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DNA methylation changes induced by long and short photoperiods in Nasonia [PDF]

, 2015
Many organisms monitor the annual change in day length and use this information for the timing of their seasonal response. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying photoperiodic timing are largely unknown.
Bafna, A, Davies, NJ, Pegoraro, M, Shuker, DM, Tauber, E   +4 more
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Estimating (Non)Linear Selection on Reaction Norms: A General Framework for Labile Traits

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.
It remains difficult to empirically estimate nonlinear selection on individual reaction norms, inhibiting robust tests of adaptive theory and accurate predictions of phenotypic evolution for labile traits. To address this challenge, we propose generalized multilevel models for estimating stabilizing, disruptive, and correlational selection on the ...
Jordan S. Martin, Yimen G. Araya‐Ajoy, Niels J. Dingemanse, Alastair J. Wilson, David F. Westneat   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional characterization of transcription factor motifs using cross-species comparison across large evolutionary distances.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2010
We address the problem of finding statistically significant associations between cis-regulatory motifs and functional gene sets, in order to understand the biological roles of transcription factors.
Jaebum Kim, Ryan Cunningham, Brian James, Stefan Wyder, Joshua D Gibson, Oliver Niehuis, Evgeny M Zdobnov, Hugh M Robertson, Gene E Robinson, John H Werren, Saurabh Sinha   +10 more
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Seqüencien el genoma de tres vespes parasitàries [PDF]

, 2010
Un consorci internacional de científics, en el qual ha participat l'investigador de la UAB Deodoro Oliveira, ha seqüenciat el genoma de tres espècies de vespes parasitàries, del gènere Nasonia.
Oliveira, Deodoro
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Infection dynamics of endosymbionts that manipulate arthropod reproduction

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 1787-1812, October 2025.
ABSTRACT A large proportion of arthropod species are infected with endosymbionts, some of which selfishly alter host reproduction. The currently known forms of parasitic reproductive manipulations are male‐killing, feminization, cytoplasmic incompatibility, parthenogenesis induction and distortion of sex allocation.
Franziska A. Brenninger, Roman Zug, Hanna Kokko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative susceptibility of mosquito populations in North Queensland, Australia to oral infection with dengue virus. [PDF]

, 2014
Dengue is the most prevalent arthropod-borne virus, with at least 40% of the world's population at risk of infection each year. In Australia, dengue is not endemic, but viremic travelers trigger outbreaks involving hundreds of cases.
Anderson, Andrew F. van den Hurk, Armstrong, Armstrong, Beebe, Beebe, Bennett, Bosio, Chevillon, Elizabeth A. McGraw, Endersby, Failloux, Forrester, Francesca D. Frentiu, Frentiu, Gubler, Gubler, Gubler, Guzman, Halstead, Halstead, Hanna, Holmes, Holmes, Huber, Kien, Knox, Kyle, Lambrechts, Lambrechts, Moreira, Neff, Nigel W. Beebe, Parameswaran, Paupy, Rosen, Ross, Scott L. O'Neill, Tat Siong Ng, Thomas Walker, Van Den Hurk, Vasilakis, Vazeille-Falcoz, Warrilow, Xi, Ye, Yixin H. Ye, Yoon   +47 more
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The pace and shape of ant ageing

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 2071-2083, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Ants have been proposed as good models to study ageing and the effects of extrinsic mortality because of their long lifespans and plasticity of ageing within species. We discuss how age‐dependent extrinsic mortality might influence queen lifespan, and how the effect of age‐independent extrinsic mortality needs further study, accounting for ...
Luisa M. Jaimes‐Nino, Jan Oettler
wiley   +1 more source

Whole genome shotgun phylogenomics resolve the diving beetle tree of life

Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 940-974, October 2025.
A new and strongly supported phylogeny of diving beetles (Dytiscidae) is presented using the largest genomic dataset to date. Laccophilinae and Coptotominae + Lancetinae are early diverging lineages excluded from a large monophyletic clade comprising the remaining eight subfamilies. We identify seven remaining problems in the backbone of the phylogeny,
Johannes Bergsten, Johan A. A. Nylander, Oscar E. Ospina, Alan R. Lemmon, Kelly B. Miller   +4 more
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A potential role for epigenetic mechanisms enabling appropriate seasonal reproductive transitions of liver yolk‐precursor production

Journal of Avian Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 5, September 2025.
Animals breed at times of the year that ensure offspring production and growth during favorable periods. DNA methylation is one mechanism by which expression of genes necessary for reproduction may be regulated, enabling expression only at appropriate times. Much work on seasonal breeding in vertebrates has focused on the neuroendocrine system, however
Timothy J. Greives, Joseph Solomon, Stefanie Siller Wilks, Holland Galante, Katie B. Needham, Jeff Kittilson, Dustin R. Rubenstein   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

First person – Shannon Taylor

Biology Open, 2019
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Shannon Taylor is first author on ‘The torso-like gene functions
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