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Virus Discovery In All Three Major Lineages Of Terrestrial Arthropods Highlights The Diversity Of Single-Stranded Dna Viruses Associated With Invertebrates, Karyna Rosario, Kaitlin Mettel, Bayleigh Benner, Ryan Johnson, Catherine Scott, Sohath Yusseff-Vanegas, Christopher Baker, Deby Cassill, Caroline Storer, Arvind Varsani, Mya Breitbart Dec 2017

Virus Discovery In All Three Major Lineages Of Terrestrial Arthropods Highlights The Diversity Of Single-Stranded Dna Viruses Associated With Invertebrates, Karyna Rosario, Kaitlin Mettel, Bayleigh Benner, Ryan Johnson, Catherine Scott, Sohath Yusseff-Vanegas, Christopher Baker, Deby Cassill, Caroline Storer, Arvind Varsani, Mya Breitbart

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Viruses encoding a replication-associated protein (Rep) within a covalently closed, single-stranded (ss)DNA genome are among the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotic organisms, including economically valuable agricultural crops and livestock. Although circular Rep-encoding ssDNA (CRESS DNA) viruses are a widespread group for which our knowledge is rapidly expanding, biased sampling toward vertebrates and land plants has limited our understanding of their diversity and evolution. Here, we screened terrestrial arthropods for CRESS DNA viruses and report the identification of 44 viral genomes and replicons associated with specimens representing all three major terrestrial arthropod lineages, namely Euchelicerata (spiders), Hexapoda (insects), and Myriapoda …


A New Species Of Trichopeltis Pocock, 1894 From Southern China, With A Checklist And A Distribution Map Of Trichopeltis Species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Cryptodesmidae), Natdanai Likhitrakarn, Sergei I. Golovatch, Ruttapon Srisonchai Dec 2017

A New Species Of Trichopeltis Pocock, 1894 From Southern China, With A Checklist And A Distribution Map Of Trichopeltis Species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Cryptodesmidae), Natdanai Likhitrakarn, Sergei I. Golovatch, Ruttapon Srisonchai

KIP Articles

The millipede genus Trichopeltis Pocock, 1894 contains 12 described species including a new species from southern China described here. Trichopeltis sutchariti sp. n. can be distinguished from congeners by its gonopods that are strongly caudolaterally curved and have a prominent, high, curved, densely setose process on each coxa. An updated checklist and a distribution map are provided for all species of the genus.


Quantifying The Burden Of Vampire Bat Rabies In Peruvian Livestock, Julio A. Benavides, Elizabeth Rojas Paniagua, Katie Hampson Dec 2017

Quantifying The Burden Of Vampire Bat Rabies In Peruvian Livestock, Julio A. Benavides, Elizabeth Rojas Paniagua, Katie Hampson

KIP Articles

Background: Knowledge of infectious disease burden is necessary to appropriately allocate resources for prevention and control. In Latin America, rabies is among the most important zoonoses for human health and agriculture, but the burden of disease attributed to its main reservoir, the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), remains uncertain. Methodology/Principal findings: We used questionnaires to quantify under-reporting of livestock deaths across 40 agricultural communities with differing access to health resources and epidemiological histories of vampire bat rabies (VBR) in the regions of Apurimac, Ayacucho and Cusco in southern Peru. Farmers who believed VBR was absent from their communities were one …


Groundwater Flood Hazards And Mechanisms In Lowland Karst Terrains, Owen Naughton, Ted Mccormack, Laurence Gill Dec 2017

Groundwater Flood Hazards And Mechanisms In Lowland Karst Terrains, Owen Naughton, Ted Mccormack, Laurence Gill

KIP Articles

The spatial and temporal complexities of flooding in karst terrains pose unique challenges in flood risk management. Lowland karst landscapes can be particularly susceptible to groundwater flooding due to a combination of low aquifer storage, high diffusivity and limited or absent surface drainage. Numerous notable groundwater flood events have been recorded in the Republic of Ireland throughout the twentieth century, but flooding during the winters of 2009 and 2015 was the most severe on record, causing widespread and prolonged disruption and damage to property and infrastructure. Effective flood risk management requires an understanding of the recharge, storage and transport mechanisms …


College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting : 2017 : 12 : 08, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences. Dec 2017

College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting : 2017 : 12 : 08, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences.

