Data from: Comparative system identification of flower tracking performance...
Flight control in insects is heavily dependent on vision. Thus, in dim light, the decreased reliability of visual signal detection also prompts consequences for insect flight. We have an emerging...
View ArticleData from: High monetary reward rates and caloric rewards decrease temporal...
Temporal persistence refers to an individual's capacity to wait for future rewards, while forgoing possible alternatives. This requires a trade-off between the potential value of delayed rewards and...
View ArticleData from: Predator discrimination in the hermit crab Calcinus...
Prey exposed to predators with different hunting and feeding modes are under different selective pressures, therefore it is expected that they should exhibit plastic and adaptive antipredator responses...
View ArticleData from: Propulsion in hexapod locomotion: how do desert ants traverse slopes?
The employment of an alternating tripod gait to traverse uneven terrains is a common characteristic shared among many hexapoda. Since this could be one specific cause for their ecological success, we...
View ArticleData from: The use of clamping grips and friction pads by tree frogs for...
Most studies on the adhesive mechanisms of climbing animals have addressed attachment against flat surfaces, yet many animals can climb highly curved surfaces, like twigs and small branches. Here we...
View ArticleData from: Trial-and-error copying of demonstrated actions reveals how...
Understanding how humans and other animals learn to perform an act from seeing it done has been a major challenge in the study of social learning. To determine whether this ability is based on ‘true...
View ArticleData from: Non-glandular trichomes of Solanum carolinense deter feeding by...
Plant trichomes constitute a first line of defence against insect herbivores. The pre- and post-ingestive defensive functions of glandular trichomes are well documented and include direct toxicity,...
View ArticleData from: Impacts of white-nose syndrome observed during long-term...
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging fungal disease suspected to have infected Indiana caves in the winter of 2010-2011.This disease strains cave-hibernating bats by forcing them to wake and use...
View ArticleData from: Functional preservation and variation in the cone opsin genes of...
The short-wavelength sensitive (S-) opsin gene OPN1SW is pseudogenized in some nocturnal primates and retained in others, enabling dichromatic colour vision. Debate on the functional significance of...
View ArticleData from: Extinctions, genetic erosion and conservation options for the...
The black rhinoceros is again on the verge of extinction due to unsustainable poaching in its native range. Despite a wide historic distribution, the black rhinoceros was traditionally thought of as...
View ArticleData from: Host specificity of Symbiodinium variants revealed by an ITS2...
Analysis of the widely used ITS region is confounded by the presence of intragenomic variants (IGVs). In Symbiodinium, the algal symbionts of reef building corals, deep-sequencing analyses are used to...
View ArticleData from: Evidence for mega-landslides as drivers of island colonization
Aim: How non-dispersive taxa colonize islands is generalized as being by wind, or rafting, with the implicit assumption that such events involve one (wind) or a few (rafting) individuals. However,...
View ArticleData from: A student-centered framework for teaching undergraduate parasitology
Many biology subdisciplines are re-evaluating their undergraduate curriculum amid changing student attitudes towards education. However, a modern framework for undergraduate parasitology has yet to be...
View ArticleData from: Gene flow and effective population sizes of the butterfly...
Understanding connectivity among populations in fragmented landscapes is of paramount importance in species conservation because it determines their long-term viability and helps to identify and...
View ArticleData from: The influence of dispersal on the realized trajectory of a pond...
Dispersal rates play a critical role in metacommunity dynamics, yet few studies have attempted to characterize dispersal rates for the majority of species in any natural community. Here we evaluate the...
View ArticleData from: Hybridization between two cryptic filamentous brown seaweeds along...
We aimed to study the importance of hybridization between two cryptic species of the genus Ectocarpus, a group of filamentous algae with haploid-diploid life cycles that include the principal genetic...
View ArticleData from: Patterns and predictors of β-diversity in the fragmented Brazilian...
1. Biodiversity maintenance in human-altered landscapes (HALs) depends on the species turnover among localities, but the patterns and determinants of β-diversity in HALs are poorly known. In fact,...
View ArticleData from: International collaboration and spatial dynamics of US patenting...
How did post-socialist transition and a parallel shift in international labor division restructure regional innovation systems in Central and Eastern Europe? This question is increasingly important,...
View ArticleData from: Using a butterflyfish genome as a general tool for RAD-Seq studies...
Data from a large-scale restriction site associated DNA (RAD-Seq) study of nine butterflyfish species in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea provided a means to test the utility of a recently published draft...
View ArticleData from: A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a...
The classification of the legume family proposed here addresses the long-known non-monophyly of the traditionally recognised subfamily Caesalpinioideae, by recognising six robustly supported...
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