Data from: Fossils matter: improved estimates of divergence times in Pinus...
Background: The taxonomy of pines (genus Pinus) is widely accepted and a robust gene tree based on entire plastome sequences exists. However, there is a large discrepancy in estimated divergence times...
View ArticleData from: Biodiversity in perennial and intermittent rivers: a meta-analysis
Comprehensive knowledge of the effects of disturbances on biodiversity is crucial for conservation and management, not least because ecosystems with low biodiversity may be the most vulnerable. In...
View ArticleData from: Time series data of a broadleaved secondary forest in Japan as...
Background: Abandonment of broadleaved secondary forests that have been used for various purposes may cause the loss of biodiversity. Some of these forests suffer from diseases such as Japanese oak...
View ArticleData from: Impact of predicted precipitation scenarios on multitrophic...
1. Predicted changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events in the UK have the potential to disrupt terrestrial ecosystem function. However, responses of different trophic levels to...
View ArticleData from: How a generalist bee achieves high efficiency of pollen collection...
Bees foraging for floral rewards are one of our most thoroughly studied examples of generalist foraging ecology. Generalist bees rely considerably on instrumental (associative) learning to acquire...
View ArticleData from: Nitrogen, phosphorus, and cation use efficiency in stands of...
Plants on infertile soils exhibit physiological and morphological traits that support conservative internal nutrient cycling. However, potential trade-offs among use efficiencies for N, P, and cations...
View ArticleData from: A landscape of coexistence for a large predator in a human...
Human related mortality is a major threat for large carnivores all over the world and there is increasing evidence that large predators respond to human related risks in a similar way as prey respond...
View ArticleData from: Relationship between high serum cystatin C levels and the risk of...
Aims: Serum cystatinC (CysC) has recently been shown to be associated with the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and progression to the pre-diabetic state. The aim of this study was to...
View ArticleData from: Socioeconomic determinants of antibiotic consumption in the state...
Background: Improper antibiotic use is one of the main drivers of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, increasing infectious diseases morbidity and mortality and raising costs of healthcare. The level...
View ArticleData from: Chironomus riparius (Diptera) genome sequencing reveals the impact...
Active transposable elements (TEs) may result in divergent genomic insertion and abundance patterns among conspecific populations. Upon secondary contact, such divergent genetic backgrounds can...
View ArticleData from: Pollinator identity and spatial isolation influence multiple...
The occurrence and extent of multiple paternity is an important component of variation in plant mating dynamics. However, links between pollinator activity and multiple paternity are generally lacking,...
View ArticleData from: Fossils matter: improved estimates of divergence times in Pinus...
Background: The taxonomy of pines (genus Pinus) is widely accepted and a robust gene tree based on entire plastome sequences exists. However, there is a large discrepancy in estimated divergence times...
View ArticleData from: Food webs obscure the strength of plant diversity effects on...
Plant diversity experiments generally find that increased diversity causes increased productivity; however, primary productivity is typically measured in the presence of a diverse food web, including...
View ArticleData from: Feasibility of nuclear ribosomal region ITS1 over ITS2 in...
Premise of the Study The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region is situated between 18S and 26S in a polycistronic rRNA precursor transcript. It had been proved to be the most commonly sequenced...
View ArticleData from: Environmental heterogeneity does not affect levels of phenotypic...
Adaptation of natural populations to variable environmental conditions may occur by changes in trait means and/or in the levels of plasticity. Theory predicts that environmental heterogeneity favors...
View ArticleData from: Switching among natal and auxiliary hosts increases vulnerability...
The role of insecticidal application and host plant resistance in managing Spodoptera exigua has been well documented but the effect of different host plants, on which the pest cycles its population in...
View ArticleData from: Incipient ecological speciation between successional varieties of...
Whereas disruptive selection imposed by heterogeneous environments can lead to the evolution of extrinsic isolating barriers between diverging populations, the evolution of intrinsic postzygotic...
View ArticleData from: Speciation network in Laurasiatheria: retrophylogenomic signals
Rapid species radiation due to adaptive changes or occupation of new ecospaces challenges our understanding of ancestral speciation and the relationships of modern species. At the molecular level,...
View ArticleData from: A consensus method for ancestral recombination graphs
We propose a consensus method for ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) that generates a single ARG representing commonalities among a cloud of ARGs defined for the same genomic region and set of taxa....
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