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The biomechanics of solids and fluids: the physics of life
(IOP Publishing, 2016)Biomechanics borrows and extends engineering techniques to study the mechanical properties of organisms and their environments. Like physicists and engineers, biomechanics researchers tend to specialize on either fluids ... -
Mathematical Model of Three Age-Structured Transmission Dynamics of Chikungunya Virus
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)We developed a new age-structured deterministic model for the transmission dynamics of chikungunya virus. The model is analyzed to gain insights into the qualitative features of its associated equilibria. Some of the ... -
DATASETS FOR: Compatible ecological niche signals between biological and archaeological datasets for late-surviving Neandertals
(2018-01-01)DATASETS FOR manuscript for publication Objectives: To assess niche similarity for biological and archaeological samples representing late-surviving Neandertals in Europe to evaluate the validity of combining these two ... -
On the importance of balancing selection in plants
(Wiley, 2014-01)Balancing selection refers to a variety of selective regimes that maintain advantageous genetic diversity within populations. We review the history of the ideas regarding the types of selection that maintain such polymorphism ... -
Increasing atmospheric [CO2] from glacial through future levels affects drought tolerance via impacts on leaves, xylem and their integrated function
(Wiley, 2013-08)Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) affect plant carbon/water trade-offs, with implications for drought tolerance. Leaf-level studies often indicate that drought tolerance may increase with rising ... -
Differential regulation of a MYB transcription factor is correlated with transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of trichome density in Mimulus guttatus
(Wiley, 2011-07)Epigenetic inheritance, transgenerational transmission of traits not proximally determined by DNA sequence, has been linked to transmission of chromatin modifications and gene regulation, which are known to be sensitive ... -
Wolbachia do not live by reproductive manipulation alone: infection polymorphism in Drosophila suzukii and D. subpulchrella
(Wiley, 2014-10)Drosophila suzukii recently invaded North America and Europe. Populations in Hawaii, California, New York and Nova Scotia are polymorphic for Wolbachia, typically with <20% infection frequency. The Wolbachia in D. suzukii, ... -
Spatially and temporally varying selection on intra-population QTL for a life history tradeoff in Mimulus guttatus
(Wiley, 2012-08)Why do populations remain genetically variable despite strong continuous natural selection? Mutation reconstitutes variation eliminated by selection and genetic drift, but theoretical and experimental studies each suggest ... -
The role of pathogen shedding in linking within- and between-host pathogen dynamics
(Elsevier, 2015-12)A model linking within- and between-host pathogen dynamics via pathogen shedding (emission of pathogens throughout the course of infection) is developed, and several aspects of host availability and co-infection are ... -
Resources, mortality, and disease ecology: Importance of positive feedbacks between host growth rate and pathogen dynamics
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Resource theory and metabolic scaling theory suggest that the dynamics of a pathogen within a host should strongly depend upon the rate of host cell metabolism. Once an infection occurs, key ecological interactions occur ... -
Geographic variation in polyandry of the Eastern Honey Bee, Apis cerana, in Thailand
(Springer Verlag, 2015-02)The repeated evolution of extreme polyandry in advanced social insects is exceptional and its explanation has attracted significant attention. However, most reported estimates of the number of matings are derived from ... -
Anolis sex chromosomes are derived from a single ancestral pair
(Wiley, 2014-04)To explain the frequency and distribution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes in the lizard genus Anolis we compared the relative roles of sex chromosome conservation vs. turnover of sex determining mechanisms. We used model ... -
A genome-wide assessment of stages of elevational parapatry in Bornean passerine birds reveals no introgression: implications for processes and patterns of speciation
(PeerJ, 2017-05-18)Topographically complex regions often contain the close juxtaposition of closely related species along elevational gradients. The evolutionary causes of these elevational replacements, and thus the origin and maintenance ... -
DATASETS FOR: Digital Accessible Knowledge of the Birds of India: Characterizing Gaps in Time and Space
(Current Science, 2017-07-01)DATASETS FOR: This paper evaluates Digital Accessible Knowledge (DAK)of the occurrencesof Indian bird species. More than 2M primary occurrence records from across India were obtained from the Global Biodiversity Information ... -
The leading edge of the geographic distribution of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)
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DATASETS FOR: Climatic stability drove the diversification of multiple bird lineages in Amazonia
(2017-01-01)DATASETS FOR: primary occurrence data for ecological niche models and phylogeographic analyses of a set of Amazon-Basin bird clades. PhylogeographicSampling.csv includes the geographic coordinates, sample ID number, and ... -
DATASETS FOR: Planning for conservation and restoration under climate and land use change in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
(Diversity and Distributions, 2017-01-01)Data consisting of accessible area (M) hypotheses and occurrence data to accompany published study. -
DATASET FOR: Influences of climate change on the potential distribution of Lutzomyia longipalpis sensu lato (Psychodidae: Phlebotominae)
(2017-01-01)DATASET FOR: This study explores the present-day distribution of Lutzomyia longipalpis in relation to climate, and transfers the knowledge gained to likely future climate conditions to predict changes in the species’ ... -
Orders out of chaos – molecular phylogenetics reveals the complexity of shark and stingray tapeworm relationships
(Elsevier, 2016-04-18)Novel molecular data are presented to resolve the long-standing issue of the non-monophyly of the elasmobranch-hosted tapeworm order Tetraphyllidea relative to the other acetabulate eucestode orders. Bayesian Inference ... -
SOURCES: Predictive invasion dynamics in American populations of the Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
(2017-01-01)DATA SOURCES FOR: Species invasions represent a significant dimension of global change, and yet the dynamics of invasions remain poorly understood and are considered rather unpredictable. We explored year-to-year dynamics ...
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