Lyndby, Niclas Heidelberg Rädecker, Nils Bessette, Sandrine Søgaard Jensen, Louise Helene Escrig, Stéphane Trampe, Erik Kühl, Michael Meibom, Anders
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The upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea engages in symbiosis with photosynthetic microalgae that facilitate uptake and recycling of inorganic nutrients. By contrast to most other symbiotic cnidarians, algal endosymbionts in Cassiopea are not restricted to the gastroderm but are found in amoebocyte cells within the mesoglea. While symbiont-bearing amoeb...
Culina, Antica Firth, Josh A. Hinde, Camilla A.
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In socially monogamous animals, including humans, pairs can meet and spend time together before they begin reproduction. However, the pre-breeding period has been challenging to study in natural populations, and thus remains largely unexplored. As such, our understanding of the benefits of mate familiarity is almost entirely limited to assessments ...
Bowler, Diana E. Kvasnes, Mikkel A. J. Pedersen, Hans C. Sandercock, Brett K. Nilsen, Erlend B.
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According to classic theory, species' population dynamics and distributions are less influenced by species interactions under harsh climatic conditions compared to under more benign climatic conditions. In alpine and boreal ecosystems in Fennoscandia, the cyclic dynamics of rodents strongly affect many other species, including ground-nesting birds ...
Mills, William F. Bustamante, Paco McGill, Rona A. R. Anderson, Orea R. J. Bearhop, Stuart Cherel, Yves Votier, Stephen C. Phillips, Richard A.
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Mercury (Hg) is an environmental contaminant which, at high concentrations, can negatively influence avian physiology and demography. Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) have higher Hg burdens than all other avian families. Here, we measure total Hg (THg) concentrations of body feathers from adult grey-headed albatrosses ( Thalassarche chrysostoma ) at South...
Kay, Kathleen M. Jogesh, Tania Tataru, Diana Akiba, Sami
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Heteranthery, the presence of two or more anther types in the same flower, is taxonomically widespread among bee-pollinated angiosperms, yet has puzzled botanists since Darwin. We test two competing hypotheses for its evolution: the long-standing ‘division of labour' hypothesis, which posits that some anthers are specialized as food rewards for bee...
McDonald, James E. Marchesi, Julian R. Koskella, Britt
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A fundamental aim of microbiome research is to understand the factors that influence the assembly and stability of host-associated microbiomes, and their impact on host phenotype, ecology and evolution. However, ecological and evolutionary theories applied to predict microbiome community dynamics are largely based on macroorganisms and lack microbi...
van Leeuwen, Boris Smeets, Paul Bovet, Jeanne Nave, Gideon Stieglitz, Jonathan Whitehouse, Andrew
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Economic preferences may be shaped by exposure to sex hormones around birth. Prior studies of economic preferences and numerous other phenotypic characteristics use digit ratios (2D : 4D), a purported proxy for prenatal testosterone exposure, whose validity has recently been questioned. We use direct measures of neonatal sex hormones (testosterone ...
Mullineaux, L. S. Mills, S. W. Le Bris, N. Beaulieu, S. E. Sievert, S. M. Dykman, L. N.
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Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are associated with seafloor tectonic and magmatic activity, and the communities living there are subject to disturbance. Eruptions can be frequent and catastrophic, raising questions about how these communities persist and maintain regional biodiversity. Prior studies of frequently disturbed vents have led to suggestion...
Frýdlová, Petra Mrzílková, Jana Šeremeta, Martin Křemen, Jan Dudák, Jan Žemlička, Jan Minnich, Bernd Kverková, Kristina Němec, Pavel Zach, Petr
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Body growth is typically thought to be indeterminate in ectothermic vertebrates. Indeed, until recently, this growth pattern was considered to be ubiquitous in ectotherms. Our recent observations of a complete growth plate cartilage (GPC) resorption, a reliable indicator of arrested skeletal growth, in many species of lizards clearly reject the ubi...
Dickerson, Bradley H.
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Animals rapidly collect and act on incoming information to navigate complex environments, making the precise timing of sensory feedback critical in the context of neural circuit function. Moreover, the timing of sensory input determines the biomechanical properties of muscles that undergo cyclic length changes, as during locomotion. Both of these i...
