Becker, Alexander D. Zhou, Susan H. Wesolowski, Amy Grenfell, Bryan T.
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Patterns of measles infection in large urban populations have long been considered the paradigm of synchronized nonlinear dynamics. Indeed, recurrent epidemics appear approximately mass-action despite underlying heterogeneity. However, using a subset of rich, newly digitized mortality data (1897–1906), we challenge that proposition. We find that su...
Abu-Akel, Ahmad M. Apperly, Ian A. Wood, Stephen J. Hansen, Peter C.
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The commonly used paradigm to investigate Dennet's ‘intentional stance’ compares neural activation when participants compete with a human versus a computer. This paradigm confounds whether the opponent is natural or artificial and whether it is intentional or an automaton. This functional magnetic resonance imaging study is, to our knowledge, the f...
Krueger, Thomas Horwitz, Noa Bodin, Julia Giovani, Maria-Evangelia Escrig, Stéphane Fine, Maoz Meibom, Anders
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The density of dinoflagellate microalgae in the tissue of symbiotic corals is an important determinant for health and productivity of the coral animal. Yet, the specific mechanism for their regulation and the consequence for coral nutrition are insufficiently understood due to past methodological limitations to resolve the fine-scale metabolic cons...
Close, Roger A. Benson, Roger B. J. Alroy, John Carrano, Matthew T. Cleary, Terri J. Dunne, Emma M. Mannion, Philip D. Uhen, Mark D. Butler, Richard J.
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There is no consensus about how terrestrial biodiversity was assembled through deep time, and in particular whether it has risen exponentially over the Phanerozoic. Using a database of 60 859 fossil occurrences, we show that the spatial extent of the worldwide terrestrial tetrapod fossil record itself expands exponentially through the Phanerozoic. ...
Johnson, Christine K. Hitchens, Peta L. Pandit, Pranav S. Rushmore, Julie Evans, Tierra Smiley Young, Cristin C. W. Doyle, Megan M.
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Emerging infectious diseases in humans are frequently caused by pathogens originating from animal hosts, and zoonotic disease outbreaks present a major challenge to global health. To investigate drivers of virus spillover, we evaluated the number of viruses mammalian species have shared with humans. We discovered that the number of zoonotic viruses...
Feller, Anna F. Haesler, Marcel P. Peichel, Catherine L. Seehausen, Ole
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One hallmark of the East African cichlid radiations is the rapid evolution of reproductive isolation that is robust to full sympatry of many closely related species. Theory predicts that species persistence and speciation in sympatry with gene flow are facilitated if loci of large effect or physical linkage (or pleiotropy) underlie traits involved ...
Scott, Jarrod J. Adam, Thomas C. Duran, Alain Burkepile, Deron E. Rasher, Douglas B.
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Microbes are ubiquitous throughout the world's oceans, yet the manner and extent of their influence on the ecology and evolution of large, mobile fauna remains poorly understood. Here, we establish the intestinal microbiome as a hidden, and potentially important, ‘functional trait’ of tropical herbivorous fishes—a group of large consumers critical ...
Matchette, S. R. Cuthill, I. C. Cheney, K. L. Marshall, N. J. Scott-Samuel, N. E.
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Natural habitats contain dynamic elements, such as varying local illumination. Can such features mitigate the salience of organism movement? Dynamic illumination is particularly prevalent in coral reefs, where patterns known as ‘water caustics’ play chaotically in the shallows. In behavioural experiments with a wild-caught reef fish, the Picasso tr...
Macheriotou, Lara Rigaux, Annelien Derycke, Sofie Vanreusel, Ann
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An understanding of the forces controlling community structure in the deep sea is essential at a time when its pristineness is threatened by polymetallic nodule mining. Because abiotically defined communities are more sensitive to environmental change, we applied occurrence- and phylogeny-based metrics to determine the importance of biotic versus a...
Burton, Tim Lakka, Hanna-Kaisa Einum, Sigurd
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When a change in the environment occurs, organisms can maintain an optimal phenotypic state via plastic, reversible changes to their phenotypes. These adjustments, when occurring within a generation, are described as the process of acclimation. While acclimation has been studied for more than half a century, global environmental change has stimulat...
