Data from: From population genomics to conservation and management: a...
A genotyping assay for the Ion Torrent Ion PGM platform was developed for fast and cost-effective targeted genotyping of key single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) earlier identified using a...
View ArticleData from: Misconceptions on missing data in RAD-seq phylogenetics with a...
Restriction-site associated DNA (RAD) sequencing and related methods rely on the conservation of enzyme recognition sites to isolate homologous DNA fragments for sequencing, with the consequence that...
View ArticleData from: Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV in patients that...
OBJECTIVE To quantify and characterize missed opportunities for earlier HIV diagnosis in patients diagnosed with advanced HIV. DESIGN A retrospective observational cohort study. SETTING A central...
View ArticleData from: Vascular patterns in iguanas and other squamates: blood vessels...
Squamates use the circulatory system to regulate body and head temperatures during both heating and cooling. The flexibility of this system, which possibly exceeds that of endotherms, offers a number...
View ArticleData from: Forecasting potential emergence of zoonotic diseases in Southeast...
1. Within complex ecological systems, identifying animal species likely to play a key role in the emergence of infectious zoonotic diseases remains a major challenge. One approach consists of using...
View ArticleData from: Avian cephalic vascular anatomy, sites of thermal exchange, and...
The general anatomy of avian cephalic blood vessels is well known and there are published details of their role in physiological thermoregulation. Unfortunately, the finer details of vascular pathways...
View ArticleData from: African departure rather than migration speed determines variation...
1. Properly timed spring migration enhances reproduction and survival. Climate change requires organisms to respond to changes such as advanced spring phenology. Pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca...
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: A revision of the Leptogium saturninum group in North America
A revision of the North American members of the Leptogium saturninum group (i.e. species with long lower-surface hairs, isidia, and usually smooth upper surface) is presented based on molecular...
View ArticleData from: Is asexual reproduction an evolutionary dead-end in lichens?
Classical hypotheses in lichenology predict pairs of species in which sexual lineages are ancestral and long-lived evolutionarily and that these give rise to derived, evolutionarily transient asexual...
View ArticleData from: Phylogeny and evolution of endemic species on Ulleungdo Island,...
The genus Fagus (beech, Fagaceae) consists of about 10 species discontinuously distributed in East Asia, eastern North America, and Europe. Fagus multinervis occurs only on Ulleungdo Island, Korea, and...
View ArticleData from: Impact of controlled neonicotinoid exposure on bumblebees in a...
Pesticide exposure has been implicated as a contributor to insect pollinator declines. In social bees, which are crucial pollination service providers, the effect of low-level chronic exposure is...
View ArticleData from: Experience with predators shapes learning rules in larval amphibians
Experience is essential for many prey species that must learn about predation risk to survive and reproduce. How prey incorporate information about predation risk via multiple learning events has been...
View ArticleData from: Life-history strategy and behavioral type: risk-tolerance reflects...
Despite the recent interest in animal personality and behavioral syndromes, there is a paucity of explanations for why distinct behavioral traits should evolve to correlate. We investigate whether such...
View ArticleData from: Climatic and geographic barriers drive distributional patterns of...
Modern phylogenetic data provide unparalleled ability to test biogeographic paradigms, often suggested by differences in species distribution patterns. However, such approaches have been applied less...
View ArticleData from: Genetic basis for variation in salinity tolerance between...
Adaptation to different salinities can drive and maintain divergence between populations of aquatic organisms. Anadromous and stream ecotypes of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) are an...
View ArticleData from: Testing for homologies in the axial skeleton of primitive echinoderms
The Extraxial Axial Theory is used to investigate homology of ambulacral and oral plating because it predicts terminal branching and terminal addition of plates in the axial skeleton, although...
View ArticleData from: Divergence of cuticular hydrocarbons in two sympatric grasshopper...
Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) play a major role in the evolution of reproductive isolation between insect species. The CHC profiles of two closely related sympatric grasshopper species, Chorthippus...
View ArticleData from: Genome-wide sequence data suggest the possibility of pollinator...
The obligate mutualism of figs and fig pollinating wasps has been one of the classic models used for testing theories of coevolution and cospeciation due to the high species-specificity of these...
View ArticleData from: The future of practical skills in undergraduate medical education...
Background: 64% of young medical professionals in Germany do not feel adequately prepared for the practical requirements of the medical profession. The goal of “outcome-orientated training” is to...
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