Data from: Multi-locus approaches for the measurement of selection on...
The study of ecological speciation is inherently linked to the study of selection. Methods for estimating phenotypic selection within a generation based on associations between trait values and fitness...
View ArticleData from: Onychophoran-like musculature in a phosphatized Cambrian lobopodian
The restricted, exclusively terrestrial distribution of modern Onychophora contrasts strikingly with the rich diversity of onychophoran-like fossils preserved in marine Cambrian Lagerstätten. The...
View ArticleData from: One fly to rule them all—muscid flies are the key pollinators in...
Global change is causing drastic changes in the pollinator communities of the Arctic. While arctic flowers are visited by a wide range of insects, flies in family Muscidae have been proposed as a...
View ArticleData from: Telomere length reflects reproductive effort indicated by...
Telomere length is a candidate biomarker of ageing and phenotypic quality, but little is known of the (physiological) causes of telomere length variation. We previously showed that individual common...
View ArticleData from: Fine with heat, problems with water: microclimate alters water...
Global change, including habitat isolation and climate change, has both short- and long-term impacts on wildlife populations. For example, genetic drift and inbreeding result in genetic impoverishment...
View ArticleData from: Population genomics of divergence within an obligate pollination...
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Speciation is a complex process that can be shaped by many factors, from geographic isolation to interspecific interactions. In Joshua trees, selection from pollinators on style...
View ArticleData from: Environmental correlates of large-scale spatial variation in the...
Carbon stable isotopes can be used to trace the sources of energy supporting food chains and to estimate the contribution of different sources to a consumer’s diet. However, the δ13C signature of a...
View ArticleData from: Vascular patterns in the heads of crocodilians: blood vessels and...
Extant crocodilians are a highly apomorphic archosaur clade that is endothermic, yet often achieve large body sizes that can be subject to higher heat loads. Therefore, the anatomical and physiological...
View ArticleData from: Post-fire recovery in coastal sage scrub: seed rain and community...
Disturbance is a primary mechanism structuring ecological communities. However, human activity has the potential to alter the frequency and intensity of natural disturbance regimes, with subsequent...
View ArticleData from: Moorean and Tahitian Partula tree snail survival after a mass...
Natural history museum collections provide a biodiversity window into the past and are of particular importance to the study of extinction-impacted clades such as the Pacific Island tree snail family...
View ArticleData from: Fine-scale analysis of an assassin bug's behaviour: predatory...
Some predators sidestep environments that render them conspicuous to the sensory systems of prey. However, these challenging environments are unavoidable for certain predators. Stenolemus giraffa is an...
View ArticleData from: How individual Montagu’s Harriers cope with Moreau’s Paradox...
Hundreds of millions of Afro-Palaearctic migrants winter in the Sahel, a semi-arid belt south of the Sahara desert, where they experience deteriorating ecological conditions during their overwintering...
View ArticleData from: QTL analysis of soft scald in two apple populations
The apple (Malus×domestica Borkh.) is one of the world’s most widely grown and valuable fruit crops. With demand for apples year round, storability has emerged as an important consideration for apple...
View ArticleData from: Invariant antagonistic network structure despite high spatial and...
Recent work has suggested that emergent ecological network structure exhibits very little spatial or temporal variance despite changes in community composition. However, the changes in network...
View ArticleData from: Does biomass growth increase in the largest trees? – flaws,...
The longstanding view that biomass growth in trees typically follows a rise-and-fall unimodal pattern has been challenged by studies concluding that biomass growth increases with size even among the...
View ArticleData from: Biparental chloroplast inheritance leads to rescue from...
Although organelle inheritance is predominantly maternal across animals and plants, biparental chloroplast inheritance has arisen multiple times in the angiosperms. Biparental inheritance has the...
View ArticleData from: Using collision cones to assess biological deconfliction methods
Biological systems consistently outperform autonomous systems governed by engineered algorithms in their ability to reactively avoid collisions. To better understand this discrepancy, a collision...
View ArticleData from: The importance of taxonomic resolution for additive beta diversity...
Additive diversity partitioning (α, β, and γ) is commonly used to study the distribution of species-level diversity across spatial scales. Here, we first investigate whether published studies of...
View ArticleData from: Wolbachia increases the susceptibility of a parasitoid wasp to...
The success of maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria, such as Wolbachia, is directly linked to their host reproduction but in direct conflict with other parasites that kill the host before it...
View ArticleData from: Dispersal in the sub-Antarctic: king penguins show remarkably...
Background: Seabirds are important components of marine ecosystems, both as predators and as indicators of ecological change, being conspicuous and sensitive to changes in prey abundance. To determine...
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