Data from: Resource- and pollinator-mediated selection on floral traits
1. Female reproductive success is predicted to be simultaneously limited by the availability of pollen and resources. Selection on floral traits results from both factors, but their relative importance...
View ArticleData from: Who let the CAT out of the bag? accurately dealing with...
As phylogenetic datasets have increased in size, site-heterogeneous substitution models such as CAT-F81 and CAT-GTR have been advocated in favor of other models because they purportedly suppress...
View ArticleData from: Differences in endophyte communities of introduced trees depend on...
Plant species sometimes perform extraordinarily well when introduced to new environments, through achieving higher growth rates, individual biomasses or higher densities in their receiving communities...
View ArticleData from: Effects of pollination intensity on offspring number and quality...
1. Low pollination intensity may cause low seed set in plant populations and is thought to be responsible for evolutionary transitions from outcrossing to selfing, or from animal to wind pollination....
View ArticleData from: Biotic-drivers of seedling establishment in Neotropical savannas:...
1. Herbivory has been shown to have prominent top-down effects on vegetation in Paleotropical savannas, where consumers of early stages of life-history act as demographic bottlenecks. Such impact has...
View ArticleData from: Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly...
1. Assembly of grassland communities has long been scrutinized through the lens of functional diversity. Studies generally point to an overwhelming influence of climate on observed patterns of...
View ArticleData from: Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness...
1. Mutualisms are only rarely one-to-one interactions: each species generally interacts with multiple mutualists. Exploitation is ubiquitous in mutualisms, and we would therefore expect that each...
View ArticleData from: Microbial consortia controlling biogenic gas formation in the...
Knowledge of what controls the activity of subsurface microbial communities is critical for assessing and managing biogenic methane resources. In this study, 19 formation waters and five gas samples...
View ArticleData from: Parasites contribute to ecologically dependent postmating...
Spatial variation in parasitic infections is common, and has the potential to drive population divergence and the reproductive isolation of hosts. However, despite support from theory and model...
View ArticleData from: Incomplete lineage sorting in mammalian phylogenomics
The impact of incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) on phylogenetic conflicts among genes, and the related issue of whether to account for ILS in species tree reconstruction, are matters of intense...
View ArticleData from: Demographic modeling with whole genome data reveals parallel...
Modes and mechanisms of speciation are best studied in young species pairs. In older taxa it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what happened during speciation from what happened after...
View ArticleData from: Ancestral gene flow and parallel organellar genome capture result...
While hybridization has recently received a resurgence of attention from systematists and evolutionary biologists, there remains a dearth of case studies on ancient, diversified hybrid lineages –...
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: Surface energies of elemental crystals
The surface energy is a fundamental property of the different facets of a crystal that is crucial to the understanding of various phenomena like surface segregation, roughening, catalytic activity, and...
View ArticleData from: Spatial spread of the West Africa Ebola epidemic
Controlling Ebola outbreaks and planning an effective response to future emerging diseases are enhanced by understanding the role of geography in transmission. Here we show how epidemic expansion may...
View ArticleData from: Mapping QTL contributing to variation in posterior lobe morphology...
Closely-related, and otherwise morphologically similar insect species frequently show striking divergence in the shape and/or size of male genital structures, a phenomenon thought to be driven by...
View ArticleData from: High throughput techniques to reveal the molecular physiology and...
Background: Spiders are known for their predatory efficiency and for their high capacity of digesting relatively large prey. They do this by combining both extracorporeal and intracellular digestion....
View ArticleData from: Contemporary variations of immune responsiveness during range...
Biological invasions provide unique opportunities for studying life history trait changes over contemporary time scales. As spatial spread may be related to changes in parasite communities, several...
View ArticleData from: Educational disparities in the intention to quit smoking among...
Objectives We aim to describe the intention to quit smoking among Chinese males from different educational backgrounds and to explain this intention from their attitude, perceived social norm, and...
View ArticleData from: Independent reversals to terrestriality in squirrels (Rodentia:...
The family Sciuridae is one of the most widespread and ecologically diverse lineage of rodents and represents an ideal model for investigating the evolution of locomotion modes and the historical...
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