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Copepod Prey Selection and Grazing Efficiency Mediated by Chemical and Morphological Defensive Traits of Cyanobacteria

Toxins, 2020
Phytoplankton anti-grazer traits control zooplankton grazing and are associated with harmful blooms. Yet, how morphological versus chemical phytoplankton defenses regulate zooplankton grazing is poorly understood. We compared zooplankton grazing and prey
Luciana M. Rangel, Lúcia H. S. Silva, Elisabeth J. Faassen, Miquel Lürling, Kemal Ali Ger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Partitioning and integrating of plant traits and phylogeny in assessing diversity along secondary forest succession in Loess Plateau of China

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Assessing plant diversity during community succession based on plant trait and phylogenetic features within a community (alpha scale) and among communities (beta scale) could improve our understanding of community succession mechanism.
Yongfu Chai, Shen Qiu, Kaiyue Wang, Jinshi Xu, Yaoxin Guo, Mao Wang, Ming Yue, Mingjie Wang, Jiangang Zhu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield [PDF]

, 2019
How insects promote crop pollination remains poorly understood in terms of the contribution of functional trait differences between species. We used meta-analyses to test for correlations between community abundance, species richness and functional trait
A Aebi, A Hector, A Hudewenz, AS Mori, B Wittkop, BA Woodcock, BA Woodcock, BA Woodcock, BG Howlett, C Brittain, CD Michener, D Goulson, D Kleijn, D Stanley, DM Bates, DP Vazquez, DU Hooper, E Laliberté, F Jauker, F Jauker, F Jauker, FE Benjamin, FM Jaksić, G Sonnier, GP Sutton, I Bartomeus, I Steffan-Dewenter, JGdE Coutinho, JH Cane, JJ Soroka, JM Carruthers, JR Stavert, KT Martins, L Marini, LA Garibaldi, LA Garibaldi, LA Morandin, LE Rogers, MPD Garratt, N Gallai, NP Grime, NWH Mason, O Petchey, OL Petchey, P Hoehn, R Bommarco, R Rader, R Rader, R Rader, R Rader, R Winfree, R Winfree, R Winfree, S Diaz, SA Richards, SAM Lindström, SG Greenleaf, SW Kembel, TH Oliver, V Gagic, W Viechtbauer, Y Zou   +61 more
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Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
wiley   +1 more source

Phytoplankton traits from long-term oceanographic time-series [PDF]

, 2017
Trait values are usually extracted from laboratory studies of single phytoplankton species, which presents challenges for understanding the immense diversity of phytoplankton species and the wide range of dynamic ocean environments.
Finkel, ZV, Irwin, AJ, Mutshinda, CM, Widdicombe, CE   +3 more
core   +1 more source

An intracellular transporter mitigates the CO2‐induced decline in iron content in Arabidopsis shoots

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study identifies a gene encoding a transmembrane protein, MIC, which contributes to the reduction of shoot Fe content observed in plants under elevated CO2. MIC is a putative Fe transporter localized to the Golgi and endosomal compartments. Its post‐translational regulation in roots may represent a potential target for improving plant nutrition ...
Timothy Mozzanino, Meijie Li, Cécile Fizames, Mattia Adamo, Laurence Lejay, Christian Dubos, Matthieu Platre, Antoine Martin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores [PDF]

, 2014
Analyses of species-diversity patterns of remote islands have been crucial to the development of biogeographic theory, yet little is known about corresponding patterns in functional traits on islands and how, for example, they may be affected by the ...
Borges, Paulo A. V., Cardoso, Pedro, Casanoves, Fernando, Guilhaumon, François, Ladle, Richard J., Pla, Laura, Rigal, François, Terzopoulou, Sofia, Triantis, Kostas A., Whittaker, Robert J.   +9 more
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Is phylogenetic and functional trait diversity a driver or a consequence of grassland community assembly?

Journal of Ecology, 2019
Community assembly changes fundamentally in response to disturbance following habitat destruction due to extreme events and human activities. There are several important aspects of community assembly that can be measured in response to disturbance or ...
H. Jones, N. Barber, D. Gibson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nonparametric Functional Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci [PDF]

Biometrics, 2009
SummaryFunctional mapping is a useful tool for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) that control dynamic traits. It incorporates mathematical aspects of biological processes into the mixture model‐based likelihood setting for QTL mapping, thus increasing the power of QTL detection and the precision of parameter estimation.
Yang, Jie, Wu, Rongling, Casella, George
openaire   +3 more sources

By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo, Catherine S. Palmer, Jacqueline M. Kimmey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source