LepTraits 1.0 A globally comprehensive dataset of butterfly traits

V Shirey, E Larsen, A Doherty, CA Kim, FT Al-Sulaiman… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Here, we present the largest, global dataset of Lepidopteran traits, focusing initially on
butterflies (ca. 12,500 species records). These traits are derived from field guides, taxonomic …

Machine learning for the meta-analyses of microbial pathogens' volatile signatures

SICJ Palma, AP Traguedo, AR Porteira, MJ Frias… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Non-invasive and fast diagnostic tools based on volatolomics hold great promise in the
control of infectious diseases. However, the tools to identify microbial volatile organic …

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Microbial Diagnosis

A Alsulimani, N Akhter, F Jameela, RI Ashgar, A Jawed… - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
Traditional microbial diagnostic methods face many obstacles such as sample handling,
culture difficulties, misidentification, and delays in determining susceptibility. The advent of …

Oviposition stimulants underlying different preferences between host races in the leaf-mining moth Acrocercops transecta (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)

T Katte, S Shimoda, T Kobayashi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The importance of plant chemistry in the host specialization of phytophagous insects has
been emphasized. However, only a few chemicals associated with host shifting have been …

Co-Evolution of Iolana Blues with Their Host Plants and the Higher Phylogeny of Subtribe Scolitantidina (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)

V Nazari, S Montagud Alario, L Spilani, V Dincă… - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
We investigated the evolutionary relationships between the taxa in the butterfly genus Iolana
Bethune-Baker, 1914 and others in the subtribe Scolitantidina using information from nine …

A phylogenetic study to assess the link between biome specialization and diversification in swallowtail butterflies

S Gamboa, FL Condamine… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The resource‐use hypothesis, proposed by ES Vrba, states that habitat fragmentation
caused by climatic oscillations would affect particularly biome specialists (species inhabiting …

Associating the structure of Lepidoptera‐plant interaction networks across clades and life stages to environmental gradients

HC Ho, F Altermatt - Journal of Biogeography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The spatial‐structural patterns of plant‐insect interaction networks, particularly their
associations with landscape‐scale environmental factors, remain poorly understood. We …

BiClusO: A novel biclustering approach and its application to species-VOC relational data

MB Karim, M Huang, N Ono, S Kanaya… - … ACM transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel biclustering approach called BiClusO. Biclustering can be
applied to various types of bipartite data such as gene-condition or gene-disease relations …

DNB, The Database of nymphalids in Brazil, with a checklist for standardized species lists

LT Shirai, PA Machado, LL Mota, AHB Rosa… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - BioOne
DnB (Database of nymphalids in Brazil) centralizes the state of the art of all Nymphalidae
species lists ever reported in Brazil. Butterflies are diverse, ecologically relevant …

Perspectives on biodiversity informatics for ecology

T Osawa - Ecological Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity informatics is the application of informatics techniques to ecology and
biodiversity sciences. The premise is utilizing natural history collections/data, such as …