Data from: Compositional turnover and ecological changes related to the...
The late Paleozoic ice age (LPIA) had a profound effect on the biota. Despite much research having been focused on paleotropical regions or global-scale analyses, regional ecological changes have...
View ArticleData from: The relationship between diet and body mass in terrestrial mammals
Diet and body mass are highly important factors in mammalian ecology, and they have also proven to be powerful paleoecological indicators. Our previous research has proposed a new classification scheme...
View ArticleData from: Walk before you jump: new insights on early frog locomotion from...
Understanding the evolution of a Bauplan starts with discriminating phylogenetic signal from adaptation and the latter from exaptation in the observed biodiversity. Whether traits have predated,...
View ArticleData from: Reproductive isolation and introgression between sympatric Mimulus...
Incompletely isolated species provide an opportunity to investigate the genetic mechanisms and evolutionary forces that maintain distinct species in the face of ongoing gene flow. Here, we use field...
View ArticleData from: Ectomycorrhizal fungal richness declines toward the host species’...
Plant range boundaries are generally considered to reflect abiotic conditions; however, a rise in negative or decline in positive species interactions at range margins may contribute to these stable...
View ArticleData from: Phylogeny and divergence times of lemurs inferred with recent and...
Paleontological and neontological systematics seek to answer evolutionary questions with different datasets. Phylogenies inferred for combined extant and extinct taxa provide novel insights into the...
View ArticleData from: Fire frequency drives habitat selection by a diverse herbivore...
In areas with diverse herbivore communities such as African savannas, the frequency of disturbance by fire may alter the top-down role of different herbivore species on plant community dynamics. In a...
View ArticleData from: How embryos escape from danger: the mechanism of rapid, plastic...
Environmentally cued hatching allows embryos to escape dangers and exploit new opportunities. Such adaptive responses require a flexibly regulated hatching mechanism sufficiently fast to meet relevant...
View ArticleData from: Fossilization of melanosomes via sulfurization
Fossil melanin granules (melanosomes) are an important resource for inferring the evolutionary history of colour and its functions in animals. The taphonomy of melanin and melanosomes, however, is...
View ArticleData from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of...
We studied biotically-pollinated angiosperms on Macquarie Island, a remote site in the Southern Ocean with a predominately or exclusively dipteran pollinator fauna, in an effort to understand how...
View ArticleData from: De novo genome assembly and annotation of rice sheath rot fungus...
Background: Sheath rot disease caused by Sarocladium oryzae is an emerging threat for rice cultivation at global level. However, limited information with respect to genomic resources and pathogenesis...
View ArticleData from: When homoplasy mimics hybridization: a case study of Cape hakes...
In the marine environment, an increasing number of studies have documented introgression and hybridization using genetic markers. Hybridization appears to occur preferentially between sister-species,...
View ArticleData from: Is the Danube crested newt Triturus dobrogicus polytypic? A review...
The Danube crested newt Triturus dobrogicus has been proposed to comprise two subspecies: T. d. dobrogicus and T. d. macrosoma. Uncertainty exists in the literature over their distribution and...
View ArticleData from: Hummingbirds control turning velocity using body orientation and...
Turning in flight requires reorientation of force, which birds, bats and insects accomplish either by shifting body position and total force in concert or by using left–right asymmetries in wingbeat...
View ArticleData from: Clade-specific positive selection on a developmental gene:...
Positive selection is known to drive the evolution of genes involved in evolutionary arms races, but what role does it play in the evolution of genes involved in developmental processes? We used the...
View ArticleData from: Escape from the cryptic species trap: lichen evolution on both...
Large, architecturally complex lichen symbioses arose only a few times in evolution, increasing thallus size by orders of magnitude over those from which they evolved. The innovations that enabled...
View ArticleData from: Facultative grazing and bioturbation by macrodetritivores alter...
The importance of positive plant-plant interactions is generally suggested to increase towards more stressful conditions, due to mutual stress amelioration between plants. Bioturbating...
View ArticleData from: A genes eye view of ontogeny: De novo assembly and profiling of...
Crickets (Orthoptera:Gryllidae) are widely used model organisms for developmental, evolutionary, neurobiological, and behavioral research. Here we developed a de novo transcriptome from pooled RNA-seq...
View ArticleData from: Target gene enrichment in the cyclophyllidean cestodes, the most...
The Cyclophyllidea is the most diverse order of tapeworms, encompassing species that infect all classes of terrestrial tetrapods including humans and domesticated animals. Available phylogenetic...
View ArticleData from: Glacial refugia, recolonisation patterns, and diversification...
The Pleistocene climatic fluctuations had a huge impact on all life-forms, and various hypotheses regarding the survival of organisms during glacial periods have been postulated. In the European Alps,...
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