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University of Nevada, Reno
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About: University of Nevada, Reno is a education organization based out in Reno, Nevada, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 13561 authors who have published 28217 publications receiving 882002 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Nevada & Nevada State University.
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TL;DR: Phylogenetic relationships within the iguanid lizard genus Liolaemus are investigated using 1710 aligned base positions of mitochondrial DNA sequences, representing coding regions for eight tRNAs, ND2, and portions of ND1 and COL to support at least six independent origins of viviparity.
Abstract: Phylogenetic relationships within the iguanid lizard genus Liolaemus are investigated using 1710 aligned base positions (785 phylogenetically informative) of mitochondrial DNA sequences, representing coding regions for eight tRNAs, ND2, and portions of ND1 and COL Sixty new sequences ranging in length from 1736 to 1754 bases are compared with four previously reported sequences. Liolaemus species form two well-supported monophyletic groups of subgeneric status, Liolaemus and Eulaemus. These subgenera appear to have separated at least 12.6 million years ago based on the amount of molecular evolutionary divergence between them. Hypotheses that species occurring in the Andes, west of the Andes, and east of the Andes, each comprise distinct monophyletic groups are independently rejected statistically. The shortest estimate of phylogeny suggests mat Liolaemus originated either in the Andes or the eastern lowlands. Numerous evolutionary shifts have occurred between the Andes, and the eastern and western lowlands, suggesting recurring vicariance and dispersal. Species occurring at high elevations or high latitudes usually have viviparous reproduction. Depending on whether parity mode is considered reversible in Liolaemus, the most parsimonious reconstruction supports at least six independent origins of viviparity or at least three gains followed by three losses of viviparity among die 60 Liolaemus lineages examined.
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TL;DR: In this article, the shape of the magnitude-frequency distribution for strike-slip faults is described by the Gutenburg-Richter relationship (log n = a - bM) or by the characteristic earthquake model, by analyzing a data set of faults from California, Mexico, Japan, New Zealand, China and Turkey.
Abstract: SUMMARY We examine whether the shape of the magnitude-frequency distribution for strike-slip faults is described by the Gutenburg-Richter relationship (log n = a - bM) or by the characteristic earthquake model, by analysing a data set of faults from California, Mexico, Japan, New Zealand, China and Turkey. For faults within regional seismic networks, curves of the form log n yrpl= a - bM, where n yr-' is the number of events per year equal to magnitude M, are fit to the instrumental record of seismicity, and geological data are used to estimate independently the size and recurrence rate of the largest expected earthquakes that would rupture the total length of the fault. Extrapolation of instrumentally derived curves to larger magnitudes agrees with geological estimates of the recurrence rate of the largest earthquakes for only four of the 22 faults if uncertainties in curve slope are considered, and significantly underestimates the geological recurrence rates in the remaining cases. Also, if we predict the seismicity of the faults as a function of fault length and slip rate, and the predicted seismicity is distributed in accord with the Gutenburg-Richter relationship, we find the predicted recurrence rate to be greater than the observed recurrence rates of smaller earthquakes along most faults. If individual fault zones satisfy the Gutenburg-Richter relationship over the long term, our observations imply that, during the recurrence interval of the largest expected earthquakes, the recurrence of lesser-sized events is not steady but, rather, strongly clustered in time. However, if the instrumental records provide an estimate of the long-term rate of small to moderate earthquakes along the faults, our observations imply that the faults generally exhibit a magnitude-frequency distribution consistent with the characteristic earthquake model. Also, we observe that the geometrical complexity of strike-slip faults is a decreasing function of cumulative strike-slip offset. The four faults we observe to be consistent with the GutenburgRichter relationship are among those characterized by the least amount of cumulative slip and greatest fault-trace complexity. We therefore suggest that the ratio of the recurrence rate of small to large earthquakes along a fault zone may decrease as slip accumulates and the fault becomes smoother.
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TL;DR: In this article, the multivariate statistical techniques principal component analysis (PCA), Q-mode factor analysis (QFA), and correspondence analysis (CA) were applied to a dataset containing trace element concentrations in groundwater samples collected from a number of wells located downgradient from the potential nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
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TL;DR: Recent broad-scale assessments of tree disease risk, investigations of site and host preferences for several root rot pathogens, and regional historical analyses of pathogen outbreak in plantations are reviewed.
Abstract: Forest pathology inherently involves a landscape perspective, because tree pathogens propagate according to heterogeneous spatial patterns of flow and isolation. Landscape pathology is a field that is now emerging from the transdisciplinary cooperation of forest pathologists with landscape ecologists. Here, we review recent broad-scale assessments of tree disease risk, investigations of site and host preferences for several root rot pathogens, and regional historical analyses of pathogen outbreak in plantations. Crucial topics include fragmentation effects on pathogen spread and geophysical features that predispose forest patches to disease expression. Recent methodological developments facilitate the spatially explicit analysis of reciprocal coarse-scale relationships among hosts and pathogens. Landscape pathology studies fill a significant research gap in the context of our understanding of sustainable forest management, the introduction of exotic organisms and how climate change might affect the spread of disease.
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Robert Langer | 281 | 2324 | 326306 |
Thomas C. Südhof | 191 | 653 | 118007 |
David W. Johnson | 160 | 2714 | 140778 |
Menachem Elimelech | 157 | 547 | 95285 |
Jeffrey L. Cummings | 148 | 833 | 116067 |
Bing Zhang | 121 | 1194 | 56980 |
Arturo Casadevall | 120 | 980 | 55001 |
Mark H. Ellisman | 117 | 637 | 55289 |
Thomas G. Ksiazek | 113 | 398 | 46108 |
Anthony G. Fane | 112 | 565 | 40904 |
Leonardo M. Fabbri | 109 | 566 | 60838 |
Gary H. Lyman | 108 | 694 | 52469 |
Steven C. Hayes | 106 | 450 | 51556 |
Stephen P. Long | 103 | 384 | 46119 |
Gary Cutter | 103 | 737 | 40507 |