Data from: Food availability and predation risk, rather than intrinsic...
Deciphering the causes of variation in reproductive success is a fundamental issue in ecology, as the number of offspring produced is an important driver of individual fitness and population dynamics....
View ArticleData from: Human–wildlife conflict, benefit sharing and the survival of lions...
Like many wildlife populations across Africa, recent analyses indicate that African lions are declining rapidly outside of small fenced areas. Community conservancies – privately protected areas that...
View ArticleData from: Twenty-four years after the Yellowstone fires: are postfire...
Disturbance and succession have long been of interest in ecology, but how landscape patterns of ecosystem structure and function evolve following large disturbances is poorly understood. After nearly...
View ArticleData from: Identifying targets of selection in mosaic genomes with machine...
Chromosomal inversions are important structural changes that may facilitate divergent selection when they capture co-adaptive loci in the face of gene flow. However, identifying selection targets...
View ArticleData from: Selection mosaics differentiate Rhizobium-host plant interactions...
The nature and direction of coevolutionary interactions between species is expected to differentiate among distinct environments. Consequently, locally coevolved symbiotic traits would be well matched...
View ArticleData from: Distribution and population genetic variation of cryptic species...
Background: Many species contain evolutionarily distinct groups that are genetically highly differentiated but morphologically difficult to distinguish (i.e., cryptic species). The presence of cryptic...
View ArticleData from: Conditional cooperation and confusion in public-goods experiments
Economic experiments are often used to study if humans altruistically value the welfare of others. A canonical result from public-good games is that humans vary in how they value the welfare of others,...
View ArticleData from: Spatially explicit assessment of estuarine fish after Deepwater...
Evaluating long-term contaminant effects on wildlife populations depends on spatial information about habitat quality, heterogeneity in contaminant exposure, and sensitivities and distributions of...
View ArticleData from: Genetic isolation between coastal and fishery-impacted, offshore...
The identification of species and population boundaries are important in both evolutionary biology and conservation. In recent years, new population genetic and computational methods for estimating...
View ArticleData from: Parent-of-origin effects on gene expression and DNA methylation in...
Imprinting describes the differential expression of alleles based upon their parent of origin. Deep sequencing of RNAs from maize endosperm and embryo tissue 14 days after pollination was used to...
View ArticleData from: Zika Virus in the Americas: early epidemiological and genetic...
Brazil has experienced an unprecedented epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV), with ~30,000 cases reported to date. ZIKV was first detected in Brazil in May 2015 and cases of microcephaly potentially...
View ArticleData from: Phylogeny of mental glands, revisited
Mental glands and their associated delivery behaviors during courtship are unique to the plethodontid salamanders. Because previous interpretations of the evolution of these features were conducted...
View ArticleData from: Sperm use economy of honeybee (Apis mellifera) queens
The queens of eusocial ants, bees, and wasps only mate during a very brief period early in life to acquire and store a lifetime supply of sperm. As sperm cannot be replenished, queens have to be highly...
View ArticleData from: Spatial and seasonal influences on culturable endophytic mycobiota...
Background: Present study focuses on diversity and distribution analysis of endophytic fungi associated with different tissues of Eugenia jambolana. The influence of season and geographical location on...
View ArticleData from: Family morph matters: factors determining survival and recruitment...
From an evolutionary perspective recruitment into the breeding population represents one of the most important life history stages and ultimately determines the effective population size. In order to...
View ArticleData from: The abiotic and biotic drivers of rapid diversification in Andean...
The tropical Andes of South America, the world’s richest biodiversity hotspot, are home to many rapid radiations. While geological, climatic, and ecological processes collectively explain such...
View ArticleData from: Horizontal gene acquisitions, mobile element proliferation, and...
Modern industrial agriculture depends on high density cultivation of genetically similar crop plants, creating favorable conditions for the emergence of novel pathogens with increased fitness in...
View ArticleData from: Whole genome duplication in coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)...
Polyploidy is common and an important evolutionary factor in most land plant lineages, but it is rare in gymnosperms. Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is one of just two polyploid conifer species...
View ArticleData from: Plasticity in plant functional traits is shaped by variability in...
Plant functional traits can vary widely as a result of phenotypic plasticity to abiotic conditions. Trait variation may also reflect responses to the identity of neighbours, although not all species...
View ArticleData from: Asynchronous changes in abundance over large scales are explained...
Environmental stochasticity is important in explaining the persistence and establishment of invasive species, but the simultaneous effects of environmental and demographic factors are difficult to...
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