Data from: Aggressive behaviours, food deprivation and the foraging gene
A pleiotropic gene governs multiple traits, which might constrain the evolution of complexity due to conflicting selection on these traits. However, if the pleiotropic effect is modular, then this can...
View ArticleData from: How parallel is parallel evolution? A comparative analysis in fishes
Evidence of phenotypic parallelism is often used to infer the deterministic role played by natural selection. However, variation in the extent or direction of divergence is often evident among...
View ArticleData from: Convergently evolved toxic secondary metabolites in plants drive...
Natural selection imposed by natural toxins has led to striking levels of convergent evolution at the molecular level. Cardiac glycosides represent a group of plant toxins that block the Na,K-ATPase, a...
View ArticleData from: Genetic correlations among developmental and contextual behavioral...
Correlations among traits, including behaviors, are important because traits that are genetically correlated may not evolve independently. Recently, behavioral correlations research has expanded to...
View ArticleData from: Decreasing stoichiometric resource quality drives compensatory...
Living organisms are constrained by both resource quantity and quality. Ecological stoichiometry offers important insights into how the elemental composition of resources affects their consumers. If...
View ArticleData from: The ‘male escape hypothesis’: sex-biased metamorphosis in response...
Paedomorphosis is a major evolutionary process that bypasses metamorphosis and allows reproduction in larvae. In newts and salamanders, it can be facultative with paedomorphs retaining gills and...
View ArticleData from: Hydrodynamic regime determines the feeding success of larval fish...
Larval fishes experience extreme mortality rates, with 99% of a cohort perishing within days after starting to actively feed. While recent evidence suggests that hydrodynamic factors contribute to...
View ArticleData from: Polydomy enhances foraging performance in ant colonies
Collective foraging confers benefits in terms of reduced predation risk and access to social information, but it heightens local competition when resources are limited. In social insects, resource...
View ArticleData from: Rapid polygenic response to secondary contact in a hybrid species
Secondary contact between closely related species can have genetic consequences. Competition for essential resources may lead to divergence in heritable traits that reduces interspecific competition,...
View ArticleData from: Adaptation to a latitudinal thermal gradient within a widespread...
Understanding how populations adapt to heterogeneous thermal regimes is essential for comprehending how latitudinal gradients in species diversification are formed, and how taxa will respond to ongoing...
View ArticleData from: Social learning and the demise of costly cooperation in humans
Humans have a sophisticated ability to learn from others, termed social learning, which has allowed us to spread over the planet, construct complex societies, and travel to the moon. It has been...
View ArticleData from: Habitat-related variation in the plasticity of a UV sensitive...
Plastic phenotypes are expected to be favoured in heterogeneous environments compared with stable environments. Sensory systems are interesting to test this theory because they are costly to produce...
View ArticleData from: ‘Same procedure as last year?' - Repeatedly tracked swifts show...
Individual migration pattern during non-breeding season is still a black box in many migratory birds. However, knowledge on both individual level and population level in migration and overwintering is...
View ArticleData from: Rates of hypoxia induction alter mechanisms of O2 uptake and the...
The rate of hypoxia induction (RHI) is an important but overlooked dimension of environmental hypoxia that may affect an organism's survival. We hypothesized that, compared with rapid RHI, gradual RHI...
View ArticleData from: Divergent plant–soil feedbacks could alter future elevation ranges...
Plant–soil feedbacks (PSF) are important interactions that may influence range dynamics in a changing world. What remains largely unknown is the generality of plant–soil biotic interactions across...
View ArticleData from: Color-biased dispersal inferred by fine-scale genetic spatial...
Behavioral traits can be influenced by predation rates of color morphs, potentially leading to reduced boldness or increased escape behaviors in one color morph. The red-backed salamander, Plethodon...
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: Enhanced ecosystem functioning following stream restoration: the...
1. Habitat restoration is increasingly undertaken in degraded streams and rivers to help improve biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Follow-up assessments focused on outcomes for biodiversity have...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenetic relationships among members of the neotropical clade...
The phylogenetic relationships among members of the Neotropical clade of Miliuseae were inferred using Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood, and parsimony on a dataset of six plastid regions (ndhF,...
View ArticleData from: Seasonal variation in behavioral thermoregulation and predator...
Understanding behavioral responses of animals to the thermal environment is of increasing importance under changing climate regimes. Thermoregulatory behaviors, such as exploitation of thermal refugia...
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