Sweat bees have repeatedly gained and lost eusociality, a transition from individual to group reproduction. Here we generate chromosome-length genome assemblies for 17 species and identify genomic signatures of evolutionary ...

Primary level education follows a pedagogy model where literature and science have been historically separated. Natural children processes are disrupted, as learning based on play curiosity is completely transformed by a ...

Research suggests that social calls are important for conveying information about food and roost location in bats. However, no studies have specifically documented calls that are used to actively attract conspecifics to ...

If species-specific male genitalia are courtship devices under sexual selection by cryptic female choice, then species-specific aspects of the morphology and behaviour of male genitalia should often function to stimulate ...

Female behaviour during copulation that could function as communication with the male is probably more common than previously appreciated, but its functional significance remains little studied. Stridulation during copulation ...

This chapter reviews and evaluates coral reef conservation strategies along the eastern tropical Pacific (ETP), a narrow biogeographic region on the Pacific American coast that extends from southern Baja California, Mexico ...

Utilizando observaciones del PACS-SONET (2001-2006), de radiosondeo (2007), de estaciones meteorológicas de superficie y datos del NCEP-NCAR, se analiza y documenta la estructura y variabilidad espacio-temporal de la ...

La mayoría de las muertes accidentales en Costa Rica son las muertes por sumersión, superando aún, las muertes accidentales por accidentes de tránsito. Los ríos constituyen la primera causa de muertes por sumersión, seguida ...

Costa Rica is a country with abundant and diverse freshwater ecosystems, which are influenced and characterized by different orographic precipitation regimes. This variety of habitats harbors great biological diversity, ...