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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions
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Phylogenetically Structured Differences in rRNA Gene Sequence Variation among Species of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Implications for Sequence Clustering
(American Society for Microbiology, 2016-07-29)Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form mutualisms with plant roots that increase plant growth and shape plant communities. Each AM fungal cell contains a large amount of genetic diversity, but it is unclear if this diversity ... -
Home-field advantage? evidence of local adaptation among plants, soil, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through meta-analysis
(BioMed Central, 2016-06-10)Background: Local adaptation, the differential success of genotypes in their native versus foreign environment, arises from various evolutionary processes, but the importance of concurrent abiotic and biotic factors as ... -
Responses of two nonlinear microbial models to warming and increased carbon input
(European Geosciences Union, 2016-02-18)A number of nonlinear microbial models of soil carbon decomposition have been developed. Some of them have been applied globally but have yet to be shown to realistically represent soil carbon dynamics in the field. A ... -
On the Relationship Between habitat suitability and population abundance under different scenarios dispersal
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2016-09)Recent studies based on niche modeling to estimate the distribution of species have provided evidence that the abundance of a species decreases as the distance to the centroid of the climatic niche of the species increases. ... -
Plant and root endophyte assembly history: interactive effects on native and exotic plants
(Ecological Society of America, 2016-02)Differences in the arrival timing of plants and soil biota may result in different plant communities through priority effects, potentially affecting the success of native vs. exotic plants, but experimental evidence is ... -
Mechanistic and Correlative Models of Ecological Niches
(De Gruyter Open, 2015-12)The suite of factors that drives where and under what conditions a species occurs has become the focus of intense research interest. Three general categories of methods have emerged by which researchers address questions ... -
THE SYSTEMATICS OF THE BURROWING WATER BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: ADEPHAGA: NOTERIDAE)
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)The aquatic beetle family Noteridae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) comprises a group with poorly studied diversity that has received limited systematic study. Despite the corroboration of multiple phylogenic reconstructions, many ... -
ANALYSIS OF STACKED SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS PROVIDES A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION OF PHILIPPINE AMPHIBIANS
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)In regions of the megadiverse tropics where biodiversity information is scarce, species distribution models have become important tools for conservation. Use of models, generated individually, for many species or an entire ... -
Geographic basis of genetic variation in Platymantis corrugatus
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)The species Platymantis corrugatus—part of a highly diverse, endemic radiation of frogs in the Philippine archipelago—has an improbably widespread distribution that is without precedent in Platymantis. In this study, I ... -
The Molecular and Evolutionary Outcomes of Transgenerational Plasticity in Mimulus guttatus
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Derived from the same family line, in the same greenhouse, and self-pollinated in an identical fashion, what effect could hole-puncher induced leaf damage have on the offspring of these individuals? Across three independent ... -
Transgenerational plasticity is sex-dependent and persistent in yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus)
(Oxford University Press, 2016-08-01)Transgenerational phenotypic plasticity, whereby environmental cues experienced by parents alter the phenotype of their progeny, has now been documented in diverse organisms. Transmission of environmentally determined ... -
Discovery of a Giant Chameleon-Like Lizard (Anolis) on Hispaniola and Its Significance to Understanding Replicated Adaptive Radiations
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-09)We report a new chameleon-like Anolis species from Hispaniola that is ecomorphologically similar to congeners found only on Cuba. Lizards from both clades possess short limbs and a short tail and utilize relatively narrow ... -
Holding it together: rapid evolution and positive selection in the synaptonemal complex of Drosophila
(Wayne State University Press, 2016-05-05)BACKGROUND: The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a highly conserved meiotic structure that functions to pair homologs and facilitate meiotic recombination in most eukaryotes. Five Drosophila SC proteins have been identified ... -
The effect of inbreeding and hybrid vigor in Drosophila melanogaster
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Evolutionary relationships and osteology of the frog family Leptodactylidae
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An anocellar polistine wasp (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) from Texas
(Pensoft Publishers, 2016-12-02)A remarkable teratological female of Polistes (Fuscopolistes) dorsalis neotropicus Bequaert, 1940 (Vespidae: Polistinae) is described and illustrated. The specimen lacks all three external dorsal ocelli but is normally ... -
Notes on the Nesting Biology of the Small Carpenter Bee Ceratina smaragdula (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Northwestern Pakistan
(Florida Entomological Society, 2016-03)The nesting biology and some foraging activities of the familiar, brilliant metallic green, small carpenter bee Ceratina (Pithitis) smaragdula (F.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) is documented from the northwestern-most extent of ... -
A new xyelotomid (Hymenoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China displaying enigmatic venational asymmetry
(BioMed Central, 2016-08-02)Background Pterygota insects typically have symmetric veins in left and right wings. For studying taxonomy and phylogeny of fossil insects, venational patterns are commonly used as diagnostic characters, in conjunction ... -
A new transcriptome and transcriptome profiling of adult and larval tissue in the box jellyfish Alatina alata: an emerging model for studying venom, vision and sex
(BioMed Central, 2016-08-17)Background Cubozoans (box jellyfish) are cnidarians that have evolved a number of distinguishing features. Many cubozoans have a particularly potent sting, effected by stinging structures called nematocysts; cubozoans ... -
Holding it together: rapid evolution and positive selection in the synaptonemal complex of Drosophila
(BioMed Central, 2016-05-05)Background The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a highly conserved meiotic structure that functions to pair homologs and facilitate meiotic recombination in most eukaryotes. Five Drosophila SC proteins have been identified ...