Data from: Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) mortality and population regeneration...
Annual census data spanning seventy-five years document mortality and regeneration in a population of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) in the Cactus Forest of the Rincon Mountain District of Saguaro...
View ArticleData from: Genome sequencing of a single tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini...
Tardigrades are ubiquitous microscopic animals that play an important role in the study of metazoan phylogeny. Most terrestrial tardigrades can withstand extreme environments by entering an ametabolic...
View ArticleData from: Fractionation of parietal function in bistable perception probed...
When visual input has conflicting interpretations, conscious perception can alternate spontaneously between these possible interpretations. This is called bistable perception. Previous neuroimaging...
View ArticleData from: Modeling central metabolism and energy biosynthesis across...
Background: Automatically generated bacterial metabolic models, and even some curated models, lack accuracy in predicting energy yields due to poor representation of key pathways in energy biosynthesis...
View ArticleData from: Critically evaluating the theory and performance of Bayesian...
Bayesian analysis of macroevolutionary mixtures (BAMM) has recently taken the study of lineage diversification by storm. BAMM estimates the diversification-rate parameters (speciation and extinction)...
View ArticleData from: Climate, invasive species and land use drive population dynamics...
1. Climate change is an additional stressor in a complex suite of threats facing freshwater biodiversity, particularly for cold-water fishes. Research addressing the consequences of climate change on...
View ArticleData from: Extreme climate events counteract the effects of climate and...
1. Climate change and extreme events, such as drought, threaten ecosystems worldwide and mountain ecosystems in particular, where species often live at their environmental tolerance limits. In the...
View ArticleData from: Interspecific interference competition at the resource patch...
1. Animals may anticipate and try to avoid, at some costs, physical encounters with other competitors. This may ultimately impact their foraging distribution and intake rates. Such cryptic interference...
View ArticleData from: Nematode parasite diversity in birds: the role of host ecology,...
1. Previous studies have found that migratory birds generally have a more diverse array of pathogens such as parasites, as well as higher intensities of infection. However, it is not clear whether this...
View ArticleData from: Fruits of Juglandaceae from the Eocene of South America
Specimens of a new fruit taxon, Alatonucula ignis, from the early Eocene Laguna del Hunco flora of Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina, have characteristics consistent with assignment to Juglandaceae. Each...
View ArticleData from: Spatial and temporal variation in hornbill densities in Namdapha...
Asian hornbill populations are declining across their ranges because of hunting and deforestation. Five of the 32 Asian hornbill species occur in north-east India. However, vital information on their...
View ArticleData from: Fish and tetrapod communities across a marine to brackish salinity...
Euryhaline adaptations in Pennsylvanian vertebrates allowed them to inhabit the marine to freshwater spectrum. This is illustrated by new assemblages of fish and tetrapods from the early Moscovian...
View ArticleData from: Long-term nitrous oxide fluxes in annual and perennial...
Differences in soil nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes among ecosystems are often difficult to evaluate and predict due to high spatial and temporal variabilities and few direct experimental comparisons. For...
View ArticleData from: Warming affects different components of plant-herbivore...
Global warming impacts natural communities through effects on performance of individual species and through changes in the strength of interactions between them. While there is a body of evidence of...
View ArticleData from: High-throughput SNP genotyping of historical and modern samples of...
Sample availability limits population genetics research on many species, especially taxa from regions with high diversity. However, many such species are well represented in museum collections...
View ArticleData from: Seminal fluid of honeybees contains multiple mechanisms to combat...
The societies of ants, bees and wasps are genetically closed systems where queens only mate during a brief mating episode prior to their eusocial life and males therefore provide queens with a lifetime...
View ArticleData from: pcadapt: an R package to perform genome scans for selection based...
The R package pcadapt performs genome scans to detect genes under selection based on population genomic data. It assumes that candidate markers are outliers with respect to how they are related to...
View ArticleData from: Importance of deep water uptake in tropical eucalypt forest
1. Climate models predict that the frequency, intensity and duration of drought events will increase in tropical regions. Although water withdrawal from deep soil layers is generally considered to be...
View ArticleData from: Adaptation to heat stress reduces phenotypic and transcriptional...
1. Organisms may respond to changing environments through phenotypic plasticity or adaptive evolution. These two processes are not mutually exclusive, and may either dampen or strengthen each other’s...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenetic evidence for cladogenetic polyploidization in land...
Premise of the study: Polyploidization is a common and recurring phenomenon in plants and is often thought to be a mechanism of "instant speciation." Whether polyploidization is associated with the...
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