Data from: Coping with strong variations in winter severity: plastic habitat...
Few empirical studies on large herbivores considered how behavioral plasticity could enhance their capacity to cope with rapid and extreme changes in weather conditions at several spatio-temporal...
View ArticleData from: Land cover diversity increases predator aggregation and...
A lower diversity of land cover types is purported to decrease arthropod diversity in agroecosystems and is dependent on patterns of land use and fragmentation. Ants, important providers of ecosystem...
View ArticleData from: Association of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T with mortality...
Objective: The prognostic value of cardiac troponins in apparently healthy populations is not well established. The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic properties of high-sensitivity...
View ArticleData from: Effect of HIV and malaria parasites co-infection on...
Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and malaria co-infection may present worse health outcomes in the tropics. Information on HIV/malaria co-infection effect on immune-hematological profiles...
View ArticleData from: Gene-tree reconciliation with MUL-trees to resolve polyploidy events
Polyploidy can have a huge impact on the evolution of species, and it is a common occurrence, especially in plants. The two types of polyploids – autopolyploids and allopolyploids – differ in the level...
View ArticleData from: Evaluation of mowing frequency on right-of-way plant communities...
Abstract: Native grasses and native wildflowers are declining, especially along roadside right-of-ways due to intensive mowing and herbicide management practices. Roadside right-of-ways undergo regular...
View ArticleData from: A 3,000 year record of Caribbean reef urchin communities reveals...
Urchins are the last abundant grazers of macroalgae on most Caribbean reefs following the historical overexploitation of herbivorous fishes. The long-spined urchin Diadema antillarum was particularly...
View ArticleData from: The fitness effect of mutations across environments: Fisher’s...
When are mutations beneficial in one environment and deleterious in another? More generally, what is the relationship between mutation effects across environments? These questions are crucial to...
View ArticleData from: Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds
Wildfires play an important role in vegetation composition and structure, nutrient fluxes, human health and wealth, and are interlinked with climate change. Plants have an influence on wildfire...
View ArticleData from: Restructuring higher taxonomy using broad-scale phylogenomics: the...
The power and throughput of next-generation sequencing is instigating a major transformation in our understanding of evolution and classification of life on our planet. The new trees of life are robust...
View ArticleData from: Breeding synchrony and extrapair paternity in a species with...
Breeding synchrony may affect the tradeoff between pursuing multiple mates and avoiding paternity loss, translating into differences in the rate of extrapair paternity (EPP). However, diverse empirical...
View ArticleData from: Tadpole begging reveals high quality
Parents can benefit from allocating limited resources non-randomly among offspring, and offspring solicitation (i.e., begging) is often hypothesized to evolve because it contains information valuable...
View ArticleData from: Proximal methylation features associated with nonrandom changes in...
Background: Gene body methylation at CG dinucleotides is a widely conserved feature of methylated genomes, but remains poorly understood. The Arabidopsis thaliana strain Cvi has depleted gene body...
View ArticleData from: Intrinsic factors drive spatial genetic variation in a highly...
Knowledge of dispersal in a species, both its quantity and the factors influencing it, are crucial for our understanding of ecology and evolution, and for species conservation. Here we quantified and...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of stinging wasps and the...
The stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are an extremely diverse lineage of hymenopteran insects, encompassing over 70,000 described species and a diversity of life history traits, including...
View ArticleData from: Smart wing rotation and trailing-edge vortices enable high...
Mosquitoes exhibit unusual wing kinematics; their long, slender wings flap at remarkably high frequencies for their size (>800 Hz)and with lower stroke amplitudes than any other insect group1. This...
View ArticleData from: Young inversion with multiple linked QTLs under selection in a...
Fixed chromosomal inversions can reduce gene flow and promote speciation in two ways: by suppressing recombination and by carrying locally favoured alleles at multiple loci. However, it is unknown...
View ArticleData from: Forty years of seagrass population stability and resilience in an...
Coasts and estuaries contain among the most productive and ecologically important habitats in the world and face intense pressure from current and projected human activities, including coastal...
View ArticleData from: Propagule pressure increase and phylogenetic diversity decrease...
Invasions pose a large threat to native species, but the question of why some species are more invasive, and some communities more prone to invasions than others, is far from solved. Using ten...
View ArticleData from: Single molecule sequencing resolves the detailed structure of...
Highly-repetitive satellite DNA (satDNA) repeats are found in most eukaryotic genomes. SatDNAs are rapidly evolving and have roles in genome stability and chromosome segregation. Their repetitive...
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