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Behavioral Sciences
Clare M. Kimock, Lauren J. N. Brent, Constance Dubuc, James P. Higham
Summary: The study found that canine height and body mass in rhesus macaques are not related to dominance rank, but similarity in dominance rank affects the occurrence of aggressive interactions. Additionally, dominance rank predicts the likelihood of winning an agonistic interaction.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Omid Ekrami, Peter Claes, Ellen Van Assche, Mark D. Shriver, Seth M. Weinberg, Mary L. Marazita, Susan Walsh, Stefan Van Dongen
Summary: The study found no correlation between fluctuating asymmetry and masculinity in men, but a weak but significant correlation was found between fluctuating asymmetry and femininity in women. This suggests a possible link between genetic quality, asymmetry, and femininity, but further research is needed to explore this relationship.
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Matthew Ridenour, Leon J. Spicer, Jennifer L. Grindstaff
Summary: In altricial animals, the ability to outcompete siblings for parental provisioning has clear fitness benefits, and this may be influenced by hormones such as insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). In a study on eastern bluebirds, the effects of IGF-1 on body size, growth, and sibling rivalry were analyzed. The results suggest that IGF-1 can influence the growth of bluebird nestlings.
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Magda L. Dumitru
Summary: Brain asymmetry is important for higher-level cognition, but it is unclear how it differs in males and females. The current method of using the laterality index may not accurately evaluate the asymmetry differences between genders. This study used the distance index to investigate sexual dimorphism in brain asymmetry and found that it was the most successful biomarker. The findings suggest that the asymmetry in males and females involves global coherence rather than pairwise differences.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
P. A. Olivero, M. A. Oviedo-Diego, D. E. Vrech, C. I. Mattoni, A. V. Peretti
Summary: Urbanization leads to habitat loss and significant changes in environmental conditions, impacting individual behavior, morphology, and physiology in natural populations. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) levels can serve as a bioindicator for environmental quality. Scorpions show different responses in somatic and genital traits to urbanization, with somatic traits exhibiting increased FA levels while genital traits remain stable in females. This research highlights scorpions as a potential indicator group for studying the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on natural ecosystems.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Amanda Savagian, Christina Riehl
Summary: In social groups, receiving assistance from other caregivers can help parents conserve energy and raise more offspring. However, the costs of caring for extra young in a shared brood may exceed the benefits when additional caregivers also produce offspring. Our study on greater anis, a communally breeding bird, found that larger broods of offspring experience increased competition that significantly affects resource allocation, despite the presence of additional caregivers. These findings suggest that the costs of intrabrood competition in large broods may outweigh the benefits of provisioning from additional caregivers. Rating: 7/10.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Stephen P. De Lisle, Sebastian J. Schrieber, Daniel Bolnick
Summary: Sexual dimorphism can have significant implications for the coexistence, abundance, and dynamics of consumer and resource species, particularly when there are sex differences in attack rates and resource acquisition by the consumer.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Jaime M. Anaya-Rojas, Ronald D. Bassar, Tomos Potter, Allison Blanchette, Shay Callahan, Nick Framstead, David Reznick, Joseph Travis
Summary: Theory suggests that competing species can coexist in a community when intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition. This study found that the evolution of species- and size-dependent competitive asymmetries increased the likelihood of coexistence between interacting species. Furthermore, the research highlights the importance of integrating evolution and trait-based interactions into studies on species coexistence.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Trey C. Hendrix, Christina Riehl
Summary: The repayment hypothesis for offspring sex allocation predicts that breeders in cooperatively breeding groups should overproduce the helping sex. In addition, sex allocation is predicted to vary across hatching order to maximize brood survival. However, a study on greater anis found that these predictions do not hold true.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Graham Albert, Erika Wells, Steven Arnocky, Chang Hong Liu, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon
Summary: Research has shown that faces manipulated to appear more masculine are perceived as more dominant. Men rated masculinized faces as more dominant even after a brief exposure, indicating an ability to distinguish facial sexual dimorphism. However, recognition memory did not differ between masculinized and feminized faces, potentially due to a floor effect.
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Ornithology
Nahuel Marchisio, Melina Barrionuevo, Esteban Frere
Summary: The study found that hatching asynchrony had a negative effect on last-hatched chicks, but this disadvantage was mitigated by egg size dimorphism in their favor. Additionally, females in good condition invest more in second chicks, and foster fathers also invest more, leading to offspring fledging in good condition. On the contrary, for the first-hatched chicks, the body condition of the biological father was found to be an important factor for their growth.
JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Chengyang Han, Christopher D. Watkins, Yu Nan, Jianxin Ou, Xue Lei, Xiangqian Li, Yin Wu
Summary: This study found that exogenous testosterone decreases men's sensitivity to vocal cues of other men's dominance, supporting the Challenge Hypothesis and suggesting that fluctuations in testosterone concentration may mediate individual behaviors.
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Nafeesa Nazlee, Gordon D. Waiter, Anca-Larisa Sandu
Summary: This study analyzed the changes in cortical morphology and complexity with age and sex differences using data from the UK Biobank imaging cohort. The results showed significant age-related and sex-related differences in cortical complexity, with males being more affected by age. Additionally, patterns of asymmetry were observed between hemispheres, lobes, and sexes. The findings provide valuable insights into the understanding of age-related sex and asymmetry differences in the brain.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Austin Stone, Jordan Ryan, Xun Tang, Xiao-Jun Tian
Summary: The effects of host resource limitations on synthetic gene circuits and the importance of resource control strategies are investigated in this study. The analysis is extended to the incoherent feedforward loop (iFFL) topology and it is found that iFFL controllers can attenuate resource competition. A unique coupling effect named coactivation threshold shift effect is observed in iFFL controllers.
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Melissa Van Kleeck-Hann, John J. Wiens
Summary: The study analyzes weapon evolution in chamaeleonid lizards, finding that all 11 weapons have evolved multiple times and that their origins are generally more frequent than losses. The study also identifies hotspots for weapon evolution associated with larger male body size.
Article
Ornithology
Simone Pirrello, Andrea Pilastro, Diego Rubolini, Jacopo G. Cecere, Andrea Romano, Alessandro Andreotti, Stefano Volponi, Nicola Saino, Matteo Griggio, Lorenzo Serra
JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Andrea Romano, Barbara De Giorgio, Marco Parolini, Chiara Favero, Cristina Daniela Possenti, Simona Iodice, Manuela Caprioli, Diego Rubolini, Roberto Ambrosini, Luca Gianfranceschi, Nicola Saino, Valentina Bollati
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2017)
Article
Physiology
Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Shanna Ostermiller, De Anna E. Beasley, Shane M. Welch, Anders P. Moller, Timothy A. Mousseau
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Biology
Giulio Formenti, Matteo Chiara, Lucy Poveda, Kees-Jan Francoijs, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Luca Canova, Luca Gianfranceschi, David Stephen Horner, Nicola Saino
Article
Environmental Sciences
A. Bonisoli-Alquati, W. Xu, P. C. Stouffer, S. S. Taylor
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Article
Biology
Carmel E. Mothersill, Deborah H. Oughton, Paul N. Schofield, Michael Abend, Christelle Adam-Guillermin, Kentaro Ariyoshi, Nicholas A. Beresford, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Jason Cohen, Yuri Dubrova, Stanislav A. Geras'kin, Tanya Helena Hevroy, Kathryn A. Higley, Nele Horemans, Awadhesh N. Jha, Lawrence A. Kapustka, Juliann G. Kiang, Balazs G. Madas, Gibin Powathil, Elena Sarapultseva, Colin B. Seymour, Nguyen T. K. Vo, Michael D. Wood
Summary: This paper presents the outcomes of discussions on the importance of an ecosystem approach in radioecology and radiation protection of the environment, which took place at an international conference. The interaction between radioecologists and radiobiologists is vital for addressing the challenges of field versus laboratory research and the integration of a pan-ecosystem approach into radiation protection guidelines. The application of novel tools such as machine learning can aid in the development of this ecosystem approach.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Olin E. Rhodes, Francois Brechignac, Clare Bradshaw, Thomas G. Hinton, Carmel Mothersill, John A. Arnone, Doug P. Aubrey, Lawrence W. Barnthouse, James C. Beasley, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Lindsay R. Boring, Albert L. Bryan, Krista A. Capps, Bernard Clement, Austin Coleman, Caitlin Condon, Fanny Coutelot, Timothy DeVol, Guha Dharmarajan, Dean Fletcher, Wes Flynn, Garth Gladfelder, Travis C. Glenn, Susan Hendricks, Ken Ishida, Tim Jannik, Larry Kapustka, Ulrik Kautsky, Robert Kennamer, Wendy Kuhne, Stacey Lance, Gennadiy Laptyev, Cara Love, Lisa Manglass, Nicole Martinez, Teresa Mathews, Arthur McKee, William McShea, Steve Mihok, Gary Mills, Ben Parrott, Brian Powell, Evgeny Pryakhin, Ann Rypstra, David Scott, John Seaman, Colin Seymour, Maryna Shkvyria, Amelia Ward, David White, Michael D. Wood, Jess K. Zimmerman