College of Arts and Sciences: College Council Meeting Minutes

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Automated Classification Of Dolphin Echolocation Click Types From The Gulf Of Mexico, Kaitlin E. Fraiser, Marie A. Roch, Melissa S. Soldevilla, Lance P. Garrison, John A. Hildebrand Dec 2017

Automated Classification Of Dolphin Echolocation Click Types From The Gulf Of Mexico, Kaitlin E. Fraiser, Marie A. Roch, Melissa S. Soldevilla, Lance P. Garrison, John A. Hildebrand

C-IMAGE Publications

Delphinids produce large numbers of short duration, broadband echolocation clicks which may be useful for species classification in passive acoustic monitoring efforts. A challenge in echolocation click classification is to overcome the many sources of variability to recognize underlying patterns across many detections. An automated unsupervised network-based classification method was developed to simulate the approach a human analyst uses when categorizing click types: Clusters of similar clicks were identified by incorporating multiple click characteristics (spectral shape and inter-click interval distributions) to distinguish within-type from between-type variation, and identify distinct, persistent click types. Once click types were established, an algorithm for …


Undergraduate Council Meeting : 2017 : 12 : 06, Undergraduate Council Dec 2017

Undergraduate Council Meeting : 2017 : 12 : 06, Undergraduate Council

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Senate Council: Undergraduate

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Harbor Notes : 2017 : 12 : 06, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of University Advancement. Dec 2017

Harbor Notes : 2017 : 12 : 06, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of University Advancement.

Harbor Notes

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Genealib Archive 2017-12, Genealib Dec 2017

Genealib Archive 2017-12, Genealib

GENEALIB Archive

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Cutr Connections [December 2017], Cutr Dec 2017

Cutr Connections [December 2017], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

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Perceptions Of Macro Social Work Education: An Exploratory Study Of Educators And Practitioners, Katherine Hill, Christina L. Erickson, Linda P. Donaldson, Sondra J. Fogel, Sarah M. Ferguson Dec 2017

Perceptions Of Macro Social Work Education: An Exploratory Study Of Educators And Practitioners, Katherine Hill, Christina L. Erickson, Linda P. Donaldson, Sondra J. Fogel, Sarah M. Ferguson

Social Work Faculty Publications

Social work graduate education is responsive to and reflective of larger environmental forces, including economic and job market trends, regulations by diverse organizations, and student interests. A national online survey of macro social work educators (n=208) and macro social work practitioners (n=383) explored their perceptions of the intersections between these forces and graduate social work education. Findings indicate that while there remains a consistent level of support for and inclusion of macro social work within MSW programs from both groups, macro practitioners identified a concurrent experience of negative perceptions, attitudes, and experiences toward macro social work education while in their …


Artists Before Columbus: A Multi-Method Characterization Of The Materials And Practices Of Caribbean Cave Art, Alice V.M. Samson, Lucy J. Wrapson, Caroline R. Cartwright Dec 2017

Artists Before Columbus: A Multi-Method Characterization Of The Materials And Practices Of Caribbean Cave Art, Alice V.M. Samson, Lucy J. Wrapson, Caroline R. Cartwright

KIP Articles

This study represents the first positive identification of plant gum binding media in pre-Columbian art, and the first dates from indigenous cave art in the Caribbean. Mona Island reveals an extensive and well-preserved pre-Columbian and early colonial subterranean cultural landscape with dense concentrations of newly-discovered cave art in up to 30 caves. A multi-method approach to the research of pigments and binding media, charcoal, and cave sediments was used to elucidate the technologies, chronologies and processes of indigenous art and artists. Analyses included on-site use of a portable X-ray fluorescence (P-XRF) device to inform sample selection, scanning electron microscopy with …


College Of Arts & Sciences Council : Academic Programs Committee Meeting : 2017 : 12 : 01, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences. Dec 2017

College Of Arts & Sciences Council : Academic Programs Committee Meeting : 2017 : 12 : 01, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences.

College of Arts and Sciences: Academic Programs Committee Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.


