Data from: Tropical rainforests that persisted: inferences from the...
How Quaternary climatic and geological disturbances influenced the composition of Neotropical forests is hotly debated. Rain fall and temperature changes during and/or immediately after the Last...
View ArticleData from: Evolutionary consequences of ecological factors: pollinator...
The reproductive-assurance hypothesis predicts that mating-system traits will evolve towards increased autonomous self-pollination in plant populations experiencing unreliable pollinator service. We...
View ArticleData from: Hybrid crosses and the genetic basis of interspecific divergence...
Characterizing the genetic basis of among-species variation in lifespan is a major goal of evolutionary gerontology research, but the very feature that defines separate species—the inability to...
View ArticleData from: Above and belowground responses of four tundra plant functional...
1.Climate warming is faster in the Arctic than the global average. Nutrient availability in the tundra soil is expected to increase by climate warming through 1) accelerated nutrient mobilization 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: Comparison of self-perceived cardiovascular disease risk among...
Objectives: Previous studies suggest that smokers have a misperception of their 10-year cardiovascular risk. We aimed to compare 10-year cardiovascular risk self-perception and calculated risk among...
View ArticleData from: Effects of roads and land use on frog distributions across spatial...
Aim: Understanding the scales over which land use affects animal populations is critical for conservation planning, and it can provide information about the mechanisms that underlie correlations...
View ArticleData from: The genome sequence and insights into the immunogenetics of the...
Avian genomics, especially of non-model species, is in its infancy relative to mammalian genomics. Here, we describe the sequencing, assembly, and annotation of a new avian genome, that of the...
View ArticleData from: An environmental DNA (eDNA) based method for monitoring spawning...
1. Determining the timing and location of reproductive events is critical for efficient management of species. However, methods currently used for aquatic species are costly, time intensive, biased and...
View ArticleData from: Genetic stock structure of Anadromous Arctic char in Canada’s...
The Arctic Char Salvelinus alpinus is widely considered the most important subsistence fish species in the Canadian Arctic. Throughout the species’ range, commercial fisheries for Arctic Char also...
View ArticleData from: Mapping resistance to Alternaria cucumerina in Cucumis melo
Infection with Alternaria cucumerina causes Alternaria leaf blight (ALB), a disease characterized by lesion formation on leaves, leading to substantial yield and quality losses in Cucumis melo (melon)....
View ArticleData from: Ecological speciation of bacteriophage lambda in allopatry and...
Understanding the conditions that allow speciation to occur is difficult because most research has focused on either long-lived organisms or asexual microorganisms. We propagated bacteriophage λ, a...
View ArticleData from: SNPs selected by information content outperform randomly selected...
The honeybee (Apis mellifera) has been threatened by multiple factors, including pests and pathogens, pesticides, and loss of locally adapted gene complexes due to replacement and introgression. In...
View ArticleData from: Partitioning the effect of composition and diversity of tree...
The decomposition of plant material is an important ecosystem process influencing both carbon cycling and soil nutrient availability. Quantifying how plant diversity affects decomposition is thus...
View ArticleData from: Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria):...
Sparassodontans are a diverse but now extinct group of metatherians that were apex predators in South America during most of the Cenozoic. Studying their decline has been controversial mainly due to...
View ArticleData from: Genomic and phenotypic evidence for an incomplete domestication of...
The domestication syndrom comprises phenotypic changes that differentiate crops from their wild ancestors. We compared the genomic variation and phenotypic differentiation of the two putative...
View ArticleData from: Predator diversity reduces habitat colonization by mosquitoes and...
Changes in predator diversity via extinction and invasion are increasingly widespread and can have important ecological and socio-economic consequences. Anticipating and managing these consequences...
View ArticleData from: Environmental and evolutionary effects on horn growth of male...
The development of male secondary sexual characters such as antlers or horns has substantial biological and socio-economic importance because in many species these traits affect male fitness positively...
View ArticleData from: Redder isn’t always better: cost of carotenoids in Chinook salmon...
Carotenoids provide animals with many fitness benefits through increased mating success, immune function, gamete quality and antioxidant capacity. Despite these benefits, carotenoids are not utilized...
View ArticleData from: Bridge under troubled water: turbulence and niche partitioning in...
The coexistence of competing species relies on niche partitioning. Competitive exclusion is likely inevitable at high niche overlap, but such divide between competitors may be bridged if environmental...
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