Data from: Postglacial recolonizations, watershed crossings and human...
Background: Distributions of European fish species were shaped by glaciations and the geological history of river networks until human activities partially abrogated the restrictions of biogeographical...
View ArticleData from: Seascape genomics provides evidence for thermal adaptation and...
Investigating how environmental features shape the genetic structure of populations is crucial for understanding how they are potentially adapted to their habitats, as well as for sound management. In...
View ArticleData from: ggtree: an R package for visualization and annotation of...
1. We present an R package, ggtree, which provides programmable visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees. 2. ggtree can read more tree file formats than other software; including newick,...
View ArticleData from: Dietary studies in birds: testing a non-invasive method using...
1. Dietary studies give vital insights into foraging behaviour, with implications for understanding changes in environmental conditions and the impacts of human activities on natural resources....
View ArticleData from: Low-cost fluctuating-temperature chamber for experimental ecology
1. Commercially available fluctuating temperature chambers are large and costly. This poses a challenge to experimental ecologists endeavouring to recreate natural temperature cycles in the laboratory...
View ArticleData from: Hidden histories of gene flow in highland birds revealed with...
Genomic studies are revealing that divergence and speciation are marked by gene flow, but it is not clear whether gene flow has played a prominent role during the generation of biodiversity in...
View ArticleData from: Bayesian model selection with BAMM: effects of the model prior on...
1. Understanding variation in rates of speciation and extinction -- both among lineages and through time -- is critical to the testing of many hypotheses about macroevolutionary processes. BAMM is a...
View ArticleData from: Hydrologically contrasting environments induce genetic but not...
1. In contrasting habitats, locally adapted populations are expected to evolve through directional selection. Hydrological gradients provide a scenario where strong selection forces have led to species...
View ArticleData from: Thermal fluctuations affect the transcriptome through mechanisms...
Terrestrial ectotherms are challenged by variation in both mean and variance of temperature. Phenotypic plasticity (thermal acclimation) might mitigate adverse effects, however, we lack a fundamental...
View ArticleData from: Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the...
Colugos are one of the most poorly studied mammals despite their centrality to resolving supraordinal primate relationships. Two described species of these gliding mammals are the sole living members...
View ArticleData from: Woody encroachment over 70 years in South African savannas:...
Woody encroachment in “open” biomes like grasslands and savannas is occurring globally.Both local and global drivers, including elevated CO2, have been implicated in these increases. The relative...
View ArticleData from: The future distribution of the savannah biome: model-based and...
The extent of the savanna biome is expected to be profoundly altered by climatic change and increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Contrasting projections are given when using different modelling...
View ArticleData from: Understanding patterns of land-cover change in the Brazilian...
Clearing tropical vegetation impacts biodiversity, the provision of ecosystem services, and thus ultimately human welfare. We quantified changes in land cover from 2000 to 2015 across the Cerrado biome...
View ArticleData from: Adaptation to elevated CO2 in different biodiversity contexts
In the absence of migration, species persistence depends on adaption to a changing environment, but whether and how adaptation to global change is altered by community diversity is not understood....
View ArticleData from: The making of a pest: insights from the evolution of chemosensory...
Background: Drosophila suzukii differs from other melanogaster group members in their proclivity for laying eggs in fresh fruit rather than in fermenting fruits. Olfaction and gustation play a critical...
View ArticleData from: Bet-hedging against larval herbivory and seedbank mortality in the...
Premise of the study— Bet-hedging strategies maximize long term -geometric fitness at the cost of reduced arithmetic fitness by offsetting different mortality risks. Heterocarpic systems accomplish...
View ArticleData from: Fine-scale spatial genetic structure in the frankincense tree...
The fine-scale genetic structure and how it varies between generations depends on the spatial scale of gene dispersal and other fundamental aspects of species’ biology, such as the mating system. Such...
View ArticleData from: Biodiversity gains from efficient use of private sponsorship for...
To address the global extinction crisis, both efficient use of existing conservation funding and new sources of funding are vital. Private sponsorship of charismatic ‘flagship’ species conservation...
View ArticleData from: Conserved but attenuated parental gene expression in...
Allopolyploidization combines parental genomes and often confers broader species distribution. However, little is known about parentally transmitted gene expression underlying quantitative traits...
View ArticleData from: Ovarian fluid allows directional cryptic female choice despite...
In species with internal fertilization, females can favour certain males over others, not only before mating but also within the female’s reproductive tract after mating. Here, we ask whether such...
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