Data from: Integrated genome-scale analysis identifies novel genes and...
Premature senescence in annual crops reduces yield while delayed senescence, termed stay-green, is known to impose both positive and negative impact on yield and nutrition quality. Despite the...
View ArticleData from: A revision of the concept of Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882, and...
In this paper we redescribe the type species of Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, M. intentus O. Pickard-Cambridge, and describe Mago brimodes Ruiz & Maddison sp. nov. from Ecuador. Based on both...
View ArticleData from: Elasmobranch bycatch in the demersal prawn trawl fishery in the...
The elasmobranch bycatch of the Gulf of Papua Prawn Fishery is investigated in detail for the first time. Fisheries observers collected data on the elasmobranch bycatch from a total of 403 trawl sets...
View ArticleData from: Gender and language use in scientific grant writing
Women in STEM are not equally represented across tenure-track career stages, and this extends to grant funding, where women applicants often have lower success rates compared to men. While gender bias...
View ArticleData from: Bovine tuberculosis disturbs functional trait composition in...
Novel parasites can have wide-ranging impacts, not only on host populations, but also on the resident parasite community. Historically, impacts of novel parasites have been assessed by examining...
View ArticleData from: Runs of homozygosity and signatures of selection: a comparison...
A dataset consisting of 787 animals with high density SNP chip genotypes (346,774 SNP) and 939 animals with medium density SNP chip genotypes (33,828 SNP) from a total of 8 indigenous Swiss sheep...
View ArticleData from: Transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitoes transfer genes into a natural...
In an attempt to control the mosquito-borne diseases yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika fevers, a strain of transgenically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes containing a dominant lethal gene...
View ArticleData from: Dissociable sensitivity and bias mechanisms mediate behavioral...
Attention can be directed endogenously, based on task-relevant goals, or captured exogenously, by salient stimuli. While recent studies have shown that endogenous attention can facilitate behavior...
View ArticleData from: Does adaptation to historical climate shape plant responses to...
Climate change is affecting both the volume and distribution of precipitation, which in turn is expected to affect the growth and reproduction of plant populations. The near ubiquity of local...
View ArticleData from: Temporal patterns of diversification in Brassicaceae demonstrate...
Background and Aims Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events are considered important driving forces of diversification. At least 11 out of 52 Brassicaceae tribes had independent mesopolyploid WGDs...
View ArticleData from: Inbreeding reduces long-term growth of Alpine ibex populations
Many studies document negative inbreeding effects on individuals, and conservation efforts to preserve rare species routinely employ strategies to reduce inbreeding. Despite this, there are few clear...
View ArticleData from: Plant uptake offsets silica release from a large Arctic tundra...
Rapid climate change at high latitudes is projected to increase wildfire extent in tundra ecosystems by up to five-fold by the end of the century. Tundra wildfire could alter terrestrial silica (SiO2)...
View ArticleData from: Endocrine and metabolic disorders in survivors of childhood...
Context: Childhood cancer survivors experience chronic health conditions that impact health related quality of life (HRQOL) and participation in optimal physical activity. Objective: The study aimed to...
View ArticleData from: Allergenic pollen production across a large city for common...
Predictions of airborne allergenic pollen concentrations at fine spatial scales require information on source plant location and pollen production. Such data are lacking at the urban scale, largely...
View ArticleData from: Evidence for individual discrimination and numerical assessment in...
Collective responses to threats occur throughout the animal kingdom but little is known about the cognitive processes underpinning them. Antipredator mobbing is one such response. Approaching a...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenomics disentangles the evolutionary history of spruces...
A laborious and difficult task in current tree of life reconstruction is to resolve evolutionary relationships of closely related congeneric species that originated from recent radiations. This is...
View ArticleData from: Contribution of Asian haplotype of KCNJ18 to susceptibility to and...
Context and Objectives: Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) is an acute complication of thyrotoxicosis that can be lethal. TPP is relatively rare in Caucasians but often affects young males in East...
View ArticleData from: Biomechanical evaluation of peak reverse torque (PRT) in a dynamic...
Background Peak reverse torque (PRT) is a valid method to evaluate implants’ secondary stability in the healing bone. The secondary stability is achieved by the implant over time and it has been...
View ArticleData from: Early evolution of the ossicular chain in Cetacea: into the middle...
Modifications of the morphology and acoustic properties of the ossicular chain are among the major changes that accompanied the adaptation of Cetacea to the aquatic environment. Thus, data on the...
View ArticleData from: Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of...
The ‘environmental heterogeneity hypothesis’ predicts that variability in resources promotes species coexistence, but few experiments support this hypothesis in plant communities. A previous 15-y test...
View ArticleData from: Great spotted cuckoo eggshell microstructure characteristics can...
Obligate avian brood parasites lay stronger eggs than their hosts or non-parasitic relatives because they are rounder and have a thicker eggshell. Additionally, some other characteristics of the brood...
View ArticleData from: Genetic covariances promote climatic adaptation in Australian...
Evolutionary potential for adaptation hinges upon the orientation of genetic variation for traits under selection, captured by the additive genetic variance-covariance matrix (G), as well as the...
View ArticleData from: Avian vulnerability to wind farm collision through the year:...
1. Wind energy generation has become an important means to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and mitigate against human-induced climate change, but could also represent a significant human-wildlife...
View ArticleData from: Multi-scale, numerical modeling of spatio-temporal signaling in...
Mammals have two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. While rods are exceptionally sensitive and mediate vision at very low illumination levels, cones operate in daylight and are responsible for...
View ArticleData from: Evaluation of body mass index (BMI) as a prognostic indicator from...
Rough-toothed dolphins (Steno bredanensis) are a common mass stranding species in Florida. These large stranding events typically include a small number of sick or injured individuals and a much larger...
