Data from: Assessing environmental pollution in birds: a new methodological...
1. Environmental trace element composition can have an important impact on ecosystem and population health as well individual fitness. Therefore carefully assessing bioaccumulation of trace elements is...
View ArticleData from: Data for evaluation of fast kurtosis imaging, b-value optimization...
Here we describe and provide diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data that was acquired in neural tissue and a physical phantom. Data acquired in biological tissue includes: fixed rat brain...
View ArticleData from: A social-ecological database to advance research on infrastructure...
Recognized as one of the world's most vital natural and cultural resources, the Amazon faces a wide variety of threats from natural resource and infrastructure development. Within this context,...
View ArticleData from: Is multifactorial sex determination in the house fly, Musca...
Sex determination pathways evolve rapidly, usually because of turnover of master regulatory genes at the top of the developmental pathway. Polygenic sex determination is expected to be a transient...
View ArticleData from: Plumage genes and little else distinguish the genomes of...
When related taxa hybridize extensively, their genomes may become increasingly homogenized over time. This mixing via hybridization creates conservation challenges when it reduces genetic or phenotypic...
View ArticleData from: Specific alleles at immune genes, rather than genome-wide...
The negative effects of inbreeding on fitness are serious concerns for populations of endangered species. Reduced fitness has been associated with lower genome-wide heterozygosity and immune gene...
View ArticleData from: Evidence of human infection by a new mammarenavirus endemic to...
Southeastern Asia is a recognised hotspot for emerging infectious diseases, many of which have an animal origin. Mammarenavirus infections contribute significantly to the human disease burden in both...
View ArticleData from: RNA-Seq reveals virus–virus and virus–plant interactions in nature
As research on plant viruses has focused mainly on crop diseases, little is known about these viruses in natural environments. To understand the ecology of viruses in natural systems, comprehensive...
View ArticleData from: Bayesian phylogenetic estimation of clade ages supports...
Divergence-time estimation based on molecular phylogenies and the fossil record has provided insights into fundamental questions of evolutionary biology. In Bayesian node dating, phylogenies are...
View ArticleData from: Repeatability of locomotor performance and of morphology -...
There is good evidence that natural selection drives the evolution of locomotor performance, but the processes that generate among individual variation in locomotion, the substrate upon which selection...
View ArticleData from: How structured is the entangled bank? The surprisingly simple...
Species are linked to each other by a myriad of positive and negative interactions. This complex spectrum of interactions constitutes a network of links that mediates ecological communities’ response...
View ArticleData from: Preventing Zika virus infection during pregnancy using a seasonal...
It has come to light that Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy can result in trans-placental transmission to the fetus along with fetal death, congenital microcephaly and/or Central Nervous...
View ArticleData from: Female zebra finches smell their eggs
Parental investment in unrelated offspring seems maladaptive from an evolutionary perspective, due to the costs of energy and resources that cannot be invested in related offspring at the same time....
View ArticleData from: The representation of prediction error in auditory cortex
To survive, organisms must extract information from the past that is relevant for their future. How this process is expressed at the neural level remains unclear. We address this problem by developing...
View ArticleData from: Modeling of kidney hemodynamics: probability-based topology of an...
Through regulation of the extracellular fluid volume, the kidneys provide important long-term regulation of blood pressure. At the level of the individual functional unit (the nephron), pressure and...
View ArticleData from: Does population distribution matter? Influence of a patchy versus...
Aim: Uniform spatial population distributions are predicted to result in lower among-population genetic differentiation and higher within-population genetic diversity than naturally patchy...
View ArticleData from: A new specimen of Agorophius pygmaeus (Agorophiidae, Odontoceti,...
The holotype partial skull of Agorophius pygmaeus (the monotypic form for both the genus Agorophius and the Family Agorophiidae) has been missing for approximately 140 years. Since the discovery of...
View ArticleData from: Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global...
Songbirds (oscine passerines) are the most species rich and cosmopolitan bird group, comprising almost half of global avian species diversity. Because of their diversity and ubiquity, songbirds are...
View ArticleData from: Comparative analysis of ear-hole closure identifies epimorphic...
Why mammals have poor regenerative ability has remained a long-standing question in biology. In regenerating vertebrates, injury can induce a process known as epimorphic regeneration to replace damaged...
View ArticleData from: Discrimination of fast click series produced by tagged Risso’s...
Early studies that categorized odontocete pulsed sounds had few means of discriminating signals used for biosonar-based foraging from those used for communication. This capability to identify the...
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