Reinventing a Character Creation Pipeline Using Landmarking, Simulation, and Shared Character Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferris Webby ◽  
Todd Hill ◽  
Brian Anderson ◽  
Chris Pagoria ◽  
Christian Haniszewski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shared Character

Raoiella of the world (Trombidiformes: Tetranychoidea: Tenuipalpidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4501 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENNIFER J. BEARD ◽  
RONALD OCHOA ◽  
GARY R. BAUCHAN ◽  
CHRISTOPHER POOLEY ◽  
ASHLEY P.G. DOWLING
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Species Separation ◽  
Established Species ◽  
Shared Character

We describe 16 new species and redescribe six established species in the genus Raoiella—R. argenta sp. nov. Beard, R. australica Womersley, R. bauchani sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. calgoa sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. crebra sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. davisi sp. nov. Beard, R. didcota sp. nov. Beard, R. eugeniae (Mohanasundaram), R. goyderi sp. nov. Ochoa & Beard, R. hallingi sp. nov. Beard, R. illyarrie sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. indica Hirst, R. karri sp. nov. Ochoa & Beard, R. macfarlanei Pritchard & Baker, R. marri sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. pandanae Mohanasundaram, R. pooleyi sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. shimpana Meyer, R. tallerack sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. taronga sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. todtiana sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa, R. wandoo sp. nov. Beard & Ochoa. We discuss molecular evidence of species separation, shared character states among groups of species, and patterns in the additions of leg setae throughout ontogeny that occur in the genus. We provide a key to the known species of Raoiella. 

A new Ephydridae (Diptera) from the East Frisian Island of Borkum (Wadden Sea, Germany)

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Jens-Hermann Stuke
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Lower Saxony ◽  
Large White ◽  
Link Type ◽  
White Spots ◽  
Radial Vein ◽  
Shared Character

Hyadina borkumensis sp. n. is described from the East Frisian Island of Borkum (Germany, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea) based on a single female specimen. The new species is characterized by the basally bent, brown wings with large white spots in radial cells r2+3, r4+5 and apical of crossvein dm-cu and its short radial vein R2+3. The new species shares the lateroclinate fronto-orbital seta with representatives of the Australasian–Oceanian genus Parahyadina Tonnoir & Malloch, 1926. The implication of this shared character for the use of relevant Ephydridae keys is briefly discussed. (ZooBank registration: http://zoobank.org/C354B2BB-0E8A-4D31-A869-9753474DB50B).

scholarly journals How narratives move your mind: A corpus of shared-character stories for connecting emotional flow and interestingness

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 1865-1879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuke Mori ◽  
Hiroaki Yamane ◽  
Yoshitaka Ushiku ◽  
Tatsuya Harada
Keyword(s):  
Shared Character

Crooked Anthos: proposed subgeneric status of Jia (Porifera, Poecilosclerida), with descriptions of four new species

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-235
Author(s):  
Rob van Soest ◽  
Klaus Rützler ◽  
Chung-Ja Sim
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Monophyletic Group ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
East Pacific ◽  
Shared Character

Jia De Laubenfels, 1930 was erected to accommodate Californian Jia jia, a microcionid sponge possessing a unique J-shaped microsclere, subsequently named croca (crook, shepherd's staff). In later revisions, the genus was assigned to the synonymy of Antho Gray, 1867 because of similarity in skeletal and spicular characters with that large worldwide genus. Over the years, two additional species, one Atlantic, one from the Tropical East Pacific, were found to possess the crocae, and here four additional species with these intriguing spicules are described from Indo-West and East Pacific localities. It appears that now seven species, all Antho-like, are known to possess crocae, together distributed over all three oceans. This leads us to hypothesize that crocae are a shared character of a monophyletic group of Antho species and accordingly we propose to revive Jia as a subgenus of Antho. The four new species are Antho (Jia) galapagosensis sp. nov., Antho (Jia) lithisticola sp. nov., Antho (Jia) wunschorum sp. nov. and Antho (Jia) ramosa sp. nov.

A new species of Deltaspis Audinet-Serville (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) from Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4247 (2) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
BRYAN K. EYA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Shared Character

As currently defined, the genus Deltaspis Audinet-Serville, 1834, contains 16 species ranging in distribution from the southwestern United States to eastern Mexico. However, the generic distinction between Deltaspis and its closely allied genera, such as Crossidius LeConte, 1851 and Muscidora Thomson, 1864, is in need of clarification. According to Audinet-Serville, Deltaspis is so named due to its distinctive triangular scutellum (i.e., Δετα, delta, ασπιζ écusson), which is actually a commonly shared character of all these genera. Members of the tribe Trachyderini Dupont (1836), which includes the above genera, also have mandibles with an emarginate-truncate apex with the edge chisel-like or bifid. This modification of mouthpart appears to be for consumption of pollen and/or petals from composite flowers visited by the adult beetles (Krenn et al., 2005; Beierl & Barchet-Beierl, 1999). Other genera from this tribe with this modification of mandibles from North America, and mostly from Mexico, include: Chemsakiella Monné, 2006, Giesbertia Chemsak & Linsley, 1984, Hoegea Bates, 1885, Neocrossidius Chemsak, 1959, Paroxoplus Chemsak, 1959, Plionoma Casey, 1912, Schizax LeConte, 1873, and Tylosis LeConte, 1850. The remainder of Trachyderini genera have unmodified or simple mandibles with apex acute. 

