Data from: Contemporary genetic structure and post-glacial demographic...
Understanding the distribution of genetic diversity in light of past demographic events linked with climatic shifts will help to forecast evolutionary trajectories of ecosystems within the current...
View ArticleData from: Heritable gene expression differences between apomictic clone...
Background: Asexual reproduction has the potential to enhance deleterious mutation accumulation and to constrain adaptive evolution. One source of mutations that can be especially relevant in recent...
View ArticleData from: The impact of tropical forest logging and oil palm agriculture on...
Selective logging and forest conversion to oil palm agriculture are rapidly altering tropical forests. However, functional responses of the soil microbiome to these land use changes are poorly...
View ArticleData from: Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons
Social relationships have profound effects on health in humans and other primates, but the mechanisms that explain this relationship are not well understood. Using shotgun metagenomic data from wild...
View ArticleData from: Distribution patterns of microbial communities in ultramafic...
Microbial species richness and assemblages across ultramafic ecosystems were investigated to assess the relationship between their distributional patterns and environmental traits. The structure of...
View ArticleData from: Survival to independence in relation to pre-fledging development...
Species differ strongly in their life histories, including the probability of survival. Annual adult survival was investigated extensively in the past, whereas juvenile survival, and especially...
View ArticleData from: Understanding nutrient dynamics in an African savanna: local...
Nutrient availability in terrestrial ecosystems has been found to vary along regional climatic and soil gradients and drive variation in plant community composition and vegetation structure. However,...
View ArticleData from: Bees learn preferences for plant species that offer only pollen as...
The astonishing diversity of floral form in angiosperm plants is driven in large part by preferences of pollinators for various floral traits, including learned preferences. Remarkably, almost all of a...
View ArticleData from: Akt-mTORC1 signaling regulates Acly to integrate metabolic input...
Macrophage activation/polarization to distinct functional states is critically supported by metabolic shifts. How polarizing signals coordinate metabolic and functional reprogramming, and the potential...
View ArticleData from: Interacting with the enemy: indirect effects of personality on...
In animal contests, individuals respond plastically to the phenotypes of the opponents that they confront. These ‘opponent’ – or ‘indirect’ – effects are often repeatable, e.g., certain opponents...
View ArticleData from: Microbial diversity in the floral nectar of Linaria vulgaris along...
Background Microbes are common inhabitants of floral nectar and are capable of influencing plant-pollinator interactions. All studies so far investigated microbial communities in floral nectar in plant...
View ArticleData from: Functional diversity enhances silver fir growth resilience to an...
It is expected that extreme climate events such as droughts will increase both in severity and intensity as a consequence of forecasted climate change. Complementarity among tree species in resource...
View ArticleData from: Plant toxin levels in nectar vary spatially across native and...
Secondary compounds in nectar can function as toxic chemical defences against floral antagonists, but may also mediate plant-pollinator interactions. Despite their ecological importance, few studies...
View ArticleData from: Introduced Drosophila subobscura populations perform better than...
The success of invasive species is tightly linked to their fitness in a putatively novel environment. While quantitative components of fitness have been studied extensively in the context of invasive...
View ArticleData from: Intrinsic differences between males and females determine...
Background Inbreeding increases homozygosity and exposes deleterious recessive alleles, generally decreasing the fitness of inbred individuals. Interestingly, males and females are usually affected...
View ArticleData from: Macroevolutionary dynamics in the early diversification of Asteraceae
Spatial and temporal differences in ecological opportunity can result in disparity of net species diversification rates and consequently uneven distribution of taxon richness across the tree of life....
View ArticleData from: Toxicity and population structure of the Rough-Skinned Newt...
Species interactions, and their fitness consequences, vary across the geographic range of a coevolutionary relationship. This spatial heterogeneity in reciprocal selection is predicted to generate a...
View ArticleData from: Independent origins of resistance or susceptibility of parasitic...
Insect microbe associations are diverse, widespread, and influential. Among the fitness effects of microbes on their hosts, defense against natural enemies is increasingly recognized as ubiquitous,...
View ArticleData from: Genetic correlations and little genetic variance for reaction...
For natural populations to adapt to anthropogenic threats, heritable variation must persist in tolerance traits. Silver nanoparticles, the most widely used engineered nanoparticles, are expected to...
View ArticleData from: Candidate gene analysis suggests untapped genetic complexity in...
Studies on melanin-based color variation in a context of natural selection have provided a wealth of information on the link between phenotypic and genetic variation. Here, we evaluated associations...
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