Captive breeding is a conservation strategy that often results in behavioral changes in animals born and reared in captivity. Culturally transmitted behaviors, such as learned vocal signals, are particularly prone to change ...

Gasteromycetes, commonly known as puffballs, are an informal group of Basidiomycetes with a polyphyletic origin and since 2014 included in the sub-classes Agaricomycetidae and Phallomycetidae. These fungi are characterized ...

Web building spiders are usually passive predators that do not typically change their location once they are established; this suggests that factors such as vegetation and canopy density could have a significant influence ...

Little is known about the natural history of the Sphaerodactylus species endemic to the three islands located in the Mona Passage, mostly because of the logistics of getting to the islands and because of the cryptic behavior ...

The crested lizard (Anolis cristatellus) usually deploys aggressive or territorial behavior, to which several adaptive functions have been attributed that can vary depending on the individual and the quality of territory. ...

Molecules of DNA are ubiquitous in the environment and a rich source of biological information, but because DNA degrades rapidly in tropical climates studies of ancient DNA in the Caribbean have been limited until recently. ...

This thesis seeks to address the deficit of ancestral human references from the tropics, specifically the Caribbean, by adding genetic (genomic and microbiomic) information from the ancient Puerto Rican Amerindian population ...