Data from: Shifts in outcrossing rates and changes to floral traits are...
Human-mediated selection can strongly influence the evolutionary response of natural organisms within ecological timescales. But what traits allow for, or even facilitate, adaptation to the strong...
View ArticleData from: Altered natal dispersal at the range periphery: the role of...
Natal dispersal outcomes are an interplay between environmental conditions and individual phenotypes. Peripheral, isolated populations may experience altered environmental conditions and natal...
View ArticleData from: A collection of European sweet cherry phenology data for assessing...
Professional and scientific networks built around the production of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) led to the collection of phenology data for a wide range of cultivars grown in experimental sites...
View ArticleData from: A chromosome-level genome assembly of the Asian arowana,...
Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus), an ancient teleost belonging to the Order Osteoglossomorpha, has been a valuable ornamental fish with some varieties. However, its biological studies and breeding...
View ArticleData from: Sylleptic branching in winter-headed apple (Malus × domestica)...
Well-feathered apple trees are essential for commercial orchards to optimize yields. However, most cultivars do not form these sylleptic branches readily in commercial nurseries due to high apical...
View ArticleData from: A new platychelyid turtle (Pan-Pleurodira) from the Late Jurassic...
Until recently, the record of Mesozoic turtles in Mexico has been restricted to the Cretaceous. New discoveries in the Sabinal Formation (Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca) have extended the record into the...
View ArticleData from: Body-size trends of the extinct giant shark Carcharocles...
The extinct shark Carcharocles megalodon is one of the largest marine apex predators ever to exist. Nonetheless, little is known about its body-size variations through time and space. Here, we studied...
View ArticleData from: Effect of haemosporidian infections on host survival and recapture...
Parasites are ubiquitous in the wild and by imposing fitness costs on their hosts they constitute an important selection factor. One of the most common parasites of wild birds are Plasmodium and...
View ArticleData from: Relative advantages of dichromatic and trichromatic color vision...
There is a huge diversity in visual systems and color discrimination abilities, thought to stem from an animal’s ecology and life history. Many primate species maintain a polymorphism in color vision,...
View ArticleData from: Beta-carotene enhances facial colour and attractiveness but not...
Carotenoid-based colouration plays an important role in mate choice in many animal species. It is argued to be an honest signal of health because carotenoids function as antioxidants and only healthy...
View ArticleData from: Size, sounds and sex: interactions between body size and harmonic...
Background: Several new mosquito control strategies will involve the release of laboratory reared males which will be required to compete with wild males for mates. Currently, the determinants of male...
View ArticleData from: Eco-evolutionary dynamics in urbanized landscapes: evolution,...
Urbanization causes both changes in community composition and evolutionary responses, but most studies focus on these responses in isolation. We performed an integrated analysis assessing the relative...
View ArticleData from: Effects of fragmentation on plant adaptation to urban environments
Urban ecosystems are relatively recent and heavily human-altered terrestrial ecosystems with a surprisingly high diversity of animals, plants and other organisms. Urban habitats are also strongly...
View ArticleData from: Sublethal streptomycin concentrations and lytic bacteriophage...
Sub-minimum inhibiting concentrations (sub-MICs) of antibiotics frequently occur in natural environments owing to wide-spread antibiotic leakage by human action. Even though the concentrations are very...
View ArticleData from: Population scale mapping of transposable element diversity reveals...
Variation in the presence or absence of transposable elements (TEs) is a major source of genetic variation between individuals. Here, we identified 23,095 TE presence/absence variants between 216...
View ArticleData from: Resistance in persisting bat populations after white-nose syndrome...
Increases in anthropogenic movement have led to a rise in pathogen introductions and the emergence of infectious diseases in naive host communities worldwide. We combined empirical data and...
View ArticleData from: Comprehensive identification and clustering of CLV3/ESR-related...
CLV3/ESR (CLE) proteins are important signaling peptides in plants. The short CLE peptide (12–13 amino acids) is cleaved from a larger pre-propeptide and functions as an extracellular ligand. The CLE...
View ArticleData from: Label-free in situ imaging of oil body dynamics and chemistry in...
Plant oleosomes are uniquely emulsified lipid reservoirs that serve as the primary energy source during seed germination. These oil bodies undergo significant changes regarding their size, composition...
View ArticleData from: Assessing conservation risks to populations of an anadromous...
Census population size (Nc) is crucial to the development of resource management strategies, however, monitoring the effective population size (Ne) of managed populations has proliferated because of...
View ArticleData from: Measures of biologically relevant environmental heterogeneity...
Aim Relatively few models of species richness explicitly consider aspects of environmental heterogeneity, other than topographic heterogeneity. We hypothesized that environmental heterogeneity is an...
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