This research was funded by a Paleontological Society Norman Newel Award,a College of Arts and Sciences Regional Campus Research and Creative Activity Grant from the Ohio State University,a research grant from the Ohio State University at Marion,startup funds from the Ohio State University to JC,and Summer Research Assistantship funds from the Ohio State University at Marion to LN.Some of the ideas for this project were developed while JC was supported by a Meaningful Inquiry grant from The Ohio State University library system.
Morphological analyses are critical to quantify phenotypic variation,identify taxa,inform phylogenetic relationships,and shed light on evolutionary patterns.This work is particularly important in groups that display g...
Funding was provided by CNRS (www.cnrs.fr) and Université Toulouse III (www.univ-tlse3.fr) to R.J. I.S.-V. was funded by a post-doctoral fellowship of the Galician government (Xunta de Galicia, Axudas de apoio á etapa posdoutoral 2017,ref: ED481B-2017/034). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Early experience can prepare offspring to adapt their behaviors to the environment they are likely to encounter later in life. In several species of ants, colonies show ontogenic changes in the brood-to-worker ratio t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31730046 and 91731301);the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)of China(2014CB542006);the 985 Project(33000–18841204);National Institute of Health,USA(5 R01 GM058686-09 to WU,Chung-I)
Food web and gene regulatory networks(GRNs)are large biological networks,both of which can be analyzed using the May-Wigner theory.According to the theory,networks as large as mammalian GRNs would require dedicated ge...
This research was co-financed by the research grant CGL2009-11356(Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)and the European Regional Development’s Fund(ERDF).X.S.was supported by the FPU fellowship AP-2009-0962(Ministerio de Educación).
Aims the limited water supply in the Mediterranean Basin will be exacerbated in the immediate future as result of severe drought events.thus,the study of the intraspecific variability in functional traits of plant spe...
Most species evolve within fluctuating environments, and have developed adaptations to meet the challenges posed by environmental heterogeneity. One such adaptation is phenotypic plasticity, or the ability of a single...
An invasive plant species may restrict its spread to only one type of habitat, or, after some time, may continue to spread into a different, often stressful, secondary, habitat. The question of whether evolution is re...
supported by National Science Foundation grant(IOS-1052333) and National Institutes of Health grant (R01GM072562) to W.-M.D.We thank Anne B.Thistle,John S.Poulton,Nicholas Leake,and Gengqiang Xie for critical reading and helpful input with the manuscript.
Cell competition is a struggle for existence between cells in heterogeneous tissues of multicellular organisms. Loser cells, which die during cell competition, are normally viable when grown only with other loser cell...