View ArticleData from: Selection on tropane alkaloids in native and non-native...
Theories of plant invasion based on enemy release in a new range assume that selection exerted by specialist herbivores on defence traits should be reduced, absent, or even selected against in the new...
View ArticleData from: Cluster analysis successfully identifies clinically meaningful...
Background: Biomechanical studies of ACL injury risk factors frequently analyze only a fraction of the relevant data, and typically not in accordance with the injury mechanism. Extracting a peak value...
View ArticleData from: Positive plant-soil feedbacks trigger tannin evolution by niche...
1. Among plant traits, plant secondary metabolites such as tannins mediate plant herbivore interactions but also have after-life effects on litter decomposition and nutrient cycling. We propose that...
View ArticleData from: Altered leaf elemental composition with climate change is linked...
Climate change will increase heat and drought stress in many dryland areas, which could reduce soil nutrient availability for plants and aggravate nutrient limitation of primary productivity. Any...
View ArticleData from: Variation in migration pattern, broodstock origin, and family...
In salmonid parentage-based tagging (PBT) applications, entire hatchery broodstocks are genotyped, and subsequently progeny can be non-lethally sampled and assigned back to their parents using...
View ArticleData from: The association between eating difficulties and biliary sludge in...
Objectives: In clinical settings, untreatable biliary sludge in the gallbladder can be observed in older adults with advanced dementia. The underlying cause of biliary sludge existence in patients with...
View ArticleData from: LiDAR and RGB-image analysis to predict hairy vetch biomass in...
Hairy vetch is a fall seeded annual legume that can be used as a forage and cover crop. As a cover crop, it can provide numerous ecosystem services, such as soil erosion reduction, carbon...
View ArticleData from: Density-dependent fitness effects stabilize parasitic hitchhiking...
1. Mutualisms are often subject to perturbations by parasitism arising from third-party interactions. How third-party perturbations are dampened is a fundamental question pertaining to mutualism...
View ArticleData from: Exploring evolution and diversity of Chinese Dipterocarpaceae...
Tropical forests, a key-category of land ecosystems, are faced with the world’s highest levels of habitat conversion and associated biodiversity loss. In tropical Asia, Dipterocarpaceae are one of the...
View ArticleData from: Variable parental responses to changes in offspring demand have...
Parental care, a component of reproductive effort, should evolve in response to its impact on both offspring and parent fitness. If so, manipulations in brood value should shift levels of care in...
View ArticleData from: Distribution of nickel and chromium containing particles from...
Background: Allergic reactions to tattoos are amongst the most common side effects occurring with this permanent deposition of pigments into the dermal skin layer. The characterization of such pigments...
View ArticleData from: Post K-Pg diversification of the mammalian order Eulipotyphla as...
The origin of the mammalian order Eulipotyphla has been debated intensively with arguments around whether they began diversifying before or after the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary at 66 Ma....
View ArticleData from: Females facilitate male food patch discovery in a wild fish...
1. Responding to the information provided by others is an important foraging strategy in many species. Through social foraging, individuals can more efficiently find unpredictable resources and thereby...
View ArticleData from: Energetics meets sexual conflict: the phenology of hibernation in...
1. Echidnas are egg-laying mammals found across Australia and in Tasmania they hibernate resulting in a most unusual mating system: males enter hibernation in late summer-early autumn and arouse in...
View ArticleData from: Characterizing and comparing phylogenetic trait data from their...
The dissection of the mode and tempo of phenotypic evolution is integral to our understanding of global biodiversity. Our ability to infer patterns of phenotypes across phylogenetic clades is essential...
View ArticleData from: Always a price to pay: hibernation at low temperatures comes with...
We experimentally tested the costs of deep torpor at low temperatures by comparing telomere dynamics in two species of rodents hibernating at either 3°C or 14°C. Our data show that hibernators kept at...
View ArticleData from: Individual cryptic scaling relationships and the evolution of...
Artificial selection offers a powerful tool for the exploration of how selection and development shape the evolution of morphological scaling relationships. An emerging approach models the expression...
View ArticleData from: Beyond balancing selection: frequent mitochondrial recombination...
(1) Gynodioecy is a sexual system where females and hermaphrodites co-occur. In most gynodioecious angiosperms, sex is determined by an interaction between mitochondrial male-sterility genes (CMS) that...
View ArticleData from: Comparative proteomics of stenotopic caddisfly Crunoecia irrorata...
Species’ ecological preferences are often deduced from habitat characteristics thought to represent more or less optimal conditions for physiological functioning. Evolution has led to stenotopic and...
View ArticleData from: Mathematical modeling for the prediction of cerebral white matter...
Cerebral white matter lesions are ischemic symptoms caused mainly by microangiopathy; they are diagnosed by MRI because they show up as abnormalities in MRI images. Because patients with white matter...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder...
The Infraorder Mygalomorphae is one of the three main lineages of spiders comprising over 3,000 nominal species. This ancient group has a world-wide distribution that includes among its ranks large and...
View ArticleData from: Interrogating genomic-scale data for Squamata (lizards, snakes,...
Genomics is narrowing uncertainty in the phylogenetic structure for many amniote groups. For one of the most diverse and species-rich groups, the squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes, amphisbaenians),...
View ArticleData from: Disparity in preemptive end-of-life conversation experience caused...
Objectives: Preemptive conversations (PCs) about end-of-life (EOL) preferences are beneficial for both elderly people and their families to understand and share the preferences. However, the factors...
View ArticleData from: Maladaptation beyond a geographic range limit driven by...
Species’ geographic range limits often result from maladaptation to the novel environments beyond the range margin. However, we rarely know which aspects of the n-dimensional environment are driving...
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