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A Review of Endosymbiont-Assisted Reproductive Isolation and Speciation 内共生菌辅助生殖分离与物种形成研究进展

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a13

Courtney Wayne Simons

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First Study of Invasive Lionfish (Pterois sp.) Population Dynamics in Martinique, Lesser Antilles Using Photo-Identification Method 小安的列斯群岛马提尼克岛入侵狮子鱼种群动态的首次研究

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a12

Céline Valin, Célia Ortolé, Aurore Feunteun, Nathalie Duporge, Morjane Safi, Benjamin De Montgolfier

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First Report of Reptarenavirus in the Invasive Red-tail boa, Boa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758, from Puerto Rico 波多黎各入侵红尾蚺（Boa constrictor Linnaeus，1758 年）体内 Reptarenavirus 的首次报告

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a16

Aslin Almeda Castro, Alberto R. Puente Rolón, Alondra M. Díaz-Lameiro

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Two Neotropical Snakes Attacked as Prey by Army Ants in Costa Rica 哥斯达黎加两种新热带蛇类被军蚁当作猎物攻击

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a18

José Manuel Mora, Ronald Vargas, Randy Alvarado, Lucía I. López

{"title":"Two Neotropical Snakes Attacked as Prey by Army Ants in Costa Rica","authors":"José Manuel Mora, Ronald Vargas, Randy Alvarado, Lucía I. López","doi":"10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a18","url":null,"abstract":"Geophis hoffmanni y Ninia sebae pertenecen al grupo de serpientes “comedoras de gusanos” pues su dieta consiste exclusivamente en invertebrados de cuerpo blando. Geophis hoffmanni es nocturna, terrestre, fosorial y se encuentra frecuentemente en la vegetación herbácea y la hojarasca de áreas húmedas. Ninia sebae es terrestre, fosorial y se encuentra comúnmente debajo de troncos, montones de hojas y tablas entre otros. Uno de los depredadores más formidables en bosques tropicales son las hormigas guerreras, que se alimentan en grandes grupos en áreas confinadas. Eciton burchelli está ampliamente distribuida en toda la región neotropical. En Costa Rica, Labidus spininodis también es común y habita principalmente áreas de bosque húmedo. El 2 de enero de 2022, observamos una colonia de Eciton burchellii atacando y matando a una Geophis hoffmanni en Selva Verde Lodge, aunque no pudimos observar qué sucedió después. El 23 de septiembre de 2022, encontramos un grupo de Labidus spininodis atacando a una Ninia sebae en el Centro Soltis. No pudimos determinar si las hormigas mataron a la serpiente, pero esta permaneció inmóvil después de aproximadamente 40 minutos de ataques de las hormigas, e incluso se observó a algunas obreras cortando trozos del cuerpo de la serpiente. Los dos sitios mencionados se ubican en las tierras bajas de la vertiente norte de Costa Rica. Estos son dos casos sin precedentes de depredación de serpientes dipsádidas neotropicales por dos especies de hormigas guerreras. Estas instancias marcan los primeros casos documentados de estos emblemáticos depredadores terrestres capturando vertebrados relativamente grandes.","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139029034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Increase in Dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) Fishing Success Off the North Coast of Puerto Rico during Hurricane Leslie 莱斯利飓风期间波多黎各北海岸鲯鳅（Coryphaena hippurus）捕捞成功率的提高

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a15

Wessley Merten, Shuai Zhang, Chuanmin Hu, Margaret Rodrigue, Richard Appeldoorn, Nilda Jimenez

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Population Density of the Small Indian Mongoose (Urva auropunctata) Across Multiple Habitat Types and Seasons in Puerto Rico 波多黎各小印度獴（Urva auropunctata）在多种生境类型和季节中的种群密度

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a17

Are R. Berentsen, Caroline C. Sauvé, Mel J. Rivera-Rodriguez, Fabiola B. Torres-Toledo, Richard B. Chipman, Amy T. Gilbert

{"title":"Population Density of the Small Indian Mongoose (Urva auropunctata) Across Multiple Habitat Types and Seasons in Puerto Rico","authors":"Are R. Berentsen, Caroline C. Sauvé, Mel J. Rivera-Rodriguez, Fabiola B. Torres-Toledo, Richard B. Chipman, Amy T. Gilbert","doi":"10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a17","url":null,"abstract":"The small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctata) is a rabies reservoir on several Caribbean Islands including Puerto Rico. In the continental United States, oral rabies vaccination (ORV) has been used to control and locally eliminate rabies viruses targeting meso-carnivores including raccoons (Procyon lotor), grey foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), and coyotes (Canis latrans), and has more recently been proposed to mitigate and control mongoose rabies in Puerto Rico. A fundamental understanding of the population density of the target species is an important factor in planning bait application rates prior to ORV operations. In Puerto Rico, most ecological studies on mongooses have been restricted to the rainforest region in the northeastern portion of the island. We calculated population density estimates for mongooses at seven sites representing four habitat types in Puerto Rico. We marked 445 unique mongooses across 593 capture events during 12,530 trap days during 2016–2021. Mean (SE, 95% CI) population densities were greater in closed to open broadleaved evergreen forest habitat (0.79 ±0.13, 0.67–0.92 mongooses/ha) compared to grasslands (0.43 ± 0.10; 0.35–0.55 mongooses/ha), rainfed croplands (0.26 ±0.10, 0.18–0.38 mongooses/ha), and shrub/herbaceous habitat (0.19 ±0.05, 0.15–0.25 mongooses/ha). We did not detect seasonal variation in mongoose population density (0.48 [0.06; 0.35–0.62] and 0.39 [0.06; 0.27–0.50] mongooses/ha measured in the wet (May–November) and dry (December–April) seasons, respectively. Multiple ORV applications may be needed annually for adequate population immunity, particularly in habitats with high mongoose population densities and rapid population turnover.","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139029076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of Endemic Foci of Leishmaniosis in Guatemala 危地马拉利什曼病地方性疫源地白蛉沙蝇(双翅目:沙蝇科)

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a11

Dex Yorman Barrios-Barrios, Pedro María Alarcón-Elbal, Mónica Elisa Barrientos-Juárez, Julio César Bobadilla-Balseis, Jaime Abraham Juárez-Sandoval, Lorenzo Diéguez-Fernández, Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal

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The Morphology and Feeding Ecology of the Ground Croaker, Bairdiella ronchus (Cuvier, 1830), in Salt River Bay, Jamaica 牙买加盐河湾地黄鱼Bairdiella ronchus(居维叶，1830)的形态和摄食生态学

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a10

Tremaine Bowman, Eric J. Hyslop

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Histological Observations of the Sharpnose Pufferfish, Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch, 1786), Collected Along the Caribbean Coast Affected by Mass Mortality Episodes 加勒比海沿岸受大规模死亡事件影响的尖鼻河豚的组织学观察，Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch, 1786

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a8

Lourdes Vásquez-Yeomans, Rebeca Vásquez-Yeomans, Eloy Sosa-Cordero, Yanet Guerrero Rentería, Jorge Cáceres-Martínez

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First Quantitative Assessment of Benthic and Fish Assemblages of Silver Bank, Dominican Republic 多米尼加共和国银滩底栖生物和鱼类群落的首次定量评估

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v53i2.a9

Rita Inés Sellares Blasco, Aldo Croquer, María F. Villalpando, Andreina Valdez-Trinidad, Omar Shamir, Jonathan Delance, Samuel Antonio King Pérez, Sergio D. Guendulain-García

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