Data from: Detection of invasive mosquito vectors using environmental DNA...
Repeated introductions and spread of invasive mosquito species (IMS) have been recorded on a large scale these last decades worldwide. In this context, members of the mosquito genus Aedes can present...
View ArticleData from: Development of genomic tools in a widespread tropical tree,...
Population genetic studies in tropical plants are often challenging because of limited information on taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships and distribution ranges, scarce genomic information and...
View ArticleData from: Body reserves mediate trade-offs between life history traits: new...
Limited resources in the environment prevent individuals from simultaneously maximizing all life-history traits, resulting in trade-offs. In particular, the cost of reproduction is well known to...
View ArticleData from: Autocorrelation structure at rest predicts value correlates of...
Correlates of value are routinely observed in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during reward-guided decision making. In previous work (Hunt et al., 2015), we argued that PFC correlates of chosen value are a...
View ArticleData from: Macroevolution of specificity in cyanolichens of the genus...
Patterns of specificity among symbiotic partners are key to a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of symbiotic systems. Specificity of mutualistic partners, within a widespread monophyletic...
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: The spatial distribution of foragers and food patches can...
Antipredator vigilance is a major component of defenses against predators for many prey species. For group foragers, such vigilance is predicted by models to decrease with group size reflecting better...
View ArticleData from: Large-scale recovery of an endangered amphibian despite ongoing...
Human influences are causing the disappearance of species at a rate unprecedented in millions of years. Amphibians are being particularly affected, and extinctions of many species may be inevitable....
View ArticleData from: Introduction bias affects relationships between the...
Aim: Alien plants with certain characteristics may have been introduced earlier and more frequently than others. Such introduction bias may cause spurious associations between plant characteristics and...
View ArticleData from: A bioacoustic record of a conservancy in the Mount Kenya ecosystem
Environmental degradation is a major threat facing ecosystems around the world. In order to determine ecosystems in need of conservation interventions, we must monitor the biodiversity of these...
View ArticleData from: Differential phasing between circadian clocks in the brain and...
The daily timing of mammalian physiology is coordinated by circadian clocks throughout the body. Although measurements of clock gene expression indicate that these clocks in mice are normally in phase...
View ArticleData from: The effects of supplementary food on the breeding performance of...
Understanding the mechanisms by which climate variation can drive population changes requires information linking climate, local conditions, trophic resources, behaviour and demography. Climate change...
View ArticleData from: How the aridification of Australia structured the biogeography and...
Over the last 30 million years, Australia’s landscape has undergone dramatic cooling and drying due to the establishment of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and change in global CO2 levels. Studies...
View ArticleData from: Proteroctopus ribeti in coleoid evolution
Palaeontological data are key elements for inferring ancestral character states and the assembly of character complexes, but cephalopod fossils preserving soft tissues are very rare. The exceptionally...
View ArticleData from: Principal component analysis as an alternative treatment for...
In a recent study, the phylogeny of Caseidae (a herbivorous family of Palaeozoic synapsids belonging to the paraphyletic grade known as pelycosaurs) was analysed with a dataset employing more than...
View ArticleData from: Buoyancy mechanisms limit preservation of coleoid cephalopod soft...
Coleoid cephalopods are characterized by internalization of their shell, and are divided into the ten-armed Decabrachia (squids and cuttlefish) and the eight-armed Vampyropoda (octopuses and vampire...
View ArticleData from: Functional traits for carbon access in macrophytes
Understanding functional trait distributions among organisms can inform impacts on and responses to environmental change. In marine systems, only 1% of dissolved inorganic carbon in seawater exists as...
View ArticleData from: Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal...
At a proximal level, the physiological impacts of global climate change on ectothermic organisms are manifest as changes in body temperatures. Especially for plants and animals exposed to direct solar...
View ArticleData from: Five years of phenology observations from a mixed-grass prairie...
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have been steadily increasing since the Industrial Era and contribute to concurrent increases in global temperatures. Many observational studies suggest climate warming...
View ArticleData from: Two new species of Ichthyosaurus from the lowermost Jurassic...
All specimens of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of Somerset were previously identified as I. communis, an abundant and extremely variable species. Here, two new species of Ichthyosaurus are...
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