Data from: The impacts of oil palm on recent deforestation and biodiversity loss
Palm oil is the most widely traded vegetable oil globally, with demand projected to increase substantially in the future. Almost all oil palm grows in areas that were once tropical moist forests, some...
View ArticleData from: Competition between engrams influences fear memory formation and...
Collections of cells called engrams are thought to represent memories. Although there has been progress in identifying and manipulating single engrams, little is known about how multiple engrams...
View ArticleData from: Experimental insight into the process of parasite community assembly
1.Community assembly is a fundamental process that has long been a central focus in ecology. Extending community assembly theory to communities of co-infecting parasites, we used a gastrointestinal...
View ArticleData from: Mechanistic model of evolutionary rate variation en route to a...
Because novel environmental conditions alter the selection pressure on genes or entire subgenomes, adaptive and nonadaptive changes will leave a measurable signature in the genomes, shaping their...
View ArticleData from: Taxa, petitioning agency, and lawsuits affect time spent awaiting...
The United States' Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the world's foremost law for protecting species at risk of extinction; however, species must first be listed as threatened or endangered before...
View ArticleData from: Early-life disease exposure and associations with adult survival,...
A leading hypothesis proposes that increased human life span since 1850 has resulted from decreased exposure to childhood infections, which has reduced chronic inflammation and later-life mortality...
View ArticleData from: Mixed population genomics support for the central marginal...
Understanding factors that cause species’ geographic range limits is a major focus in ecology and evolution. The central marginal hypothesis (CMH) predicts that species cannot adapt to conditions...
View ArticleData from: Inordinate spinescence: taxonomic revision and microtomography of...
The ant genus Pheidole—for all of its hyperdiversity and global ubiquity—is remarkably conservative with regard to morphological disparity. A striking exception to this constrained morphology is the...
View ArticleData from: Revision and microtomography of the Pheidole knowlesi group, an...
The Fijian islands, a remote archipelago in the southwestern Pacific, are home to a number of spectacular endemic radiations of plants and animals. Unlike most Pacific archipelagos, these evolutionary...
View ArticleData from: Evolutionary prediction of medicinal properties in the genus...
The current decrease of new drugs brought to the market has fostered renewed interest in plant-based drug discovery. Given the alarming rate of biodiversity loss, systematic methodologies in finding...
View ArticleData from: Do respiratory limitations affect metabolism of insect larvae...
Recent data suggest that oxygen limitation may induce moulting in larval insects. This oxygen dependent induction of moulting (ODIM) hypothesis stems from the fact that the tracheal respiratory system...
View ArticleData from: New England cod collapse and the climate
To improve fishery management, there is an increasing need to understand the long-term consequences of natural and anthropogenic climate variability for ecological systems. New England’s iconic cod...
View ArticleData from: Metabolite profile of a mouse model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2D...
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease encompasses a genetically heterogeneous class of heritable polyneuropathies that result in axonal degeneration in the peripheral nervous system. Charcot–Marie–Tooth type 2D...
View ArticleData from: A demographic ménage à trois: interactions between disturbances...
1.Natural and anthropogenic disturbances co-occur in most systems, but how they interact to shape demographic outcomes remains poorly understood. Such interactions may alter dynamics of populations in...
View ArticleData from: Reduced mycorrhizal responsiveness leads to increased competitive...
1. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi can exert a powerful influence on the outcome of plant-plant competition. Since some exotic plants interact differently with soil biota such as AM fungi in their...
View ArticleData from: Co-fruiting plant species share similar fruit and seed traits...
1.Co-fruiting plant species are subject to a variety of biotic and abiotic processes that may influence patterns of fruiting phenology and the functional and phylogenetic diversity of co-fruiting taxa...
View ArticleData from: Differential gene expression according to race and host plant in...
Host-race formation in phytophagous insects is thought to provide the opportunity for local adaptation and subsequent ecological speciation. Studying gene expression differences among host-races may...
View ArticleData from: Extracting DNA from “JAWS”; High yield and quality from archived...
Archived specimens are highly valuable sources of DNA for retrospective genetic/genomic analysis. However, often limited effort has been made to evaluate and optimize extraction methods, which may be...
View ArticleData from: Differential influences of local subpopulations on regional...
The distribution of spatial genetic variation across a region can shape evolutionary dynamics and impact population persistence. Local population dynamics and among-population dispersal rates are...
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