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Article evaluation

The article I chose to review is Mammalogy.

After reading this short article I found several sentences that were not formatted very well and disrupted the reading flow. There was not a whole lot of information given on this topic. The reference list was short, but at least the references were credible. Looking at the references chosen, you can easily see more information that could be given on this topic. Since this is a sub topic, links could have been included to so many different things. For example. science, zoology, vertebrae, and so on. The overall tone of the article was decent, but not very well written. It didn't discuss mammalogy very well and seemed to focus more on a mammologist that what mammalogy even is.

Class C article evaluation

The article I chose to review is Genetic Engineering Techniques.

Everything I read in the article was relevant to the topic at hand. The article was very long and very thorough and it didn't appear to be missing much information at all. Everything discussed in this article was up to date and had proper references. With everything being very thorough, the one downside I noticed was the sentence structure seemed a bit choppy. The writer was just stating facts, but the flow of how it was written didn't seem right or didn't seem to flow together very well. The organization of the article was really well done, had a good table of contents, and had really great references.

The overall tone of this article was kept very neutral and just stated facts. The facts I read about weren't leaning more towards a position for genetic engineering or against it, they were simply just facts. Since this was an article about genetic engineering techniques, I was expecting to read a lot more on CRISPR-Cas9 and the other Cas enzymes that aided in this fairly recent discovery. CRISPR-Cas9 was definitely talked about, but it seemed a little under represented. The sources used were supportive about what was written. The links in the sources worked well, and from what I gathered were unbiased. Most of the sources used were from scientific articles/journals, or books/thesis's from people with PhDs'.

The talk section was relatively dry with only one person commenting on it. The one comment in the talk section seemed to also really only have a couple complaints or suggestions for the article. One of the things mentioned was the same thing that I mentioned or found to be under represented which was CRISPR. CRISPR is such a huge discovery and so much has happened surrounding CRISPR within the past few years. I agree with the comment in the talk section, CRISPR is new exciting new in this field and it's surprising that more wasn't written about it. With that being said, the article was still well done and had plenty of information. There was a good hand full of wiki projects attached to this one, with class ranks C and B of high to top importance.

Article selection

The articles I have chosen to review for potential edit are Mammalogy, Isabelle's ghost bat, Groves' dwarf lemur, and Cricket frog.

The mammalogy article seemed well written enough, but lacked information and depth on what mammalogy is. Instead of writing about mammalogist, what they make, and do, I would like to write more on the study of mammalogy in general. This article could be organized a lot better, have a bigger table of contents, and go much further in depth on mammalogy. Since mammalogy is a science, finding information on the topic should be relatively easy which is why I think this article could be so much bigger. I would also like to add more pictures to it, make a history section, most common mammals studied, and more. Doing some quick research, I was able to find these resources. Granted most the sources found super easily are all from Oxford University.


 * Gannon, et al. “Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the Use of Wild Mammals in Research.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 1 June 2007, academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/88/3/809/1073265.


 * Sikes, et al. “Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the Use of Wild Mammals in Research.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 16 Feb. 2011, academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/92/1/235/943231.


 * Sikes, et al. “American Society of Mammalogists: Raising the Standards for Ethical and Appropriate Oversight of Wildlife Research.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 23 May 2019, academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-abstract/100/3/763/5498031.

Isabelle's ghost bat article was extremely short. The sources used weren't too bad, and the information given was given in a neutral tone. The amount of information given could be a lot more though. Pictures could be added and a table of contents. If I were to edit this page I would like to add locations of where this bat lives, where it was discovered, what it eats, how long it lives, and how it lives. I would also like to find out for sure how the name was given because in the article, the writer uses a not very well structured sentence for Wikipedia. The sentence wasn't stating fact it was stating a presumption and even that presumption could have been worded better. I would also like to really just reword most of their paragraph since it tried to remain neutral, but isn't done well.


 * Garbino, Guilherme S.T., et al. “Second Record of the Pale Brown Ghost Bat Diclidurus Isabella (Thomas, 1920) (Chiroptera, Emballonuridae) from Brazil and Range Extension into Southwestern Brazilian Amazonia.” Mammalia, De Gruyter, 24 Apr. 2015, www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.2013.77.issue-2/mammalia-2012-0061/mammalia-2012-0061.xml.

Groves' dwarf lemur article stub was also very short. The authors tone maintained neutral through the whole article and gave some good facts. Similarly like in the Isabelle's ghost bat article, this article could also use more in depth information. There was no table of contents and not enough there to really organize. The couple sources used were credible, but I still feel like more could be added. What could be added would be what a lemur is, how many other kinds there are, where they all live, how closely related they all are, what they look like, add pictures, where they are found, and a little more. Just with adding those few facts, organizing it could become possible and maybe even a table of contents.


