Data from: Assessing faculty professional development in STEM higher...
We tested the effectiveness of Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching IV (FIRST), a professional development program for postdoctoral scholars, by conducting a study of program alumni....
View ArticleData from: Evaluation of TagSeq, a reliable low-cost alternative for RNAseq
RNAseq is a relatively new tool for ecological genetics that offers researchers insight into changes in gene expression in response to a myriad of natural or experimental conditions. However, standard...
View ArticleData from: Revisiting the ichthyodiversity of Java and Bali through DNA...
Among the 899 species of freshwater fishes reported from Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, nearly 50% are endemics. The functional integrity of aquatic ecosystems is currently jeopardized by human...
View ArticleData from: Antiherbivore defenses alter natural selection on plant...
While many studies demonstrate that herbivores alter selection on plant reproductive traits, little is known about whether antiherbivore defenses affect selection on these traits. We hypothesized that...
View ArticleData from: Unlinked Mendelian inheritance of red and black pigmentation in...
Identifying the genetic basis of mimetic signals is critical to understanding both the origin and dynamics of mimicry over time. For species not amenable to large laboratory breeding studies,...
View ArticleData from: Inbreeding depression does not increase after exposure to a...
Background: Inbreeding is often associated with a decrease in offspring fitness ('inbreeding depression'). Moreover, it is generally assumed that the negative effects of inbreeding are exacerbated in...
View ArticleData from: Negative relationships between population density and metabolic...
Population density has recently been suggested to be an important factor influencing metabolic rates, and to represent an important ‘third axis’ explaining variation beyond that explained by body mass...
View ArticleData from: Evidence of the phenotypic expression of a lethal recessive allele...
Deleterious recessive alleles that are masked in outbred populations are predicted to be expressed in small, inbred populations, reducing both individual fitness and population viability. However,...
View ArticleData from: A test of the effects of timing of a pulsed resource subsidy on...
Spatial resource subsidies can alter bottom-up and top-down forces of community regulation across ecosystem boundaries. Most subsidies are temporally variable, and recent theory has suggested that...
View ArticleData from: Caspr3-deficient mice exhibit low motor learning during the early...
Caspr3 (Contactin-associated protein-like 3, Cntnap3) is a neural cell adhesion molecule belonging to the Caspr family. We have recently shown that Caspr3 is expressed abundantly between the first and...
View ArticleData from: Various competitive interactions explain niche separation in...
Competition for resources is a major organizing principle in communities of organisms that share similar ecological niches. Niche separation by means of exploitation or interference competition was...
View ArticleData from: Two influential primate classifications logically aligned
Classifications and phylogenies of perceived natural entities change in light of new evidence. Taxonomic changes, translated into Code-compliant names, frequently lead to name:meaning dissociations...
View ArticleData from: Three-dimensional visualization of the internal plastid membrane...
Chloroplast biogenesis is a complex process integrated with plant development, leading to fully differentiated and functionally mature plastids. In this paper, the process of structural membrane...
View ArticleData from: Multilocus phylogeny and ecological differentiation of the...
Background: The ecological differentiation of insects with parasitic life-style is a complex process that may involve phylogenetic constraints as well as morphological and/or behavioural adaptations....
View ArticleData from: Towards a common methodology for developing logistic tree...
Tree mortality is a key process shaping forest dynamics. Thus, there is a growing need for indicators of the likelihood of tree death. During the last decades, an increasing number of tree-ring based...
View ArticleData from: Better-surviving barn swallow mothers produce more and...
Sex allocation theory predicts that parents are selected to bias their progeny sex ratio (SR) towards the sex that will benefit the most from parental quality. Because parental quality may...
View ArticleData from: Does primary productivity modulate the indirect effects of large...
1. Indirect effects of large mammalian herbivores (LMH), while much less studied than those of apex predators, are increasingly recognized to exert powerful influences on communities and ecosystems....
View ArticleData from: Mimicry refinement: Phenotypic variations tracking the local optimum
1. Müllerian mimicry between chemically defended preys is a textbook example of natural selection favouring phenotypic convergence onto a shared warning signal. Studies of mimicry have concentrated on...
View ArticleData from: Genetic evidence for prevalence of alloparental care in a socially...
Alloparental care – care for unrelated young – is rare in animals, and its ecological or evolutionary advantages or, alternative maladaptive nature, remain unclear. We investigate alloparental care in...
View ArticleData from: Meta-analysis indicates that oxidative stress is both a constraint...
Oxidative stress (OS) as a proximate mechanism for life-history trade-offs is widespread in the literature. One such resource allocation trade-off involves growth rate, and theory suggests that OS...
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