Data from: Flight paths of seabirds soaring over the ocean surface enable...
Monitoring ocean surface winds is essential for understanding ocean and atmosphere interactions and weather forecasts. However, wind measured by satellite scatterometers and buoys are spatially and...
View ArticleData from: Alternative mating tactics in male chameleons (Chamaeleo...
Alternative mating tactics in males of various taxa are associated with body color, body size, and social status. Chameleons are known for their ability to change body color following immediate...
View ArticleData from: Macroevolution of specificity in cyanolichens of the genus...
Patterns of specificity among symbiotic partners are key to a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of symbiotic systems. Specificity of mutualistic partners, within a widespread monophyletic...
View ArticleData from: Spatial representativeness of environmental DNA metabarcoding...
In the last few years, the study of environmental DNA (eDNA) has drawn attention for many reasons, including its advantages for monitoring and conservation purposes. So far, in aquatic environments,...
View ArticleData from: Interactive effects of yolk testosterone and carotenoid on...
Conditions experienced by individuals during prenatal development can have long-term effects on their phenotype. Maternally-transmitted resources are important mediators of such prenatal effects but...
View ArticleData from: Life history evolution and cellular mechanisms associated with...
Understanding the physiological and genetic basis of growth and body size variation has wide-ranging implications, from cancer and metabolic disease to the genetics of complex traits. We examined the...
View ArticleData from: Patterns of age-related change in reproductive effort differ in...
1. Age-related changes in maternal reproductive allocation for long-lived species are a key prediction from life-history theory. 2. Theoretical and empirical work suggests allocation may increase with...
View ArticleData from: Direct and indirect genetic and fine-scale location effects on...
1. Quantifying direct and indirect genetic effects of interacting females and males on variation in jointly expressed life-history traits is central to predicting micro-evolutionary dynamics. However,...
View ArticleData from: The effect of demographic correlations on the stochastic...
Understanding the influence of environmental variability on population dynamics is a fundamental goal of ecology. Theory suggests that, for populations in variable environments, temporal correlations...
View ArticleData from: Deep phylogenomics of a tandem-repeat galectin regulating...
Background: A multiscale network of two galectins Galectin-1 (Gal-1) and Galectin-8 (Gal-8) patterns the avian limb skeleton. Among vertebrates with paired appendages, chondrichthyan fins typically...
View ArticleData from: Novel approaches for phylogenetic inference from morphological...
Here, I combine previously underutilized models and priors to perform more biologically-realistic phylogenetic inference from morphological data, with an example from squamate reptiles. When coding...
View ArticleData from: An antibody screen of a Plasmodium vivax antigen library...
Background. Elimination of Plasmodium vivax malaria would be greatly facilitated by the development of an effective vaccine. A comprehensive and systematic characterization of antibodies to P. vivax...
View ArticleData from: A new solitary free-living species of the genus Sphenopus...
A new species of free-living solitary zoantharian is described from Okinawa, Japan. Sphenopus exilis sp. n. occurs on silty seafloors in Kin Bay and Oura Bay on the east coast of Okinawa-jima Island....
View ArticleData from: Multi-dimensional environmental predictors of variation in avian...
Optimal life-history decisions are shaped by prevailing environmental conditions. In the context of urbanisation, environmental differences between urban and rural areas are known to vary across a...
View ArticleData from: Candidate adaptive genes associated with lineage divergence:...
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) are an excellent non-model species for empirically testing hypotheses in landscape and population genomics due to their large population sizes (low genetic drift),...
View ArticleData from: Population genetic structure between Yap and Palau for the coral...
Information on connectivity is becoming increasingly in demand as marine protected areas are being designed as an integral part of a network to protect marine resources at the ecosystem level. Larval...
View ArticleData from: Subfunctionalization of peroxisome proliferator response elements...
Background: In the duplication-degeneration-complementation (DDC) model, a duplicated gene has three possible fates: it may lose functionality through the accumulation of mutations...
View ArticleData from: Modelling distributions of fossil sampling rates over time, space...
1. Observed patterns in the fossil record reflect not just macroevolutionary dynamics, but preservation patterns. Sampling rates themselves vary not simply over time or among major taxonomic groups,...
View ArticleData from: Bat trait, genetic and pathogen data from large-scale...
Bats, including African straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum), have been highlighted as reservoirs of many recently emerged zoonotic viruses. This common, widespread and ecologically important...
View ArticleData from: Genetic diversity analyses reveal first insights into...
We used genotype data from the caprine 50k Illumina BeadChip for the assessment of genetic diversity within and between 10 local Swiss goat breeds. Three different cluster methods allowed the goat...
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