Accounting for heterogeneity in false‐positive detection rate in southeastern beach mouse habitat occupancy models by Eric D. Stolen, Donna M. Oddy, Shanon L. Gann, Karen G. Holloway‐Adkins, Stephanie A. Legare, Stephanie K. Weiss, David R. Breininger

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Genomic Confirmation of Borrelia garinii, United States by Natalie Rudenko, Maryna Golovchenko, Ales Horak, Libor Grubhoffer, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Claire M. Fraser, Weigang Qiu, Benjamin J. Luft, Richard G. Morgan, Sherwood R. Casjens, Steven E. Schutzer

“…We report isolation and whole-genome nucleotide sequencing of a B. garinii isolate from a cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) in South Carolina, USA. …”
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Mammals present in the diet of the Barn Owl (<em>Tyto alba</em>) in Valdivia, Guayas, Ecuador by Pablo A. Moreno C.

“…Eight species of mammals were registered; 85 % represents rodents and 12.6 % marsupials. The Peruvian cotton mouse (<em>Sigmodon peruanus</em>) is the main mammal hunted by this owl, representing 40.2% of the total mammals used as food by the owl, followed by the yellow coast rat (<em>Aegiolamys xantheolus</em>) with 33.3 %, then by the pacific spiny rat (<em>Proechimys decumanus</em>) with 9.2 %, next by the simons&rsquo;s small opossum (<em>Marmosa robinsoni simonsi</em>) with 8%, the common opossum (<em>Didelphis </em>sp.) with 4.6%, the transandean rat (<em>Transandinomys </em>sp.) with 2.3 %. …”
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Diet‐based assortative mating through sexual imprinting by Emily K. Delaney, Hopi E. Hoekstra

“…Here, we experimentally created divergent diets in a sexually imprinting species of mouse, Peromyscus gossypinus (the cotton mouse), to test the hypothesis that sexual imprinting on diet could be a mechanism that generates rapid and significant sexual isolation. …”
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