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Indirect routes to reproductive success
eLife, 2012 By comparing wild-type and transgenic tobacco plants in a natural ecosystem, researchers have confirmed that the indirect defence mechanisms employed by plants to fend off herbivorous insects can increase Darwinian fitness.
John Pickett
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Female chronotype is not related to annual and lifetime reproductive success in a free-living songbird [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceCircadian clocks play a crucial role in regulating the sleep–wake rhythm of organisms, aligning their activity with fluctuating environmental factors, such as light intensity. Still, significant and consistent interindividual differences in the timing of
Marjolein Meijdam +2 more
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Post-copulatory competition in a social monogamy system: Sperm morphology correlates with components of reproductive success. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMales in socially monogamous species can achieve reproductive success through multiple tactics- by defending paternity within the social nest and siring extra-pair offspring, or both.
Carly E Hawkins +3 more
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Does Reproductive Success in Orchids Affect the Evolution of Their Number of Flowers? [PDF]
PlantsSpecies are disappearing worldwide, and changes in climate and land use are commonly assumed to be the most important causes. Organisms are counteracting the negative effects of environmental factors on their survival by evolving various defence ...
Iva Traxmandlová +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Fitness is an individual's ability to survive and reproduce, and is an important concept in evolutionary biology. However, accurately measuring fitness is often difficult, and appropriate fitness surrogates need to be identified.
Trinh T X Nguyen, Amanda J Moehring
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Staying Alive: Individual Behavioral Variation Influences Survival, but Not Reproductive Success, in Female Group‐Living Ground Squirrels [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAnimals living in harsh or unpredictable environments adopt adaptive strategies to improve their fitness, with behavioral variation playing a key role in shaping individual outcomes.
Miyako H. Warrington +4 more
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Sperm morphology and reproductive success
Asian Journal of Andrology, 2016 Jason R Kovac, Larry I Lipshultz
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Cognition and reproductive success in cowbirds [PDF]
Learning & Behavior, 2021 AbstractUnderstanding the relationships between cognitive abilities and fitness is integral to an evolutionary study of brain and behavior. However, these relationships are often difficult to measure and detect. Here we draw upon an opportunistic sample of brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) subjects that had two separate research experiences: First,
White, David J. +3 more
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Water Biology and Security, 2023 Understanding the reproductive strategy of an organism is important in conservation ecology as it directly affects the population performance under changing environmental conditions.
Dan Yu +9 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Age-dependent reduction in reproductive success can arise due to multiple factors including a deterioration of reproductive physiology. Senescing males have been shown to produce ejaculates with poor sperm quality, which impinges on male reproductive ...
Léna Meunier +8 more
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