Data from: The coevolution of sexual imprinting by males and females
Sexual imprinting is the learning of a mate preference by direct observation of the phenotype of another member of the population. Sexual imprinting can be paternal, maternal, or oblique if individuals...
View ArticleData from: Exploring health literacy competencies toward patient education...
Objectives: To achieve consensus on a set of competencies in health literacy practice based on a literature review and expert consultation. Setting: Hospitals and community health centers in Taiwan....
View ArticleData from: MicroRNA stability in FFPE tissue samples: dependence on GC content
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs responsible for fine-tuning of gene expression at post-transcriptional level. The alterations in miRNA expression levels profoundly affect human health and...
View ArticleData from: Combined analysis of variation in core, accessory and regulatory...
The use of whole-genome phylogenetic analysis has revolutionized our understanding of the evolution and spread of many important bacterial pathogens due to the high resolution view it provides....
View ArticleData from: The Tara Oceans voyage reveals global diversity and distribution...
Illumina reads of the SSU-rDNA-V9 region obtained from the circumglobal Tara Oceans expedition allow the investigation of protistan plankton diversity patterns on a global scale. We analyzed 6,137,350...
View ArticleData from: Bats perceptually weight prey cues across sensory systems when...
Anthropogenic noise can interfere with environmental information processing and thereby reduce survival and reproduction. Receivers of signals and cues in particular depend on perceptual strategies to...
View ArticleData from: Effects of chronic consumption of sugar-enriched diets on brain...
Excessive sugar intake might increase the risk to develop eating disorders via an altered reward circuitry, but it remains unknown whether different sugar sources induce different neural effects and...
View ArticleData from: Sensitivity of the farmland bird community to crop diversification...
Crop diversification has been introduced as an environmental strategy in the ‘Greening’ of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2015–2020. The primary target of crop diversification is soil and...
View ArticleData from: Megaphylogenetic specimen-level approaches to the Carex...
We present the first large-scale phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus Carex based on 996 of the 1983 accepted species (50.23%). We used a supermatrix approach using three DNA regions: ETS, ITS and...
View ArticleData from: A genome-wide association study identifies a region strongly...
Symmetrical onychomadesis causes periodic loss of claws in otherwise healthy dogs. Genome-wide association analysis in 225 Gordon Setters identified a single region associated with symmetrical...
View ArticleData from: Shortspine thornyhead and rockfish (Scorpaenidae) distribution in...
Learmonth Bank in northern British Columbia sustains an active trawl fishery that returns large bycatches of deep-sea sponges and corals. To examine effects of biogenic structures on the distribution...
View ArticleData from: Functional traits in red flour beetles: the dispersal phenotype is...
1. Individuals vary in their ability to disperse. Much of this variation can be described by covarying phenotypic traits that are related to dispersal (constituting the ‘dispersal phenotype’ or...
View ArticleData from: Bird responses to lowland rainforest conversion in Sumatran...
Rapid land-use change in the tropics causes dramatic losses in biodiversity and associated functions. In Sumatra, Indonesia, lowland rainforest has mainly been transformed by smallholders into oil palm...
View ArticleData from: Complementary food resources of carnivory and frugivory affect...
A major unresolved question for omnivorous carnivores, like most species of bears, is to what degree are populations influenced by bottom-up (food supply) or top-down (human-caused mortality)...
View ArticleData from: Temporal regularity increases with repertoire complexity in the...
Music maintains a characteristic balance between repetition and novelty. Here, we report a similar balance in singing performances of free-living Australian pied butcherbirds. Their songs include many...
View ArticleData from: The last bastion? X-chromosome genotyping of Anopheles gambiae...
Speciation with gene flow may be aided by reduced recombination helping to build linkage between genes involved in the early stages of reproductive isolation. Reduced recombination on chromosome-X has...
View ArticleData from: Metabarcoding and metabolome analysis of copepod grazing reveals...
In order to characterize copepod feeding in relation to microbial plankton community dynamics, we combined metabarcoding and metabolome analyses during a 22-day seawater mesocosm experiment. Nutrient...
View ArticleData from: Global population genetic dynamics of a highly migratory, apex...
Knowledge of genetic connectivity dynamics in the world’s large-bodied, highly migratory, apex predator sharks across their global ranges is limited. One such species, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo...
View ArticleData from: Feather melanin and micro-structure variation in dark-eyed junco...
Variation in feather melanism and microstructure can arise through sexual selection and ecological functional drivers. Melanin-based plumage traits are associated with sexual dichromatism and the...
View ArticleData from: Familiarity affects network structure and information flow in...
How individuals respond towards one another can depend on the level of familiarity between them. Variation in the proportion of familiar individuals comprising a group can shape group-level outcomes...
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