Data from: Widespread patterns of sexually dimorphic gene expression in an...
The hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis is a key biological system required for reproduction and associated sexual behaviors to occur. In the avian reproductive model of the rock dove (Columba...
View ArticleData from: Ploidy elicits a whole-genome dosage effect: growth of triploid...
Background: The Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry is investigating the feasibility of using sterile triploids to mitigate genetic interactions with wild conspecifics, however, studies investigating...
View ArticleData from: Density dependence in demography and dispersal generates...
Density dependence plays an important role in population regulation and is known to generate temporal fluctuations in population density. However, the ways in which density dependence affects spatial...
View ArticleData from: Personality, immune response and reproductive success: an...
1. The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis is an extended concept of the life history theory that includes behavioural traits. The studies challenging the POLS hypothesis often focus on the...
View ArticleData from: Long-term species loss and homogenization of moth communities in...
1. As global biodiversity continues to decline steeply, it is becoming increasingly important to understand diversity patterns at local and regional scales. 2. Changes in land use and climate, nitrogen...
View ArticleData from: Forest restoration as a double-edged sword: the conflict between...
1. Forestry has markedly changed a large proportion of the world’s boreal forests, often with negative effects on biodiversity. As a result, forest restoration is increasingly implemented to counteract...
View ArticleData from: The effects of climate warming and disturbance on the colonization...
1. A large number of alien plant species have been introduced as ornamental garden plants to Europe, but relatively few have become invasive. Low climatic suitability may be limiting the current...
View ArticleData from: Root and shoot glucosinolate allocation patterns follow optimal...
1. Optimal defence allocation theory (ODT) is one of the most prominent theoretical frameworks to explain the allocation of defence compounds within plants. It predicts that the most valuable and...
View ArticleData from: Ecological interactions and coexistence are predicted by gene...
Phenotypic variation controls the species interactions which determine whether or not species coexist. Long-standing hypotheses in ecology and evolution posit that phenotypic differentiation enables...
View ArticleData from: In the presence of specialist root and shoot herbivory,...
1. The evolution of increased competitive ability (EICA) hypothesis predicts that release from specialist herbivores enables invasive plants to evolve increased growth. The most powerful tests of EICA...
View ArticleData from: Transcriptomic responses to conspecific and congeneric competition...
Species coexistence requires differential response to inter- and intraspecific competition, typically conceptualized as niche differentiation. Coexistence of close relatives therefore poses an...
View ArticleData from: Logging increases the functional and phylogenetic dispersion of...
1. Logging is a major driver of tropical forest degradation, with severe impacts on plant richness and composition. Rarely have these effects been considered in terms of their impact on the functional...
View ArticleData from: Conflicts at work are associated with a higher risk of...
Background: Only few authors have analyzed the impact of workplace conflicts and the resulting stress on the risk of developing cardiovascular disorders. The goal of this study was to analyze the...
View ArticleData from: Rat retinal vasomotion assessed by laser speckle imaging
Vasomotion is spontaneous or induced rhythmic changes in vascular tone or vessel diameter that lead to rhythmic changes in flow. While the vascular research community debates the physiological and...
View ArticleData from: Contributions of feather microstructure to eider down insulation...
Insulation is an essential component of nest structure that helps provide incubation requirements for birds. Many species of waterfowl breed in high latitudes where rapid heat loss can necessitate a...
View ArticleData from: Impacts of temperature and lunar day on gene expression profiles...
Reproductive timing in brooding corals has been correlated to temperature and lunar irradiance, but the mechanisms by which corals transduce these environmental variables into molecular signals is...
View ArticleData from: Congruent population structure across paralogous and...
Whole genome duplications are major evolutionary events with a lasting impact on genome structure. Duplication events complicate genetic analyses as paralogous sequences are difficult to distinguish,...
View ArticleData from: Multi-DICE: R package for comparative population genomic inference...
Population genetic data from multiple taxa can address comparative phylogeographic questions about community-scale response to environmental shifts, and a useful strategy to this end is to employ...
View ArticleData from: Likelihood of tree topologies with fossils and diversification...
Since the diversification process cannot be directly observed at the human scale, it has to be studied from the information available, namely the extant taxa and the fossil record. In this sense,...
View ArticleData from: Fine-scale population genetic structure of the Bengal tiger...
Despite massive global conservation strategies, tiger populations continued to decline until recently, mainly due to habitat loss, human-animal conflicts, and poaching. These factors are known to...
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