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Contrasting life histories contribute to divergent patterns of genetic diversity and population connectivity in freshwater sculpin fishes

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018
Background Life history characteristics are considered important factors influencing the evolutionary processes of natural populations, including the patterns of population genetic structure of a species.
Song Yi Baek, Ji Hyoun Kang, Seo Hee Jo, Ji Eun Jang, Seo Yeon Byeon, Ju-hyoun Wang, Hwang-Goo Lee, Jun-Kil Choi, Hyuk Je Lee   +8 more
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Origin of Life: The Point of No Return

Life, 2020
Origin of life research is one of the greatest scientific frontiers of mankind. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how life began. Although different hypotheses emphasize different initial phenomena, all of them agree around one important ...
Dimiter Kunnev
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Seasonal variation in defense behavior in European and scutellata-hybrid honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Southern California

Scientific Reports, 2023
Nest defense in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a complex collective behavior modulated by various interacting social, environmental, and genetic factors. Scutellata-hybrid (“Africanized”) honey bees are usually considered to be far more defensive than
Daniela Zarate, Brandon Mukogawa, Joshua Kohn, James C. Nieh   +3 more
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A Benchmark for Atlantic Salmon Conservation: Genetic Diversity and Structure in a Southern European Glacial Refuge before the Climate Changed

Fishes, 2023
Atlantic salmon Salmo salar supports highly valuable commercial and recreational fisheries in Europe, but its stocks are currently overexploited and threatened by climate change.
Ana Almodóvar, Graciela G. Nicola, Daniel Ayllón, Sheila Leal, Daniel F. Marchán, Benigno Elvira   +5 more
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The influence of immune challenges on the mean and variance in reproductive investment: a meta-analysis of the terminal investment hypothesis

BMC Biology, 2023
Finding the optimal balance between survival and reproduction is a central puzzle in life-history theory. The terminal investment hypothesis predicts that when individuals encounter a survival threat that compromises future reproductive potential, they ...
Yong Zhi Foo, Malgorzata Lagisz, Rose E. O’Dea, Shinichi Nakagawa   +3 more
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Migration dynamics of an important rice pest: The brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) across Asia—Insights from population genomics

Evolutionary Applications, 2020
Introduction Brown planthoppers (Nilaparvata lugens) are the most serious insect pests of rice, one of the world's most important staple crops. They reproduce year‐round in the tropical parts of their distribution, but cannot overwinter in the temperate ...
James P. Hereward, Xuhong Cai, Ambrocio Melvin A. Matias, Gimme H. Walter, Chenxi Xu, Yongmo Wang   +5 more
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Unlearned adaptive responses to heterospecific referential alarm calls in two bird species from separate evolutionary lineages

Scientific Reports, 2023
The interspecific responses to alarm signals may be based on unlearned mechanisms but research is often constrained by the difficulties in differentiating between unlearned and learned responses in natural situations.
Jungmoon Ha, Keesan Lee, Eunjeong Yang, Woojoo Kim, Hokyung Song, Injae Hwang, Larisa Lee-Cruz, Jinseok Park, Jihyeon Song, Chan-ryul Park, Wooshin Lee, Piotr Jablonski, Sang-im Lee   +12 more
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Changes in the Suitable Habitats of Three Endemic Fishes to Climate Change in Tibet

Biology, 2022
As one of the most sensitive regions to global climate change, Tibet is subject to remarkable changes in biota over the past decades, including endemic fish species.
Tong Mu, Dekui He, Ren Zhu, Xiaoyun Sui, Yifeng Chen   +4 more
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Evolution, Interactions, and Biological Networks

PLoS Biology, 2007
Shifting the perspective of the questions we ask will ensure that network theory continues to excite the network theorists, but more importantly, that it remains vital to progress in biological research.
Weitz, Joshua S., Benfey, Philip N., Wingreen, Ned S.   +2 more
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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