Data from: Recognition of endophytic Trichoderma species by leaf-cutting ants...
Interactions between leaf-cutting ants, their fungal symbiont (Leucoagaricus) and the endophytic fungi within the vegetation they carry into their colonies are still poorly understood. If endophytes...
View ArticleData from: No evidence for strong cytonuclear conflict over sex allocation in...
Background Cytoplasmic sex allocation distorters, which arise from cytonuclear conflict over the optimal investment into male versus female reproductive function, are some of the best-researched...
View ArticleData from: Resource availability, not polyandry, influences sibling conflict...
Conflict over resources is a fundamental component of family life. Family conflicts are predicted to be strongly influenced by resource availability and levels of relatedness between family members....
View ArticleData from: Mate choice in sticklebacks reveals that immunogenes can drive...
Adaptation to ecologically contrasting niches can lead to the formation of new species. Theoretically, this process of ecological speciation can be driven by pleiotropic ‘magic traits’ that genetically...
View ArticleData from: Integrating local knowledge and research to refine the management...
1. Globally the prevalence and impact of invasive non-native plant species is increasing rapidly. Experimentally-based research aimed at supporting management is limited in its ability to keep up with...
View ArticleData from: Managing trap-nesting bees as crop pollinators: spatiotemporal...
1. The decline of managed honeybees and the rapid expansion of mass-flowering crops increase the risk of pollination limitation in crops and raise questions about novel management approaches for wild...
View ArticleData from: Artificial light at night alters trophic interactions of...
Despite being globally widespread in coastal regions, the impacts of light pollution on intertidal ecosystems has received little attention. Intertidal species exhibit many night-time-dependent...
View ArticleData from: Root morphology and mycorrhizal type strongly influence root...
1. Plants compete for nutrients using a range of strategies. We investigated nutrient foraging within nutrient hot-spots simultaneously available to plant species with diverse root traits. We...
View ArticleData from: Predicting peatland carbon fluxes from non-destructive plant traits
1. Determining the plant traits that best predict carbon (C) storage is increasingly important as global change drivers will affect plant species composition and ecosystem C cycling. Despite the...
View ArticleData from: MycoDB, a global database of plant response to mycorrhizal fungi
Plants form belowground associations with mycorrhizal fungi in one of the most common symbioses on Earth. However, few large-scale generalizations exist for the structure and function of mycorrhizal...
View ArticleData from: Geographic patterns of song variation reveal timing of song...
Geographic patterns of song variation are common in passerines and can develop as a consequence of the mechanisms of song acquisition and dispersal. In particular, the timing of dispersal relative to...
View ArticleData from: Infectious disease dynamics inferred from genetic data via...
Genetic sequences from pathogens can provide information about infectious disease dynamics that may supplement or replace information from other epidemiological observations. Most currently available...
View ArticleData from: Social conflict and costs of cooperation in meerkats are reflected...
Measures of glucocorticoid stress hormones (e.g. cortisol) have often been used to characterize conflict between subordinates and dominants. In cooperative breeders where subordinates seldom breed in...
View ArticleData from: Lineage diversity and size disparity in Musteloidea: testing...
Adaptive radiation is hypothesized to be a primary mechanism that drives the remarkable species diversity and morphological disparity across the Tree of Life. Tests for adaptive radiation in extant...
View ArticleData from: Gene flow, ancient polymorphism, and ecological adaptation shape...
Genomic comparisons of closely related species have identified “islands” of locally elevated sequence divergence. Genomic islands may contain functional variants involved in local adaptation or...
View ArticleData from: Competition drives the response of soil microbial diversity to...
Scientists have largely neglected the effects of grazing on soil microbial communities despite their importance as drivers of ecosystem functions and services. We hypothesised that changes in soil...
View ArticleData from: Fire coral clones demonstrate phenotypic plasticity among reef...
Clonal populations are often characterised by reduced levels of genotypic diversity, which can translate into lower numbers of functional phenotypes, both of which impede adaptation. Study of partially...
View ArticleData from: Resolving rapid radiations within angiosperm families using...
Despite the promise that molecular data would provide a seemingly unlimited source of independent characters, many plant phylogenetic studies are still based on only two regions, the plastid genome and...
View ArticleData from: Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular...
The ~1.6 Ga Tirohan Dolomite of the Lower Vindhyan in central India contains phosphatized stromatolitic microbialites. We report from there uniquely well-preserved fossils interpreted as crown-group...
View ArticleData from: Evolved genetic and phenotypic differences due to...
The oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) pathway is responsible for most aerobic ATP production and is the only pathway with both nuclear and mitochondrial encoded proteins. The importance of the...
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