Data from: Outcome of breast cancer in Moroccan young women correlated to...
Background: Breast cancer in young women is quite uncommon and shows more aggressive characteristics with major disparities between worldwide populations. Prognosis and outcome of breast cancer in...
View ArticleData from: ITS all right mama: Investigating the formation of chimeric...
The formation of chimeric sequences can create significant methodological bias in PCR-based DNA metabarcoding analyses. During mixed-template amplification of barcoding regions, chimera formation is...
View ArticleData from: Hot spots become cold spots: coevolution in variable temperature...
Antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites is a key process in the genesis and maintenance of biological diversity. Whereas coevolutionary dynamics show distinct patterns under favourable...
View ArticleData from: Are aphid parasitoids locally adapted to the prevalence of...
Background: Insect parasitoids are under strong selection to overcome their hosts' defences. In aphids, resistance to parasitoids is largely determined by the presence or absence of protective...
View ArticleData from: Diversification in wild populations of the model organism Anolis...
The green anole (Anolis carolinensis) is a lizard widespread throughout the southeastern United States and is a model organism for the study of reproductive behavior, physiology, neural biology, and...
View ArticleData from: Dung beetles reduce livestock gastrointestinal parasite...
Anthelmintics are widely used to control gastrointestinal parasites of livestock. However, the residues of these compounds, particularly the macrocyclic lactones, are excreted largely unmetabolised in...
View ArticleData from: Increased root herbivory under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide...
Predicted increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 may alter the susceptibility of many plants to insect herbivores due to changes in plant nutrition and defences. Silicon plays a critical role...
View ArticleData from: Male mate choice in the Trinidadian guppy is influenced by the...
In populations with male mate-choice copying, males may mitigate their risk of sexual competition by reducing their preference for a particular female in the presence of sexual rivals (audience)....
View ArticleData from: Analysis of animal accelerometer data using hidden Markov models
1. Use of accelerometers is now widespread within animal biotelemetry as they provide a means of measuring an animal's activity in a meaningful and quantitative way where direct observation is not...
View ArticleData from: PrimerMiner: an R package for development and in silico validation...
1. DNA metabarcoding is a powerful tool to assess biodiversity by amplifying and sequencing a standardized gene marker region. Its success is often limited due to variable binding sites that introduce...
View ArticleData from: MatlabHTK: a simple interface for bioacoustic analyses using...
1. Passive bioacoustic recording devices are now widely available and able to continuously record remotely located sites for extended periods, offering great potential for wildlife monitoring and...
View ArticleData from: Fast-slow life history is correlated with individual differences...
Fast and slow life histories are proposed to covary with consistent individual differences in behaviour, but little is known whether it holds in the wild, where individuals experience natural...
View ArticleData from: Decoupled diversity dynamics in green and brown webs during...
1. Terrestrial ecosystems are characterised by a strong functional connection between the green (plant-herbivore-based) and brown (detritus-detritivore-based) parts of the food web, which both develop...
View ArticleData from: Accounting for genetic differences among unknown parents in...
1. Quantifying and predicting microevolutionary responses to environmental change requires unbiased estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in wild populations. ‘Animal models’, which utilise...
View ArticleData from: Genetic Allee effects and their interaction with ecological Allee...
1. It is now widely accepted that genetic processes such as inbreeding depression and loss of genetic variation can increase the extinction risk of small populations. However, it is generally unclear...
View ArticleData from: Ant community and habitat limit colony establishment by the fire...
Hypotheses of community assembly include limitation through habitat physical attributes, as well as competition among species. Such hypotheses must be resolved through experimental tests. Previous...
View ArticleData from: Wind dispersal is predicted by tree, not diaspore, traits in...
1. The seed shadow created by wind dispersal around parent trees may be affected by functional traits, as well as wind conditions and surrounding vegetation. 2. This study of one mature tree each of 12...
View ArticleData from: Intraspecific trait variation across multiple scales: the leaf...
Understanding species differences in plant functional traits has been critical in developing a mechanistic understanding of terrestrial ecological processes. Greater attention is now being placed on...
View ArticleData from: Environmental conditions and vascular cambium regulate carbon...
Environmental conditions and the structure of the dormant cambium are assumed to affect seasonal patterns of cambial activity, hence controlling allocation of non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) to...
View ArticleData from: Comparing the responses of bryophytes and short-statured vascular...
1. Few experimental studies have tested how abundance and diversity of grassland bryophytes respond to global environmental changes such as climate shifts and eutrophication. Because bryophytes in...
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