Data from: Limits of use of social media for monitoring biosecurity events
Compared to applications that trigger massive information streams, like earthquakes and human disease epidemics, the data input for agricultural and environmental biosecurity events (ie. the...
View ArticleData from: Rapid evolution of distinct Helicobacter pylori subpopulations in...
For the last 500 years, the Americas have been a melting pot both for genetically diverse humans and for the pathogenic and commensal organisms associated with them. One such organism is the...
View ArticleData from: Age, pathogen exposure, but not maternal care shape offspring...
Background. To optimize their resistance against pathogen infection, individuals are expected to find the right balance between investing into the immune system and other life history traits. In...
View ArticleData from: Sunrise in the city: disentangling drivers of the avian dawn...
Urban systems are known to have a number of effects on avian diversity, density, and morphological and behavioral traits. However, no study to date has simultaneously examined the wide range of urban...
View ArticleData from: Genotyping-by-sequencing provides the first well-resolved...
A comprehensive and meaningful phylogenetic hypothesis for the commercially important coffee genus (Coffea) has long been a key objective for coffee researchers. For molecular studies, progress has...
View ArticleData from: Pollutants and insecticides drive local adaptation in African...
The Anopheles gambiae complex contains a number of highly anthropophilic mosquito species that have acquired exceptional ability to thrive in complex human habitats. Thus, examining the evolutionary...
View ArticleData from: Strain identification and quorum sensing inhibition...
A novel strategy for combating pathogens is through the ongoing development and use of anti-quorum sensing (QS) treatments such as therapeutic bacteria or their anti-QS substances. Relatively little is...
View ArticleData from: Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving on an observed...
We explored bees’ behavioral flexibility in a task that required transporting a small ball to a defined location to gain a reward. Bees were pretrained to know the correct location of the ball....
View ArticleData from: Causes of ecological gradients in leaf margin entirety: evaluating...
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: A recent commentary by Edwards et al. (Am. J. Bot. 103: 975–978) proposed that constraints imposed by the packing of young leaves in buds could explain the positive association...
View ArticleData from: Effects of extreme temperatures on the growth and photosynthesis...
Temperatures are expected to fluctuate widely under climate change but little is known about how extreme temperatures might affect the physiology and performance of invasive compared to native plant...
View ArticleData from: Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity,...
Drought events are increasing globally, and reports of consequent forest mortality are widespread. However, due to a lack of a quantitative global synthesis, it is still not clear whether...
View ArticleData from: Conflicting selection alters the trajectory of molecular evolution...
Bacteria engage in a complex network of ecological interactions, which includes mobile genetic elements (MGEs) such as phages and plasmids. These elements play a key role in microbial communities as...
View ArticleData from: Parental coordination with respect to colour polymorphism in a...
In many taxa, success in parental care requires the coordinated efforts of both parents. Given the evolutionary potential of parental performance, as well as phenotype-related behavioural differences,...
View ArticleData from: Lassa virus in multimammate rats, Côte d’Ivoire, 2013
Lassa fever is a zoonosis caused by Lassa virus (LASV; family Arenaviridae, genus Lassavirus). The primary reservoir of LASV is the multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensis), which is found throughout...
View ArticleData from: Large brains and groups associated with high rates of agonism in...
Animals living in social groups will almost inevitably experience competition for limited resources. One consequence of competition can be agonism, an activity that is not only costly to participate in...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenomic systematics of Ostariophysan fishes: ultraconserved...
Ostariophysi is a superorder of bony fishes including more than 10,300 species in 1,100 genera and 70 families. This superorder is traditionally divided into five major groups (orders):...
View ArticleData from: Early social experience shapes female mate choice in guppies
Mating decisions are often plastic and individuals adjust their decisions depending on the social and ecological environment. Whilst the implications of the social environment on mate choice has been...
View ArticleData from: Immune priming specificity within and across generations reveals...
1. Many organisms can improve their immune response as a function of their immunological experience or that of their parents. This phenomenon, called immune priming, has likely evolved from repetitive...
View ArticleData from: Get smart: native mammal develops toad-smart behavior in response...
Although invasive species can cause major declines in native populations, some individuals in a native population are better equipped to deal with the threat than others. Existing trait variation –...
View ArticleData from: Assortative mating by colored ornaments in blue tits: space and...
Assortative mating is a potential outcome of sexual selection and estimating its level is important to better understand local adaptation and underlying trait evolution. However, assortative mating...
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