153 research outputs found
Warp-speed adaptation to novel hosts after 300 generations of enforced dietary specialisation in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)
Thank you to Paul Eady for providing C. maculatus to initiate our laboratory population and advice on rearing them. The study was funded by the University of Aberdeen core teaching funds (honours project budget to TP), and by a doctoral training grant to AL from the BBSRC-EastBio doctoral training partnershipPeer reviewedPublisher PD
Host use diversification during range shifts shapes global variation in Lepidopteran dietary breadth
Acknowledgements I thank M. C. Singer for helpful discussions and comments. I thank I. Kitching for permissions to use the Lepidopteran host plant database curated by the Natural History Museum London. I also thank the authors of refs. 19,20 for making their range shift data publicly available, and to all contributors to and curators of the open access databases used in this study. Data availability: All data used in this study is freely publicly available from the cited sources17,19,20. Reuse of the HOSTS dataset is conditional upon permission from the curators.Peer reviewedPostprin
Molecular evolutionary rates predict both extinction and speciation in temperate angiosperm lineages
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Increased duration of extreme thermal events negatively affects cold acclimation ability in a high-latitude, freshwater ectotherm (Ischnura elegans; Odonata: Coenagrionidae)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We wish to thank the owners of the Midmar Stillwater Fishery for permission to sample larvae from their trout ponds. Thanks also to S. Areshi and R. Fitt for assistance in the field. This project was funded by the University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences, as part of their Ecology and Conservation MSc programme thesis project budget.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Evolution of resource generalism via generalized stress response confers increased reproductive thermal tolerance in a pest beetle
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Professor John A. Allen and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. We thank Jรถrgen Ripa and Tyler Stevenson for helpful advice and discussion. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests. This research was supported by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council EastBio Doctoral Training Grant (BBSRC) [grant number BB/M010996/1]. A.L. and L.T.L. conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the manuscript. A.L. performed the experiments and analysed the data.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Frequency-dependent and correlational selection pressures have conflicting consequences for assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lizard, Uta stansburiana
Acknowledgments We would like to thank the numerous undergraduate researchers involved with this project for their invaluable assistance in lizard rearing and data collection. We also thank D. Haisten, A. Runemark, Y. Takahashi, and M. Verzijden for insightful comments on the manuscript. This project was funded by National Science Foundation DEBOS-15973 to A.G.M. and B.R.S.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Determining Critical Periods for Thermal Acclimatisation Using a Distributed Lag Non-linear Modelling Approach
AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTIONS: LTL, CG, and Adela Hrubesova conceived and designed the experiments. Adela Hrubesova, CG and LTL performed the experiments. MR implemented the DLNM and analyzed the data. MR, CG and LTL wrote the manuscript.Peer reviewe
Maladaptive plasticity facilitates evolution of thermal tolerance during an experimental range shift
Availability of data and materials All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its Additional file 2]. Acknowledgements Thank you to P. Eady for providing C. maculatus to initiate our laboratory population and advice on rearing them. Thank you to Max Schmid for commenting on an earlier version of the ms. Funding This research was funded by a doctoral training grant from the BBSRC-EastBio doctoral training partnership. The funding bodies played no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Global variation in the thermal tolerances of plants
Data availability: The global dataset of gplant thermal tolerances generated for and analysed within this study is appended to Supplementary Information (SI Dataset). Acknowledgments: We thank Mark Adams for providing code to optimise spatial distance kernels, and Jake Alexander, Per-Ola Karis, members of the BES Macroecology SIG, and members of the Bolin Centre for Climate Research (Research Area 8) for helpful discussions.Peer reviewedPostprin
Exploring the need to mean : a multimodal analysis of a child's use of semiotic resources in the mediation of symbolic meanings
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN052071 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
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