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2014-01-01
Alex Potapov, Ulrike E. Schlagel, Mark A. Lewis
We use an evolutionary approach to find “most appropriate” dispersal models for ecological applications. From a random walk with locally or nonlocally defined transition probabilities we derive a family of diffusion equations. We assume a monotonic dependence of its diffusion coefficient on...
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2017-04-04
Wong, Gane Ka-Shu , Rao, Guang-Yuan , Li, Xia , Rothfels, Carl J , Jiang, Chen-Kun , Han, Jing-Dan
eeds are one of the most significant innovations in the land plant lineage, critical to the diversification and adaptation of plants to terrestrial environments. From perspective of seed evo-devo, the most crucial developmental stage in this innovation is seed maturation, which includes...
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Evolutionary origins of sensation in metazoans: functional evidence for a new sensory organ in sponges
Download2014-02-11
Background One of the hallmarks of multicellular organisms is the ability of their cells to trigger responses to the environment in a coordinated manner. In recent years primary cilia have been shown to be present as ‘antennae’ on almost all animal cells, and are involved in cell-to-cell...
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2016-01-01
Range expansion and range shifts are crucial population responses to climate change. Genetic consequences are not well understood but are clearly coupled to ecological dynamics that, in turn, are driven by shifting climate conditions. We model a population with a deterministic reaction– diffusion...
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Experimental evidence for the rapid evolution of behavioral canalization in natural populations
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Lynch, B.R., Trussell, G.C., Palmer, A.R., Edgell, T.C.
Canalization—the evolutionary loss of the capacity of organisms to develop different phenotypes in different environments— is an evolutionary phenomenon suspected to occur widely, although examples in natural populations are elusive. Because behavior is typically a highly flexible component of an...
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2021-01-05
Pouria Ramazi, Mélodie Kunegel-Lion, Russell Greiner, Mark A. Lewis
Although ecological models used to make predictions from underlying covariates have a record of success, they also suffer from limitations. They are typically unable to make predictions when the value of one or more covariates is missing during the testing. Missing values can be estimated but...
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Tenniswood, M., Bennett, S., Wong, P., Morrissey, C., Nitsche, E., Guenette, R.S.
After hormonal ablation, 90% of the secretory epithelial cells of the prostate undergo apoptosis, and the remaining cells are reorganized as the tissue is remodeled. Using differential display RT-PCR of total RNA extracted from the rat ventral prostate before and 4 days after castration, we have...
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Factors governing outbreak dynamics in a forest intensively managed for mountain pine beetle
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Mélodie Kunegel-Lion, MarkA. Lewis
Mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreaks have caused major economic losses and ecological consequences in North American pine forests. Ecological and environmental factors impacting MPB life-history and stands susceptibility can help with the detection of MPB infested trees and thereby, improve...
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Factors influencing flight capacity of the mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
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Evenden, Maya L., Whitehouse, C. M., Sykes, J.
The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is the most damaging pest of mature pine (Pinaceae) in western North America. Although mountain pine beetles have an obligate dispersal phase during which adults must locate a new host for brood...
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Fatty acid composition of the adipose tissue of polar bears and of their prey: ringed seals, bearded seals and harp seals
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Grahl-Nielsen, O., Lydersen, C., Wiig, Ø., Kovacs, K., Derocher, A.E., Andersen, M.
Polar bears Ursus maritimus are predators of phocid seals, but they also forage opportunistically on a variety of other species. In the Barents Sea—Svalbard area, their diet is thought to consist almost exclusively of ringed seals Phoca hispida, bearded seals Erignathus barbatus and harp seals P....