Data from: Evolutionary metabolomics reveals domestication-associated changes...
Domestication and breeding have influenced the genetic structure of plant populations due to selection for adaptation from natural habitats to agro-ecosystems. Here, we investigate the effects of...
View ArticleData from: Biocontrol insect impacts population growth of its target plant...
Understanding the impact of herbivory on plant populations is a fundamental goal of ecology. Damage to individual plants can be visually striking and affect the fates of individuals, but these impacts...
View ArticleData from: The potential of hyperspectral patterns of winter wheat to detect...
Reliable information on soil status and crop health is crucial for detecting and mitigating disasters like pollution or minimizing impact from soil-borne diseases. While infestation with an aggressive...
View ArticleData from: Fitness consequences of artificial selection on relative male...
Male genitalia often show remarkable differences among related species in size, shape and complexity. Across poeciliid fishes, the elongated fin (gonopodium) that males use to inseminate females ranges...
View ArticleData from: Multilocus genotyping of Giardia duodenalis isolates from children...
Background: Giardia duodenalis is the etiologic agent of giardiasis in humans and other mammals worldwide. The burden of disease is high among children in developing countries where sanitation is...
View ArticleData from: Transcriptome profile analysis from different sex types of Ginkgo...
In plants, sex determination is a comprehensive process of correlated events, which involves genes that are differentially and/or specifically expressed in distinct developmental phases. Exploring gene...
View ArticleData from: Evolution and expression of the phosphodiesterase 6 genes unveils...
Background. Phosphodiesterase 6 (PDE6) is a protein complex that hydrolyses cGMP and acts as the effector of the vertebrate phototransduction cascade. The PDE6 holoenzyme consists of catalytic and...
View ArticleData from: Effect of pyric herbivory on source-sink dynamics in grassland birds
Grasslands world-wide provide a host of ecosystem services. In particular, these grasslands serve as biodiversity repositories for a myriad of imperilled animal species. One such group is grassland...
View ArticleData from: Agricultural practices for food safety threaten pest control...
Over the past decade, several foodborne disease outbreaks provoked widespread reforms to the fresh produce industry. Subsequent concerns about wildlife vectors and contaminated manures created pressure...
View ArticleData from: Spatio-temporal networks: reachability, centrality, and robustness
Recent advances in spatial and temporal networks have enabled researchers to more-accurately describe many real-world systems such as urban transport networks. In this paper, we study the response of...
View ArticleData from: Predator identity influences metacommunity assembly
1.Predation is among the most important biotic factors influencing natural communities, yet we have a rather rudimentary understanding of its role in modulating metacommunity assembly. 2.We...
View ArticleData from: The Drosophila HNF4 nuclear receptor promotes glucose-stimulated...
Although mutations in HNF4A were identified as the cause of Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young 1 (MODY1) two decades ago, the mechanisms by which this nuclear receptor regulates glucose homeostasis...
View ArticleData from: Direct and indirect effects of native range expansion on soil...
Analogous to the spread of non-native species, shifts in native species’ ranges resulting from climate and land use change are also creating new combinations of species in many ecosystems. These native...
View ArticleData from: The reciprocal relationship between competition and intraspecific...
Trait differences among plants are expected to influence the outcome of competition; competition should be strongest between similar species (or individuals) under limiting similarity, and between...
View ArticleData from: The effect of terrain and female density on survival of neonatal...
Juvenile survival is a highly variable life-history trait that is critical to population growth. Antipredator tactics, including an animal's use of its physical and social environment, are critical to...
View ArticleData from: Genotype reconstruction of paternity in European lobsters (Homarus...
Decapod crustaceans exhibit considerable variation in fertilisation strategies, ranging from pervasive single paternity to the near-ubiquitous presence of multiple paternity, and such knowledge of...
View ArticleData from: Elevated CO2 and temperature increase soil C losses from a...
Warming temperatures and increasing CO2 are likely to have large effects on the amount of carbon stored in soil, but predictions of these effects are poorly constrained. We elevated temperature...
View ArticleData from: Testing the Münch hypothesis of long distance phloem transport in...
Long distance transport in plants occurs in sieve tubes of the phloem. The pressure flow hypothesis introduced by Ernst Münch in 1930 describes a mechanism of osmotically generated pressure...
View ArticleData from: Lesions to right posterior parietal cortex impair visual depth...
The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is understood to be active when observers perceive three-dimensional (3D) structure. However, it is not clear how central this activity is in the construction of 3D...
View ArticleData from: Diet and birdsong: short-term nutritional enrichment improves...
Song is a notable sexual signal of birds, and serves as an honest indicator of male quality. Condition dependence of birdsong has been well examined from the viewpoint of the developmental stress...
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