Life: The Excitement of Biology

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Advisory Board

● Dr. Stephen Blackmore – Queen’s Botanist and Honorary Fellow, The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, China

● Dr. T. C. Hazen – Governor’s Chair Professor, The University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, both located in Tennessee, USA

● Dr. R. Potts – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● Dr. C. Samper – President and CEO, Wildlife Conservation Society, The Bronx, New York, USA

Board of Editors

● Dr. M. J. Adserias-Garriga –  Facultat d’Odontologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain [Forensic Odontology & Forensic Anthropology].

● Dr. A. Aiello – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá [Neotropical entomology, especially lepidopteran life histories].

● Dr. G. Allen – Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

● Dr. T. Andersen –  Department of Natural History, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

● Dr. A. A. Ansari  – University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana

● Dr. P. B. Araujo – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

● Dr. D. Azar – Lebanese University, Fanar – Matn, Lebanon

● Dr. E. Baquero – Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

● Dr. A. Bates – Nottingham Trent University, Clifton, Nottingham, England, UK [Urban Ecology, Green Roofs, Riparian Ecology, Orchard Ecology & Citizen Science]

● Dr. M. P. Bernasconi – Universita` della Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

● Dr. T. Bonacci – Università della Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

● Dr. Carlos Brisola Marcondes – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Trindade, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil [Medical entomology; Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae, Phlebotominae, etc. and Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae].

●  E. B. Cano – Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala

● Dr. P. Cebollero – Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA

● Dr. B. A. Choate – North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Brookings, South Dakota, USA

●  Dr. E. Cruz-Rivera – University of the Virgin Islands, John Brewers Bay, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands

● Dr. V. Connaughton – Department of Biology, American University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● Dr. P. P. Creasman – University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

● Dr. Arnold De Loof – Functional Genomics and Proteomics Group, Department of Biology, KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Belgium

● Dr. L. Devotto – Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Santiago, Chile

● Dr. H. K. El-Hennawy – SERKET & Arachnid Collection of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt

● Dr. W. A. DiMichele – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● Dr. A. T. Dossey – All Things Bugs, Athens, Georgia, USA

● Dr. C. Dzubak – Penn State University, York Campus, York, Pennsylvania, USA

● Dr. S. Ekesi – Principal Scientist & Head, Plant Health Division, Leader, African Fruit Fly Program & Insects for Food, Feed and Other uses Program, African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya

● Dr. B. Frohlich – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● Dr. David G. Furth – The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel [Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) Systematics, Biology].

● Dr. Christos Georgiadis – Department of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Greece [Entomology, Ants of Greece].

● Dr. F. Geraud-Pouey – La Universidad de Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

● Dr. T. W. Gole – Director, The Environment and Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

● Dr. L.-A. Hayek – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● Dr. T.-J. Henry – Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA  [Hemiptera: Heteroptera, especially Berytidae, Miridae, and Lygaeoidea].

● Dr. R. Hershler – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● Dr. E. Hornung – Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary

●  Dr. Y. Ilinsky – Laboratory of Populations Genetics, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia

● Dr. F. Infante – El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Tapachula, Chiapas, México

● Dr. N. Johnson – University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachussetts, USA

● Dr. Pierre Jolivet – French Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, and World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland [Chrysomelidae Biology, General Biology].

● Dr. D. Kageyama – National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

● Dr. H. Kaya – University of California, Davis, California, USA

● Dr. Scott L. Kight – Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA [Invertebrate Behavioral Ecology].

● Dr. D. T. King, Jr. – Geology Office, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA

● Dr. C. C. Labandeira – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA; University of Maryland at College Park, USA;  and College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

● Dr. Joseph B. Lambert – Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA [botanical exudates and fossilized exudates].

● Dr. S. Lazarevska – University Saints Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

● Dr. S. B. Lee – San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA

● Dr. Jeffrey A. Lockwood – University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA [Entomology, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Ecology].

● Dr. M. López – Biomedical Research Centre, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver Canada and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

● Dr. F. Lugemwa – Penn State University, York Campus, York, Pennsylvania, USA

● Dr. J.-M. Maes – Museo Entomológico de Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua

● Dr. J. Maldonado – Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● Dr. M. L. McCallum – Environmental Studies Program, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont, USA

● Dr. W. Mitsuhashi – Senior Researcher, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

● Dr. M. Mofidi-Neyestanak – Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (ITRD), Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum (HMIM), Tehran, Iran [Biosystematics of Orthoptera (Insecta)].

● Dr.  A. K. M. Moniruzzaman Mollah – Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh

● Dr. C. H. Nelson – University of Tennesse, Chatanooga, Tennesse, USA

● Dr. C. Nokkala – Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku Finland

● Dr. P. Núñez Martínez – Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Departamento de Biología Funcional (Fisiología), Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

● Dr. J. Orozco – Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

● Dr. C. Orrego Benavente – University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

● J. P. Orrego S. – Presidente,  Ecosistemas. Coordinador Internacional, Consejo de Defensa de la Patagonia, Santiago, Chile

● Dr. J. R. Pagán-Jiménez – Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, Quito, Ecuador

● Dr. E. Pérez – Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú

●  Dr. J. de los A. Pérez Camacho – Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática (IES), Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (CITMA), La Habana, Cuba

●  Dr. A. Peretti – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

●  Dr. J. F. Petrulevicius – Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), La Plata, Argentina

● Dr. A. S. P. S. Reboleira – Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Koebenhavn, Denmark

● Dr. N. Ríos López – Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacao, Puerto Rico

● Dr. R. K. Robbins – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● Dr. Reniel Rodríguez-Ramos – Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Utuado, Puerto Rico [Archaeology].

● Dr. R. Rodríguez-Suárez – Museo Antropológico Montáne, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba

● Dr. A. K. Saxena – Government Raza Postgraduate College, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India

● Dr. M. Schmitt – Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

● Dr. J. Schuster – Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala

● Dr. K. Sláma – Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branisovska, Czech Republic

● Dr. D. A. Smucny – George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

● Dr. S. Tirados Menéndez – King’s College, London, England, United Kingdom

● Dr. Mustafa Ünal – Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi, Bolu, Turkey

● Dr. E. van den Berghen – Director of Zamorano Biodiversity Center, Department  of Environment and Development, Zamorano University (Escuela Agrícola Panamericana-Zamorano), Zamorano, Honduras

● Dr. F. E. Vega – United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA

● Dr. D. L. Wolberg – New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, USA

● Dr. R. H. Wozniak – Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

● Dr. S. C. Zapico – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Technical Advisers

● L. Brewster – Penn State University, York Campus, York, Pennsylvania, USA

● P. Craig – California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA

● A. Hutchinson – Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● A. Juneau – Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

● J. A. Pérez – Geospatial Information Officer; Yagüez Research, LLC; Springfield, Virginia, USA

● R. Muñoz – Senior Director, LATAM Treasury, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Miami, Florida, USA