Chondrocranium and visceral skeleton of Atelopus tricolor and Atelophryniscus chrysophorus tadpoles (Anura, Bufonidae)

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael De Sá ◽  
E.O. Lavilla
Keyword(s):  
Single Element ◽  
Shared Character

AbstractAtelopus tricolor and Atelophryniscus chrysophorus have gastromyzophorous tadpoles. Aside from specific differences, the larval chondrocrania and visceral skeletons show several shared character states, including an almost quadrangular, open chondrocranium, cornua trabeculae with expanded tips, cartilago suprarostralis as a single element, a posteriorly projected arcus subocularis quadrati, a closed muscular tunnel, and a simplified branchial basket, with only three pairs of ceratobranchiales. They are compared with diverse character states of suctorial larvae considering them as causally related to the stream life adaptations. Atelopus tricolor y Atelophryniscus chrysophorus poseen larvas gastromizóforas. Dejando de lado las diferencias específicas, los condrocráneos y esqueletos hiobranquiales larvales comparten diversos estados de carácter, incluyendo el condrocráneo cuadrangular y abierto, los cuernos trabeculares con extremos expandidos, el cartílago suprarostral como elemento único, el arco subocular proyectado hacia atrás, el túnel muscular cerrado y la cestilla branquial simplificada, con sólo tres pares de ceratobranquiales. Algunos de estos estados de carácter son comparados con aquellos de larvas suctoras considerados como causalmente relacionados a los hábitats torrentícolas, para una mejor comprensión de de la vida en ambientes de corriente rápida.

scholarly journals The Death of His Husband

Prism ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Zhaokun Xin
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
State Power ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Shared Character ◽  
Early Modern China

Abstract Li Yu's two huaben stories, “A Male Mencius's Mother Raises Her Son Properly by Moving House Three Times” and “House of Gathered Refinements,” stand out from the writer's brief yet highly novel dabbling in the genre thanks to their similar concern with male same-sex desire. But rarely have the two stories been examined in tandem. Furthermore, both stories feature a shared character of a dead penetrator, which is scarcely seen in homoerotic fiction of early modern China. This article first probes factors contributing to such casualties and singles out the contestation between the monopolizing penetrators and the homoerotic public over the penetrated. It further argues that the penetrators' fatal failure in the struggle with the desiring public for the penetrated evidences consistent disapprobation of self-interested monopolization in both stories. Nonetheless, the male homoerotic public similarly suffers from frustration, being unable to keep the objects of desire due to the penetrated characters' efforts to escape from the homoerotic economy. Only successful via the mediation of state power, such eschewal in turn reveals that the homoerotic public is both vulnerable to the monopolizer's external threats and prone to collapse into possessive claims to the penetrated.

scholarly journals Germanic Nominations of British Titles and Their Functioning in the 19th Century Fiction Texts

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
Galina Bezkorovaynaya
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Social Status ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
High Social Status ◽  
Class Representative ◽  
Shared Character

The article concerns identification of semantic potential of lexical units with a Germanic origin joined into thematic group "English titles of nobility", and actualization of their meanings in the literary texts of the 19 th century. The sources of language material were the works of early Victorian period writers. The undertaken semantic and functional analysis of lexemes earl, knight, lord / lady enabled the author to conclude that when they indicate social status of the character depicted in the work of art or are used as an etiquette form of address, they implement direct meaning. It has been noted that alongside with lord / lady, the French loanwords sir / madame are used as forms of polite address in dialogues between the characters. The lexemes-titles can function in figurative meaning, i.e. knight maybe used to indicate valour as one of the main qualities of a noble person of high social status, Lord is used to denote the Creator, lady – to speak about any woman, as well as a wife, a mistress. The analysis of the data obtained resulted in deduction that in literary texts of the 19 th century the meanings of lexemes-titles, comprising thematic group English Nobility Titles, can express the following: the noble origin in the name of a person, a polite form of address in communication, nomination of a social status as well as some commonly shared character traits inherent to an aristocratic class representative; nomination of people in accordance with a family status or gender.

scholarly journals Length-length Relationship, Weight-Length Relationship, Sex Ratio and factor of Condition of Sardinella maderensis (Lowe, 1838) in South-Eastern Coastal waters of Benin

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Condition Factor ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Environmental Condition ◽  
Small Pelagic Fish ◽  
Relative Condition Factor ◽  
Length Relationship ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Shared Character

Face to decreasing of high-value commercial fishes’ stocks particularly of small pelagic fish in the central part of FAO fishery area 34, the present study has been carried out. From November 2016 to June 2018, monthly 1041 specimens of Sardinella maderensis were collected from southeastern coastal water of Benin randomly. Standard and Total Length, and weight as well as, the sex data were collected.t-test, z-test and ANOVA one tail test were performed to determine whether there was a significant difference between data. With a ratio of 1:1.5 statistically different from 1:1 (p<0.001), female dominate S. maderensis population in Benin. Negative allometry both for the female (2.92) the male (2.88) and combined sexes (2.90) highly different from the consensus, “b=3” (p<0.001) is remarked. The relative condition factor computed from the allometry shows an average environmental condition for S. maderensis growth. Regarding the shared character of S. maderensis stock in CECAF’s central area, these results are important for the next stock assessment..

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