Data from: Unravelling the role of host plant expansion in the...
Background: Understanding the processes underlying diversification is a central question in evolutionary biology. For butterflies, access to new host plants provides opportunities for adaptive...
View ArticleData from: Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of...
The geographic and temporal origins of dogs remain controversial. We generated genetic sequences from 59 ancient dogs and a complete (28x) genome of a late Neolithic dog (dated to ~4800 calendar years...
View ArticleData from: A new look at Parmotrema madagascariaceum and P. xanthinum in...
Species delimitation in foliose macrolichens has long been dominated by chemotaxonomy, resulting in many examples of seemingly morphologically identical species that differ only in the secondary...
View ArticleData from: Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi respond differently to...
Changing climate is expected to alter precipitation patterns in the Arctic, with consequences for subsurface temperature and moisture conditions, community structure, and nutrient mobilization through...
View ArticleData from: Noise affects nest box choice of two competing songbird species,...
Anthropogenic noise levels are steadily increasing worldwide and may potentially affect many species. Short-term experimental noise exposure under field and lab conditions has revealed that noise can...
View ArticleData from: Direct effects dominate responses to climate perturbations in...
Theory predicts that strong indirect effects of environmental change will impact communities when niche differences between competitors are small and variation in the direct effects experienced by...
View ArticleData from: Genetic mapping of millions of SNPs in safflower (Carthamus...
Accurate assembly of complete genomes is facilitated by very high density genetic maps. We performed low-coverage, whole-genome shotgun sequencing on 96 F6 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) of a cross...
View ArticleData from: Cross-habitat effects shape the ecosystem consequences of...
Invasive species can have major impacts on ecosystems, yet little work has addressed the combined effects of multiple invaders that exploit different habitats. Two common invaders in aquatic systems...
View ArticleData from: Self-reported household impacts of large-scale chemical...
A January 2014 industrial accident contaminated the public water supply of approximately 300,000 homes in and near Charleston, West Virginia (USA) with low levels of a strongly-smelling substance...
View ArticleData from: Genome-wide association study of insect bite hypersensitivity in...
Insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) is the most common allergic skin disease in horses and is caused by biting midges, mainly of the genus Culicoides. The disease predominantly comprises a type I...
View ArticleData from: Regional diversity reverses the negative impacts of an alien...
Species diversity is often an implicit source of biological insurance for communities against the impacts of novel perturbations, such as the introduction of an invasive species. High environmental...
View ArticleData from: Behavioral changes in tadpoles after multi-generational exposure...
Prey subject to intraguild predation may face conflicting selective pressure on behavior, with competition favoring increased activity and predation favoring activity reduction. To discover how this...
View ArticleData from: Invasion of novel habitats uncouples haplo-diplontic life cycles.
Baker’s Law predicts uniparental reproduction will facilitate colonization success in novel habitats. While evidence supports this prediction among colonizing plants and animals, few studies have...
View ArticleData from: Consensus forecasting of intertidal seagrass habitat in the Wadden...
1. After the dramatic eutrophication-induced decline of intertidal seagrasses in the 1970s, the Wadden Sea has shown diverging developments. In the northern Wadden Sea seagrass beds have expanded and...
View ArticleData from: Suppression of reproductive characteristics of the invasive plant...
Background: As a means of biologically controlling Mikania micrantha H.B.K. in Yunnan, China, the influence of sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] on its reproductive characteristics was studied....
View ArticleData from: Development and application of an alert system to detect cases of...
Recent public health concerns regarding commercial food products have increased the need to develop an automated method to detect food product-related health events. We developed and verified a method...
View ArticleData from: A review of the lichens of the Dare Regional Biodiversity Hotspot...
The results of a large-scale biodiversity inventory of lichens (including lichenicolous and allied fungi) in the Dare Regional Biodiversity Hotspot (DRBH) are presented. The DRBH is a region within the...
View ArticleData from: Digital fragment analysis of short tandem repeats by...
High-throughput sequencing has been proposed as a method to genotype microsatellites and overcome the four main technical drawbacks of capillary electrophoresis: amplification artifacts, imprecise...
View ArticleData from: Defining functional biomes and monitoring their change globally
Biomes are important constructs for organizing understanding of how the worlds’ major terrestrial ecosystems differ from one another and for monitoring change in these ecosystems. Yet existing biome...
View ArticleData from: The identification of the closest living relative(s) of tetrapods:...
Identifying the closest living relative(s) of tetrapods is an important, yet still contested question in vertebrate phylogenetics. Three hypotheses are possible and ruling out alternatives has proven...
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