Data from: Unpredictable perturbation reduces breeding propensity regardless...
Theoretically, individuals of migratory species should optimize reproductive investment based on a combination of timing of and body condition at arrival on the breeding grounds. A minimum threshold...
View ArticleData from: A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early...
Crown or modern sarcopterygians (coelacanths, lungfishes, and tetrapods) differ substantially from stem sarcopterygians, such as Guiyu and Psarolepis, and a lack of transitional fossil taxa limits our...
View ArticleData from: Biomechanical diversity of mating structures among harvestmen...
Diversity in reproductive structures is frequently explained by selection acting at individual to generational timescales, but interspecific differences predicted by such models (e.g., female choice or...
View ArticleData from: Presence of a loner strain maintains cooperation and diversity in...
Cooperation and diversity abound in nature despite cooperators risking exploitation from defectors and superior competitors displacing weaker ones. Understanding the persistence of cooperation and...
View ArticleData from: Spatiotemporal diversification of the true frogs (Genus Rana): a...
True frogs of the genus Rana are widely used as model organisms in studies of development, genetics, physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolution. Comparative studies among the more than 100 species of...
View ArticleData from: Incest, extra-pair paternity and territory quality drive divorce...
Divorce can be an important behavioral strategy to improve fitness. This is particularly relevant for species that are territorial year-round with continuous partnerships, where individuals face...
View ArticleData from: Kin effects on energy allocation in group-living ground squirrels
The social environment has potent effects on individual phenotype and fitness in group-living species. We asked whether the presence of kin might act on energy allocation, a central aspect of...
View ArticleData from: Evolutionary patterns and processes: lessons from ancient DNA
Ever since its emergence in 1984, the field of ancient DNA has struggled to overcome the challenges related to the decay of DNA molecules in the fossil record. With the recent development of...
View ArticleData from: Epigenetic response to environmental change: DNA methylation...
Epigenetic mechanisms may be important for a native species’ response to rapid environmental change. Red Imported Fire Ants (Solenopsis invicta Santschi, 1916) were recently introduced to areas...
View ArticleData from: Assessing current genetic status of the Hainan gibbon using...
Evidence-based conservation planning is crucial for informing management decisions for species of extreme rarity, but collection of robust data on genetic status or other parameters can be extremely...
View ArticleData from: The oceanic concordance of phylogeography and biogeography: a case...
Dispersal and adaptation are the two primary mechanisms that set the range distributions for a population or species. As such, understanding how these mechanisms interact in marine organisms in...
View ArticleData from: Biotic resistance to an alien amphibian: larval competition...
Understanding negative effects of native species on introduced taxa may suggest novel ways to control the invasive species by enhancing such effects. Previous studies have reported that the larvae of...
View ArticleData from: Control of hydroid colony form by surface heterogeneity
The colonial hydroid Podocoryna carnea grows adherent to surfaces progressing along them by a motile stolon tip. We here ask whether the stolon tip grows preferentially within grooves etched in silicon...
View ArticleData from: Consequences for piglet performance of group housing lactating...
Housing lactating sows with piglets in a multi-suckling pen from around 14 days post-farrowing is common practice in Swedish organic piglet production. However, nursing-suckling interaction is less...
View ArticleData from: Quantification and comparison of anti-fibrotic therapies by...
Renal interstitial fibrosis (IF) is an important pathologic manifestation of disease progression in a variety of chronic kidney diseases (CKD). However, the quantitative and reproducible analysis of IF...
View ArticleData from: Genome-wide set of SNPs reveals evidence for two glacial refugia...
Past glaciation events have played a major role in shaping the genetic diversity and distribution of wild sheep in North America. The advancement of glaciers can isolate populations in ice-free...
View ArticleData from: Root foraging performance and life-history traits
Plants use their roots to forage for nutrients in heterogeneous soil environments, but different plant species vastly differ in the intensity of foraging they perform. This diversity suggests the...
View ArticleData from: Dendrogramma is a siphonophore
Dendrogramma was the iconic deep-sea animal of 2014, voted among the top-ten new species described that year. The two species described are mushroom shaped animals, diploblastic, with an apparent...
View ArticleData from: Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the Cocinetas...
We describe sloth assemblages from the Cocinetas Basin (La Guajira peninsula, Colombia), found in the Neogene Castilletes and Ware formations, located in northernmost South America, documenting...
View ArticleData from: The role of environment and core-margin effects on range-wide...
The integration of genetic information with ecological and phenotypic data constitutes an effective approach to gain insight into the mechanisms determining interpopulation variability and the...
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