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Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory (2009)
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Vieites, D. R., Wollenberg, K. C., Andreone, F., Köhler, J., Glaw, F., & Vences, M. (2009). Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(20), 8267-8272. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0810821106

Amphibians are in decline worldwide. However, their patterns of diversity, especially in the tropics, are not well understood, mainly because of incomplete information on taxonomy and distribution. We assess morphological, bioacoustic, and genetic va... Read More about Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory.

Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control (2009)
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Humphries, S. (2009). Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(19), 7882-7887. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809063106

Collisions between particles or between particles and other objects are fundamental to many processes that we take for granted. They drive the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, the onset of rain and snow precipitation, and the manufacture of pharmac... Read More about Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control.

Maintenance of dominance is mediated by urinary chemical signals in male European lobsters, Homarus gammarus (2009)
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Skog, M., Chandrapavan, A., Hallberg, E., & Breithaupt, T. (2009). Maintenance of dominance is mediated by urinary chemical signals in male European lobsters, Homarus gammarus. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 42(2), 119-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/10236240902833729

We studied the relevance of urine cues in Homarus gammarus dominance maintenance, hypothesising that urinary signals are necessary to mediate recognition of former opponents. Males in size-matched pairs interacted on two consecutive days with or with... Read More about Maintenance of dominance is mediated by urinary chemical signals in male European lobsters, Homarus gammarus.

Reply to Triant D and DeWoody J: Integrating numt pseudogenes into mitochondrial phylogenies: comment on Mitochondrial phylogeny of Arvicolinae using comprehensive taxonomic sampling yields new insights (2009)
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Buzan, E. V., Krystufek, B., Hänfling, B., & Hutchinson, W. F. (2009). Reply to Triant D and DeWoody J: Integrating numt pseudogenes into mitochondrial phylogenies: comment on Mitochondrial phylogeny of Arvicolinae using comprehensive taxonomic sampling yields new insights. Biological journal of the Linnean Society, 97(1), 225-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01232.x

Genetic diversity and population structure of the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis in its native range (2009)
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Sui, L., Zhang, F., Wang, X., Bossier, P., Sorgeloos, P., & Hänfling, B. (2009). Genetic diversity and population structure of the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis in its native range. Marine Biology, 156(8), 1573-1583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-009-1193-2

The Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis is an indigenous and economically important species in China, but can also be found as invasive species in Europe and America. Mitten crabs have been exploited extensively as a food resource since the 1990s.... Read More about Genetic diversity and population structure of the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis in its native range.

Why colour in subterranean vertebrates? Exploring the evolution of colour patterns in caecilian amphibians (2009)
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Wollenberg, K. C., & John Measey, G. (2009). Why colour in subterranean vertebrates? Exploring the evolution of colour patterns in caecilian amphibians. Journal of evolutionary biology, 22(5), 1046-1056. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01717.x

The proximate functions of animal skin colour are difficult to assign as they can result from natural selection, sexual selection or neutral evolution under genetic drift. Most often colour patterns are thought to signal visual stimuli; so, their pre... Read More about Why colour in subterranean vertebrates? Exploring the evolution of colour patterns in caecilian amphibians.

Environmental flows from dams: the water framework directive (2009)
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Acreman, M., Aldrick, J., Binnie, C., Black, A., Cowx, I., Dawson, H., Dunbar, M., Extence, C., Hannaford, J., Harby, A., Holmes, N., Jarritt, N., Old, G., Peirson, G., Webb, J., & Wood, P. (2009). Environmental flows from dams: the water framework directive. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 162(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2009.162.1.13

The EU water framework directive (WFD) provides a template for sustainable water management across Europe. The WFD requires the development of procedures to ensure appropriate mitigation of anthropogenic impacts on river ecosystems resulting from wat... Read More about Environmental flows from dams: the water framework directive.

Solutions for PCR, cloning and sequencing errors in population genetic analysis (2009)
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Cummings, S. M., McMullan, M., Joyce, D. A., & van Oosterhout, C. (2010). Solutions for PCR, cloning and sequencing errors in population genetic analysis. Conservation genetics, 11(3), 1095-1097. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-009-9864-6

PCR and sequencing artefacts can seriously bias population genetic analyses, particularly of populations with low genetic variation such as endangered vertebrate populations. Here, we estimate the error rates, discuss their population genetics implic... Read More about Solutions for PCR, cloning and sequencing errors in population genetic analysis.

Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test (2009)
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Capellini, I., McNamara, P., Preston, B. T., Nunn, C. L., & Barton, R. A. (2009). Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test. PLoS ONE, 4(2), e4609. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004609

Sleep is a pervasive characteristic of mammalian species, yet its purpose remains obscure. It is often proposed that 'sleep is for the brain', a view that is supported by experimental studies showing that sleep improves cognitive processes such as me... Read More about Does sleep play a role in memory consolidation? A comparative test.

Linking functional molecular variation with environmental gradients: myosin gene diversity in a crustacean broadly distributed across variable thermal environments (2009)
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Rock, J., Magnay, J. L., Beech, S., El Haj, A. J., Goldspink, G., Lunt, D. H., & Whiteley, N. M. (2009). Linking functional molecular variation with environmental gradients: myosin gene diversity in a crustacean broadly distributed across variable thermal environments. Gene, 437(1-2), 60-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2009.02.008

To investigate the molecular basis of temperature adaptation in natural populations we used the candidate gene approach, targeting the myosin heavy chain (MyHC) gene. The functional effects of genetic variation in MyHC have been well characterised, a... Read More about Linking functional molecular variation with environmental gradients: myosin gene diversity in a crustacean broadly distributed across variable thermal environments.