Data from: Avian cephalic vascular anatomy, sites of thermal exchange, and...
The general anatomy of avian cephalic blood vessels is well known and there are published details of their role in physiological thermoregulation. Unfortunately, the finer details of vascular pathways...
View ArticleData from: Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid...
Tetraodontiformes (pufferfishes and kin) is a taxonomically and structurally diverse, widely-distributed clade of acanthomorphs, whose members often serve as models for genomics and, increasingly,...
View ArticleData from: Extremophile Poeciliidae: multivariate insights into the...
Background: Replicate population pairs that diverge in response to similar selective regimes allow for an investigation of (a) whether phenotypic traits diverge in a similar and predictable fashion,...
View ArticleData from: Evidence for enemy release and increased seed production and size...
Invasive plants are hypothesized to have higher fitness in introduced areas due to their release from pathogens and herbivores and the relocation of resources to reproduction. However, few studies have...
View ArticleData from: Early reproductive success in Drosophila males is dependent on...
In a number of insect taxa male sexual maturity is not always directly attained at adult eclosion. Sexual maturity is often defined behaviorally as mating success, or physiologically as the point when...
View ArticleData from: Additive genetic variance in polyandry enables its evolution, but...
Polyandry is widespread despite its costs. The sexually selected sperm hypotheses (‘sexy’ and ‘good’ sperm) posit that sperm competition plays a role in the evolution of polyandry. Two poorly studied...
View ArticleData from: Condition-dependent trade-offs between sexual traits, body...
Background: The optimal allocation of resources to sexual signals and other life history traits is usually dependent on an individual's condition, while variation in the expression of sexual traits...
View ArticleData from: Genomic evidence that resource-based trade-offs limit host-range...
Trade-offs have often been invoked to explain the evolution of ecological specialization. Phytophagous insects have been especially well studied, but there has been little evidence that resource-based...
View ArticleData from: Integrated metabolomics and metagenomics analysis of plasma and...
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is top risk factor for health in modern society, causing high mortality rate each year. However, there is no reliable way for early diagnosis and prevention of CHD so far....
View ArticleData from: LobeFinder: a convex hull-based method for quantitative boundary...
Dicot leaves are comprised of a heterogeneous mosaic of jig-saw-puzzle piece shaped pavement cells that vary greatly in size and the complexity of their shape. Given the importance of the epidermis and...
View ArticleData from: Human-mediated extirpation of the unique Chatham Islands sea lion...
While terrestrial megafaunal extinctions have been well-characterised worldwide, our understanding of declines in marine megafauna remains limited. Here, we use ancient DNA analyses of prehistoric...
View ArticleData from: Genome-wide scan for adaptive differentiation along altitudinal...
Recent studies of humans, dogs and rodents have started to discover the genetic underpinnings of high altitude adaptations, yet amphibians have received little attention in this respect. To identify...
View ArticleData from: Counteracting effects of a non-native prey on demography of a...
Identifying impacts of non-native species on native populations is central to conservation and ecology. While effects of non-native predators on native prey populations have recently received much...
View ArticleData from: Remarkable life history polymorphism may be evolving under...
Substantial intraspecific variation in life history is rare, and potentially a signal of incipient ecological speciation if variation is driven by geographically heterogenous natural selection. We...
View ArticleData from: De novo assembly of a tadpole shrimp (Triops newberryi)...
Next-generation sequencing techniques, such as RNA-sequencing, have provided a wealth of genomic information for non-model species. Transcriptomic information can be used to quantify patterns of gene...
View ArticleData from: Egg morphology fails to identify nests parasitized by conspecifics...
Conspecific brood parasites lay eggs in nests of other females of the same species. A variety of methods have been developed and used to detect conspecific brood parasitism (CBP). Traditional methods...
View ArticleData from: Bayesian total-evidence dating reveals the recent crown radiation...
The total-evidence approach to divergence-time dating uses molecular and morphological data from extant and fossil species to infer phylogenetic relationships, species divergence times, and...
View ArticleData from: The effect of diet and time after bacterial infection on...
Mounting and maintaining an effective immune response in the face of infection can be costly. The outcome of infection depends on two host immune strategies: resistance and tolerance. Resistance limits...
View ArticleData from: Genomic heterogeneity of historical gene flow between two species...
The role of gene flow in species formation is a major unresolved issue in speciation biology. Progress in this area requires information on the long-term patterns of gene flow between diverging...
View ArticleData from: Bud phenology and growth are subject to divergent selection across...
Temperate forest tree species that span large geographical areas and climatic gradients often have high levels of genetic variation. Such species are ideal for testing how neutral demographic factors...
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