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Microhaplotype Methods Enable Relationship Inference in a Bottlenecked Mammalian Species

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) are among the most genetically depauperate mammals in the world. A near‐total population bottleneck in the 19th century, coupled with the breeding system of extreme polygyny, has challenged efforts to estimate individual reproductive success with genetic methods.
Keith M. Hernandez, Anthony J. Clemento, Juliette E. Linossier, Daniel E. Crocker, Daniel P. Costa, Colleen Reichmuth, John Carlos Garza   +6 more
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Alternative life-histories in a socially polymorphic ant [PDF]

, 2018
Social organisms vary greatly in the number of breeders per group; yet, the causes and consequences of this variation remain poorly known. Here, we show that variation in social structure is tightly linked with changes in several fundamental life-history
Chapuisat, Michel, Rosset, Hervé
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Stage- and weather-dependent dispersal in the brown garden snail Cornu aspersum [PDF]

, 2013
International audienceDispersal decisions are often condition-dependent, influenced by the interaction of individual phenotype and environmental conditions.
Ansart, Armelle, Dahirel, Maxime, Madec, Luc   +2 more
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
wiley   +1 more source

Dispersal: a matter of scale [PDF]

, 2018
Population density around the natal site is often invoked as an explanation for variation in dispersal distance, with the expectation that competition for limiting resources, coupled with increased intra‐specific aggression at high densities, should ...
Amar, Armitage, Baguette, Baillie, Banks, Bitume, Bonte, Bowler, Bowman, Brown, Burnham, Calange, Cale, Clobert, Clobert, Clobert, Clutton-Brock, Courchamp, Dennhardt, Denno, Dobson, Fonseca, Forero, Fronhofer, Gadgil, Greenwood, Greenwood, Hanski, Hardey, Heinrich, Hoogland, Hovestadt, Jenkins, Katzner, Kauffman, Kim, Loe, Léna, Martin, Massot, Matthysen, Matthysen, McGrady, McPeek, Mearns, Meester, Moran, Newton, Newton, Newton, Newton, Newton, Newton, Nisbet, Otronen, Picman, R Development Core Team, Ratcliffe, Ratcliffe, Restani, Rodrigues, Ronce, Rousset, Sergio, Smith, Southwood, Sutherland, Travis, Vuren, Wiens, Wolff   +70 more
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
wiley   +1 more source

Blood thicker than water: Kinship, disease prevalence and group size drive divergent patterns of infection risk in a social mammal [PDF]

, 2016
The importance of social- and kin-structuring of populations for the transmission of wildlife disease is widely assumed but poorly described. Social structure can help dilute risks of transmission for group members, and is relatively easy to measure, but
Benton, C.H., Burke, T.A., Delahay, R.J., Hodgson, D., McDonald, R.A., Robertson, A., Wilson, A.J.   +6 more
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Recovery After Critical Illness: A Meta‐Ethnography of Patient, Family and Staff Perspectives

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To synthesise primary qualitative studies reporting experiences of post‐hospital recovery for critical care survivors, their family and the healthcare professionals supporting them with a particular focus on physical impairment. Design The review was conducted through a meta‐ethnography using the seven stages of Noblit and Hare.
Elizabeth King, Owen Gustafson, Annabel Williams, Francine Toye, Mark Williams, Sarah Vollam   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genes, fish and fisheries: translating science into policy

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2024 Annual Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles reviewed the burgeoning impact of ‘omics’ technologies on fish ecology, management and forecasting. As with life sciences more generally, major advances in speed, cost‐effectiveness and breadth of applications in ‘omics’ has had profound societal and environmental impacts.
Gary R. Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Information systems and digitization of traditional knowledge: Trends in cultural heritage and memory institutions and the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty*

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in development, especially in relation to marginalized populations, has been the focus of many related disciplinary categories within the broader ecosystem of information sciences.
Chidi Oguamanam
wiley   +1 more source