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1. Agricultural intensification is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss worldwide. Despite the introduction of semi-natural features in agricultural landscapes may have potential negative...
View ArticleData from: Constrasting global genetic patterns in two biologically similar,...
Human-mediated dispersal interplays with natural processes and complicates understanding of the biogeographical history of species. This is exemplified by two invasive tunicates, Ciona robusta...
View ArticleData from: Inferring muscle functional roles of the ostrich pelvic limb...
Owing to their cursorial background, ostriches (Struthio camelus) walk and run with high metabolic economy, can reach very fast running speeds and quickly execute cutting manoeuvres. These capabilities...
View ArticleData from: The genetic basis for ecological adaptation of the Atlantic...
Ecological adaptation is of major relevance to speciation and sustainable population management, but the underlying genetic factors are typically hard to study in natural populations due to genetic...
View ArticleData from: On the link between functional traits and growth rate:...
A plant's growth rate is seen as a central element of its ecological strategy, and as determined by its traits.Yet the literature is inconsistent about the empirical correlation between functional...
View ArticleData from: Estimating Bayesian phylogenetic information content
Measuring the phylogenetic information content of data has a long history in systematics. Here we explore a Bayesian approach to information content estimation. The entropy of the posterior...
View ArticleData from: The global antigenic diversity of swine influenza A viruses
Swine influenza presents a substantial disease burden for pig populations worldwide and poses a potential pandemic threat to humans. There is considerable diversity in both H1 and H3 influenza viruses...
View ArticleData from: A cure for the blues: opsin duplication and subfunctionalization...
Background: Arthropods have received much attention as a model for studying opsin evolution in invertebrates. Yet, relatively few studies have investigated the diversity of opsin proteins that underlie...
View ArticleData from: Comparative support for the expensive tissue hypothesis: big...
The brain is one of the most energetically expensive organs in the vertebrate body. Consequently, the energetic requirements of encephalization are suggested to impose considerable constraints on brain...
View ArticleData from: Ontogenetic thermal tolerance and performance of ectotherms at...
Early experience and environmental conditions during ontogeny may effect organismal structure, physiology and fitness. Here, we assessed the effect of developmental acclimation to environmental thermal...
View ArticleData from: Individual learning performance and exploratory activity are...
Learning plays an important role in the life of many animals. In social insects, colony foraging success depends on the combined actions of many individuals and learning contributes to individual...
View ArticleData from: Effects of fire regime on the population genetics of natural pine...
The recurrence of wildfires is predicted to increase worldwide due to climate change, resulting in severe impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. We used simple sequence repeat (SSR) and...
View ArticleData from: The impact of variable degrees of freedom and scale parameters in...
Three conventional Bayesian approaches (BayesA, BayesB and BayesCπ) have been demonstrated to be powerful in predicting genomic merit for complex traits in livestock. A priori, these Bayesian models...
View ArticleData from: Counting cats: spatially explicit population estimates of cheetah...
Many ecological theories and species conservation programmes rely on accurate estimates of population density. Accurate density estimation, especially for species facing rapid declines, requires the...
View ArticleData from: Spider phylogenomics: untangling the spider tree of life
Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over 380 million years. Spiders have long...
View ArticleData from: Characterization of Pythium spp. associated with asymptomatic...
Soybean production in Pennsylvania has increased substantially over the past twenty years and is a highly valued field crop together with corn. Soilborne pathogens such as Pythium spp. can contribute...
View ArticleData from: Shrub expansion of Alnus viridis drives former montane grassland...
The N2-fixing shrub Alnus viridis is currently encroaching on montane grasslands in the Alps as a result of reduced land management and complete abandonment. Alnus introduces large amounts of nitrogen...
View ArticleData from: The influence of balanced and imbalanced resource supply on...
Numerous studies show that increasing species richness leads to higher ecosystem productivity. This effect is often attributed to more efficient portioning of multiple resources in communities with...
View ArticleData from: Climate modifies response of non-native and native species...
Ecosystem eutrophication often increases domination by non-natives and causes displacement of native taxa. However, variation in environmental conditions may affect the outcome of interactions between...
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