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Effects of immune challenge on expression of life-history and immune trait expression in sexually reproducing metazoans—a meta-analysis

BMC Biology, 2020
Background Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between investment into immune defence and other fitness-related traits. Accordingly, individuals are expected to upregulate their immune response when subjected to immune challenge.
M. Nystrand, D. K. Dowling
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Environmental and Parental Influences on Offspring Health and Growth in Great Tits (Parus major) [PDF]

, 2013
PMCID: PMC3728352This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
A Velando, AA Hoffmann, AP Møller, AP Møller, B Tschirren, B Tschirren, BP Chew, C Alonso-Alvarez, C Biard, CM Lessells, CM Perrins, CM Perrins, CM Rauter, Csaba Moskát, D Garant, D Gil, DR Ardia, DR Ardia, EJA Cunningham, ES Morrison, FE Satterthwaite, G Sorci, GA Hoelzer, GA Lozano, GE Hill, GN Robb, HG Smith, J Broggi, J Kilpimaa, J Kilpimaa, J Merilä, JA Nilsson, JC Senar, JC Senar, JC Senar, JD Blount, JD Blount, JD Blount, JJ Soler, JK Blakey, K Norris, K Norris, KE Arnold, Ken J. Norris, Kevin J. McGraw, KJ Norris, KJ Norris, KJ Norris, LB Martin, LEB Kruuk, M Bonato, M Cichon, M Kirkpatrick, M Kirkpatrick, M Naguib, M Ojanen, Matthew R. Evans, MWG Brinkhof, N Pitala, NJ Royle, P Hõrak, PS Fitze, PS Fitze, R Calsbeek, R Mänd, RL Lochmiller, RV Alatalo, S Merino, Sam B. Weber, SC Patrick, SI Encabo, Simon R. A. Pickett, SM Drobniak, T Amundsen, T Clutton-Brock, T Järvi, T Uller, T von Schantz, TB Kinnard, TD Price, TJE Harrison, TR Birkhead, TW Pike, V Partali   +83 more
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Coevolution of parental investment and sexually selected traits drives sex-role divergence [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2016
AbstractSex-role evolution theory attempts to explain the origin and direction of male–female differences. A fundamental question is why anisogamy, the difference in gamete size that defines the sexes, has repeatedly led to large differences in subsequent parental care.
Jennions, Michael D., Fromhage, Lutz
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Bioenergy Cropping Reduces the Spatiotemporal Scaling of Soil Bacterial Biodiversity

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Consistent with patterns observed in plant and animal communities, soil bacterial communities exhibit significant species–time–area and phylogenetic–time–area relationships independent of nested structure. Bioenergy cropping significantly reduces the spatiotemporal scaling rates, particularly in sandy loam soils.
Zhencheng Ye, Jialiang Kuang, Colin T. Bates, Arthur Escalas, Daliang Ning, Liyou Wu, Suo Liu, Sihang Deng, Jiesi Lei, Xiangwen Chen, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Malay Saha, Lauren Hale, Gangsheng Wang, Renmao Tian, Ying Fu, Yu Tang, Mary Firestone, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang   +19 more
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Subordinate executives’ confidence and labor investment efficiency

International Review of Economics & Finance
We examine confidence, an important type of cognitive bias, at the subordinate executive level and provide new insights to the literature on labor investment efficiency.
Joye Khoo, Adrian (Wai Kong) Cheung
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Relationships between key functional traits of the waterlily Nuphar lutea and wetland nutrient content [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Little attention has been paid to how aquatic habitat characteristics affect the traits of plant species. Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm. is a keystone species distributed across temperate regions of Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia.
Charles P. Henriot, Quentin Cuenot, Lise-Hélène Levrey, Christophe Loup, Landry Chiarello, Hélène Masclaux, Gudrun Bornette   +6 more
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Natural Variation of NAR5 Determines Nitrogenase Activity and the Yield in Soybean

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study identified NAR5, a gene encoding a subtilisin‐like protease, that regulates nitrogenase activity in soybean nodules. Overexpressing NAR5 delayed nodule senescence, enhancing nitrogenase activity, yield, and low‐nitrogen tolerance. The elite haplotype NAR5HapI‐1 linked to superior nitrogenase activity and greater seed weight has been ...
Chao Ma, Hanyu Zhao, Haojie Feng, Xulun Dong, Lin Chen, Mingliang Yang, Runyi Chen, Chengjun Lei, Chunyan Liu, Qingshan Chen, Dawei Xin, Jinhui Wang   +11 more
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Building the "Golden Generation": Understanding the Drivers of Investment Behavior in Gen Z and Millennial Women

Journal of Enterprise and Development
Purpose: This study aims to analyze the influence of financial knowledge and personality traits on the investment behavior of Gen Z and Millennial women with education level serving as a mediating variable.
Erna Apriani, Widiastuti, Nani Hartati, Rina Nurjanah, Abdul Latif   +4 more
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Effects of Simulated Nitrogen Deposition and Micro-Environment on the Functional Traits of Two Rare and Endangered Fern Species in a Subtropical Forest

Plants, 2022
Although the effects of N deposition on forest plants have been widely reported, few studies have focused on rare and endangered fern species (REFs). Information is also lacking on the effects of micro-environments on REFs. We investigated the effects of
Lingbo Ji, Liping Wei, Lingling Zhang, Yuanqiu Li, Yang Tian, Ke Liu, Hai Ren   +6 more
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Investment in defense and cost of predator-induced defense along a resource gradient [PDF]

, 2018
An organism's investment in different traits to reduce predation is determined by the fitness benefit of the defense relative to the fitness costs associated with the allocation of time and resources to the defense.
Steiner, Ulrich
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