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Reproductive success under constraints: Does increased maternal activity during lactation offset poor habitat and individual quality in an income breeder?

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Human‐induced environmental modifications may alter forage access and, hence, how animals manage energy trade‐offs during critical periods. Reproduction, especially lactation, is the most energetically costly process for female mammals.
L. Monica Trondrud, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Nadège C. Bonnot, Nicolas Morellet, Yannick Chaval, Arnaud Bonnet, Bruno Lourtet, A. J. Mark Hewison   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioural flexibility within ecological constraints: Local‐scale landscape composition modulates habitat selection and foraging strategies in a forest‐dependent carnivorous bat

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Animals increasingly move through landscapes very different from those in which their ecological strategies evolved, posing new challenges for ecologically specialized species. By tracking a forest‐dependent carnivorous bat across contrasting landscapes, this study shows how local habitat composition shapes landscape use, while behavioural flexibility ...
Luis A. Trujillo, Fernanda Gual‐Suárez, Andrea T. Valdés, Rodrigo A. Medellín   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mainland diversification and recent island lineages in the reduviid genus Tapirocoris: an integrative taxonomic framework with four new species

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Using an integrative taxonomic framework that combines COI DNA barcodes, geometric morphometrics and phylogeography, we revise the assassin bug genus Tapirocoris and recover seven well‐supported species, including four newly described cryptic species.
Ping Zhao, Qinpeng Liu, Minmin Ou, Huaiyu Liu, Yingqi Liu, Jianyun Wang, Miao Yang, Zhuo Chen, Wanzhi Cai   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quasi-exact Approximation of Hidden Markov Chain Filters [PDF]

This paper studies the application of exact simulation methods for multi-dimensional multiplicative noise stochastic differential equations to filtering.
Eckhard Platen, Renata Rendek
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The Evolution of Male Weapons Is Associated with the Type of Breeding Site in a Clade of Neotropical Frogs

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Male weaponry evolution is often linked to male–male competition, but its relationship with breeding site type remains unclear. Using Leptodactylinae frogs, we found a macroevolutionary correlation between breeding site type and weapon evolution. Also, gains and losses of weapons occurred more frequently in exposed‐breeding sites, an unexpected finding.
Erika M. Santana, Daniel S. Caetano, Alexandre V. Palaoro, Glauco Machado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficient Masked Autoencoder for Birdsong Representation with Applications on Wild Bird Species Classification

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Research on mosquito feeding preferences and the malaria parasites they transmit is essential for understanding the interactions between hosts, vectors, and parasites. In this study, vertebrate hosts were identified in 72 mosquitoes. Most blood meals (58.7%) came from birds, representing 25 species, while 40.0% came from mammals (13 species), and 1.3 ...
Qin Zhang, Shipeng Hu, Hengrui Wang, Jizheng Yi, Guoxiong Zhou, Xiangyu Shen, Weixiong Peng, Zhishu Xiao, Aibin Chen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chromosome‐Level Genome Assembly of Strauchbufo raddei and Multi‐Omic Insights Into Drought Adaptation

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how amphibians adapt to terrestrial and arid environments is important for elucidating vertebrate terrestrialization. In this study, we present the first chromosome‐level, high‐quality genome assembly of Strauchbufo raddei, constructed using PacBio HiFi long‐read sequencing and Hi‐C scaffolding. The assembled genome is 4.47 Gb in
Fanrui Chen, Rui Su, Chengqi Wang, Shengnan Wang, Jinjing Wang, Yuquan Miao, Wenya Zhang, Wei Zhao   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The natural history of periodontal disease—Part 2: In populations with access to dental care: The Studies of Health in Pomerania (SHIP)

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract In this descriptive analysis of the 21‐year follow‐up data from the SHIP‐START cohort and the 7‐year follow‐up data from the SHIP‐TREND cohort, we report the progression of clinical attachment levels (CAL), age effects on CAL change, and a detailed description of CAL progression and remission. At baseline, 4307 and 4420 persons participated in
Thomas Kocher, Peter Meisel, Reiner Biffar, Henry Völzke, Birte Holtfreter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking brain and behavior states in Zebrafish Larvae locomotion using hidden Markov models. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol
Dommanget-Kott M, Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz J, Coraggioso M, Bormuth V, Monasson R, Debrégeas G, Cocco S.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources