Data from: Modelling flight heights of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Great...
1. Wind energy generation is increasing globally and associated environmental impacts must be considered. The risk of seabirds colliding with offshore wind turbines is influenced by flight height, and...
View ArticleData from: Efficacy of a probiotic bacterium to treat bats affected by the...
The management of infectious diseases is an important conservation concern for a growing number of wildlife species. However, effective disease control in wildlife is challenging because feasible...
View ArticleData from: Basidiomycete yeasts in the cortex of ascomycete macrolichens
For over 140 years, lichens have been regarded as a symbiosis between a single fungus, usually an ascomycete, and a photosynthesizing partner. Other fungi have long been known to occur as occasional...
View ArticleData from: Population genetic inferences using immune gene SNPs mirror...
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are replacing microsatellites for population genetic analyses, but it is not apparent how many SNPs are needed or how well SNPs correlate with microsatellites. We...
View ArticleData from: Nuclear internal transcribed spacer-1 as a sensitive genetic...
The recently developed environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis has been used to estimate the distribution of aquatic vertebrates by using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) as a genetic marker. However, mtDNA markers...
View ArticleData from: Practical low-coverage genome-wide sequencing of hundreds of...
Today most population genomic studies of non-model organisms either sequence a subset of the genome deeply in each individual or sequence pools of unlabeled individuals. With a step-by-step workflow,...
View ArticleData from: A comparative assessment of SNP and microsatellite markers for...
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are preferred over microsatellite markers in many evolutionary studies, but have only recently been applied to studies of parentage. Evaluations of SNPs and...
View ArticleData from: Facultative asexual reproduction and genetic diversity of...
Termite colonies are typically founded by a pair of sexually reproducing dispersers, which can sometimes be replaced by some of their offspring. Some Reticulitermes and Embiratermes species routinely...
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: Genomic landscape of early ecological speciation initiated by...
Ecological speciation is the evolution of reproductive isolation as a consequence of direct divergent natural selection or ecologically mediated divergent sexual selection. While the genomic signature...
View ArticleData from: Infectious disease, behavioural flexibility, and the evolution of...
Culturally transmitted traits are observed in a wide array of animal species, yet we understand little about the costs of the behavioural patterns that underlie culture, such as innovation and social...
View ArticleData from: Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution...
The success of vertebrates is linked to the evolution of a camera-style eye and sophisticated visual system. In the absence of useful data from fossils, scenarios for evolutionary assembly of the...
View ArticleData from: Dietary habits of polar bears in Foxe Basin, Canada: possible...
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulations in several areas with seasonal sea ice regimes have shown declines in body condition, reproductive rates, or abundance as a result of declining sea ice...
View ArticleData from: Gene duplication and gene expression changes play a role in the...
Heliconius possess a unique ability among butterflies to feed on pollen. Pollen feeding significantly extends their lifespan, and is thought to have been important to the diversification of the genus....
View ArticleData from: Comparing macroecological patterns across continents: evolution of...
Macroecological analyses often test hypotheses at the global scale, or among more closely related species in a single region (e.g. continent). Here, we test several hypotheses about climatic niche...
View ArticleData from: Pair complementarity influences reproductive output in the...
How multiple morphs are maintained within populations of colour polymorphic bird species remains a challenging question in evolutionary ecology. In some systems, differential productivity or survival...
View ArticleData from: Morphology-function relationships and repeatability in the sperm...
Sperm performance is likely to be an important determinant of male reproductive success, especially when females copulate with multiple males. Understanding sperm performance is therefore crucial to...
View ArticleData from: Kin recognition in a clonal fish, Poecilia formosa
Relatedness strongly influences social behaviors in a wide variety of species. For most species, the highest typical degree of relatedness is between full siblings with 50% shared genes. However, this...
View ArticleData from: Understanding spatial distributions: negative density-dependence...
Negative density-dependence is generally studied within a single trophic level, thereby neglecting its effect on higher trophic levels. The ‘functional response’ couples a predator's intake rate to...
View ArticleData from: Lineage tracing of human B cells reveals the in vivo landscape of...
Antibody class switching is a feature of the adaptive immune system which enables diversification of the effector properties of antibodies. Even though class switching is essential for mounting a...
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