Noninvasive population genetics: a review of sample source, diet, fragment length and microsatellite motif effects on amplification success and genoty** error rates

T Broquet, N Ménard, E Petit - Conservation Genetics, 2007 - Springer
Noninvasive population genetics has found many applications in ecology and conservation
biology. However, the technical difficulties inherent to the analysis of low quantities of DNA …

Controlling for non-independence in comparative analysis of patterns across populations within species

GN Stone, S Nee, J Felsenstein - … Transactions of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How do we quantify patterns (such as responses to local selection) sampled across multiple
populations within a single species? Key to this question is the extent to which populations …

Phage defence by deaminase-mediated depletion of deoxynucleotides in bacteria

BY Hsueh, GB Severin, CA Elg, EJ Waldron… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Vibrio cholerae biotype El Tor is perpetuating the longest cholera pandemic in
recorded history. The genomic islands VSP-1 and VSP-2 distinguish El Tor from previous …

Earl Grey: a fully automated user-friendly transposable element annotation and analysis pipeline

T Baril, J Galbraith, A Hayward - Molecular Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of eukaryotic genomes and are
implicated in a range of evolutionary processes. Yet, TE annotation and characterization …

[BOG][B] A handbook of statistical analyses using R

T Hothorn, BS Everitt - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
A Proven Guide for Easily Using R to Effectively Analyze DataLike its bestselling
predecessor, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R, Second Edition provides a guide …

Comparison of the Mantel test and alternative approaches for detecting complex multivariate relationships in the spatial analysis of genetic data

P Legendre, MJ FORTIN - Molecular ecology resources, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Mantel test is widely used to test the linear or monotonic independence of the elements
in two distance matrices. It is one of the few appropriate tests when the hypothesis under …

Sex differences in ageing in natural populations of vertebrates

TH Clutton-Brock, K Isvaran - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In many long-lived vertebrates (including humans), adult males have shorter lifespans than
adult females, partly as a result of higher annual rates of mortality in males and partly owing …

Domestication impacts on plant–herbivore interactions: a meta-analysis

SR Whitehead, MM Turcotte… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
For millennia, humans have imposed strong selection on domesticated crops, resulting in
drastically altered crop phenotypes compared with wild ancestors. Crop yields have …

Coevolutionary arms race versus host defense chase in a tropical herbivore–plant system

MJ Endara, PD Coley, G Ghabash… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Coevolutionary models suggest that herbivores drive diversification and community
composition in plants. For herbivores, many questions remain regarding how plant defenses …

The island rule: made to be broken?

S Meiri, N Cooper, A Purvis - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The island rule is a hypothesis whereby small mammals evolve larger size on islands while
large insular mammals dwarf. The rule is believed to emanate from small mammals growing …