Data from: A descending neuron correlated with the rapid steering maneuvers...
To navigate through the world, animals must stabilize their path against disturbances and change direction to avoid obstacles and to search for resources. Locomotion is thus guided by sensory cues but...
View ArticleData from: Effects of the group’s mix of sizes and personalities on the...
Although much work has analyzed how individual behavioral plasticity and adaptations to ecological conditions (e.g., density, sex-ratio, resource distribution) shape mating systems, few studies have...
View ArticleData from: Nonselective bottlenecks control the divergence and...
Phase variation occurs in many pathogenic and commensal bacteria and is a major generator of genetic variability. A putative advantage of phase variation is to counter reductions in variability imposed...
View ArticleData from: Gene flow from domesticated escapes alters the life history of...
Interbreeding between domesticated and wild animals occurs in several species. This gene flow has long been anticipated to induce genetic changes in life-history traits of wild populations, thereby...
View ArticleData from: Core genes evolve rapidly in the long-term evolution experiment...
Bacteria can evolve rapidly under positive selection owing to their vast numbers, allowing their genes to diversify by adapting to different environments. We asked whether the same genes that evolve...
View ArticleData from: Deep reticulation and incomplete lineage sorting obscure the...
Hybridization is a frequent and important force in plant evolution. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods offer new possibilities for clade resolution and ambitious sampling of gene genealogies, yet...
View ArticleData from: Heterogeneous distributional responses to climate warming:...
Background: Understanding whether species' elevational range is shifting in response to directional changes in climate and whether there is a predictable pattern in that response is one of the major...
View ArticleData from: Mechanotransduction current is essential for stability of the...
Mechanotransducer channels at the tips of sensory stereocilia of inner ear hair cells are gated by the tension of 'tip links' interconnecting stereocilia. To ensure maximal sensitivity, tip links are...
View ArticleData from: Age-graded dominance hierarchies and social tolerance in packs of...
It is believed that domestic dogs rarely form packs with age-graded hierarchical structures similar to those found in wolves. Dog-wolf comparisons in captivity suggest that human control has reduced...
View ArticleData from: No ecological opportunity signal on a continental scale?...
The niche-filling process predicted by the “ecological opportunity” (EO) model is an often-invoked mechanism for generating exceptional diversity in island colonizers. Whether the same process governs...
View ArticleData from: Root biomass and exudates link plant diversity with soil bacterial...
Plant diversity has been shown to determine the composition and functioning of soil biota. Although root-derived organic inputs are discussed as the main drivers of soil communities, experimental...
View ArticleData from: From animal tracks to fine-scale movement modes: a straightforward...
1. Thanks to developments in animal tracking technology, detailed data on the movement tracks of individual animals are now attainable for many species. However, straightforward methods to decompose...
View ArticleData from: Quantifying uncertainty of taxonomic placement in DNA barcoding...
A crucial step in the use of DNA markers for biodiversity surveys is the assignment of Linnaean taxonomies (species, genus, etc.) to sequence reads. This allows the use of all the information known...
View ArticleData from: Integrated species distribution models: combining...
Two main sources of data for species distribution models (SDMs) are site-occupancy (SO) data from planned surveys, and presence-background (PB) data from opportunistic surveys and other sources. SO...
View ArticleData from: A phylogenomic perspective on the biogeography of skinks in the...
Aim: The aim of our study was to reconstruct ancestral geographical distributions from time-calibrated phylogenies generated from phylogenomic data to answer three broad questions about the...
View ArticleData from: Retinal capillary rarefaction in patients with untreated...
Objective: Microvascular rarefaction influences peripheral vascular resistance, perfusion and metabolism by affecting blood pressure and flow pattern. In hypertension microvascular rarefaction has been...
View ArticleData from: Squamate Conserved Loci (SqCL): a unified set of conserved loci...
The identification of conserved loci across genomes, along with advances in target capture methods and high-throughput sequencing, has helped spur a phylogenomics revolution by enabling researchers to...
View ArticleData from: Core genes evolve rapidly in the long-term evolution experiment...
Bacteria can evolve rapidly under positive selection owing to their vast numbers, allowing their genes to diversify by adapting to different environments. We asked whether the same genes that evolve...
View ArticleData from: Dynamic population codes of multiplexed stimulus features in...
The middle-temporal area (MT) of primate visual cortex is critical in the analysis of visual motion. Single-unit studies suggest that the response dynamics of neurons within area MT depend on stimulus...
View ArticleData from: Recombination-dependent replication and gene conversion homogenize...
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: There is a misinterpretation in the literature regarding the variable orientation of the small single copy region of plastid genomes (plastomes). The common phenomenon of small...
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