Life: The Excitement of Biology

A journal promoting the in-depth understanding of all forms of life

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LEB 9(1) 2021

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LEB 8(4) 2020

De Loof, A. and L. Schoofs. 2020. From One Site of Insect Juvenile Hormone Synthesis, No Identified Receptors, and a Denomination as “Status Quo Hormone” in the 1960s to Multiple, Sometimes Conflicting, Possibilities to Date. Life: The Excitement of Biology 8(4):196-238. https://blaypublishers.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/deloof_and_schoofs.pdf

Aiello, A. 2020. A View from the Past. The One-Room Schoolhouse: Good Riddance or Sad Loss? Life: The Excitement of Biology 8(4):239-241. https://blaypublishers.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/aiello.pdf

Bartell, G. 2020. News from the Neighborhood. From the Fish (Pisces) I Raised and Sold to the Butterflies (Lepidoptera) I Rear and Release in York Pennsylvania, USA. Life: The Excitement of Biology 8(4):242-246. https://blaypublishers.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bartell.pdf

Santiago-Blay, J. A. 2020. Index for Volume 8 (202) of Life: The Excitement of Biology 8(4):247-249. https://blaypublishers.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/santiago-blay_leb84.pdf

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LEB 8(3) 2020

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LEB 8(2) 2020

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LEB 8(1) 2020

Santiago-Blay, J. A._Editorial. The First Seven Years (2013-2019) of Life: The Excitement of Biology 8(1):1-3.

Nieves-Rivera, A.,  J. P. Zegarra Vila, C. E. Figuerola Hernández, J. E. García-Hernández, and N. V. Schizas. 2020 Recent and Historical Explorations of the Underwater Section of Cueva del Agua, Punta Los Ingleses, Mona Island (Puerto Rico), with a New Faunal Record. Life: The Excitement of Biology 8(1):4-22.

Lugemwa, F. N. 2020. Editorial. The Coronavirus Pandemic in the Age of Social Media: A Chronology and Impacts on Peoples of African Descent. Life: The Excitement of Biology 8(1):23-33.

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LEB 7(4) 2019

Resources for Integrating Immersive Experiences in an Educational Setting by Amy Kuntz LEB 7(4):165-180.

A Distribution Model for the Green Iguana, Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758) (Reptilia: Iguanidae), in Puerto Rico by Carlos Andrés Rodríguez Gómez, Rafael L. Joglar, Mariano Solórzano, and William A. Gould.  LEB 7(4)181-196. 

A New Molecular Type of Amber for Burma (Myanmar) by Joseph B. Lambert, Jonna M. Karlberg, Natasha R. Muppala, Tayde A. Contreras, Yuyang Wu, and Jorge A. Santiago-Blay LEB 7(4):197-212.

Addendum. Voucher Specimens of Littorina littorea Used in Paper Authored by Ye and Published in LEB 6(3):108-121 in 2018 Are Deposited at ANSP. William Ye. LEB 7(4):213-214.

Index to volume 7 of Life: The Excitement of Biology by Jorge A. SantiagoBlay LEB 7(4):214-216.

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LEB 7(3) 2019

Ecological Factors and the Distribution of Adult Odonata in Puerto Rico by Ariel Diaz, Delwin J. Rodríguez-Flores, Ana G. Rivera-Vega, Edgardo Cruz-Marcano, Iris M. Velázquez-Oliveras, and Luis A. Villanueva-Cubero. LEB 7(3):115-147.

Superparasitism on the Wasp Ammophila pictipennis Walsh (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Ammophilinae) by Strepsiptera, with a Record of Observed Instances of Stylopization of Wasps in the Genus Ammophila Kirby from the Grounds of North High School, Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.A. 2008 – 2019 by G. K. Lechner._LEB 7(3):148-158.

Book Review – An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development. Plant Anatomy for the Twenty-First Century (Second Edition). 2007 by Charles B. Beck. Cambridge University Press. New York, NY, USA. 441 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-51805-5 (Hardback) by Jorge A. Santiago-Blay._LEB 7(3):159-164.

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LEB 7(2) 2019

DeLoff_and Schoofs – Calcitox-Metamorphosis in Insects: The Calcium (Ca2+)-Homeostasis System as the Integrated Primordial Receptor System for both Juvenile Hormone and Ecdysteroids

Rios, Joglar, and Thomas – Variation in Bioacoustic Characteristics in
Eleutherodactylus coqui Thomas, 1966 and Eleutherodactylus antillensis (Reinhardt and Lutken, 1863) (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) in the Puerto Rico Bank

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LEB 7(1) 2019

Santiago-Blay – Editorial: The First Six Years (2013-2018) of Life: The Excitement of Biology

Cabrera, Harmsen, and Vélez – The Effect of Shade Houses on the Insect Pests and Yield of Three Important Plant Crops in Puerto Rico: Pepper, Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae), Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (Cucurbitaceae), and Cabbage, Brassica oleracea (Brassicaceae)

Laboy-Nieves and Santiago-Blay – UV-Induced Fluorescence of Two Puerto Rican Endemic Arthropods: The Harvestman, Yunquenus portoricanus and the Millipede, Spirobolellus richmondi

Hribar – Brighton Clark “Bugs” Cain (1897 – 1951): A Man Who Inspired Children to Love Insects

Saul – Geographical and Biological Origin of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918: Update and Correction

Santiago-Blay – Book Review – The Spark of Leaning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanagh

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LEB 6(4) 2018

Chen – Social Behavior and Structure in Wild and Captive Groups of the African Wild Dog, Lycaon pictus (Temminck, 1820) (Carnivora: Canidae)

Santiago-Blay (Rapporteur), Do One Good Thing for Bees Today: Twenty-five Facts about North American Wild Bees

Santiago-Blay – Book Review Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Santiago-Blay – Index Volume 6 (2018) of Life: The Excitement of Biology