Packer, Melina Lambert, Max R
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The American naturalist
AbstractThis article argues that the concepts of "normal" reproductive development that biologists rely on are undergirded by heterosexism, ableism, and White supremacism, even if implicitly. We illustrate our argument by critically analyzing toxicology's use of reproductive fitness, focusing on the field of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). T...
MacPherson, Ailene Wang, Silu Yamaguchi, Ryo Rieseberg, Loren H Otto, Sarah P
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The American naturalist
AbstractPopulation genomic analysis of hybrid zones is instrumental to our understanding of the evolution of reproductive isolation. Many temperate hybrid zones are formed by the secondary contact between two parental populations that have undergone postglacial range expansion. Here, we show that explicitly accounting for historical parental isolat...
Kramer, Boris H van Doorn, G Sander Arani, Babak M S Pen, Ido
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The American naturalist
AbstractEusocial insects-ants, bees, wasps, and termites-are being recognized as model organisms to unravel the evolutionary paradox of aging for two reasons: (1) queens (and kings, in termites) of social insects outlive similarly sized solitary insects by up to several orders of magnitude and (2) all eusocial taxa show a divergence of long queen a...
Silver, Jennifer J Okamoto, Daniel K Armitage, Derek Alexander, Steven M Atleo Kam'ayaam/Chachim'multhnii, Cliffo... Burt, Jenn M Jones Nang Jingwas, Russ Lee, Lynn C Muhl, Ella-Kari Salomon, Anne K
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The American naturalist
AbstractThis essay explores shifting scientific understandings of fish and the evolution of fisheries science, and it grapples with colonialism as a system of power. We trace the rise of fisheries science to a time when Western nation-states were industrializing fishing fleets and competing for access to distant fishing grounds. A theory of fishing...
Simha, Anita Pardo-De la Hoz, Carlos J Carley, Lauren N
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The American naturalist
AbstractOver the past century, ecologists have attempted to understand patterns of species diversity by showing stable coexistence arising from a baseline expectation of competitive exclusion. This expectation stems from an explicit assumption of resource scarcity and implicit assumptions of Malthusian struggle and winner-takes-all dynamics. Fideli...
Klein, Samantha Lee, James Sanghyun Courtney, Sofi Morehead-Hillman, Lisa Lau, Sallie Lewis-Smith, Bryce Sarna-Wojcicki, Daniel Woelfle-Hazard, Cleo
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The American naturalist
AbstractRacism and colonialism within restoration science continue to perpetuate exclusionary and oppressive paradigms in ecosystem restoration and in wider societal contexts, from setting scientific agendas to translating findings into policy. These paradigms impair progress and cause harm by (1) tokenizing epistemic diversity, (2) perpetuating in...
Dehling, D Matthias Dalla Riva, Giulio Valentino Hutchinson, Matthew C Stouffer, Daniel B
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The American naturalist
AbstractNiche packing is one of the prevailing mechanisms underlying the increase in the number of co-occurring species and the extraordinary diversity of tropical ecosystems. However, it is not yet understood whether niche packing is facilitated by higher specialization and reduced niche overlap or, rather, by diffuse competition and increased nic...
Pandey, Aakash Mideo, Nicole Platt, Thomas G
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The American naturalist
AbstractMany pathogens reside in environmental reservoirs within which they can reproduce and from which they can infect hosts. These facultative pathogens experience different selective pressures in host-associated environments and reservoir environments. Heterogeneous selective pressures have the potential to influence the virulence evolution of ...
Espira, Leon M. Brouwer, Andrew F. Han, Barbara A. Foufopoulos, Johannes Eisenberg, Joseph N. S.
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The American naturalist
Species diversity may play an important role in the modulation of pathogen transmission through the dilution effect. Infectious disease models can help elucidate mechanisms that may underlie this effect. While many modeling studies have assumed direct host-to-host transmission, many pathogens are transmitted through the environment. We present a ma...
Hollens-Kuhr, Hilke van der Niet, Timotheüs Cozien, Ruth Kuhlmann, Michael
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The American naturalist
AbstractThe impact of pollinator community diversity on trait matching in plant-pollinator interactions is poorly studied, even though many mutualisms involve multiple interaction partners. We studied 10 communities in which one to three species of oil-collecting Rediviva bees pollinate the long-spurred, oil-producing flowers of Diascia "floribunda...
