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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 ... -
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Implementing invasive species control: a case study of multi-jurisdictional coordination at Lake Tahoe, USA
(2015)Biological invasions are increasing in frequency and the need to mitigate or control their effects is a major challenge to natural resource managers. Failure to control invasive species has been attributed to inadequate ... -
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Inconsistent reproductive isolation revealed by interactions between Catostomus fish species
(2017)Interactions between species are central to evolution and ecology, but we do not know enough about how outcomes of interactions between species vary across geographic locations, in heterogeneous environments, or over time. ... -
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Increased Testosterone Decreases Medial Cortical Volume and Neurogenesis in Territorial Side-Blotched Lizards (Uta stansburiana)
(2017)Variation in an animal's spatial environment can induce variation in the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in spatial cognitive processing. Specifically, increased spatial area use is correlated with increased ... -
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Independent Scientific Review under the Endangered Species Act
(2019)The directive from Congress in the Endangered Species Act obliging the US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service along with other federal agencies to use the best available scientific information ... -
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Insertion of a chimeric retrotransposon sequence in mouse Axin1 locus causes metastable kinky tail phenotype
(2019)Transposable elements (TEs) make up >50% of the human genome, and the majority of retrotransposon insertions are truncated and many are located in introns. However, the effects of retrotransposition on the host genes remain ... -
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Interaction Diversity Maintains Resiliency in a Frequently Disturbed Ecosystem
(2019)Frequently disturbed ecosystems are characterized by resilience to ecological disturbances. Longleaf pine ecosystems are not only resilient to frequent fire disturbance, but this feature sustains biodiversity. We examined ... -
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Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars
(2016)Chemically mediated plant-herbivore interactions contribute to the diversity of terrestrial communities and the diversification of plants and insects. While our understanding of the processes affecting community structure ... -
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Intrinsic protein disorder reduces small-scale gene duplicability
(2017)Whereas the rate of gene duplication is relatively high, only certain duplications survive the filter of natural selection and can contribute to genome evolution. However, the reasons why certain genes can be retained after ... -
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ISL1-based LIM complexes control Slit2 transcription in developing cranial motor neurons
(2016)LIM-homeodomain (HD) transcription factors form a multimeric complex and assign neuronal subtype identities, as demonstrated by the hexameric ISL1-LHX3 complex which gives rise to somatic motor (SM) neurons. However, the ... -
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Larval Performance in the Context of Ecological Diversification and Speciation in Lycaeides Butterflies
(3/12/2012)The role of ecology in diversification has been widely investigated, though few groups have been studied in enough detail to allow comparisons of different ecological traits that potentially contribute to reproductive ... -
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LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network
(2017)The Lepidoptera of North America Network, or LepNet, is a digitization effort recently launched to mobilize biodiversity data from 3 million specimens of butterflies and moths in United States natural history collections ... -
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Life-history evolution in the anthropocene: effects of increasing nutrients on traits and trade-offs
(2015)Variation in life-history traits can have major impacts on the ecological and evolutionary responses of populations to environmental change. Life-history variation often results from trade-offs that arise because individuals ...
