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Fine-scale genetic structure among greater sage-grouse leks in central Nevada
(2016)Mating systems that reduce dispersal and lead to non-random mating might increase the potential for genetic structure to arise at fine geographic scales. Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have a lek-based ... -
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Fluctuations in annual climatic extremes are associated with reproductive variation in resident mountain chickadees.
(2018)Mounting evidence suggests that we are experiencing rapidly accelerating global climate change. Understanding how climate change may affect life is critical to identifying species and populations that are vulnerable. Most ... -
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Forecasting the Impacts of Silver and Bighead Carp on the Lake Erie Food Web
(2016)Nonindigenous bigheaded carps (Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and Silver Carp H. molitrix; hereafter, "Asian carps" [AC]) threaten to invade and disrupt food webs and fisheries in the Laurentian Great Lakes through ... -
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Formation of the Isthmus of Panama
(2016)The formation of the Isthmus of Panama stands as one of the greatest natural events of the Cenozoic, driving profound biotic transformations on land and in the oceans. Some recent studies suggest that the Isthmus formed ... -
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From fish to frogs and beyond: Impact and host range of emergent ranaviruses
(2017)Ranaviruses are pathogens of ectothermic vertebrates, including amphibians. We reviewed patterns of host range and virulence of ranaviruses in the context of virus genotype and postulate that patterns reflect significant ... -
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Fully automated sequence alignment methods are comparable to, and much faster than, traditional methods in large data sets: an example with hepatitis B virus
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Genetic Tools for the Analysis of Drosophila Stomatogastric Nervous System Development
(2015)The Drosophila stomatogastric nervous system (SNS) is a compact collection of neurons that arises from the migration of neural precursors. Here we describe genetic tools allowing functional analysis of the SNS during the ... -
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Genetic variation and population structure in a threatened species, the Utah prairie dog Cynomys parvidens: the use of genetic data to inform conservation actions
(2016)The Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens), listed as threatened under the United States Endangered Species Act, was the subject of an extensive eradication program throughout its range during the 20th century. Eradication ... -
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Genome of the pitcher plant Cephalotus reveals genetic changes associated with carnivory
(2017)Carnivorous plants exploit animals as a nutritional source and have inspired long-standing questions about the origin and evolution of carnivory-related traits. To investigate the molecular bases of carnivory, we sequenced ... -
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Global accumulation of circRNAs during aging in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2018)Circular RNAs (CircRNAs) are a newly appreciated class of RNAs that lack free 5' and 3' ends, are expressed by the thousands in diverse forms of life, and are mostly of enigmatic function. Ostensibly due to their resistance ... -
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Global weather and local butterflies: variable responses to a large-scale climate pattern along an elevational gradient
(2015)Understanding the spatial and temporal scales at which environmental variation affects populations of plants and animals is an important goal for modern population biology, especially in the context of shifting climatic ... -
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Guidance on the Use of Best Available Science under the US Endangered Species Act
(2016)The Endangered Species Act's best available science mandate has been widely emulated and reflects a Congressional directive to ensure that decisions made under the Act are informed by reliable knowledge applied using a ... -
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Heterogeneity and scaling of photosynthesis, respiration, and nitrogen uptake in three Atlantic Rainforest streams
(2017)Leaves, epilithon, macrophytes, and fine benthic organic material are central ecosystem compartments to food webs and mediate nutrient fluxes in streams. Most estimates of gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem ... -
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Hierarchical multi-population viability analysis
(2019)Population viability analysis (PVA) uses concepts from theoretical ecology to provide a powerful tool for quantitative estimates of population dynamics and extinction risks. However, conventional statistical PVA requires ... -
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High quality draft genome sequence of &ITMycoplasma testudineum&IT strain BH29(T), isolated from the respiratory tract of a desert tortoise
(2018)Mycoplasma testudineum is one of the pathogens that can cause upper respiratory tract disease in desert tortoises, Gopherus agassizii. We sequenced the genome of M. testudineum BH29(T) (ATCC 700618(T) = MCCM 03231(T)), ... -
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High quality draft genome sequences of Mycoplasma agassizii strains PS6(T) and 723 isolated from Gopherus tortoises with upper respiratory tract disease
(2018)Mycoplasma agassizii is one of the known causative agents of upper respiratory tract disease (URTD) in Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) and in gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). We sequenced the genomes ... -
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High Triglycerides Are Associated with Low Thrombocyte Counts and High VEGF in Nephropathia Epidemica
(2016)Nephropathia epidemica (NE) is a mild formof hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Several reports have demonstrated a severe alteration in lipoproteinmetabolism. However, little is known about changes in circulating ... -
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Host species, pathogens and disease associated with divergent nasal microbial communities in tortoises
(2018)Diverse bacterial communities are found on every surface of macro-organisms, and they play important roles in maintaining normal physiological functions in their hosts. While the study of microbiomes has expanded with the ... -
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Impact of asynchronous emergence of two lethal pathogens on amphibian assemblages
(2017)Emerging diseases have been increasingly associated with population declines, with co-infections exhibiting many types of interactions. The chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) and ranaviruses have extraordinarily ... -
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Impacts of growing-season climate on tree growth and post-fire regeneration in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests
(2019)We studied the impacts of climate variability on low-elevation forests in the U.S. northern Rocky Mountains by quantifying how post-fire tree regeneration and radial growth varied with growing-season climate. We reconstructed ...
