Data from: Phylogenomic analysis of carangimorph fishes reveals flatfish...
Background: Flatfish cranial asymmetry represents one of the most remarkable morphological innovations among vertebrates, and has fueled vigorous debate on the manner and rate at which strikingly...
View ArticleData from: Impacts of predator depletion by fishing on the biomass and...
An understanding of the indirect effects of fishing on predator-prey relationships is required for the development of valid multispecies yield models for reef fisheries and for determining the factors...
View ArticleData from: Testosterone activates sexual dimorphism including male-typical...
In males it is frequently testosterone (T) that activates the expression of sexually selected morphological and behavioral displays, but the role of T in regulating similar traits in females is less...
View ArticleData from: Getting a head in hard soils: convergent skull evolution and...
Background: High morphological diversity can occur in closely related animals when selection favors morphologies that are subject to intrinsic biological constraints. A good example is subterranean...
View ArticleData from: Living on the edge: parasite prevalence changes dramatically...
Species interactions can determine range limits, and parasitism is the most intimate of such interactions. Intriguingly, the very conditions on range edges likely change host-parasite dynamics in...
View ArticleData from: Mosquitoes host communities of bacteria that are essential for...
Mosquitoes are insects of interest because several species vector disease-causing pathogens to humans and other vertebrates. We previously reported that mosquitoes from long-term laboratory cultures...
View ArticleData from: Revision of the early crocodylomorph Trialestes romeri...
Trialestes romeri (Reig) is an early crocodylomorph from the Ischigualasto Formation (late Carnian – early Norian; Ischigualasto – Villa Unión Basin, Argentina) and one of the oldest-known members of...
View ArticleData from: A new taxon of cistecephalid dicynodont from the upper Permian...
A new cistecephalid dicynodont, Sauroscaptor tharavati gen. et sp. nov., is described from the upper Permian Kundaram Formation of India. This taxon is represented by specimens formerly referred to the...
View ArticleData from: Postcanine microstructure in Cricodon metabolus, a Middle Triassic...
Cricodon metabolus is a trirachodontid cynodont from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of eastern and southern Africa. It has labiolingually expanded (gomphodont) postcanines but also a sectorial tooth in...
View ArticleData from: Is famine exposure during developmental life in rural Bangladesh...
Objectives: Famine exposure in utero can ‘programme’ an individual towards type 2 diabetes and obesity in later life. We sought to identify, (i) whether Bangladeshis exposed to famine during...
View ArticleData from: Metabolic recovery from drowning by insect pupae
Many terrestrial insects live in environments that flood intermittently, and some life stages may spend days underwater without access to oxygen. We tested the hypothesis that terrestrial insects with...
View ArticleData from: Blood mercury levels of zebra finches are heritable: implications...
Mercury is a ubiquitous metal contaminant that negatively impacts reproduction of wildlife and has many other sub-lethal effects. Songbirds are sensitive bioindicators of mercury toxicity and may...
View ArticleData from: Constructing an invasion machine: the rapid evolution of a...
Biological invasions can induce rapid evolutionary change. As cane toads (Rhinella marina) have spread across tropical Australia over an 80-year period, their rate of invasion has increased from around...
View ArticleData from: Watch out for your neighbor: climbing onto shrubs is related to...
The distribution and behavior of foraging animals usually imply a balance between resource availability and predation risk. In some predators such as scorpions, cannibalism constitutes an important...
View ArticleData from: Flow cytometric methods for indirect analysis and quantification...
Induction of sexual reproduction in the facultatively sexual Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is cued by depletion of nitrogen. We explore the capacity for indirect monitoring of population variation in the...
View ArticleData from: Resolving coiled shapes reveals new reorientation behaviors in C....
We exploit the reduced space of C. elegans postures to develop a novel tracking algorithm which captures both simple shapes and also self-occluding coils, an important, yet unexplored, component of 2D...
View ArticleData from: Sexual and non-sexual cannibalism have different effects on...
Sexual cannibalism is often set apart from other forms of cannibalism, however no studies have directly compared the fitness consequences of these two types of cannibalism. Here we compared the...
View ArticleData from: PSMC (Pairwise Sequentially Markovian Coalescent) analysis of RAD...
The Pairwise Sequentially Markovian Coalescent (PSMC) method uses the genome sequence of a single individual to estimate demographic history covering a time span of thousands of generations. Although...
View ArticleData from: Phylogenomics of Lophotrochozoa with consideration of systematic...
Phylogenomic studies have improved understanding of deep metazoan phylogeny and show promise for resolving incongruences among analyses based on limited numbers of loci. One region of the animal tree...
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