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Sex‐specific heritabilities for length at maturity among Pacific salmonids and their consequences for evolution in response to artificial selection [PDF]
Evolutionary Applications, 2023 Artificial selection, whether intentional or coincidental, is a common result of conservation policies and natural resource management. To reduce unintended consequences of artificial selection, conservation practitioners must understand both artificial ...
Madilyn M. Gamble, Ryan G. Calsbeek
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Salt stress is a major factor limiting the growth and yield of soybean (Glycine max). Wild soybeans (Glycine soja) contain high allelic diversity and beneficial alleles that can be re-introduced into domesticated soybeans to improve adaption to the ...
Zhihong Hou +16 more
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Animals, 2022 Indigenous domestic animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens have a natural resistance to endo- and ecto-parasites and are tolerant in terms of harsh environmental conditions.
Gerhard van der Horst, Liana Maree
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Artificial ecosystem selection [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000 Artificial selection has been practiced for centuries to shape the properties of individual organisms, providing Darwin with a powerful argument for his theory of natural selection. We show that the properties of whole ecosystems can also be shaped by artificial selection procedures.
W, Swenson, D S, Wilson, R, Elias
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Plants, 2023 Climate change poses a novel threat to biodiversity that urgently requires the development of adequate conservation strategies. Living organisms respond to environmental change by migrating to locations where their ecological niche is preserved or by ...
Elena Torres +7 more
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Structural color in Junonia butterflies evolves by tuning scale lamina thickness
eLife, 2020 In diverse organisms, nanostructures that coherently scatter light create structural color, but how such structures are built remains mysterious. We investigate the evolution and genetic regulation of butterfly scale laminae, which are simple photonic ...
Rachel C Thayer +2 more
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Natural Variation in OsMKK3 Contributes to Grain Size and Chalkiness in Rice
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important staple food crop for more than half of the world’s population. Enhancing the grain quality and yield of rice to meet growing demand remains a major challenge.
Yinghua Pan +15 more
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An artificial sodium-selective subnanochannel
Science Advances, 2023 Single-ion selectivity with high precision has long been pursued for fundamental bioinspired engineering and applications such as in ion separation and energy conversion. However, it remains a challenge to develop artificial ion channels to achieve single-ion selectivity comparable to their biological analogs, especially for high Na
Jun Lu +10 more
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Agronomy, 2022 The entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) Steinernema australe was isolated from Isla Santa Magdalena in Chile and identified as a good alternative for controlling Aegorhinus nodipennis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae.
Patricia D. Navarro +3 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 The Pacific oyster is a globally important aquaculture species inhabiting the intertidal environment, which experiences great temperature variation. Mass deaths in the summer pose a major challenge for the oyster industry.
Yulong Tan +22 more
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