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View article: Phylogeny, systematics and evolution of mimicry patterns in Neotropical limenitidine butterflies
Phylogeny, systematics and evolution of mimicry patterns in Neotropical limenitidine butterflies Open
The Neotropical butterfly genus Adelpha Hübner exhibits remarkable species diversity and striking convergence in wing colour patterns potentially explained by mimicry, making it an exceptional model for exploring trait evolution and its re…
View article: Adaptive LLM-Symbolic Reasoning via Dynamic Logical Solver Composition
Adaptive LLM-Symbolic Reasoning via Dynamic Logical Solver Composition Open
Neuro-symbolic NLP methods aim to leverage the complementary strengths of large language models and formal logical solvers. However, current approaches are mostly static in nature, i.e., the integration of a target solver is predetermined …
View article: Aposematic color patterns are the dominant axis of phenotypic diversification in Nymphalid butterflies
Aposematic color patterns are the dominant axis of phenotypic diversification in Nymphalid butterflies Open
Butterfly wing patterns serve diverse roles in visual communication, from aposematic signaling and mimicry to mate attraction and camouflage. In brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae), this diversity can be traced to the wing pattern “grou…
View article: Species List and Temporal Trends of a Butterfly Community in an Urban Remnant in the Atlantic Forest
Species List and Temporal Trends of a Butterfly Community in an Urban Remnant in the Atlantic Forest Open
The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is currently reduced to a few, small fragments surrounded by anthropic landscapes. Urban forest remnants play an important role in housing biodiversity in urbanized areas and enabling species dispersion betwee…
View article: Phylogeny, systematics and evolution of mimicry patterns in Neotropical limenitidine butterflies
Phylogeny, systematics and evolution of mimicry patterns in Neotropical limenitidine butterflies Open
The Neotropical butterfly genus Adelpha Hübner exhibits remarkable species diversity and striking convergence in wing colour patterns potentially explained by mimicry, making it an exceptional model for exploring trait evolution and its re…
View article: Dissecting Clinical Reasoning in Language Models:A Comparative Study of Prompts and Model Adaptation Strategies
Dissecting Clinical Reasoning in Language Models:A Comparative Study of Prompts and Model Adaptation Strategies Open
Recent works on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the impact of prompting strategies and fine-tuning techniques on their reasoning capabilities. Yet, their effectiveness on clinical natural language inference (NLI) remains und…
View article: Bridging Compositional and Distributional Semantics: A Survey on Latent Semantic Geometry via AutoEncoder
Bridging Compositional and Distributional Semantics: A Survey on Latent Semantic Geometry via AutoEncoder Open
Integrating compositional and symbolic properties into current distributional semantic spaces can enhance the interpretability, controllability, compositionality, and generalisation capabilities of Transformer-based auto-regressive languag…
View article: Outer bounds: Forest edges emulate vertical strata as a habitat filter for butterfly assemblages
Outer bounds: Forest edges emulate vertical strata as a habitat filter for butterfly assemblages Open
Understanding the patterns that arise from habitat filtering processes, whether natural or human‐induced, is a crucial step in developing strategies for maintaining biodiversity. Tropical forests provide unique habitat conditions in vertic…
View article: Illustrated catalogue of Pericopina (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) in the Museum of Nature Hamburg – Zoology
Illustrated catalogue of Pericopina (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) in the Museum of Nature Hamburg – Zoology Open
Revisionary studies and taxonomic catalogues are valuable resources for compiling biodiversity knowledge because they offer essential information for the identification and use of scientific names, enabling a biological system to be convin…
View article: Ecological interaction at risk? A case of two threatened Brazilian butterflies
Ecological interaction at risk? A case of two threatened Brazilian butterflies Open
Worldwide, thousands of species are included in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, which provides a global overview of the conservation status of species. However, in some cases, it is necessary to protect …
View article: Controlling Equational Reasoning in Large Language Models with Prompt Interventions
Controlling Equational Reasoning in Large Language Models with Prompt Interventions Open
This paper investigates how hallucination rates in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be controlled via a symbolic data generation framework, exploring a fundamental relationship between the rate of certain mathematical errors and types of i…
View article: PEIRCE: Unifying Material and Formal Reasoning via LLM-Driven Neuro-Symbolic Refinement
PEIRCE: Unifying Material and Formal Reasoning via LLM-Driven Neuro-Symbolic Refinement Open
A persistent challenge in AI is the effective integration of material and formal inference - the former concerning the plausibility and contextual relevance of arguments, while the latter focusing on their logical and structural validity. …
