Data from: The outcome of competition between two parasitoid species is...
1. Symbiotic bacteria can act to protect their host against natural enemies. Where this protection is asymmetric against different natural enemies protection conferred by symbionts has the potential to...
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Climate change is predicted to intensify the impacts of invasive species by enhancing their performance relative to their native counterparts. However, few studies have compared the performance of...
View ArticleData from: Cardiovascular disease risk factors in Ghana during the...
Populations in sub-Saharan Africa are shifting from rural to increasingly urban. Although the burden of cardiovascular disease is expected to increase with this changing landscape, few large studies...
View ArticleData from: Weaponry and defenses in fighting animals: how allometry can alter...
Theoretical models have been developed to understand how animals decide to withdraw from a contest. They provide testable predictions regarding the relationship between resource holding potential (RHP)...
View ArticleData from: Genotyping-by-sequencing provides the discriminating power to...
Background: The majority of the subspecies of Daucus carota have not yet been discriminated clearly by various molecular or morphological methods and hence their phylogeny and classification remains...
View ArticleData from: Assessing patterns in introduction pathways of alien species by...
1. Preventing the arrival of invasive alien species (IAS) is a major priority in managing biological invasions. However, information on introduction pathways is currently scattered across many...
View ArticleData from: Stable isotope-based location in a shelf sea setting: accuracy and...
Retrospective determination of location for marine animals would facilitate investigations of migration, connectivity and food provenance. Predictable spatial variations in carbon and nitrogen isotopes...
View ArticleData from: Getting to the heart of emotion regulation in youth: the role of...
Emotion regulation and associated autonomic activation develop throughout childhood and adolescence under the influence of the family environment. Specifically, physiological indicators of autonomic...
View ArticleData from: Environment-dependent prey-capture in the Atlantic mudskipper...
Few vertebrates capture prey in both the aquatic and the terrestrial environment due to the conflicting biophysical demands of feeding in water versus air. The Atlantic mudskipper (Periophthalmus...
View ArticleData from: Modified low-salt CTAB extraction of high-quality DNA from...
The increasing use of high-throughput sequencing platforms has made the isolation of pure, high molecular weight DNA a primary concern for studies of a diverse range of organisms. Purification of DNA...
View ArticleData from: High phylogenetic utility of an ultraconserved element probe set...
Arachnida is an ancient, diverse, and ecologically important animal group that contains a number of species of interest for medical, agricultural, and engineering applications. Despite their...
View ArticleData from: No effect of partner age and lifespan on female age-specific...
Studies of age-specific reproductive performance are fundamental to our understanding of population dynamics and the evolution of life-history strategies. In species with bi-parental care, reproductive...
View ArticleData from: Anaesthetic interventions for prevention of awareness during surgery
BACKGROUND: General anaesthesia is usually associated with unconsciousness. 'Awareness' is when patients have postoperative recall of events or experiences during surgery. 'Wakefulness' is when...
View ArticleData from: A systematic review of cetothere baleen whales (Cetacea,...
Nine taxa of Miocene baleen whales were described from the Black Sea region under the name Cetotherium before 1951, and a further four closely related species representing three genera have been added...
View ArticleData from: Signatures of local adaptation in candidate genes of oaks (Quercus...
Testing how populations are locally adapted and predicting their response to their future environment is of key importance in view of climate change. Landscape genomics is a powerful approach to...
View ArticleData from: A combined field survey and molecular identification protocol for...
Obtaining fundamental biodiversity metrics such as alpha, beta and gamma diversity for arthropods is often complicated by a lack of prior taxonomic information and/or taxonomic expertise, which can...
View ArticleData from: Survival by genotype: patterns at Mc1r are not black and white at...
Measuring links among genotype, phenotype, and survival in the wild has long been a focus of studies of adaptation. We conducted a four-year capture-recapture study to measure survival by genotype and...
View ArticleData from: Convergent evolution of social hybridogenesis in Messor harvester...
Sexual reproduction generally requires no more than two partners. Here, we show convergent evolution of social hybridogenesis, a reproductive system requiring three reproductive partners in harvester...
View ArticleData from: Long fusion correction of degenerative adult spinal deformity and...
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare outcomes when the upper and lower thoracic regions were used as the site of proximal instrumentation to treat adult spinal deformity. Methods: Medline,...
View ArticleData from: Using playback of territorial calls to investigate mechanisms of...
Kin recognition can facilitate kin selection and may have played a role in the evolution of sociality. Red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) defend territories using vocalizations known as rattles....
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