Data from: Asynchronous hatching in a non-avian species: a test of the...
The hurry-up hypothesis suggests that completing reproduction as soon as possible is favoured when the quantity or quality of resources used for breeding declines over time. However, completing...
View ArticleData from: The ‘plant economic spectrum’ in bryophytes, a comparative study...
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Tradeoffs among functional traits of vascular plants are starting to be better understood, but it is unclear whether bryophytes possess similar tradeoffs or how trait...
View ArticleData from: Climate change may drive cave spiders to extinction
Subterranean ecosystems present ideal opportunities to study mechanisms underlying responses to changes in climate because species within them are often adapted to a largely constant temperature. We...
View ArticleData from: Replacing bold individuals has a smaller impact on group...
In many animal societies just one or few individuals, referred to as keystone individuals, can have a disproportionately large impact on collective outcomes. Despite ongoing interest in the...
View ArticleData from: Naturally occurring hybrids of coral reef butterflyfishes have...
Hybridisation can produce evolutionary novelty by increasing fitness and adaptive capacity. Heterosis, or hybrid vigour, has been documented in many plant and animal taxa, and is a notable consequence...
View ArticleData from: High fidelity: extra-pair fertilisations in eight Charadrius...
Extra-pair paternity is a common reproductive strategy in many bird species. However, it remains unclear why extra-pair paternity occurs and why it varies among species and populations. Plovers...
View ArticleData from: A unified model explains commonness and rarity on coral reefs
Abundance patterns in ecological communities have important implications for biodiversity maintenance and ecosystem functioning. However, ecological theory has been largely unsuccessful at capturing...
View ArticleData from: Plant performance was greater in the soils of more distantly...
Growing evidence suggests that plant–soil interactions have important implications for plant community composition. However, the role of phylogenetic relatedness in governing interactions between...
View ArticleData from: Linkage into care among newly diagnosed HIV positive individuals...
Objective: Linkage to care is the bridge between HIV testing and HIV treatment, care and support. In Tanzania, mobile testing aims to address historically low testing rates. Linkage to care was...
View ArticleData from: A quantitative electrophysiological biomarker of duplication...
Background: Duplications of 15q11.2-q13.1 (Dup15q syndrome) are highly penetrant for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A distinct electrophysiological (EEG) pattern characterized by excessive activity in...
View ArticleData from: Methodological considerations for detection of terrestrial...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) can be used as an assessment tool to detect populations of threatened species and provide fine-scale data required to make management decisions. The objectives of this project...
View ArticleData from: Bill morphology and neutral genetic structure both predict...
Adaptive evolutionary divergence within a population can be facilitated by associated divergence in mating signals. Acoustic signals are often involved in mate choice, and are also known to diverge...
View ArticleData from: Taxonomy-free molecular diatom index for high-throughput eDNA...
Current biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring are largely based on morphological identification of selected bioindicator taxa. Recently, several attempts have been made to use eDNA metabarcoding as...
View ArticleData from: Landscape features impact connectivity between soil populations: a...
Landscape features are known to alter the spatial genetic variation of above ground organisms. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the genetic structure of below ground organisms also responds to...
View ArticleData from: Floral function: effects of traits on pollinators, male and female...
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Central questions in plant reproductive ecology are whether the functions of floral traits in hermaphrodites create conflict between sexes that could slow evolution, and whether...
View ArticleData from: Specialists and generalists coexist within a population of...
Individual foraging specialization describes the phenomenon where conspecifics within a population of generalists exhibit differences in foraging behavior, each specializing on different prey types....
View ArticleData from: Assessing differences between ancestral recombination graphs
Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) represent the history of portions of a genome with recombination. Attempts to infer ARGs have been hampered by the lack of an ARG comparison metric which could be...
View ArticleData from: Investigating movement in the laboratory: dispersal apparatus...
The natural dispersal of Tribolium castaneum Herbst (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) has been emulated in the laboratory for more than 50 years, using a simple dispersal apparatus. This has typically...
View ArticleData from: Recruitment of reviewers is becoming harder at some journals: a...
Background: It is commonly reported by editors that it has become harder to recruit reviewers for peer review and that this is because individuals are being asked to review too often and are...
View ArticleData from: Systematics of the cosmopolitan aquatic genus Elatine
The cosmopolitan genus Elatine (Elatinaceae) includes about 25 aquatic species of mostly diminutive aquatic plants, whose relationships have not been evaluated using a phylogenetic approach. The...
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