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Sexual conflict drives micro- and macroevolution of sexual dimorphism in immunity

BMC Biology, 2021
Background Sexual dimorphism in immunity is believed to reflect sex differences in reproductive strategies and trade-offs between competing life history demands. Sexual selection can have major effects on mating rates and sex-specific costs of mating and
Basabi Bagchi, Quentin Corbel, Imroze Khan, Ellen Payne, Devshuvam Banerji, Johanna Liljestrand-Rönn, Ivain Martinossi-Allibert, Julian Baur, Ahmed Sayadi, Elina Immonen, Göran Arnqvist, Irene Söderhäll, David Berger   +12 more
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An introduction to niche construction theory [PDF]

, 2016
Niche construction refers to the modification of selective environments by organisms. Theoretical and empirical studies of niche construction are increasing in importance as foci in evolutionary ecology.
Matthews, Blake, Laland, Kevin Neville, Blake Matthews, Marcus W. Feldman, Kevin Laland, Feldman, Marcus W.   +5 more
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Design-based learning for a sustainable future: student outcomes resulting from a biomimicry curriculum in an evolution course

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020
Background National institutes and education initiatives emphasize the need to prepare future biologists to apply discoveries in science towards solving problems that are both social and scientific in nature. Research from socio-scientific, design-based,
Erin Fried, Andrew Martin, Alexa Esler, Antoine Tran, Lisa Corwin   +4 more
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Measuring telomere length and telomere dynamics in evolutionary biology and ecology [PDF]

, 2014
Telomeres play a fundamental role in the protection of chromosomal DNA and in the regulation of cellular senescence. Recent work in human epidemiology and evolutionary ecology suggests adult telomere length (TL) may reflect past physiological stress and ...
Barrett, Emma, Boner, Winnie, Hartmann, Nils, Nussey, Daniel H., Turbill, Christopher (R16915), Verhulst, Simon; id_orcid, Baird, Duncan Martin, Turbill, Chris, Leder, Erica, Monaghan, Pat, Olsson, Mats, Zahn, Sandrine, Horn, Thorsten, Verhulst, Simon, Haussmann, Mark, Gemmell, Neil, Fairlie, Jennifer, Baird, Duncan   +17 more
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Paralog transcriptional differentiation in the D. melanogaster-specific gene family Sdic across populations and spermatogenesis stages

Communications Biology, 2023
How recently originated gene copies become stable genomic components remains uncertain as high sequence similarity of young duplicates precludes their functional characterization.
Bryan D. Clifton, Imtiyaz Hariyani, Ashlyn Kimura, Fangning Luo, Alvin Nguyen, José M. Ranz   +5 more
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How Developmental is Evolutionary Developmental Biology? [PDF]

, 2002
Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) offers both an account of developmental processes and also new integrative frameworks for analyzing interactions between development and evolution.
Jason Scott Robert, Robert, Jason Scott
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Capturing genetic variation in crop wild relatives: An evolutionary approach [PDF]

, 2022
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) offer novel genetic resources for crop improvement. To assist in the urgent need to collect and conserve CWR germplasm, we advance here the concept of an “evolutionary” approach.
Paul A. Egan, Anne Muola, Johan A. Stenberg   +2 more
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Deep learning image segmentation reveals patterns of UV reflectance evolution in passerine birds

Nature Communications, 2022
Here, the authors develop software that uses photographs of birds to extract information on plumage UV reflectance. They use these data to show that UV reflectance is phylogenetically conserved and associated with the light environment.
Yichen He, Zoë K. Varley, Lara O. Nouri, Christopher J. A. Moody, Michael D. Jardine, Steve Maddock, Gavin H. Thomas, Christopher R. Cooney   +7 more
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Description, diagnosis, prescription: a critique of the application of co- evolutionary models to natural resource management. [PDF]

, 2006
To support moves towards more sustainable modes of natural resource management, the research community has been engaged in an evaluation of paradigms, theories and methods which might provide useful and usable insights into such a complex problem set.
McIntosh, Brian S., Jeffrey, Paul
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Naming the untouchable – environmental sequences and niche partitioning as taxonomical evidence in fungi

IMA Fungus, 2020
Due to their submerged and cryptic lifestyle, the vast majority of fungal species are difficult to observe and describe morphologically, and many remain known to science only from sequences detected in environmental samples.
Faheema Kalsoom Khan, Kerri Kluting, Jeanette Tångrot, Hector Urbina, Tea Ammunet, Shadi Eshghi Sahraei, Martin Rydén, Martin Ryberg, Anna Rosling   +8 more
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