Data from: Size-dependent ejaculation strategies and reproductive success in...
Theory predicts that sperm competition will favour the production of larger ejaculates. However, because the benefits of greater reproductive investment are balanced by the costs of spermatogenesis,...
View ArticleData from: Climate and anthropogenic factors determine site occupancy in...
Aim: In the light of human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC), populations are exposed to ever-greater bioclimatic stress at the edge of a species’ historic range. The distribution dynamics of...
View ArticleData from: Ethnically Tibetan women in Nepal with low hemoglobin...
Background and objectives: Tibetans have distinctively low hemoglobin concentrations at high altitudes compared with visitors and Andean highlanders. This study hypothesized that natural selection...
View ArticleData from: Rediscovering a forgotten canid species
Background: The African wolf, for which we herein recognise Canis lupaster Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1832 (Symbolae Physicae quae ex Itinere Africam Borealem er Asoam Occidentalem Decas Secunda. Berlin,...
View ArticleData from: Comparison of T2*-weighted and QSM contrasts in Parkinson's...
The subthalamic nucleus (STN) plays a crucial role in the surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). Studies investigating optimal protocols for STN visualization using state of the art magnetic...
View ArticleData from: Interactive effects of productivity and predation on zooplankton...
Recent studies suggest the necessity of understanding the interactive effects of predation and productivity on species coexistence and prey diversity. Models predict that coexistence of prey species...
View ArticleData from: Contextualizing macroecological laws: A big data analysis on...
We investigated the influence of different electrofishing methods on allometric scaling features of fish assemblages in lotic environments. The ultimate aim was to elucidate to which extent the...
View ArticleData from: Genetic variation for mitochondrial function in the New Zealand...
The proteins responsible for mitochondrial function are encoded by two different genomes with distinct inheritance regimes, rendering rigorous inference of genotype–phenotype connections intractable...
View ArticleData from: Microwear-mesowear congruence and mortality bias in rhinoceros...
Although we do not know the cause of death of most fossils, mortality is often associated with ecological stress due to seasonality and other stochastic events (storms, volcanism) that may have caused...
View ArticleData from: Genetic and individual assignment of tetraploid green sturgeon...
Polyploid organisms pose substantial obstacles to genetic analysis, as molecular assay data are usually difficult to evaluate in a Mendelian framework. Green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) is a...
View ArticleData from: A single multiplex of twelve microsatellite markers for the...
The management of hunted species is challenging, as it must conciliate the conservation of species and their sustainable exploitation. Non-genetic tools are widely used in this context but they may...
View ArticleData from: Taxonomic and functional assessment of mesopredator diversity...
A long-standing rule in ecology is that structural complexity increases abundance and diversity of organisms, but this paradigm glosses over potential trait-specific benefits of habitat structure...
View ArticleData from: Biological invasion modifies the co-occurrence patterns of insects...
1. Biological invasions have become one of the most important drivers of biodiversity loss and ecosystem change worldwide. However, it is still unclear how invasions may interact with local abiotic...
View ArticleData from: Begging blue tit nestlings discriminate between the odour of...
1. Offspring often solicit, and compete for, limited parental care by elaborate begging behaviour. Kin selection theory predicts that competing offspring should modify the intensity of their begging...
View ArticleData from: Resource availability and sexual size dimorphism: differential...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net selection pressures (e.g., sexual selection, fecundity selection, survival selection), but...
View ArticleData from: Plant functional composition affects soil processes in novel...
1. Secondary succession may lead to novel, exotic-dominated community states differing in structure and function from the original native counterparts. We hypothesized that grassland soil processes...
View ArticleData from: Immunocompetence in a long-lived ectothermic vertebrate is...
1. Temperature affects nearly all aspects of the physiology of ectotherms, including their ability to mount an immune response. Typically, the ectothermic vertebrate immune system can respond over a...
View ArticleData from: Offspring development and life-history variation in a water flea...
1. Theory predicts that offspring developmental strategies involve the integration of genetic, non-genetic and environmental ‘cues’. But it is unclear how cue integration is achieved during...
View ArticleData from: Comparative transcriptomics support evolutionary convergence of...
Diapause is a common phenotype that is broadly phylogenetically dispersed across Insecta and appears to have multiple evolutionary origins. Nevertheless, there are clear commonalities in diapause...
View ArticleData from: Limited genomic consequences of hybridization between two African...
The Cape platanna, Xenopus gilli, an endangered frog, hybridizes with the African clawed frog, X. laevis, in South Africa. Estimates of the extent of gene flow between these species range from...
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