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Is Blood Thicker Than Water? The Influence of Kin Within a Bull Shark Social Network
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.This study investigates how kinship (“kinfluence”) shapes social structure in an aggregation of adult bull sharks in Fiji by integrating genomic relatedness, pedigree reconstruction, and detailed behavioral data. It reveals that while genetic relatedness has a small but significant influence on social behavior, especially among males, kin‐category ...
Natasha D. Marosi +4 more
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Seed traits and germination in the Cactaceae family: A review across Americas
Botanical Sciences, 2020 Background: Cactaceae is the fifth taxonomic group with the highest proportion of threatened species and among the angiosperms, the most vulnerable to human disturbance.
Duniel Barrios +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.Female common serotine bats (Cnephaeus serotinus) are consistently larger than males in forearm length, wing area and mandibular dimensions related to bite force. Wing dimorphism reflects isometric size scaling rather than shape divergence, suggesting compensation for pregnancy‐related mass increases.
Maryna Yerofieieva +3 more
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Convergent genomic signatures associated with vertebrate viviparity
BMC BiologyBackground Viviparity—live birth—is a complex and innovative mode of reproduction that has evolved repeatedly across the vertebrate Tree of Life. Viviparous species exhibit remarkable levels of reproductive diversity, both in the amount of care provided ...
Rhiannon V. Eastment +2 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Nestedness possesses the capacity to unravel the ecological mechanisms underpinning biodiversity distribution and directly inform evidence‐based conservation strategies. However, previous studies have typically been confined to individual archipelagos and have predominantly focused on taxonomic nestedness alone, neglecting its cross ...
De Gao, Yanping Wang
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Offspring Size Resolves a Population Growth Paradox in Rays and Skates
Fish and Fisheries, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 927-941, July 2026.ABSTRACT The maximum intrinsic population growth rate, rmax, is a key determinant of sustainable fishing limits and is increasingly used in risk assessments. We previously showed how the rmax of rays and skates (subclass Batoidea) scales with adult body size, temperature (and hence depth) such that smaller‐bodied species and those in warmer, shallower ...
Ellen Barrowclift +4 more
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Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 257-263, July 2026.Abstract Reports of teratogenic embryos in elasmobranchs have been documented in multiple species, with proposed aetiologies including environmental disturbances, genetic mutations, predation, exposure to endocrine‐disrupting compounds and maternal stress.
Douglas de Castro Ribeiro +2 more
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 14, July 2026.ABSTRACT Squamate pregnancy is an important topic in reproductive and evolutionary biology, as it provides insight to amniote live‐bearing that is not mammalian. Gene regulation in squamates is poorly characterised and the extent of molecular convergence in the developmental mechanisms of pregnancy across amniotes is strongly debated.
John L. Smout +3 more
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The European Zoological Journal, 2021 During the studies on the invertebrate fauna of the subterranean part of the “Wieliczka” Salt Mine in Wieliczka, Poland, the presence of many specimens of the dipteran species Meoneura obscurella (Fallén 1823) was observed.
G. Kłys, B. Lis
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