Poirier, Marc-Antoine Kozlovsky, Dovid Y Morand-Ferron, Julie Careau, Vincent
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
General intelligence has been a topic of high interest for over a century. Traditionally, research on general intelligence was based on principal component analyses and other dimensionality reduction approaches. The advent of high-speed computing has provided alternative statistical tools that have been used to test predictions of human general int...
Cavigliasso, Fanny Dupuis, Cindy Savary, Loriane Spangenberg, Jorge E Kawecki, Tadeusz J
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
The geometric framework of nutrition predicts that populations restricted to a single imbalanced diet should evolve post-ingestive nutritional compensation mechanisms bringing the blend of assimilated nutrients closer to physiological optimum. The evolution of such nutritional compensation is thought to be mainly driven by the ratios of major nutri...
Kerr, Jeremy T.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Climate change is contributing to the widespread redistribution, and increasingly the loss, of species. Geographical range shifts among many species were detected rapidly after predictions of the potential importance of climate change were specified 35 years ago: species are shifting their ranges towards the poles and often to higher elevations in ...
Molleman, Lucas Tump, Alan N. Gradassi, Andrea Herzog, Stefan Jayles, Bertrand Kurvers, Ralf H. J. M. van den Bos, Wouter
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Social information use is widespread in the animal kingdom, helping individuals rapidly acquire useful knowledge and adjust to novel circumstances. In humans, the highly interconnected world provides ample opportunities to benefit from social information but also requires navigating complex social environments with people holding disparate or confl...
Sparks, Alexandra M. Hayward, Adam D. Watt, Kathryn Pilkington, Jill G. Pemberton, Josephine M. Johnston, Susan E. McNeilly, Tom N. Nussey, Daniel H.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The transfer of antibodies from mother to offspring provides crucial protection against infection to offspring during early life in humans and domestic and laboratory animals. However, few studies have tested the consequences of variation in maternal antibody transfer for offspring fitness in the wild. Further, separating the immunoprotective effec...
Isaïa, J. Rivero, A. Glaizot, O. Christe, P. Pigeault, R.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
A pervasive characteristic of parasite infections is their tendency to be overdispersed. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this overdispersed distribution is of key importance as it may impact the transmission dynamics of the pathogen. Although multiple factors ranging from environmental stochasticity to inter-individual heterogeneity may exp...
Bomblies, Kirsten
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Whole-genome duplication (WGD), which leads to polyploidy, is implicated in adaptation and speciation. But what are the immediate effects of WGD and how do newly polyploid lineages adapt to them? With many studies of new and evolved polyploids now available, along with studies of genes under selection in polyploids, we are in an increasingly good p...
Crump, Andrew Bethell, Emily J. Earley, Ryan Lee, Victoria E. Mendl, Michael Oldham, Lucy Turner, Simon P. Arnott, Gareth
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Emotions encompass cognitive and behavioural responses to reward and punishment. Using contests as a case-study, we propose that short-term emotions underpin animals' assessments, decision-making and behaviour. Equating contest assessments to emotional ‘appraisals', we describe how contestants appraise more than resource value and outcome probabili...
Sumption, Keith Knight-Jones, Theodore J D McLaws, Melissa Paton, David J
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an extremely infectious viral infection of cloven-hoofed animals which is highly challenging to control and can give rise to national animal health crises, especially if there is a lack of pre-existing immunity due to the emergence of new strains or following incursions into disease-free regions. The 2001 FMD epidemi...
Bianconi, Matheus E Dunning, Luke T Curran, Emma V Hidalgo, Oriane Powell, Robyn F Mian, Sahr Leitch, Ilia J Lundgren, Marjorie R Manzi, Sophie Vorontsova, Maria S
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Proceedings. Biological sciences
C4 photosynthesis evolved multiple times independently in angiosperms, but most origins are relatively old so that the early events linked to photosynthetic diversification are blurred. The grass Alloteropsis semialata is an exception, as this species encompasses C4 and non-C4 populations. Using phylogenomics and population genomics, we infer the h...
