Archer, Louise C. Hutton, Stephen A. Harman, Luke Russell Poole, W. Gargan, Patrick McGinnity, Philip Reed, Thomas E.
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Metabolism defines the energetic cost of life, yet we still know relatively little about why intraspecific variation in metabolic rate arises and persists. Spatio-temporal variation in selection potentially maintains differences, but relationships between metabolic traits (standard metabolic rate (SMR), maximum metabolic rate (MMR), and aerobic sco...
Mendonca, Tania Birkhead, Tim R. Cadby, Ashley J. Forstmeier, Wolfgang Hemmings, Nicola
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van der Wal, Jessica E. M. Thorogood, Rose Horrocks, Nicholas P. C.
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Collaboration and diversity are increasingly promoted in science. Yet how collaborations influence academic career progression, and whether this differs by gender, remains largely unknown. Here, we use co-authorship ego networks to quantify collaboration behaviour and career progression of a cohort of contributors to biennial International Society ...
Nourani, Elham Bohrer, Gil Becciu, Paolo Bierregaard, Richard O. Duriez, Olivier Figuerola, Jordi Gangoso, Laura Giokas, Sinos Higuchi, Hiroyoshi Kassara, Christina
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Flying over the open sea is energetically costly for terrestrial birds. Despite this, over-water journeys of many birds, sometimes hundreds of kilometres long, are uncovered by bio-logging technology. To understand how these birds afford their flights over the open sea, we investigated the role of atmospheric conditions, specifically wind and uplif...
Rule, James P. Adams, Justin W. Marx, Felix G. Evans, Alistair R. Tennyson, Alan J. D. Scofield, R. Paul Fitzgerald, Erich M. G.
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Maduna, Simo Njabulo Aars, Jon Fløystad, Ida Klütsch, Cornelya F. C. Zeyl Fiskebeck, Eve M. L. Wiig, Øystein Ehrich, Dorothee Andersen, Magnus Bachmann, Lutz Derocher, Andrew E.
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Loss of Arctic sea ice owing to climate change is predicted to reduce both genetic diversity and gene flow in ice-dependent species, with potentially negative consequences for their long-term viability. Here, we tested for the population-genetic impacts of reduced sea ice cover on the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ) sampled across two decades (1995–...
Guo, Xiangbo Selden, Paul A. Ren, Dong
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Maternal care benefits the survival and fitness of offspring, often at a cost to the mother's future reproduction, and has evolved repeatedly throughout the animal kingdom. In extant spider species, this behaviour is very common and has different levels and diverse forms. However, evidence of maternal care in fossil spiders is quite rare. In this s...
Sadras, Victor O.
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Technologies, from molecular genetics to precision agriculture, are outpacing theory, which is becoming a bottleneck for crop improvement. Here, we outline theoretical insights on the wheat phenotype from the perspective of three evolutionary and ecologically important relations—mother–offspring, plant–insect and plant–plant. The correlation betwee...
Alciatore, Giacomo Ugelvig, Line V. Frank, Erik Bidaux, Jérémie Gal, Asaf Schmitt, Thomas Kronauer, Daniel J. C. Ulrich, Yuko
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Social animals display a wide range of behavioural defences against infectious diseases, some of which increase social contacts with infectious individuals (e.g. mutual grooming), while others decrease them (e.g. social exclusion). These defences often rely on the detection of infectious individuals, but this can be achieved in several ways that ar...
Durland, Evan De Wit, Pierre Langdon, Chris
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Balancing selection is one of the mechanisms which has been proposed to explain the maintenance of genetic diversity in species across generations. For species with large populations and complex life histories, however, heterogeneous selection pressures may create a scenario in which the net effects of selection are balanced across developmental st...
