Data from: Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral...
Comparative methods are often used to infer loss or gain of complex phenotypes, but few studies take advantage of genes tightly linked with complex traits to test for shifts in the strength of...
View ArticleData from: Do group dynamics affect colour morph clines during a range shift?
Species exhibiting colour-polymorphism are thought to have an ecological advantage at the landscape scale, because spatial segregation of alternatively-adapted ecotypes into diverse habitats can...
View ArticleData from: Characterizing genomic variation of Arabidopsis thaliana: the...
Arabidopsis thaliana inhabits diverse climates and exhibits varied phenology across its range. Although A. thaliana is an extremely-well studied model species, the relationship between geography,...
View ArticleData from: Experimental evolution of slowed cognitive aging in Drosophila...
Reproductive output and cognitive performance decline in parallel during aging, but it is unknown whether this reflects a shared genetic architecture or merely the declining force of natural selection...
View ArticleData from: Sensitivity of functional diversity metrics to sampling intensity
1. Functional diversity (FD) metrics are increasingly used in ecological research, particularly in studies of community assembly and ecosystem functioning. However, studies using FD metrics vary...
View ArticleData from: Evaluation of an acoustic telemetry transmitter designed to...
The field of acoustic telemetry has evolved rapidly and now permits the remote sensing of animal behaviour, movement, physiology and survival in environments and species not previously possible....
View ArticleData from: Responses of common and rare aliens and natives to nutrient...
1. Global environmental change not only includes changes in mean environmental conditions but also in temporal environmental fluctuations. Because it is frequently suggested that common species, and...
View ArticleData from: Expression of eukaryotic-like protein in the microbiome of sponges
Eukaryotic-like proteins (ELPs) are classes of proteins that are found in prokaryotes, but have a likely evolutionary origin in eukaryotes. ELPs have been postulated to mediate host-microbiome...
View ArticleData from: Invasive plants accelerate nitrogen cycling: evidence from...
1. Although it is widely believed that non-native invasive species threaten the functional integrity of forest ecosystems, their impact on important ecosystem processes such as nitrogen (N) cycling is...
View ArticleData from: Stoichiometric N:P flexibility and mycorrhizal symbiosis favor...
1. Drought induces changes in the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycle but most plant species have limited flexibility to take up nutrients under such variable or unbalanced N and P availability. Both...
View ArticleData from: Plant, soil and microbial controls on grassland diversity...
The success of grassland biodiversity restoration schemes is determined by many factors; as such their outcomes can be unpredictable. There is a need for improved understanding of the relative...
View ArticleData from: Microhabitat heterogeneity and a non-native avian frugivore drive...
Understanding of the role of environmental change in the decline of endangered species is critical to designing scale-appropriate restoration plans. For locally endemic rare plants on the brink of...
View ArticleData from: Interpreting and predicting the spread of invasive wild pigs
The eruption of invasive wild pigs (IWPs) Sus scrofa throughout the world exemplifies the need to understand the influences of exotic and non-native species expansions. In particular, the continental...
View ArticleData from: Spatial detection of outlier loci with Moran eigenvector maps (MEM)
The spatial signature of micro-evolutionary processes structuring genetic variation may play an important role in the detection of loci under selection. However, the spatial location of samples hasn't...
View ArticleData from: Mapping polyclonal HIV-1 antibody responses via next-generation...
Computational neutralization fingerprinting, NFP, is an efficient and accurate method for predicting the epitope specificities of polyclonal antibody responses to HIV-1 infection. Here, we present...
View ArticleData from: Refuge or predation risk? Alternate ways to perceive hiker...
1. Human presence in natural environments is often a source of stress that is perceived by large ungulates as an increased risk of predation. Alternatively, disturbance induced by hikers creates a...
View ArticleData from: PHRAPL: phylogeographic inference using approximate likelihoods
The demographic history of most species is complex, with multiple evolutionary processes combining to shape the observed patterns of genetic diversity. To infer this history, the discipline of...
View ArticleData from: What kind of maternal effects can be selected for in fluctuating...
Just as developmental plasticity can evolve when developing individuals get informational cues about their future environment, deterministic maternal effects, where offspring trait values depend on the...
View ArticleData from: What North America’s skeleton crew of megafauna tells us about...
Functional trait diversity is increasingly used to model future changes in community structure despite a poor understanding of community disassembly's effects on functional diversity. By tracking the...
View ArticleData from: Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular...
The origin and cellular complexity of eukaryotes represent a major enigma in biology. Current data support scenarios in which an archaeal host cell and an alphaproteobacterial (mitochondrial)...
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