 * Groves, Colin P. “The Genus Cheirogaleus: Unrecognized Biodiversity in Dwarf Lemurs.” SpringerLink, Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1005559012637.

The Cricket frog article is also just as short as the previous two, but has more information. This short article was actually really well written and got a lot of information in the stub in few words. Since they mention three species of cricket frogs in this article, what I would edit in it would be going into more detail about the other species that way they can compare the differences in the species. In a quick search I was able to find some articles talking about how the cricket frog is declining and could maybe update the article on that.


 * Capranica, Robert R., et al. “Encoding of Geographic Dialects in the Auditory System of the Cricket Frog.” Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 21 Dec. 1973, science.sciencemag.org/content/182/4118/1272.
 * “Intersexuality and the Cricket Frog Decline: Historic and Geographic Trends.” National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.7276.

Article Draft
Lead Section

Mammalogy is a specialized science that studys mammals. Mammalogy is an important science to study for medical, and ecological purposes. Mammals play a huge role in many ecosystem and studying them gives us valuable information on our impact on the environment. Mammals are classified as fur bearing, warm blooded vertebrae, where the mothers produce milk and give birth to live young.

Background/Major Branches of Mammalogy

Biology is the study of all living things and in the study of biology are several different branches of specific studies. One of those specific studies is zoology. Zoology is the study of all animals. In zoology is a specialized branch called mammalogy which is the study of mammals. Mammalogy has also been known as "mastology," "theriology," and "therology."The archive of number of mammals on earth is constantly growing, but is currently set at 6,495 different mammal species including recently extinct. There are 5,416 living mammals identified on earth and roughly 1,251 have been newly discovered since 2006. The major branches of mammalogy include natural history, taxonomy and systematics, anatomy and physiology, ethology, ecology, and management and control. Mammalogy branches off into other taxonomically-oriented disciplines such as primatology (study of primates), and cetology (study of cetaceans).

Habitats

Although there are similarities in mammals, there is also much diversity. Mammals live in all sorts of habitats ranging from the skies to the oceans and everything in between. Mammals have the most diverse habitat range since they can occupy the skies, land, and sea. Mammals are able to not only walk and run, but some are able to burrow, fly, glide, or swim, which is what makes mammals so diverse. The largest living mammal recorded is the blue whale and the smallest living mammal is a species of shrew. The weight difference between the two is 70 million kg. Even in mammals diversities, there are still many similarities. All mammals respiratory systems are extremely similar. Not only are their respiratory systems similar, other major organs seem to look identical and work in the same way besides the size difference.

Extinction

There have been several mass extinctions that have happened on Earth and we are currently entering our sixth. The rate at where most mammals start to go extinct, without human involvement, is 2 mammals per 10,000 species over the course of 100 years. With human activities, that rate has exceeded over 100 times. Without extreme changes in human development that rate will continue and our chance to help extinction rates is rapidly declining.

Research Purposes

The study and observation of mammals is important for many reasons. Knowing how mammals contribute or thrive in their ecosystems gives knowledge on the ecology behind it. Mammals are often used in business industries, agriculture, and kept for pets. Studying mammals habitats and source of energy has led to our aid in survival. Knowing what larger predatory mammals eat, where they hunt, what they hunt, how they hunt, has all been detrimental for the human survival since the early ages. Owning small domesticated mammals as pets has helped discover several different diseases, viruses, and cures. Since diseases and viruses can be transmitted to and from different host bodies, it is vital that we are able to recognize and identify these diseases and viruses for the public health and own health.

Mammalogist

A mammalogist studies and observes mammals. In studying mammals, they can observe their habitats, contributions to the ecosystem, their interactions, and the anatomy and physiology. A mammalogist can do a broad variety of things within the realm of mammals. A mammalogist on average can make roughly $58,000 a year. This depends on employer and state. On average a job with the government in this field will pay more than an educational institute. Mammalogists job sites can be anywhere a mammal is currently residing. This can range from several different locations and times and is dependent on the mammal in observance.

History

The study of mammals has been used since prehistoric times. The first people recorded to have researched mammals were the ancient Greeks with records on mammals that were not even native to Greece and others that were. Aristotle was one of the first to recognize whales and dolphins as mammals since up until the 18th century most of the study was done by taxonomy.

List of mammalogy journals
This is a list of scientific journals broadly serving mammalogists. In addition, many other more general zoology, ecology and evolution, or conservation journals also deal with mammals, and several journals are specific to only certain taxonomic groups of mammals.