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Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
- Y. Bousquet, P. Bouchard, A. Davies, D. Sikes
- Geography, Medicine
- ZooKeys
- 12 June 2013
Abstract All 8237 species-group taxa of Coleoptera known to occur in Canada and Alaska are recorded by province/territory or state, along with their author(s) and year of publication, in a… Expand
Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents
- J. Kerr, A. Pindar, +11 authors A. Pantoja
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Science
- 10 July 2015
Bucking the trend Responses to climate change have been observed across many species. There is a general trend for species to shift their ranges poleward or up in elevation. Not all species, however,… Expand
A Review of Hypotheses of Decline of the Endangered American Burying Beetle (Silphidae: Nicrophorus americanus Olivier)
- D. Sikes, Christopher J. Raithel
- Biology
- Journal of Insect Conservation
- 1 June 2002
The largest species of North American Nicrophorus (Coleoptera: Silphidae), N. americanus, was placed on the US federal list of endangered species in 1989. This paper reviews literature bearing on… Expand
Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae).
- D. Sikes, Chandra Venables
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
- 1 December 2013
Burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus) are well-known for their monopolization of small vertebrate carcasses in subterranean crypts and complex biparental care behaviors. They have been the focus… Expand
Inferring species membership using DNA sequences with back-propagation neural networks.
DNA barcoding as a method for species identification is rapidly increasing in popularity. However, there are still relatively few rigorous methodological tests of DNA barcoding. Current… Expand
Software manual for PAUPRat: A tool to implement Parsimony Ratchet searches using PAUP*
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Host shift by the burying beetle, Nicrophorus pustulatus, a parasitoid of snake eggs
- G. Smith, S. Trumbo, D. Sikes, M. Scott, R. Smith
- Biology, Medicine
- Journal of evolutionary biology
- 1 November 2007
Recent work [Ecoscience (2000) vol. 7, 395–397] suggests that the burying beetle Nicrophorus pustulatus may have undergone a remarkable host shift, exploiting snake eggs rather than carrion as… Expand
The reproductive biology of Ptomascopus morio , a brood parasite of Nicrophorus
Nicrophorine beetles (Nicrophorus and Ptomascopus spp.) use small carcasses as a food source for young, a breeding ecology distinct from other silphid beetles. While adaptations to the use of small… Expand
Detection of Francisella tularensis in Alaskan Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and Assessment of a Laboratory Model for Transmission
- Alison N. Triebenbach, Sigrid J Vogl, Leda Lotspeich-Cole, D. Sikes, G. Happ, Karsten Hueffer
- Biology, Medicine
- Journal of medical entomology
- 28 June 2010
ABSTRACT Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by the Category A bioterrorism agent Francisella tularensis. In Scandinavia, tularemia transmission by mosquitoes has been widely cited in the… Expand
Revision of Nicrophorus in part: new species and inferred phylogeny of the nepalensis-group based on evidence from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Coleoptera : Silphidae : Nicrophorinae)
- D. Sikes, S. Trumbo, R. B. Madge
- Biology
- 10 July 2006
Carrion beetles of the genus Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775 (Silphidae) are well known for their biparental brood care and monopolisation of small vertebrate carcasses in subterranean crypts. Although… Expand
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