Evidence of unidirectional hybridization and second-generation adult hybrid between the two largest animals on Earth, the fin and blue whales [0.03%]
蓝鲸和鳍鲸杂交的证据以及地球上已知最大的两种动物的第二代成年杂交个体
Christophe Pampoulie,Davíð Gíslason,Guðbjörg Ólafsdóttir et al.
Christophe Pampoulie et al.
Biodiversity in the oceans has dramatically declined since the beginning of the industrial era, with accelerated loss of marine biodiversity impairing the ocean's capacity to maintain vital ecosystem services. A few organisms epitomize the ...
Genomic adaptations to cereal-based diets contribute to mitigate metabolic risk in some human populations of East Asian ancestry [0.03%]
谷物饮食适应基因组改变可降低部分东亚裔人群的代谢风险
Arianna Landini,Shaobo Yu,Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone et al.
Arianna Landini et al.
Adoption of diets based on some cereals, especially on rice, signified an iconic change in nutritional habits for many Asian populations and a relevant challenge for their capability to maintain glucose homeostasis. Indeed, rice shows the h...
Michael S Crossley,William E Snyder,Nate B Hardy
Michael S Crossley
Herbivorous insects must circumvent the chemical defenses of their host plants and, in cropping systems, must also circumvent synthetic insecticides. The pre-adaptation hypothesis posits that when herbivorous insects evolve resistance to in...
Incomplete bioinformatic filtering and inadequate age and growth analysis lead to an incorrect inference of harvested-induced changes [0.03%]
生物信息学过滤不完整及年龄和生长分析不足易导致关于人类活动引起鱼类表型变化的错误结论
Wesley A Larson,Daniel A Isermann,Zachary S Feiner
Wesley A Larson
Understanding the evolutionary impacts of harvest on fish populations is important for informing fisheries management and conservation and has become a growing research topic over the last decade. However, the dynamics of fish populations a...
Péter Apari,Gábor Földvári
Péter Apari
The existence of tick toxins is an old enigma that has intrigued scientists for a long time. The adaptive value of using deadly toxins for predatory animals is obvious: they try to kill the prey in the most effective way or protect themselv...
Simone Des Roches,Kristien I Brans,Max R Lambert et al.
Simone Des Roches et al.
Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between nature and human society. Characteristics of human society-including culture, economics, technology and politics-underlie social patterns and activity, crea...
Natural history collections are critical resources for contemporary and future studies of urban evolution [0.03%]
自然历史收藏品是城市进化研究的关键资料
Allison J Shultz,Benjamin J Adams,Kayce C Bell et al.
Allison J Shultz et al.
Urban environments are among the fastest changing habitats on the planet, and this change has evolutionary implications for the organisms inhabiting them. Herein, we demonstrate that natural history collections are critical resources for ur...
S Elizabeth Alter,Laraib Tariq,James Keanu Creed et al.
S Elizabeth Alter et al.
Many of the world's major cities are located in coastal zones, resulting in urban and industrial impacts on adjacent marine ecosystems. These pressures, which include pollutants, sewage, runoff and debris, temperature increases, hardened sh...
Using genetic relatedness to understand heterogeneous distributions of urban rat-associated pathogens [0.03%]
利用遗传相关性了解城市鼠类关联病原体的异质分布
Kaylee A Byers,Tom R Booker,Matthew Combs et al.
Kaylee A Byers et al.
Urban Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) carry several pathogens transmissible to people. However, pathogen prevalence can vary across fine spatial scales (i.e., by city block). Using a population genomics approach, we sought to describe rat m...
Christopher J Schell,Lauren A Stanton,Julie K Young et al.
Christopher J Schell et al.
Human-wildlife interactions, including human-wildlife conflict, are increasingly common as expanding urbanization worldwide creates more opportunities for people to encounter wildlife. Wildlife-vehicle collisions, zoonotic disease transmiss...