Dietary specialization between insect stages can reduce intraspecific food competition. The
involvement of gut bacteria and the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon received …

Genetic and environmental factors shape host susceptibility to infection, but how and how
rapidly environmental variation might alter the susceptibility of mammalian genotypes …

Most organisms experience variable and sometimes suboptimal environments in their
lifetime. While stressful environmental conditions are normally viewed as a strong selective …

Differences in hatching dates can shape intraspecific interactions through size-mediated
priority effects (SMPE), a phenomenon where bigger, early hatched individuals gain …

It is becoming increasingly evident that the myriad of microbes in the gut, within cells and
attached to body parts (or roots of plants), play crucial roles for the host. Although this has …

One solution to alleviate the detrimental genetic effects associated with reductions in
population size and fragmentation is to introduce immigrants from other populations. While …

Parapoynx crisonalis (Walker, 1859)(Lepidoptera: Crambidae) is a major pest of aquatic
vegetables and aquatic landscape plants. It has been responsible for causing considerable …

Interspecific interactions are key drivers of individual and population-level fitness in a wide
range of animals. However, in marine ecosystems, it is relatively unknown which biotic and …

Variation of ecophysiological traits may help to explain geographic distribution patterns of
Drosophila sibling species. Many traits in ectotherms have optimal performance within …

Species dispersal from one territorial zone to another is a complex process. The reasons for
species dispersal are determined by both natural and human factors. The purpose of this …