Data from: Genomics of speciation and introgression in Princess cichlid...
How variation in the genome translates into biological diversity and new species originate has endured as the mystery of mysteries in evolutionary biology. African cichlid fishes are prime model...
View ArticleData from: Adaptive evolution and segregating load contribute to the genomic...
Speciation often involves repeated episodes of genetic contact between divergent populations before reproductive isolation (RI) is complete. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) holds great promise for...
View ArticleData from: How to find home backwards? Navigation during rearward homing of...
Cataglyphis ants are renowned for their impressive navigation skills which have been already studied in numerous experiments during forward locomotion. The ants' navigational performance during...
View ArticleData from: Divergence maintained by climatic selection despite recurrent gene...
Local adaptation to different environments has the potential to maintain divergence between populations despite recurrent gene flow, and is an important driver for generating biological diversity. In...
View ArticleData from: Niche width impacts vertebrate diversification
Aim: The size of the climatic niche of a species is a major factor determining its distribution and evolution. In particular, it has been proposed that niche width should be associated with the rate of...
View ArticleData from: A large and phylogenetically diverse class of type 1 opsins...
Opsins are photosensitive proteins catalyzing light-dependent processes across the tree of life. For both microbial (type 1) and metazoan (type 2) opsins, photosensing depends upon covalent interaction...
View ArticleData from: Effects of antibiotic resistance alleles on bacterial evolutionary...
Antibiotic resistance has wide-ranging effects on bacterial phenotypes and evolution. However, the influence of antibiotic resistance on bacterial responses to parasitic viruses remains unclear,...
View ArticleData from: Sex allocation conflict between queens and workers in Formica...
Sex allocation theory predicts parents should adjust their investment in male and female offspring in a way that increases parental fitness. This has been shown in several species and selective...
View ArticleData from: How to find home backwards? Locomotion and inter-leg coordination...
For insects, flexibility in the performance of terrestrial locomotion is vital to face the challenges of their often unpredictable environment. Arthropods like scorpions or crustaceans can switch...
View ArticleData from: Mammalian engineers drive soil microbial communities and ecosystem...
1. The effects of mammalian ecosystem engineers on soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions in terrestrial ecosystems are poorly known. Disturbance from livestock has been widely reported to...
View ArticleData from: Genetic diversity of oilseed rape fields and feral populations in...
Despite growing concern about transgenes escaping from fields, few studies have analysed the genetic diversity of crops in an agroecosystem over several years. Accurate information about the dynamics...
View ArticleData from: A prospective, observational study comparing automated and visual...
Objective. Point-of-care testing (POCT) urinalysis might reduce errors in (subjective) reading, registration and communication of test results, and might, also improve diagnostic outcome and optimise...
View ArticleData from: Local and global patterns of admixture and population structure in...
Background: Two separate domestication events gave rise to humped zebu cattle in India and humpless taurine cattle in the Fertile Crescent of the Near and Middle East. Iran covers the Eastern side of...
View ArticleData from: Left cortical specialization for visual letter strings predicts...
Reading, one of the most important cultural inventions of human society, critically depends on posterior brain areas of the left hemisphere in proficient adult readers. In children, this left...
View ArticleData from: Effects of 16S rDNA sampling on estimates of the number of...
Phylogenetic trees can reveal the origins of endosymbiotic lineages of bacteria and detect patterns of co-evolution with their hosts. Although taxon sampling can greatly affect phylogenetic and...
View ArticleData from: Sex-specific responses to climate change in plants alter...
Males and females are ecologically distinct in many species, but whether responses to climate change are sex-specific is unknown. We document sex-specific responses to climate change in the plant...
View ArticleData from: Landscape determinants of fine-scale genetic structure of a small...
Small mammals provide ecosystem services, acting, for example, as pollinators and seed dispersers. In addition, they are also disease reservoirs that can be detrimental to human health and they can...
View ArticleData from: Hybridization as a threat in climate relict Nuphar pumila...
Field studies and conceptual work on hybridization-mediated extinction risk in climate relicts are extremely rare. Nuphar pumila (Nymphaeaceae) is one of the most emblematic climate relicts in Europe...
View ArticleData from: Discovery of 20,000 RAD–SNPs and development of a 52-SNP array for...
Many North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) populations are threatened or recovering but are difficult to study because they occur at low densities, it is difficult to visually identify...
View ArticleData from: Loss of genetic diversity and increased embryonic mortality in...
Many populations are small and isolated with limited genetic variation and high risk of mating with close relatives. Inbreeding depression is suspected to contribute to extinction of wild populations,...
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