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Ancient DNA suggests single colonization and within-archipelago diversification of Caribbean caviomorph rodents
(2021)
Reconstructing the evolutionary history of island biotas is complicated by unusual morphological evolution in insular environments. However, past human-caused extinctions limit the use of molecular analyses to determine ...
Species diversity, habitat distribution, and blood meal analysis of Haematophagous Dipterans collected by CDC-UV light traps in the Dominican Republic
(2022)
Haematophagous insects cause major economic losses by both direct damage and the transmission of pathogens. However, the biting Diptera species in the Caribbean region have been poorly documented. During 2021, CDC downdraft ...
Tourist attitudes towards marine mammal tourism : an example from the Dominican Republic
(2010)
In 2002, residents of the village of Bayahíbe, Dominican Republic, became concerned about their local dolphin population when eight bottlenose dolphins were captured for a Dominican dolphinarium off the coast of their ...
Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal
(2016)
The aim of this study was to determine the evolutionary history, relationships and distinctiveness of allopatric populations of Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), a highly threatened Caribbean ‘relict’ mammal, ...
The genus Leptostylopsis of Hispaniola (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Acanthocinini)
(2009)
The generic differences and similarities between Leptostylus LeConte and Leptostylopsis Dillon (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Acanthocinini) are discussed. Leptostylopsis is redescribed and the following species are transferred ...
A comparison of populations of island and adjacent mainland species of Caribbean Selenops (Araneae: Selenopidae) spiders
(2010)
The role of the landscape in structuring populations has been the focus of numerous studies, in particular, the extent to which islands provide opportunities for isolation, and the consistency of such an effect across ...
Parsimony analysis of butterflies communities in the Dominican Republic: assessing relationships among butterflies assemblages (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
(2017)
[Español] A raíz de las investigaciones realizadas durante un período de siete años en dos localidades distantes de la República Dominicana, se realizó una hipótesis de relación entre algunas comunidades de mariposas. Se ...
First New World documentation of an Old World citrus pest, the lime swallowtail Papilio demoleus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), in the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola)
(2004)
[English] Papilio demoleus L., a well-known citrus pest in the Old World, is documented from eastern Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
New records of Haplaxius (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) in the Dominican Republic, with description of a new species
(2010)
The planthopper genus Haplaxius Fowler has a New World distribution. Kramer (1979) revised the New World Myndus Stål, consisting of 63 species. In that revision, Kramer synonymized Haplaxius and Paramyndus Fennah under ...
Estructura y composición de un ensamblaje de aves asociadas al río Maimón, República Dominicana
(2022)
[Español] Se analizó la composición y estructura de un ensamblaje de aves asociadas a cuatro localidades ubicadas en los márgenes del río Maimón (República Dominicana): confluencia del río Maimón con río Yuna, carretera ...