supported by the National Geographic Society,the University of California Los Angeles(Faculty Senate and Division of Life Sciences);an RMBL research fellowship and the U.S.National Science Foundation(NSF IDBR-0754247 and DEB-1119660 and 1557130 to D.T.B.,as well as DBI 0242960,07211346 and 1226713 to RMBL).
The nonlinearity and fear hypothesis predicts that highly aroused vocal mammals and birds produce vocalizations(notably alarm calls and screams)which contain a variety of nonlinear phenomena(NLP).Such vocalizations of...
supported by the Hamilton College Jeffery Fund Science Internship and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory;supported by the University of California Los Angeles,American Society of Mammalogists,the Animal Behavior Society,and Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory;supported by the National Geographic Society,the University of California Los Angeles(Faculty Senate and Division of Life Sciences),an RMBL research fellowship;U.S.National Science Foundation(NSF IDBR-0754247 and DEB-1119660 and 1557130 to D.T.B.,as well as DBI 0242960,07211346,1226713,and 1755522 to RMBL).
Dispersal is an important individual decision which may influence individual fitness as well as population viability.The social cohesion hypothesis posits more social individuals remain at home,which is supported by p...
Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFC2602203).
Introduction:Plague is a zoonotic disease that occurs naturally in specific geographic areas.Climate change can influence the populations of the plague host or vector,leading to variations in the occurrence and epidem...
Objective To observe multiple locus variablenumber tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) typing of Brucella isolated from Himalayan marmot in QinghaiTibet Plateau of Qinghai Province,and to explore the relationship between th...
K.U.was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellowship.J.E.S.was supported by the American Association of University Women,Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California Los Angeles,and American Philosophical Society for fellowships.D.T.B.was supported by the National Geographic Society,UCLA(Faculty Senate and the Division of Life Sciences),a Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory research fellowship,and by the National Science Foundation(I.D.B.R.-0754247,and D.E.B.-1119660 and 1557130 to D.T.B.,as well as D.B.I.0242960,0731346,and 1226713 RMBL).
The benefits of dominance may not come without costs,particularly for males.For example,the“immunocompetence handicap hypothesis”states that males with enhanced mating success allocate resources to enhance reproduct...
supported by grants from National Science and Technology Major Project of China (2018ZX10712001-018, 2017ZX10303405-002, 2017ZX10303405005-002);National Science and Technology of China (2017FY101202);National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFC1200500 and 2019YFC1200505);Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen (SZSM201811071);Research Units of Discovery of Unknown Bacteria and Function (2018RU010)。
Outbreaks of severe virus infections with the potential to cause global pandemics are increasingly concerning. One type of those commonly emerging and re-emerging pathogens are coronaviruses(SARS-Co V, MERS-Co V and S...
funded by the Special National Project on Research and Development of Key Biosafety Technologies(2016YFC1201900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81290345)
Bocaparvovirus(BOV) is a genetically diverse group of DNA viruses and a possible cause of respiratory, enteric, and neurological diseases in humans and animals. Here, two highly divergent BOVs(tentatively named as Him...