Hanson, M A Kondo, S Lemaitre, B
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are key to defence against infection in plants and animals. Use of AMP mutations in Drosophila has now revealed that AMPs can additively or synergistically contribute to defence in vivo. However, these studies also revealed high specificity, wherein just one AMP contributes an outsized role in combatting a specific pat...
Micheletti, Alberto J C Ge, Erhao Zhou, Liqiong Chen, Yuan Zhang, Hanzhi Du, Juan Mace, Ruth
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
The influence of inclusive fitness interests on the evolution of human institutions remains unclear. Religious celibacy constitutes an especially puzzling institution, often deemed maladaptive. Here, we present sociodemographic data from an agropastoralist Buddhist population in western China, where parents sometimes sent a son to the monastery. We...
Poli, Caroline Robertson, Ellen P Martin, Julien Powell, Abby N Fletcher, Robert J Jr
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
The natal environment can have long-term fitness consequences for individuals, particularly via 'silver spoon' or 'environmental matching' effects. Invasive species could alter natal effects on native species by changing species interactions, but this potential remains unknown. Using 17 years of data on 2588 individuals across the entire US breedin...
Pilotto, Francesca Rojas, Alexis Buckland, Philip I
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Since the last Ice Age (ca 115 000-11 700 years ago), the geographical ranges of most plants and animals have shifted, expanded or contracted. Understanding the timing, geographical patterns and drivers of past changes in insect communities is essential for evaluating the biodiversity implications of future climate changes, yet our knowledge of lon...
Winters, Sandra Higham, James P.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Divergence in allopatry and subsequent diversification of mating signals on secondary contact (reinforcement) is a major driver of phenotypic diversity. Observing this evolutionary process directly is often impossible, but simulated evolution can pinpoint key drivers of phenotypic variation. We developed evolutionary simulations in which mating sig...
Johansson, Roger Nyström, Marcus Dewhurst, Richard Johansson, Mikael
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
When we bring to mind something we have seen before, our eyes spontaneously unfold in a sequential pattern strikingly similar to that made during the original encounter, even in the absence of supporting visual input. Oculomotor movements of the eye may then serve the opposite purpose of acquiring new visual information; they may serve as self-gene...
Nöbel, Sabine Wang, Xiaobo Talvard, Laurine Tariel, Juliette Lille, Maëva Cucherousset, Julien Roussigné, Myriam Danchin, Etienne
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
High levels of within-population behavioural variation can have drastic demographic consequences, thus changing the evolutionary fate of populations. A major source of within-population heterogeneity is personality. Nonetheless, it is still relatively rarely accounted for in social learning studies that constitute the most basic process of cultural...
Goddard, Matthew R O'Brien, Sarah Williams, Nicola Guitian, Javier Grant, Andrew Cody, Alison Colles, Frances Buffet, Jean-Charles Adlen, Ella Stephens, Andrea
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Food poisoning caused by Campylobacter (campylobacteriosis) is the most prevalent bacterial disease associated with the consumption of poultry, beef, lamb and pork meat and unpasteurized dairy products. A variety of livestock industry, food chain and public health interventions have been implemented or proposed to reduce disease prevalence, some of...
Yun, Hao Luo, Cui Chang, Chao Li, Luoyang Reitner, Joachim Zhang, Xingliang
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Sponge fossils from the Cambrian black shales have attracted attention from both palaeontologists and geochemists for many years in terms of their high diversity, beautiful preservation and perplexing adaptation to inhospitable living environments. However, the body shape of these sponges, which contributes to deciphering adaptive evolution, has no...
Fogarty, Laurel Wade, Michael J
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
A central tenet of niche construction (NC) theory is that organisms can alter their environments in heritable and evolutionarily important ways, often altering selection pressures. We suggest that the physical changes niche constructors make to their environments may also alter trait heritability and the response of phenotypes to selection. This ef...
