Moorpark College is a public community college in Moorpark, California. It was established in 1967 with enrollment of 2,500 students and enrolled 14,254 students in 2014. An Exotic Animal Training and Management center houses over 200 animals on campus.
A complete genome assembly for the endangered Pyrgus ruralis lagunae (Laguna Mountains Skipper) (Scott, 1981) is reported here. Illumina short-read sequencing was performed using tissue from a whole specimen of a single deceased individual. The selected specimen was a foundress individual collected directly from the wild population prior to captive propagation, minimizing the potential influence of captive breeding, genetic drift, or artificial selection on genomic patterns. This reference genome is an important resource for studying this endangered lepidopteran.
A complete genome assembly for the endangered Apodemia mormo langei (Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly) (Comstock, J.A. 1938) is reported here. Illumina short-read sequencing was performed using tissue from a single deceased individual. The selected specimen was a foundress individual collected directly from the wild population prior to captive propagation, minimizing the potential influence of captive breeding, genetic drift, or artificial selection on genomic patterns. This reference genome is an important resource for studying this presumably extinct dune-endemic butterfly.
A complete genome assembly for the endangered Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis (Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly) (Perkins and Emmel, 1977) is reported here. Illumina short-read sequencing was performed using tissue from a single deceased individual. It establishes an important genomics resource for research on critically endangered Lepidoptera and their captive-rearing while expanding a sparse repository of Glaucopsyche sp. genomes.
Despite strong terrain influences on the climate of the Appalachian Highlands in the eastern USA, few attempts have been made to systematically collect air and soil temperature data from summits and other high-elevation sites in this region. This paper reports on the Appalachian Highlands Environmental Monitoring (AHEM) mesoscale climate network, a series of 20 high-elevation sites recording temperature at hourly intervals from 1996 to 2008 on Appalachian summits along a 1500 km transect extending from Maine to North Carolina. Observations included air temperature, ground surface temperature, and soil temperature at 25 cm depth. Data were analyzed with respect to four issues: (1) accuracy of air temperature estimates and comparisons with previous studies; (2) relations between the altitude of the 0 °C mean annual air temperature and latitudinal position; (3) variations in frequency distributions of freeze–thaw days with latitude; and (4) the accuracy of an existing soil temperature classification scheme in the Appalachians. Analytic results include: (1) topographically informed interpolation techniques provide more accurate temperature estimates than traditional methods; (2) the elevation of the 0 °C mean annual air temperature decreases systematically with increasing latitude; (3) the frequency distributions of freeze–thaw days are related directly to latitudinal position; (4) classifications of mean annual soil temperature based on data from the 25 cm level are in general agreement with an existing U.S. Department of Agriculture soil-temperature map suggesting permafrost underlying high-elevation locations in the northern Appalachian Highlands..
