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Microbiome symbionts and diet diversity incur costs on the immune system of insect larvae.
Communities of symbiotic microorganisms that colonize the gastrointestinal tract play an important role in food digestion and protection against opportunistic microbes. Diet diversity increases the number of symbionts in ...
Modularity Facilitates Flexible Tuning of Plastic and Evolutionary Gene Expression Responses during Early Divergence
Gene expression changes have been recognized as important drivers of adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Little is known about the relative roles of plastic and evolutionary responses in complex gene expression ...
Meta-analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns
The premise that the intensity of biotic interactions decreases with increasing latitudes and elevations is broadly accepted; however, whether these geographical patterns can be explained within a common theoretical framework ...
Edaphic heterogeneity and the evolutionary trajectory of Amazonian plant communities
<p><br></p><p>We investigated how the phylogenetic structure of Amazonian plant communities varies along an edaphic gradient within the non-inundated forests. Forty localities were sampled on three terrain types representing ...
Habitat use by post-fledging white-tailed eagles shows avoidance of human infrastructure and agricultural areas
Habitat use studies provide invaluable information for the conservation of species that suffer from habitat loss or degradation. We used satellite telemetry to study the habitat use of white-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus ...
'Resistance Mixtures' Reduce Insect Herbivory in Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) Plantations
The transition toward more sustainable plant protection with reduced pesticide use is difficult, because there is no "silver bullet " available among nonchemical tools. Integrating several plant protection approaches may ...
Text Classification Model Explainability for Keyword Extraction - Towards Keyword-Based Summarization of Nursing Care Episodes
Tools to automate the summarization of nursing entries in electronic health records (EHR) have the potential to support healthcare professionals to obtain a rapid overview of a patient's situation when time is limited. ...
Parental feeding responses to experimental short-term partner removal in a species with male and female brood desertion
<p>As parental care is costly, it can be expected that there will be a
sexual conflict between parents over the individual levels of parental
investment because each parent has limited resources to invest in a
reproductive event. Theoretical models of parental investment predict
that when one parent reduces its parental effort, the other parent
should adjust its effort facultatively to compensate for the decrease in
the mate’s contribution. Here, we tested for facultative adjustments in
care in the rock sparrow, Petronia petronia.
In this species, both sexes can desert the brood, creating the
potential for strong sexual conflict over parental care to occur. To
that end, we examined how rock sparrow parents adjust their level of
care in response to an experimental mate removal for a limited time
period, mimicking the starting phase of the desertion process. We
compared male and female provisioning rates before and after an
experimental mate removal. Males behaved according to the prediction of
compensatory adjustment, as they allocated more care to the offspring
and returned faster to the nest after female removal, whereas females
showed no response. Our study shows sexual differences in response to
mate removal in a species with biparental care and strong sexual
conflict over parental care, and suggests that males may use the female
absence to determine their actual parental effort.</p>...