total body length (in mm), b) Abdominal length (in mm), c) Fifth ventrite length (in mm). The vertical dashed line in panel c is a proposed fifth ventrite size threshold (0.26 mm) that could be used to determine sex using this feature.Published as part of <i>Nair, Parvathi, Hunter, Amelia H., Worsham, McLean L. D., Stehle, Matthew, Gibson, J. Randy & Nowlin, Weston H., 2019, Sexual Dimorphism in Three Species of Heterelmis Sharp (Coleoptera: Elmidae), pp. 1075-1083 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 73 (4)</i> on page 1081, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-73.4.1075, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10113980">http://zenodo.org/record/10113980</a&gt