Data from: Towards the automatic classification of avian flight calls for...
Automatic classification of animal vocalizations has great potential to enhance the monitoring of species movements and behaviors. This is particularly true for monitoring nocturnal bird migration,...
View ArticleData from: Temporal shifts and temperature sensitivity of avian spring...
1.There are wide reports of advances in the timing of spring migration of birds over time and in relation to rising temperatures, though phenological responses vary substantially within and among...
View ArticleData from: The first organ-based ontology for arthropods (Ontology of...
Morphology, the oldest discipline in the biosciences, is currently experiencing a renaissance in the field of comparative phenomics. However, morphological/phenotypic research still suffers on various...
View ArticleData from: Detecting copper toxicity in sediments: from the sub-individual...
1.Sediments accumulate chemicals that can be toxic to biota and often contribute to aquatic ecosystem decline. Measuring mortality in laboratory-bred organisms is a common way to assess sediment...
View ArticleData from: Challenging the conceptual framework of maintenance hosts for...
1.The conceptual framework considering Anseriformes and Charadriiformes as the main maintenance hosts for influenza A viruses (IAV) in wild birds has shaped IAV research and surveillance over the last...
View ArticleData from: Measuring and interpreting sexual selection metrics - evaluation...
(1) Routine assessments of overall sexual selection, including comparisons of its direction and intensity between sexes or species, rely on summary metrics that capture the essence of sexual selection....
View ArticleData from: Comparison of capture and storage methods for aqueous macrobial...
Aqueous environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging efficient non-invasive tool for species inventory studies. To maximize performance of downstream quantitative PCR (qPCR) and next-generation sequencing...
View ArticleData from: Error-robust modes of the retinal population code
Across the nervous system, certain population spiking patterns are observed far more frequently than others. A hypothesis about this structure is that these collective activity patterns function as...
View ArticleData from: Poor adherence to guidelines for preventing central...
Background: Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are a cause of increased morbidity and mortality, and are largely preventable. We documented attitudes and practices in intensive...
View ArticleData from: Phylotranscriptomics resolves ancient divergences in the Lepidoptera
Classic morphological studies of the oldest, so-called nonditrysian lineages of Lepidoptera yielded a well-resolved phylogeny, supported by the stepwise origin of the traits characterizing the clade...
View ArticleData from: Onychophoran-like myoanatomy of the Cambrian gilled lobopodian...
Arthropods are characterized by a rigid, articulating, exoskeleton operated by a lever-like system of segmentally arranged, antagonistic muscles. This skeletomuscular system evolved from an unsegmented...
View ArticleData from: Comparative genomics to explore phylogenetic relationship, cryptic...
Background: The Rhynchosporium species complex consists of hemibiotrophic fungal pathogens specialized to different sweet grass species including the cereal crops barley and rye. A sexual stage has not...
View ArticleData from: Host and tissue variation overshadow the response of boreal...
Human activity has more than doubled the amount of nitrogen entering the global nitrogen cycle, and the boreal forest biome is a nitrogen-limited ecosystem sensitive to nitrogen load perturbation....
View ArticleData from: Genetic variation in blue whales in the eastern Pacific:...
Many aspects of blue whale biology are but poorly understood. Some of the gaps in our knowledge, such as those regarding their basic taxonomy and seasonal movements, directly affect our ability to...
View ArticleData from: Living in flowing water increases resistance to ultraviolet-B...
Ultraviolet B radiation (UV-B) is an important environmental driver that can affect locomotor performance negatively by inducing production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Prolonged regular exercise...
View ArticleData from: Plasticity in growth of farmed and wild Atlantic salmon: is the...
Background: Domestication of Atlantic salmon for commercial aquaculture has resulted in farmed salmon displaying substantially higher growth rates than wild salmon under farming conditions. In...
View ArticleData from: Reduced snow cover increases wintertime nitrous oxide (N2O)...
Throughout most of the northern hemisphere, snow cover decreased in almost every winter month from 1967 to 2012. Because snow is an effective insulator, snow cover loss has likely enhanced soil...
View ArticleData from: From population genomics to conservation and management: a...
A genotyping assay for the Ion Torrent Ion PGM platform was developed for fast and cost-effective targeted genotyping of key single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) earlier identified using a...
View ArticleData from: Habitat saturation promotes delayed dispersal in a social reptile
When and where offspring disperse has important implications for the evolutionary emergence and maintenance of group living. In non-cooperative breeders, direct benefits of delayed dispersal are...
View ArticleData from: Genus-wide screening reveals four distinct types of structural...
Geraniaceae are known for their unusual plastid genomes (plastomes), with the genus Pelargonium being most conspicuous with regard to plastome size and gene organization as judged by the sequenced...
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