Data from: Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural...
Mass-flowering crops (MFCs) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator communities in MFC fields and nearby semi-natural habitats (SNHs). Across six European regions and 2 years, we...
View ArticleData from: Illness beliefs in end stage renal disease and associations with...
Background: Interest in self-care haemodialysis (HD) has increased because it improves patients’clinical and quality-of-life outcomes. Patients who undertake self-management for haemodialysis may hold...
View ArticleData from: Minimally invasive collection of adipose tissue facilitates the...
1. Adipose tissue is the primary fuel storage for vertebrates and is an important component of energy budgets during periods of peak energetic demands. Investigating the composition of adipose tissue...
View ArticleData from: A novel stereo-video method to investigate fish-habitat relationships
Habitat complexity is known to influence the structure of fish assemblages. A number of techniques have previously been used to measure complexity, including quantitative in-situ methods, that can be...
View ArticleData from: Comparative genomics reveals convergent rates of evolution in...
Symbiosis—the close and often long-term interaction of species—is predicted to drive genome evolution in a variety of ways. For example, parasitic interactions have been shown to increase rates of...
View ArticleData from: Reinvestigation of Protelytron permianum (Insecta; Early Permian;...
We reinvestigated the holotype of Protelytron permianum, one of the earliest putative stem-dermapteran (i.e. stem-earwig). We recurred to reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) to deliver exhaustive...
View ArticleData from: Ancestral population reconstitution from isofemale lines as a tool...
Experimental evolution is a powerful tool to study adaptation under controlled conditions. Laboratory natural selection experiments mimic adaptation in the wild with better-adapted genotypes having...
View ArticleData from: Behavioral flexibility vs. rules of thumb: how do grey squirrels...
In order to test how flexibly animals are able to behave when making trade-offs that involve assessing constantly changing risks, we examined whether wild Eastern grey squirrels showed flexibility of...
View ArticleData from: Antennal transcriptome analysis and expression profiles of odorant...
Background: Eogystia hippophaecolus (Hua et al.) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) is the major threat to seabuckthorn plantations in China. Specific and highly efficient artificial sex pheromone traps was...
View ArticleData from: Transition from conventional to light-emitting diode street...
Light pollution is rapidly increasing and can have deleterious effects on biodiversity, yet light types differ in their effect on wildlife. Among the light types used for street lamps, light-emitting...
View ArticleData from: Using long-term experimental evolution to uncover the patterns and...
Though microbial ecology of the gut is now a major focus of interest, little is known about the molecular determinants of microbial adaptation in the gut. Experimental evolution coupled with whole...
View ArticleData from: Genetic inviability is a major driver of type-III survivorship in...
The offspring of most highly fecund marine fish and shellfish suffer substantial mortality early in the life cycle, complicating prediction of recruitment and fisheries management. Early mortality has...
View ArticleData from: How much do we know about the breeding biology of bird species in...
Knowledge on species’ breeding biology is the building blocks of avian life history theory. A review for the current status of the knowledge at a global scale is needed to highlight the priority for...
View ArticleData from: Higher fungal diversity is correlated with lower CO2 emissions...
Wood decomposition releases almost as much CO2 to the atmosphere as does fossil-fuel combustion, so the factors regulating wood decomposition can affect global carbon cycling. We used metabarcoding to...
View ArticleData from: Alien and native plant establishment in grassland communities is...
Understanding the factors that drive commonness and rarity of plant species and whether these factors differ for alien and native species are key questions in ecology. If a species is to become common...
View ArticleData from: Y-box protein 1 is required to sort microRNAs into exosomes in...
Exosomes are small vesicles that are secreted from metazoan cells and may convey selected membrane proteins and small RNAs to target cells for the control of cell migration, development and metastasis....
View ArticleData from: Microbiome changes through ontogeny of a tick pathogen vector
Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are one of the most important pathogen vectors in the United States, responsible for transmitting Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases. The structure of a...
View ArticleData from: 3D sorghum reconstructions from depth images identify QTL...
Dissecting the genetic basis of complex traits is aided by frequent and non-destructive measurements. Advances in range imaging technologies enable the rapid acquisition of three-dimensional (3D) data...
View ArticleData from: Age and early social environment influence guppy social learning...
Social learning, learning from others, allows animals to quickly and adaptively adjust to changing environments, but only if social learning provides reliable, useful information in that environment....
View ArticleData from: Developmental lead exposure has mixed effects on butterfly...
While the effects of lead pollution have been well studied in vertebrates, it is unclear to what extent lead may negatively affect insect cognition. Lead pollution in soils can elevate lead in plant...
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