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An (omics) perspective on the evolution of vision in deep‐sea fishes reveals exceptional adaptations to life in the extreme

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the evolution of vision, changes in the number of visual opsin genes, gene conversion, amino acid sequence mutations, and gene expression levels are common molecular mechanisms in how teleost fishes adapt to different aquatic (light) environments.
Zuzana Musilova, Fabio Cortesi
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Predatory attack on a bearded capuchin monkey by a Boa constrictor. [PDF]

Primates
Valença T, Cardoso E, Falótico T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Environment‐driven plasticity in foraging behaviour: From individual‐level processes to community‐level consequences

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plasticity describes the ability of a genotype to adaptively produce different phenotypes in response to environmental cues. Even though the concept of phenotypic plasticity was originally conceived for morphological characters, environmentally cued modification of ...
Hsi‐Cheng Ho, Chi‐Yun Kuo
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Correction: Sound garden: How snakes respond to airborne and groundborne sounds. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zdenek CN, Staples T, Hay C, Bourke LA, Candusso D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular detection of <i>Leishmania</i> and other vector-borne agents in free-ranging and captive herpetofauna from Costa Rica. [PDF]

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl
Alves MH, Mendoza-Roldan JA, Alfaro-Segura P, Carbonara M, Gómez A, Leitón NM, Ortega JA, Solano-Barquero A, Rojas A, Otranto D.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The natural history of North-Carolina. : With an account of the trade, manners, and customs, of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c. Illustrated with copper-plates

John Brickell, John A. Lawson
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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are Some Snakes More Terrifying and What Is Behind the Fear? [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Frynta D, Janovcová M, Elmi HSA, Štolhoferová I, Rudolfová V, Rexová K, Sommer D, Král D, Berti DA, Landová E, Frýdlová P.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
wiley   +1 more source