On The Loop Current Penetration Into The Gulf Of Mexico, Robert H. Weisberg, Yonggang Liu Dec 2017

On The Loop Current Penetration Into The Gulf Of Mexico, Robert H. Weisberg, Yonggang Liu

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The Gulf of Mexico Loop Current generally intrudes some distance into the Gulf of Mexico before shedding an anticyclonic eddy and retreating back to its more direct entry to exit pathway. The control of this aperiodic process remains only partially known. Here we describe the evolution of the Loop Current throughout the era of satellite altimetry, and offer a mechanistic hypothesis on Loop Current intrusion. As a complement to the known effects of Loop Current forcing on the west Florida shelf circulation, we argue that the west Florida shelf, in turn, impacts the Loop Current evolution. A Self-Organizing Map analysis …


Sexting: Current Research Gaps And Legislative Issues, Fawn T. Ngo, J. Jaishankar, Jose R. Agustina Dec 2017

Sexting: Current Research Gaps And Legislative Issues, Fawn T. Ngo, J. Jaishankar, Jose R. Agustina

Criminology Sarasota Manatee Campus Faculty Publications

'Sexting, the portmanteau of Sex and Texting, has become a hot topic of debate between the legislators, researchers, educators, parents and teens' (Jaishankar, 2009, para 1). In spite of the considerable and growing body of literature on sexting, there are significant gaps in the current research. A review of research to date also reveals a dearth of cross-national and cross-cultural research on the topic of sexting. Notably, legal and ethical issues abound with the current method for punishing and deterring adolescents who engage in sexting as some countries view sexting as a form of child pornography. Hence, the imperative need …


High Annual Survival In Infected Wildlife Populations May Veil A Persistent Extinction Risk From Disease, Brooke Maslo, Oliver C. Stringham, Amanda J. Bevan Dec 2017

High Annual Survival In Infected Wildlife Populations May Veil A Persistent Extinction Risk From Disease, Brooke Maslo, Oliver C. Stringham, Amanda J. Bevan

KIP Articles

Host response to emerging pathogens is variable, causing uncertainty about population‐level impacts and challenging effective disease management. White‐nose syndrome (WNS) has caused catastrophic declines in some bat species, while others appear less impacted. Developing predictive models based on observed survival patterns can generate testable hypotheses about mechanisms driving population dynamics and contribute to the development of targeted approaches to disease management. We conducted a mark–recapture study of federally endangered Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) during 2011–2016. Annual survival decreased from 0.78 (95% CI: 0.59, 0.89) and 0.79 (95% CI: 0.70, 0.86) for females and males, respectively, in 2011 to 0.74 (95% …


Light From Dark: A Relictual Troglobite Reveals A Broader Ancestral Distribution For Kimulid Harvestmen (Opiliones: Laniatores: Kimulidae) In South America, Abel Pérez-González, F. Sara Ceccarelli, Bruno G. O. Monte Nov 2017

Light From Dark: A Relictual Troglobite Reveals A Broader Ancestral Distribution For Kimulid Harvestmen (Opiliones: Laniatores: Kimulidae) In South America, Abel Pérez-González, F. Sara Ceccarelli, Bruno G. O. Monte

KIP Articles

A new troglobitic harvestman, Relictopiolus galadriel gen. nov et sp. nov., is described from Olhos d’Água cave, Itacarambi, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Morphological characters, including male genitalia and exomorphology, suggest that this species belongs to the family Kimulidae, and it appears to share the greatest similarities with Tegipiolus pachypus. Bayesian inference analyses of a molecular dataset strongly support the inclusion of this species in Kimulidae and confirm the hypothesized sister-group relationship between R. galadriel and T. pachypus. A time calibrated phylogeny indicates that these sister-taxa diverged from a common ancestor approximately 40 Mya, during the Paleogene. The current range of …


Discovery Of A Rich Gene Pool Of Bat Sars-Related Coronaviruses Provides New Insights Into The Origin Of Sars Coronavirus, Ben Hu, Lei-Ping Zeng, Xing-Lou Yang Nov 2017

Discovery Of A Rich Gene Pool Of Bat Sars-Related Coronaviruses Provides New Insights Into The Origin Of Sars Coronavirus, Ben Hu, Lei-Ping Zeng, Xing-Lou Yang

KIP Articles

A large number of SARS-related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoV) have been detected in horseshoe bats since 2005 in different areas of China. However, these bat SARSr-CoVs show sequence differences from SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in different genes (S, ORF8, ORF3, etc) and are considered unlikely to represent the direct progenitor of SARS-CoV. Herein, we report the findings of our 5-year surveillance of SARSr-CoVs in a cave inhabited by multiple species of horseshoe bats in Yunnan Province, China. The full-length genomes of 11 newly discovered SARSr-CoV strains, together with our previous findings, reveals that the SARSr-CoVs circulating in this single location are highly diverse …


Methane- And Dissolved Organic Carbon-Fueled Microbial Loop Supports A Tropical Subterranean Estuary Ecosystem, D. Brankovits, J. W. Pohlman, H. Niemann Nov 2017