View article: The consequences of flower colour polymorphism on the reproductive success of a neotropical deceptive orchid
The consequences of flower colour polymorphism on the reproductive success of a neotropical deceptive orchid Open
Deceptive plants often exhibit elevated levels of polymorphism. The basis of the association between flower polymorphism and deceptive strategies, however, remains unclear. Epidendrum fulgens , a Neotropical deceptive orchid pollinated by …
View article: Evolutionary history of Neotropical butterflies of the infratribe Neosatyriti based on target enrichment (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Satyrini, Pronophilina)
Evolutionary history of Neotropical butterflies of the infratribe Neosatyriti based on target enrichment (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Satyrini, Pronophilina) Open
The infratribe Neosatyriti is a section of the entirely Neotropical subtribe Pronophilina, accounting for 57 species distributed from southern Patagonia to the Andes of northern Peru, and along the Atlantic coast, with the highest diversit…
View article: Accelerating Antibiotic Discovery with Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
Accelerating Antibiotic Discovery with Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs Open
The discovery of novel antibiotics is critical to address the growing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, pharmaceutical industries face high costs (over $1 billion), long timelines, and a high failure rate, worsened by the rediscover…
View article: Integrating Expert Knowledge into Logical Programs via LLMs
Integrating Expert Knowledge into Logical Programs via LLMs Open
This paper introduces ExKLoP, a novel framework designed to evaluate how effectively Large Language Models (LLMs) integrate expert knowledge into logical reasoning systems. This capability is especially valuable in engineering, where exper…
View article: ‘I Am Going Hungry': Natural History Notes of Adult Butterflies Exploiting Unusual Food Sources
‘I Am Going Hungry': Natural History Notes of Adult Butterflies Exploiting Unusual Food Sources Open
Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) are among the most well‐studied organisms, with a vast literature covering their ecology, evolution, and natural history. However, many aspects of their biology continue to be discovered and redisco…
View article: Mcclungia fallens (Haensch, 1905) stat. rest. (Nymphalidae: Ithomiini): Systematic position, ecology, and conservation of a threatened Atlantic Forest clearwing butterfly
Mcclungia fallens (Haensch, 1905) stat. rest. (Nymphalidae: Ithomiini): Systematic position, ecology, and conservation of a threatened Atlantic Forest clearwing butterfly Open
Mcclungia fallensstat. rest. is a butterfly species found in lowland warm forests in the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, and Bahia states. Due to its limited range, it is currently considered Critically En…
View article: A new subspecies of Eueides tales (Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) from the mouth of the Amazon River
A new subspecies of Eueides tales (Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) from the mouth of the Amazon River Open
A new subspecies of Heliconiini, Eueides tales forsteri ssp. nov. Freitas, Winhard & Brown is described from the southeastern Marajó Island, Pará, northern Brazil. This subspecies is characterized by the strongly reduced postdiscal yellow …
View article: The Relevance of Flash Coloration Against Avian Predation in a <i>Morpho</i> Butterfly: A Field Experiment in a Tropical Rainforest
The Relevance of Flash Coloration Against Avian Predation in a <i>Morpho</i> Butterfly: A Field Experiment in a Tropical Rainforest Open
The flash coloration hypothesis postulates that otherwise cryptically colored animals suddenly displaying conspicuous colors during movement confuse predators, reducing capture. Morpho helenor butterflies have contrasting colors on dorsal …
View article: Gem: Gaussian Mixture Model Embeddings for Numerical Feature Distributions
Gem: Gaussian Mixture Model Embeddings for Numerical Feature Distributions Open
Embeddings are now used to underpin a wide variety of data management tasks, including entity resolution, dataset search and semantic type detection. Such applications often involve datasets with numerical columns, but there has been more …
View article: Genomics of Neotropical biodiversity indicators: two butterfly radiations with rampant chromosomal rearrangements and hybridisation
Genomics of Neotropical biodiversity indicators: two butterfly radiations with rampant chromosomal rearrangements and hybridisation Open
A major question in evolutionary biology is what drives the diversification of lineages. Rapid, recent radiations are ideal systems for addressing how new species arise because they still show key morphological and ecological adaptations a…
View article: “Savannization of the Amazon” is a term that reinforces the Cerrado neglect
“Savannization of the Amazon” is a term that reinforces the Cerrado neglect Open
Words and terms evoke responses in us, independently of their original meaning. Precise language matters because terminology can affect conservation. For example, current deforestation rates put the Amazon in the spotlight of global conser…