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Morphological evolution and modularity of the caecilian skull
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Caecilians (Gymnophiona) are the least speciose extant lissamphibian order, yet living forms capture approximately 250 million years of evolution since their earliest divergences.
Carla Bardua +4 more
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Libraries of life: Using life history books with depressed care home residents [PDF]
, 2006 Depression is a common, and often undetected, psychiatric disorder in geriatric care home residents 1,2. Reminiscence, an independent nursing therapy used by a variety of health and social care professionals, can prevent or reduce depression 14.
Plastow, N A
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, 2018 Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099 ...
Julien G. A. Martin, Pierre Bize
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Toward a metabolic theory of life history
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance Data and theory reveal how organisms allocate metabolic energy to components of the life history that determine fitness. In each generation, animals take up biomass energy from the environment and expend it on survival, growth, and ...
J. R. Burger, C. Hou, James H. Brown
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Conifer-angiosperm interactions: Physiological ecology and life history. [PDF]
, 2011 Worldwide, conifers are most successful on sites subject to chronic stresses that limit productivity (low temperatures, nutrient poverty, poor drainage).
Lusk, Christopher H.
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History of life on Earth [PDF]
Current Biology, 2015 All of you will be familiar with those educational graphics that put into stark perspective how tiny is our place in the Universe, how on a clock that began ticking with the origin of life, humans evolved less than a minute before midnight. And the time since Current Biology began, 25 years ago, would be the merest fraction of a second.
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Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2018 We present a novel perspective on life‐history evolution that combines recent theoretical advances in fluctuating density‐dependent selection with the notion of pace‐of‐life syndromes (POLSs) in behavioural ecology.
Jonathan Wright +3 more
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EvoDevo, 2018 Background Tapeworms are agents of neglected tropical diseases responsible for significant health problems and economic loss. They also exhibit adaptations to a parasitic lifestyle that confound comparisons of their development with other animals ...
Peter D. Olson +10 more
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Supernumerary teeth observed in a live True’s beaked whale in the Bay of Biscay [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Mesoplodont beaked whales are one of the most enigmatic mammalian genera. We document a pod of four beaked whales in the Bay of Biscay breaching and tail slapping alongside a large passenger ferry.
James R. Robbins +2 more
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Metabolic rate evolves rapidly and in parallel with the pace of life history
Nature Communications, 2018 Metabolic rates and life history strategies are both thought to set the “pace of life”, but whether they evolve in tandem is not well understood. Here, using a common garden experiment that compares replicate paired populations, we show that Trinidadian ...
S. Auer +3 more
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