Rey-Iglesia, Alba Lister, Adrian M Campos, Paula F Brace, Selina Mattiangeli, Valeria Daly, Kevin G Teasdale, Matthew D Bradley, Daniel G Barnes, Ian Hansen, Anders J
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Late Quaternary climatic fluctuations in the Northern Hemisphere had drastic effects on large mammal species, leading to the extinction of a substantial number of them. The giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus) was one of the species that became extinct in the Holocene, around 7660 calendar years before present. In the Late Pleistocene, the species ra...
Wittman, Tyler N Cox, Robert M
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The extent to which parasites reduce host survival should depend upon how hosts balance trade-offs between reproduction and survival. For example, parasites are predicted to impose greater survival costs under polygynous or promiscuous mating systems in which competition for mates favours increased reproductive investment, particularly in males. We...
Crowley, Brooke E Godfrey, Laurie R Hansford, James P Samonds, Karen E
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Lehmann, Caroline E R Solofondranohatra, Cédrique L Vorontsova, Maria S
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Dick, Taylor J M Clemente, Christofer J Punith, Laksh K Sawicki, Gregory S
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In our everyday lives, we negotiate complex and unpredictable environments. Yet, much of our knowledge regarding locomotion has come from studies conducted under steady-state conditions. We have previously shown that humans rely on the ankle joint to absorb energy and recover from perturbations; however, the muscle-tendon unit (MTU) behaviour and m...
Gorczynski, Daniel Hsieh, Chia Luciano, Jadelys Tonos Ahumada, Jorge Espinosa, Santiago Johnson, Steig Rovero, Francesco Santos, Fernanda Andrianarisoa, Mahandry Hugues Astaiza, Johanna Hurtado
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Froelick, Spencer Gramolini, Laura Benesh, Daniel P
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Parasitic worms (i.e. helminths) commonly infect multiple hosts in succession before reproducing. At each life cycle step, worms may fail to infect the next host, and this risk accumulates as life cycles include more successive hosts. Risk accumulation can be minimized by having high establishment success in the next host, but comparisons of establ...
Bath, Eleanor Edmunds, Danielle Norman, Jessica Atkins, Charlotte Harper, Lucy Rostant, Wayne G Chapman, Tracey Wigby, Stuart Perry, Jennifer C
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Aggressive behaviours are among the most striking displayed by animals, and aggression strongly impacts fitness in many species. Aggression varies plastically in response to the social environment, but we lack direct tests of how aggression evolves in response to intra-sexual competition. We investigated how aggression in both sexes evolves in resp...
Beltran, Roxanne S Kilpatrick, A Marm Breed, Greg A Adachi, Taiki Takahashi, Akinori Naito, Yasuhiko Robinson, Patrick W Smith, Walker O Jr Kirkham, Amy L Burns, Jennifer M
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Seasonal resource pulses can have enormous impacts on species interactions. In marine ecosystems, air-breathing predators often drive their prey to deeper waters. However, it is unclear how ephemeral resource pulses such as near-surface phytoplankton blooms alter the vertical trade-off between predation avoidance and resource availability in consum...
Borne, Flora Prigent, Stéphane R Molet, Mathieu Courtier-Orgogozo, Virginie
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Animals can be permanently attached to a substrate in terrestrial environments at certain stages of their development. Pupa adhesion has evolved multiple times in insects and is thought to maintain the animal in a place where it is not detectable by predators. Here, we investigate whether pupa adhesion in Drosophila can also protect the animal by p...
