Data from: Mouse fitness measures reveal incomplete functional redundancy of...
Here we assess the fitness consequences of the replacement of the Hoxa1 coding region with its paralog Hoxb1 in mice (Mus musculus) residing in semi-natural enclosures. Previously, this Hoxa1B1 swap...
View ArticleData from: Fine-scale population dynamics in a marine fish species inferred...
1. Identifying the spatial scale of population structuring is critical for the conservation of natural populations and for drawing accurate ecological inferences. However, population studies often use...
View ArticleData from: Functional responses in animal movement explain spatial...
1. Understanding why heterogeneity exists in animal-habitat spatial relationships is critical for identifying the drivers of animal distributions. Functional responses in habitat selection – whereby...
View ArticleData from: Multi-scale drivers of community diversity and composition across...
1. Despite recent advances in understanding community assembly processes, appreciating how these processes vary across multiple spatial scales and environmental gradients remains a crucial issue in...
View ArticleData from: Optimizing the spatial planning of prescribed burns to achieve...
1. There is potential for negative consequences for the ecological integrity of fire-dependent ecosystems as a result of inappropriate fire regimes. This can occur when asset (property) protection is...
View ArticleData from: Negative effects of pesticides under global warming can be...
1. An alarming finding for biodiversity is that global warming and pesticides often interact synergistically. Yet, this synergism may not capture the full picture because two counteracting processes...
View ArticleData from: A three decade assessment of climate-associated changes in forest...
1. Climate-associated changes in forest composition have been widely reported, particularly where changes in abiotic conditions have resulted in high mortality of sensitive species and have...
View ArticleData from: Restoration of endangered fen communities: the ambiguity of...
1.Low phosphorus (P) availability limits plant biomass production in fens, which is a prerequisite for the persistence of many endangered plant species. We hypothesized that P limitation is linked to...
View ArticleData from: Shifting barriers and phenotypic diversification by hybridisation
The establishment of hybrid taxa relies on reproductive isolation from the parental forms, typically achieved by ecological differentiation. Here, we present an alternative mechanism, in which shifts...
View ArticleData from: Experimental evidence that parasites drive eco-evolutionary feedbacks
Host resistance to parasites is a rapidly evolving trait that can influence how hosts modify ecosystems. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks may develop if the ecosystem effects of host resistance influence...
View ArticleData from: Tissue-specific transcriptome characterization for developing...
A potential cause of amphibian population declines are the impacts of environmental degradation on tadpole development. We conducted RNA sequencing on developing northern leopard frog tadpoles and...
View ArticleData from: Cross-modal influence of mechanosensory input on gaze responses to...
Animals typically combine inertial and visual information to stabilize their gaze against confounding self-generated visual motion, and to maintain a level gaze when the body is perturbed by external...
View ArticleData from: Generation of infectious recombinant Adeno-associated virus in...
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been successfully employed to establish model systems for a number of viruses. Such model systems are powerful tools to study the virus biology and in particular...
View ArticleData from: Classifying three imaginary states of the same upper extremity...
Brain-computer interface (BCI) allows collaboration between humans and machines. It translates the electrical activity of the brain to understandable commands to operate a machine or a device. In this...
View ArticleData from: Evolution of sociality in spiders leads to depleted genomic...
Across several animal taxa, the evolution of sociality involves a suite of characteristics, a ‘social syndrome’, that includes cooperative breeding, reproductive skew, primary female biased sex-ratio,...
View ArticleData from: Selection and drift influence genetic differentiation of insular...
Island populations have long been important for understanding the dynamics and mechanisms of evolution in natural systems. While genetic drift is often strong on is- lands due to founder events and...
View ArticleData from: Population genomic analysis of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus...
Previous genetic studies of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts have reported weak or temporally variable spatial structure, suggesting high gene flow among...
View ArticleData from: Patagonian Eocene Archaeopithecidae Ameghino, 1897 (Notoungulata):...
The Archaeopithecidae is a very poorly known group of native ungulates from the Eocene of Patagonia (Argentina), whose alpha taxonomy has remained obscure since Ameghino’s times. It is traditionally...
View ArticleData from: Stream fish community dynamics: a critical synthesis
Ecologists have long struggled to understand community dynamics. In this groundbreaking book, leading fish ecologists William Matthews and Edie Marsh-Matthews apply long-term studies of stream fish...
View ArticleData from: Comparison of reproductive investment in native and non-native...
Non-native animals can encounter very different environments than those they are adapted to. Functional changes in morphology, physiology and life-history following introduction show that organisms can...
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