funded by the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica(PICT-2019-2385);Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas(PIP-11220200102466CO);Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata(EXA953/20).
Male fiddler crabs own an enlarged claw which is a weapon and an ornament.The enlargement of this claw begins from the juvenile stage and continues throughout life.Males may voluntarily lose(i.e.,autotomize)this claw....
the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship,UW Biology;Burke Museum;the National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology(DBI-1812126).
Selective pressures favor morphologies that are adapted to distinct ecologies,resulting in trait partition!ng among ecomorphotypes.However,the effects of these selective pressures vary across taxa,especially because m...
This work was supported by grants from the Narural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province to L-H.L.(LY17C030003);National Natural Science Foundation of China to L.-H,L.(31971414)and XJ(31470471);Finance Science and Technology Project of Hainan Province to Y.D.(ZDYF2018219).
Monitor lizards(Varanidae)inhabit both the mainland and islands of all geological types and have diversified into an exceptionally wide range of body sizes,thus providing an ideal model for examining the role of mainl...
Foundational concepts of trait spaces, including phenotypic plasticity and function of traits, should be expanded and better integrated with ecological theory. This article addresses two areas where plasticity theory ...
Although males are generally less discriminating than females when it comes to choosing a mate, they still benefit from distinguishing between mates that are receptive to courtship and those that are not, in order to ...
Acknowledgements During the span of this project our work was funded by the National Science Foundation (DEBCAREER 1149942 to RJS), and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NSF #EF- 4120905606) through a graduate fellowship for DMZ.
Signal traits are often linked with the physiological state and behavior of their bearer. Direct examination of the causal links among these variables has provided substantial insight into the information content of s...
Traits that aid in the invasion process should exhibit a gradient across the expansion range in response to changing selection pressures. Aggression has been repeatedly associated with invasion success in many taxa, a...
Freshwater habitats and organisms are among the most threatened on Earth, and freshwater ecosystems have been subject to large biodiversity losses. We developed a Climate Change Sensitivity (CCS) indicator based on ...
Males of the nursery web spider Pisaura mirabil usually offer an insect prey wrapped in white silk as a nuptial gift to facilitate copulation. Males exploit female foraging preferences in a sexual context as females f...
Acknowlegements We thank Matthew Arnegard, Carlos Botero, Tamra Mendelson, Rafael Rodriqu6z and Sander van Doom for excellent discussions about the need for a new phenotypic distance metric and Maria Servedio for the invitation and encouragement to formalize our ideas. This research was supported as part of the Sexual Selection and Speciation working group by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), NSF #EF-0905606. RJS and SMF were supported by the University of Colorado and National Science Founda- tion grant IOS-0717421to RJS. MK was supported by a grant from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) to the Mathematics and Biosciences Group at the University of Vienna. EAH thanks Mitch Bern for use of his Master's thesis data and was supported by the National Science Foundation grant lOS - 0643179. DEI and DPLT were supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Can- ada (Discovery Grants 311931-2005 and 311931-2010 to DEI, CGS-D to DPLT). NS and JAT were supported by the Royal Society, British Ecological Society and John Fell Fund (Ox- ford University). ES supported by NSF-DDIG the American Ornithologists Union, the University of Chicago, and the American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark award. JACU was funded by National Science Foundation grant lOS 0306175.
Whereas a rich literature exists for estimating population genetic divergence, metrics of phenotypic trait divergence are lacking, particularly for comparing multiple traits among three or more populations. Here, we r...