Data from: Does cooperation mean kinship between spatially discrete ant nests?
Eusociality is one of the most complex forms of social organization, characterized by cooperative and reproductive units termed colonies. Altruistic behavior of workers within colonies is explained by...
View ArticleData from: Is it becoming harder to secure reviewers for peer review? A test...
Background: There is concern in the academic publishing community that it is becoming more difficult to secure reviews for peer-reviewed manuscripts, but much of this concern stems from anecdotal and...
View ArticleData from: Discrimination behavior mediates foraging quality vs. quantity...
Discrimination, the ability to distinguish sensory stimuli and respond accordingly, is a critical factor underscoring optimal foraging decisions. Nevertheless, little is known about how mammals...
View ArticleData from: Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) challenge a recent origin of...
The mechanisms underlying the high extant biodiversity in the Neotropics have been controversial since the 19th century. Support for the influence of period-specific changes on diversification often...
View ArticleData from: Divergence of gastropod life history in contrasting thermal...
Experiments using natural populations have provided mixed support for thermal adaptation models, probably because the conditions are often confounded with additional environmental factors like...
View ArticleData from: Can recombinant human thrombomodulin increase survival among...
Objective: To determine whether treatment with recombinant human thrombomodulin (rhTM) increases survival among severe septic patients with sepsis-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)...
View ArticleData from: Enhanced aphid abundance in spring desynchronizes predator–prey...
Climate change leads to phenology shifts of many species. However, not all species shift in parallel, which can desynchronize interspecific interactions. Within trophic cascades, herbivores can be...
View ArticleData from: Fixation probability in a haploid-diploid population
Classical population genetic theory generally assumes either a fully haploid or fully diploid life cycle. However, many organisms exhibit more complex life cycles, with both free-living haploid and...
View ArticleData from: Historical environment is reflected in modern population genetics...
The restricted distribution and isolation of island endemics often produces unique genetic and phenotypic diversity of conservation interest to management agencies. However, these isolated species,...
View ArticleData from: Demographic costs associated with differences in habitat space...
Delimiting the habitat characteristics describing the environmental conditions required by a species has become a critical tool for predicting organismal responses to environmental change. Grinnell...
View ArticleData from: Analysis of VEGFA variants and changes in VEGF levels underscores...
Background. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) contributes to the pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and genetic variations in VEGFA gene were suggested to contribute to VEGF...
View ArticleData from: Evolution of long centromeres in fire ants
Background: Centromeres are essential for accurate chromosome segregation, yet sequence conservation is low even among closely related species. Centromere drive predicts rapid turnover because some...
View ArticleData from: Dichoptic metacontrast masking functions to infer transmission...
Optic neuritis (ON) has detrimental effects on the transmission of neuronal signals generated at the earliest stages of visual information processing. The amount, as well as the speed of transmitted...
View ArticleData from: MonotomidGen – A matrix-based interactive key to the New World...
A matrix-based Lucid key is presented for the twelve genera of Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) represented in the New World. A general overview is given for the features and technical...
View ArticleData from: Insights into the human mesenchymal stromal/stem cell identity...
Background: Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells (MSCs), isolated under the criteria established by the ISCT, still have a poorly characterized phenotype that is difficult to distinguish from similar cell...
View ArticleData from: Morphological identification and single-cell genomics of marine...
Recent global surveys of marine biodiversity have revealed that a group of organisms known as “marine diplonemids” constitutes one of the most abundant and diverse planktonic lineages [1]. Though...
View ArticleData from: Shade tolerance and the functional trait - demography relationship...
Despite being instrumental in forest ecology, the definition and nature of shade tolerance are complex and not beyond controversy. Moreover, the role it plays in the trait – demography relationship...
View ArticleData from: Seasonal shifts in sex ratios are mediated by maternal effects and...
1.Sex-specific maternal effects can be adaptive sources of phenotypic plasticity. Reptiles with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) are a powerful system to investigate such maternal effects...
View ArticleData from: Does movement behaviour predict population densities? a test with...
Diffusion, which approximates a correlated random walk, has been used by ecologists to describe movement, and forms the basis for many theoretical models. However, it is often criticized as too simple...
View ArticleData from: Climatic conditions cause spatially dynamic polygyny thresholds in...
1.The polygyny threshold (PT) is a critical transition point in the sexual selection process for many organisms in natural populations, characterizing when females choose to mate with an already mated...
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