Data from: Hybrid origin of European Vipers (Vipera magnifica and Vipera...
Background Studying patterns of introgression can illuminate the role of hybridization in speciation, and help guide decisions relevant to the conservation of rare taxa. Vipera magnifica and Vipera...
View ArticleData from: What influences the worldwide genetic structure of sperm whales...
The interplay of natural selection and genetic drift, influenced by geographic isolation, mating systems, and population size, determines patterns of genetic diversity within species. The sperm whale...
View ArticleData from: Population differentiation in the context of Holocene climate...
Understanding observed patterns of connectivity requires an understanding of the evolutionary processes that determine genetic structure among populations, with the most common models being associated...
View ArticleData from: Adaptive evolution of a derived radius morphology in manakins...
The morphology of the avian skeleton is often studied in the context of adaptations for powered flight. The effects of other evolutionary forces, such as sexual selection, on avian skeletal design are...
View ArticleData from: A rapid and scalable method for multilocus species delimitation...
Multilocus sequence data provide far greater power to resolve species limits than the single locus data typically used for broad surveys of clades. However, current statistical methods based on a...
View ArticleData from: No effect of blood sampling or phytohaemagglutinin injection on...
The injection of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and sampling of blood are widely used in studies of wild vertebrates to assess components of immune and endocrine function and health state and to obtain...
View ArticleData from: Ornament complexity is correlated with sexual selection: a comment...
Raia et al. (2015, Am. Nat. 186: 165-175) propose that the evolution of the shape and complexity of animal ornaments (e.g. deer antlers) can be explained by interspecific variation in body size, and is...
View ArticleData from: Assessment of available anatomical characters for phylogenetic...
Analyses of living and fossil taxa are crucial for understanding changes in biodiversity through time. The Total Evidence method allows living and fossil taxa to be combined in phylogenies, by using...
View ArticleData from: Sharp acoustic boundaries across an altitudinal avian hybrid zone...
Birdsong is a sexually selected trait that could play an important evolutionary role when related taxa come into secondary contact. Many songbird species however learn their songs through copying one...
View ArticleData from: Urban trees reduce nutrient leaching to groundwater
Many urban waterways suffer from excess nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) feeding algal blooms, which cause lower water clarity and oxygen levels, bad odor and taste, and the loss of desirable species....
View ArticleData from: Evolutionary history of endemic Sulawesi squirrels constructed...
Background: The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has a complex geological history. It is composed of several landmasses that have arrived at a near modern configuration only in the past few million years....
View ArticleData from: Replicated landscape genetic and network analyses reveal wide...
Landscape connectivity is essential for maintaining viable populations, particularly for species restricted to fragmented habitats or naturally arrayed in metapopulations and facing rapid climate...
View ArticleData from: A suite of potentially amplifiable microsatellite loci for ten...
Here we document the addition of thousands of potentially amplifiable microsatellite loci (PALs) and associated primer sequences for public use. We conducted whole-genome shotgun sequencing to obtain...
View ArticleData from: A well-defined readily releasable pool with fixed capacity for...
The readily releasable pool (RRP) of vesicles is a core concept in studies of presynaptic function. However, operating principles lack consensus definition and the utility for quantitative analysis has...
View ArticleData from: Analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid proteome in Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder accounting for more than 50% of cases of dementia. Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease relies on cognitive tests and analysis of amyloid beta, protein...
View ArticleData from: "Willing to pay?" Tax compliance in Britain and Italy: an...
As shown by the recent crisis, tax evasion poses a significant problem for countries such as Greece, Spain and Italy. While these societies certainly possess weaker fiscal institutions as compared to...
View ArticleData from: Horizontal gene transfer of acetyltransferases, invertases and...
Background: Hoplolaimina plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) are a lineage of animals with many documented cases of horizontal gene transfer (HGT). In a recent study, we reported on three likely HGT...
View ArticleData from: Rapid evolution of antioxidant defense in a natural population of...
Natural populations can cope with rapid changes in stressors by relying on sets of physiological defense mechanisms. Little is known onto what extent these physiological responses reflect plasticity...
View ArticleData from: Palaeohistological evidence for ancestral high metabolic rate in...
Metabolic heat production in archosaurs has played an important role in their evolutionary radiation during the Mesozoic, and their ancestral metabolic condition has long been a matter of debate in...
View ArticleData from: Heme pathway evolution in kinetoplastid protists
Background: Kinetoplastea is a diverse protist lineage composed of several of the most successful parasites on Earth, organisms whose metabolisms have coevolved with those of the organisms they infect....
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