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sydney Moyo, Hayat Bennadji, Danielle Laguaite, Anna A. Perez-Umphrey, Allison M. Snider, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Jill A. Olin, Philip C. Stouffer, Sabrina S. Taylor, Paola C. Lopez-Duarte, Brian J. Roberts, Linda Hooper-Bui, Michael J. Polito
Summary: The trophic niches of seaside sparrows and marsh rice rats in saltmarsh ecosystems were quantified using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis, showing that their trophic niche widths varied based on the oiling history of the sites. Seaside sparrows had wider trophic niches than marsh rice rats at unoiled sites, but not at oiled sites. The results suggest that past oiling histories may have subtle, yet differing effects on the foraging ecology of these two co-occurring species.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Megan E. Hart, Anna Perez-Umphrey, Philip C. Stouffer, Christine Bergeon Burns, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Sabrina S. Taylor, Stefan Woltmann
Summary: Monitoring of Seaside Sparrow nesting biology revealed no definitive effect of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on nest survival, with predation being the main cause of nest failure during the study period. Additional research is needed to fully understand the demographic and ecological impacts of various factors on Seaside Sparrows and their predators.
Article
Ecology
Anna A. Perez-Umphrey, Colleen B. Jonsson, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Allison M. Snider, Philip C. Stouffer, Sabrina S. Taylor
Summary: This study investigates how a large-scale ecological disturbance, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, can influence the hantavirus host-pathogen dynamic in the United States. The research findings suggest that habitat is a main driver of hantavirus prevalence in the host and that future disturbances in the region will likely impact the host-pathogen dynamic.
Editorial Material
Ecology
Giulio Formenti, Kathrin Theissinger, Carlos Fernandes, Iliana Bista, Aureliano Bombarely, Christoph Bleidorn, Claudio Ciofi, Angelica Crottini, Jose A. Godoy, Jacob Hoglund, Joanna Malukiewicz, Alice Mouton, Rebekah A. Oomen, Sadye Paez, Per J. Palsboll, Christophe Pampoulie, Maria J. Ruiz-Lopez, Hannes Svardal, Constantina Theofanopoulou, Jan de Vries, Ann-Marie Waldvogel, Guojie Zhang, Camila J. Mazzoni, Erich D. Jarvis, Miklos Balint
Summary: Progress in genome sequencing has enabled the generation of large-scale reference genomes, representing global biodiversity. These genomes provide unique insights into genomic diversity and architecture, allowing comprehensive analyses in population and functional genomics, and are expected to revolutionize conservation genomics.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Allison M. M. Snider, Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Anna A. A. Perez-Umphrey, Stefan Woltmann, Philip C. Stouffer, Sabrina S. S. Taylor
Summary: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster and Hurricane Isaac two years later had impacts on the coastal saltmarsh ecosystem, affecting the food sources and individual specialization of Seaside Sparrows. The study found that Hurricane Isaac had a greater impact on the prey richness and diversity of Seaside Sparrows, while resource use was most stable on unoiled sites.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Biology
Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, Anders P. Moller, Geir Rudolfsen, Timothy A. Mousseau
Summary: Birds are valuable indicators of environmental change and have been extensively studied in the context of radioactive contamination. This paper reviews the literature on the effects of ionizing radiation on birds, focusing on the biological organization levels analyzed and the consequences at the population and community levels. Future research should explore the development of biomarkers to improve retrospective dosimetry sensitivity and detection of low-dose effects.
BIOMARKERS OF RADIATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT: ROBUST TOOLS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Graziano Colombo, Francesco Reggiani, David Cucchiari, Nicola M. Portinaro, Daniela Giustarini, Ranieri Rossi, Maria Lisa Garavaglia, Nicola Saino, Aldo Milzani, Salvatore Badalamenti, Isabella Dalle-Donne
Meeting Abstract
Zoology
A. M. Golden, A. Bonisoli-Alquati, T. Mousseau, Alexan Golden
INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
(2017)
