Data from: Amino acid change in an orchid desaturase enables mimicry of the...
Mimicry illustrates the power of selection to produce phenotypic convergence in biology [ 1 ]. A striking example is the imitation of female insects by plants that are pollinated by sexual deception of...
View ArticleData from: The oldest actinopterygian highlights the cryptic early history of...
Osteichthyans comprise two divisions, each containing over 32,000 living species: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and tetrapods) and Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes). Recent discoveries from China...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenetic stability, tree shape, and character compatibility: a...
Phylogenetic tree shape varies as the evolutionary processes affecting a clade change over time. In this study, we examined an empirical phylogeny of fossil tetrapods during several time intervals, and...
View ArticleData from: Data sources for trait databases: comparing the phenomic content...
Databases of organismal traits that aggregate information from one or multiple sources can be leveraged for large-scale analyses in biology. Yet the differences among these data streams and how well...
View ArticleData from: Effect of phytoplankton richness on phytoplankton biomass is weak...
Positive effects of competitor species richness on competitor productivity can be more pronounced at a scale that includes heterogeneity in ‘bottom-up’ environmental factors, such as the supply of...
View ArticleData from: Genetic variation but weak genetic covariation between pre- and...
When females mate polyandrously, male reproductive success depends both on the male's ability to attain matings and his ability to outcompete rival males in the fertilization of ova post copulation....
View ArticleData from: Lost in the other half: improving accuracy in geometric...
Systematists and evolutionary biologists have widely adopted Procrustes-based geometric morphometrics for measuring size and shape in biology. Many structures, and in fact most animals, are bilaterally...
View ArticleData from: Species-level para- and polyphyly in DNA barcode gene trees:...
The proliferation of DNA data is revolutionizing all fields of systematic research. DNA barcode sequences, now available for millions of specimens and several hundred thousand species, are increasingly...
View ArticleData from: Morphological convergence between an allopolyploid and one of its...
The contribution of gene expression modulation to phenotypic evolution is of major importance to an understanding of the origin of divergent or convergent phenotypes during and following polyploid...
View ArticleData from: Descriptive epidemiology for turtles admitted to the North...
The North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine Turtle Rescue Team has been treating and releasing wild turtles since 1996 and has compiled a collection of almost 3,000 medical...
View ArticleData from: Beak colour dynamically signals changes in fasting status and...
Dynamic ornamental signals that vary over minutes, hours or weeks can yield continuous information on individual condition (e.g. energy reserves or immune status), and may therefore be under strong...
View ArticleData from: Pollination, mating and reproductive fitness in a plant population...
Mating patterns and natural selection play important roles in determining whether genetic polymorphisms are maintained or lost. Here, we document an atypical population of Lapeirousia anceps...
View ArticleData from: Linking landscape-scale differences in forage to ungulate...
Understanding how habitat and nutritional condition affect ungulate populations is necessary for informing management, particularly in areas experiencing carnivore recovery and declining ungulate...
View ArticleData from: Long live the alien: is high genetic diversity a pivotal aspect of...
Studying the evolutionary dynamics of an alien species surviving and continuing to expand after several generations can provide fundamental information on the relevant features of clearly successful...
View ArticleData from: Owenia fusiformis - a basally branching annelid suitable for...
Background: Comparative investigations on bilaterian neurogenesis shed light on conserved developmental mechanisms across taxa. With respect to annelids, most studies focus on taxa deeply nested within...
View ArticleData from: Identification and qualification of 500 nuclear, single-copy,...
The qualification of orthology is a significant challenge when developing large, multi-loci phylogenetic datasets from assembled transcripts. Transcriptome assemblies have various attributes, such as...
View ArticleData from: Unifying latitudinal gradients in range size and richness across...
Many marine and terrestrial clades show similar latitudinal gradients in species richness, but opposite gradients in range size—on land, ranges are the smallest in the tropics, whereas in the sea,...
View ArticleData from: Genome-wide SNP discovery in the annual herb, Lasthenia fremontii...
California vernal pool (VP) ecosystems support a diverse community of endemic plants that are threatened by multiple anthropogenic pressures, generating a need for molecular tools to quantify the...
View ArticleData from: Phenotypic and genomic differentiation of Arabidopsis thaliana...
Altitudinal gradients in mountain regions are short-range clines of different environmental parameters like temperature or radiation. We investigated genomic and phenotypic signatures of adaptation to...
View ArticleData from: Evolutionary melting pots: a biodiversity hotspot shaped by ring...
Hotspots of intraspecific genetic diversity, which are of primary importance for the conservation of species, have been associated to glacial refugia, i.e. areas where species survived the Quaternary...
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