Data from: Individual aggression, but not winner-loser effects, predicts...
Many factors can affect the probability for an individual to obtain a high social rank, including size, weaponry, and behavioral attributes such as aggression. Recent experiences of winning or losing...
View ArticleData from: Elevated mitochondrial genome variation after 50 generations of...
Currently, the effects of chronic, continuous low dose environmental irradiation on the mitochondrial genome of resident small mammals are unknown. Using the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) as a model...
View ArticleData from: Co-occurrence and hybridization of anther-smut pathogens...
Host specialization has important consequences for the diversification and ecological interactions of obligate pathogens. The anther-smut disease of natural plant populations, caused by Microbotryum...
View ArticleData from: Asexual Queen Succession mediates an accelerated colony life cycle...
Mixed modes of reproduction, combining sexual processes with thelytokous parthenogenesis, occur in all major clades of social insects. In several species of termites, queens maximize their genetic...
View ArticleData from: Species colonisation, not competitive exclusion, drives community...
Ecological communities often transition from phylogenetic and functional clustering to overdispersion over succession as judged by space-for-time substitution studies. Such a pattern has been generally...
View ArticleData from: Quantifying the similarity between genes and geography across...
Aim: Quantitatively evaluate the similarity of genomic variation and geography in five different alpine small mammals in Alaska, and use this quantitative assessment of concordance as a framework for...
View ArticleData from: Biogeographical evidence for common vicariance and rare dispersal...
Aim: Species or higher taxa that are obviously dispersal-limited, but which occupy large geographical distributions, represent a biogeographical paradox. Dispersal must have happened, likely under...
View ArticleData from: Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection
Climate change has the potential to affect the ecology and evolution of every species on Earth. Although the ecological consequences of climate change are increasingly well documented, the effects of...
View ArticleData from: Remote sensing of plant trait responses to field-based plant–soil...
Plant responses to biotic and abiotic legacies left in soil by preceding plants is known as plant–soil feedback (PSF). PSF is an important mechanism to explain plant community dynamics and plant...
View ArticleData from: Genome-wide SNPs resolve a key conflict between sequence and...
Conflicting results from different molecular datasets have long confounded our ability to characterise species boundaries. Here we use genome-wide SNP data and an expanded allozyme dataset to resolve...
View ArticleData from: Neutron imaging investigation of fossil woods: non-destructive...
This paper discusses the applicability of neutron imaging techniques for probing the internal microstructure of several fossil woods upon wetting and drying, two phenomena occurring in museum cabinets...
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...
View ArticleData from: Hidden dynamics in the unfolding of individual bacteriorhodopsin...
Protein folding occurs as a set of transitions between structural states within an energy landscape. An oversimplified view of the folding process emerges when transiently populated states are...
View ArticleData from: Complementary mechanisms for upright balance during walking
Lateral balance is a critical factor in keeping the human body upright during walking. Two important mechanisms for balance control are the stepping strategy, in which the foot placement is changed in...
View ArticleData from: Integrative taxonomy of root-knot nematodes reveals multiple...
During sampling of several Coffea arabica plantations in Tanzania severe root galling, caused by a root-knot nematode was observed. From pure cultures, morphology and morphometrics of juveniles and...
View ArticleData from: Functional anatomy of the cervical region in the late Miocene...
We describe the skull and neck morphology of the late Miocene amphicyonid Magericyon anceps, focusing on aspects related to functional anatomy. This species, recorded only from the Vallesian sites of...
View ArticleData from: How cuckoos find and choose host nests for parasitism
How cuckoos find the nests of their hosts and choose nests with respect to egg phenotype for parasitism is a long-standing puzzle that has so far not been solved. We recently developed an experimental...
View ArticleData from: Ocean research priorities: similarities and differences among...
Understanding and solving complex ocean conservation problems requires cooperation not just among scientific disciplines but also across sectors. A recently published survey that probed research...
View ArticleData from: Genome-wide survey of nuclear protein-coding markers for beetle...
Beetles (Coleoptera) are the most diverse and species-rich insect group, representing an impressive explosive radiation in the evolutionary history of insects, and their evolutionary relationships are...
View ArticleData from: Carbon stocks and dynamics at different successional stages in an...
As a result of different types of disturbance, forests are a mixture of stands at different stages of ecological succession. Successional stage is likely to influence forest productivity and carbon...
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