Methane- And Dissolved Organic Carbon-Fueled Microbial Loop Supports A Tropical Subterranean Estuary Ecosystem, D. Brankovits, J. W. Pohlman, H. Niemann

KIP Articles

Subterranean estuaries extend inland into density-stratified coastal carbonate aquifers containing a surprising diversity of endemic animals (mostly crustaceans) within a highly oligotrophic habitat. How complex ecosystems (termed anchialine) thrive in this globally distributed, cryptic environment is poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that a microbial loop shuttles methane and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to higher trophic levels of the anchialine food web in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico). Methane and DOC production and consumption within the coastal groundwater correspond with a microbial community capable of methanotrophy, heterotrophy, and chemoautotrophy, based on characterization by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and respiratory quinone composition. …


The Steven F. Lawson Papers: A Collection Guide, David Shedden, Steven F. Lawson Nov 2017

The Steven F. Lawson Papers: A Collection Guide, David Shedden, Steven F. Lawson

Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items

Steven F. Lawson is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. He holds a B.A. in history from City College of New York (1966), and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University (1967, 1974). Lawson began his teaching career at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg in 1972. He moved to the USF, Tampa campus in 1978, but continued to teach courses on the St. Pete Campus through the mid-1980s. He served as chair of the USF History Department from 1983 to 1986. From 1992 to 1998 he was head of the History Department at …


College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting : 2017 : 11 : 17, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences. Nov 2017

College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting : 2017 : 11 : 17, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences.

College of Arts and Sciences: College Council Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.


College Of Arts & Sciences Council : Academic Programs Committee Meeting : 2017 : 11 : 17, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences. Nov 2017

College Of Arts & Sciences Council : Academic Programs Committee Meeting : 2017 : 11 : 17, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences.

College of Arts and Sciences: Academic Programs Committee Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.


Radiocarbon Chronology Of Manot Cave, Israel And Upper Paleolithic Dispersals, Bridget Alex, Omry Barzilai, Israel Hershkovitz Nov 2017

Radiocarbon Chronology Of Manot Cave, Israel And Upper Paleolithic Dispersals, Bridget Alex, Omry Barzilai, Israel Hershkovitz

KIP Articles

The timing of archeological industries in the Levant is central for understanding the spread of modern humans with Upper Paleolithic traditions. We report a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology for Early Upper Paleolithic industries (Early Ahmarian and Levantine Aurignacian) from the newly excavated site of Manot Cave, Israel. The dates confirm that the Early Ahmarian industry was present by 46,000 calibrated years before the present (cal BP), and the Levantine Aurignacian occurred at least between 38,000 and 34,000 cal BP. This timing is consistent with proposed migrations or technological diffusions between the Near East and Europe. Specifically, the Ahmarian could have led …


Harbor Notes : 2017 : 11 : 15, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of University Advancement. Nov 2017

Harbor Notes : 2017 : 11 : 15, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of University Advancement.

Harbor Notes

No abstract provided.


Joint Council On Academic And Student Affairs Meeting : 2017 : 11 : 13 : Agenda, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of The Regional Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs. Nov 2017

Joint Council On Academic And Student Affairs Meeting : 2017 : 11 : 13 : Agenda, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of The Regional Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs.

Council on Academic and Student Affairs

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Joint Council On Academic And Student Affairs Meeting : 2017 : 11 : 13 : Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of The Regional Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs. Nov 2017

Joint Council On Academic And Student Affairs Meeting : 2017 : 11 : 13 : Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of The Regional Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs.

Council on Academic and Student Affairs

No abstract provided.


Margaret Ott Oral History Interview, Margaret Ott Nov 2017

Margaret Ott Oral History Interview, Margaret Ott

USF Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 50th Anniversary Oral History Program

No abstract provided.


David C. Shepherd Oral History Interview, David C. Shepherd Nov 2017

David C. Shepherd Oral History Interview, David C. Shepherd

USF Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 50th Anniversary Oral History Program

No abstract provided.


Dr. Elaine R Silliman Oral History Interview, Elaine R. Silliman Nov 2017

Dr. Elaine R Silliman Oral History Interview, Elaine R. Silliman

USF Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 50th Anniversary Oral History Program

No abstract provided.


Dr. John Berardino Oral History Interview, John Terry Berardino Nov 2017

Dr. John Berardino Oral History Interview, John Terry Berardino

USF Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 50th Anniversary Oral History Program

No abstract provided.