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Growth factor gene IGF1 is associated with bill size in the black-bellied seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus

open access: yesNature Communications, 2018
Pyrenestes finches have a bill size polymorphism thought to be maintained by disruptive selection. Here, the authors identify a single candidate region, including insulin-like growth factor 1, differentiating small and large bill size morphs and a wider ...
Bridgett M. vonHoldt   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

One Health – an Ecological and Evolutionary Framework for tackling Neglected Zoonotic Diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Understanding the complex population biology and transmission ecology of multihost parasites has been declared as one of the major challenges of biomedical sciences for the 21st century and the Neglected Zoonotic Diseases (NZDs) are perhaps the most ...
Adamo   +135 more
core   +4 more sources

Design-based learning for a sustainable future: student outcomes resulting from a biomimicry curriculum in an evolution course

open access: yesEvolution: 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   +4 more
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The microbiome extends host evolutionary potential

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
The microbiome is becoming recognized as a key determinant of host phenotype. Here, Henry et al. present a framework for building our understanding of how the microbiome also influences host evolution, review empirical examples and research approaches ...
Lucas P. Henry   +3 more
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Natural history of Arabidopsis thaliana and oomycete symbioses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Molecular ecology of plant–microbe interactions has immediate significance for filling a gap in knowledge between the laboratory discipline of molecular biology and the largely theoretical discipline of evolutionary ecology.
A. Falk   +87 more
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The Collection of Zoosporic Eufungi at the University of Michigan (CZEUM): introducing a new repository of barcoded Chytridiomyceta and Blastocladiomycota cultures

open access: yesIMA Fungus, 2020
We formed the Collection of Zoosporic Eufungi at the University of Michigan (CZEUM) in 2018 as a cryopreserved fungal collection consolidating the University of Maine Culture Collection (UMCC, or JEL), the University of Alabama Chytrid Culture Collection
D. Rabern Simmons   +10 more
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Evolutionary-thinking in agricultural weed management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Agricultural weeds evolve in response to crop cultivation. Nevertheless, the central importance of evolutionary ecology for understanding weed invasion, persistence and management in agroecosystems is not widely acknowledged.
Ainsworth   +140 more
core   +2 more sources

Paralog transcriptional differentiation in the D. melanogaster-specific gene family Sdic across populations and spermatogenesis stages

open access: yesCommunications 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesBMC 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   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microplastic exposure across trophic levels: effects on the host–microbiota of freshwater organisms

open access: yesEnvironmental Microbiome, 2022
Background Microplastics are a pervasive pollutant widespread in the sea and freshwater from anthropogenic sources, and together with the presence of pesticides, they can have physical and chemical effects on aquatic organisms and on their microbiota ...
Javier Edo Varg   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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