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Decreasing species richness and positive Rapoport effects of Crambidae (Lepidoptera) on Mount Taibai

The vertical gradient pattern of species richness has been studied intensively over the past decades. Among these, Rapoport's rule is one of the important hypotheses of the patterns of species richness and macroecology, asserting the latitude or altitude distributional width of animal and plant species gradually narrows from a high latitude or high altitude area to low latitude or low altitude areas. However, altitudinal distributions and Rapoport's rule have rarely been tested for Asian Lepidopterans. Pyraustinae and Spilomelinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) are widely distributed across the world's major geographic realms and some species pose serious economic problems. These crambids as model organisms are extremely diverse in temperate Asia including in Mount Taibai where is considered as an ideal area for studying the vertical distribution patterns of insect species and verifying the universality of Rapoport's rule from the perspective of spatial scale. Based on the investigation of altitudinal distribution data with identification by using both DNA barcoding and traditional classification of Pyraustinae and Spilomelinae, this paper determines the altitudinal gradient pattern for these two subfamilies on the north slope of Mount Taibai, and provides a test of the universality of Rapoport's rule in Lepidoptera by using four methods, including Stevens's method, Pagel's method, Rohde's method, and the cross-species method. Our results show that the abundance and α-diversity of Pyraustinae and Spilomelinae both decrease with rising altitude. By contrast, the species distribution ranges increase with rising altitude. Three of the four methods used to test Rapoport's rule yield positive results, while Rohde's results show a unimodal distribution model and do not support Rapoport's rule. This may be due to the Mid-Domain effect.

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Positive effects of e-learning tools in problem-based medical courses

Data, generated or analysed during the study “Positive effects of e-learning tools in problem-based medical courses” at the University Witten/Herdecke, Germany

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Restoring function: positive responses of carbon and nitrogen to 20 years of hydrologic restoration in montane meadows

Montane meadows are highly productive ecosystems that contain high densities of soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N). However, anthropogenic disturbances that lead to channel incision and disconnected floodplain hydrology have altered the C balance of many meadows, converting them from net C sinks to net sources of C to the atmosphere. Restoration efforts designed to reconnect floodplain hydrology may slow rates of soil C loss from degraded meadows and restore conditions for C sequestration and N immobilization, yet questions remain about the long-term impact of such efforts. Here, we used a 22-year meadow restoration chronosequence to measure the decadal impact of hydrologic restoration on above- and belowground C and N stocks and concentrations. Increases in herbaceous vegetation biomass preceded changes in soil C stocks, with the largest gains occurring belowground. Root biomass (0-15 cm) increased at a rate of 270.3 g m-2 y-1 and soil C stocks (0-15 cm) increased by 232.9 g C m-2 y-1 across the chronosequence. Increases in soil C concentration (2.99 g C kg-1 y-1) were tightly coupled with increases in soil N concentration (0.21 g N kg-1 y-1) and soil C:N did not vary with time since restoration. Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy results show that the fraction of labile aliphatic C-H and carboxylate C-O (COO) compounds in the soil increased with age of restoration and were positively correlated with soil C and N concentration. Our results demonstrate that restoration of floodplain hydrology in montane meadows has significant impacts on belowground C and N stocks, soil C and N concentration, and soil C chemistry within the first two decades following restoration.

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New paleomagnetic insights into the Neoproterozoic connection between South China and India and their position in Rodinia

These documents are supplementary tables for a manuscript submitted to Geophysical Research Letters entitled "New paleomagnetic insights into the Neoproterozoic connection between South China and India and their position in Rodinia" by Chang et al.

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Data from: Do positive interactions between marine invaders increase likelihood of invasion into natural and artificial habitats?

Positive species interactions such as facilitation are important for enabling species to persist, especially in stressful conditions, and the nature and strength of facilitation varies along physical and biological gradients. Expansion of coastal infrastructure is creating hotspots of invasive species which can spillover into natural habitats, but the role of positive species interactions associated with biological invasions remains understudied. Theory suggests that stronger biotic pressure in natural habitats inhibits invasion success. In space-limited marine systems, sessile organisms can overcome this limiting resource by settling as an epibiont on a substrate organism - basibiont. Using a series of spatially extensive surveys, we explored the role of invasive and native basibionts in providing habitat for other invasive and native epibionts, and tested whether environmental context (i.e. if the receiving habitat was natural or artificial), altered ecological outcomes. Overall, provision of space by basibionts was more important for invasive epibionts than for native epibionts but was dependent on the environmental context. Invasive basibionts facilitated invasive epibionts in natural habitats, and appeared to be more important for native epibionts in artificial habitats respectively. Native basibionts facilitated invasive, but not native epibionts in both natural and artificial habitats. These results advance our understanding of facilitation and highlight the idiosyncratic nature of biofouling and epibiosis, and the potentially important influence of environmental context. The degree to which native habitat-forming species vs. invasive habitat-forming species either do or do not facilitate other native or non-native species is a rich area for investigation. Experimental work is required to disentangle the processes underpinning these patterns.

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New taxonomic position and neotype designation for the conoidean gastropod Pleurotoma patagonica d'Orbigny, 1841

Neotype specimen (MACN-In43983) collected alive at Las Grutas, San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro Province, Argentina, in 8 m depth.

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Indoor Positioning Simulation For Examination And Correction Of Occupancy Limits In Architectural Design

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FIGURE. Entoloma argus: a. basidiospores; b, c. basidia; d. cheilocystidia (a, b, d, from LE F-312694, holotype; c, from LE F-315915). Scale bars 10 μm. Drawings by O. Morozova. in Four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) subgenera Cyanula and Claudopus from Vietnam and their phylogenetic position

FIGURE. Entoloma argus: a. basidiospores; b, c. basidia; d. cheilocystidia (a, b, d, from LE F-312694, holotype; c, from LE F-315915). Scale bars 10 μm. Drawings by O. Morozova.

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FIGURE 0. Entoloma daphnis: a. basidiospores; b. basidium (all from LE F-262915, holotype). Scale 10 μm. Drawings by O. Morozova.

FIGURE. Entoloma daphnis: a–b. basidiocarps, c. basidiospores; d. pileipellis (all from LE F-262915, holotype). Scale bars a–b 1 cm, c–d 10 μm. Photos a–b by A. Kovalenko, c–d by O. Morozova. in Four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) subgenera Cyanula and Claudopus from Vietnam and their phylogenetic position

FIGURE. Entoloma daphnis: a–b. basidiocarps, c. basidiospores; d. pileipellis (all from LE F-262915, holotype). Scale bars a–b 1 cm, c–d 10 μm. Photos a–b by A. Kovalenko, c–d by O. Morozova.

FIGURE. Entoloma icarus: a. basidiospores; b. basidium; c. cheilocystidia (all from LE F-312696, holotype). Scale bars 10 μm. Drawings by O. Morozova. in Four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) subgenera Cyanula and Claudopus from Vietnam and their phylogenetic position

FIGURE. Entoloma icarus: a. basidiospores; b. basidium; c. cheilocystidia (all from LE F-312696, holotype). Scale bars 10 μm. Drawings by O. Morozova.

FIGURE. Phylogenetic tree derived from Bayesian analysis, based on nrLSU data. Posterior probability (PP> 0.95) values from the Bayesian analysis are added at the nodes. The scale bar represents the number of nucleotide changes per site. (T) indicates the type specimen for this species. The new species are in bold. in Four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) subgenera Cyanula and Claudopus from Vietnam and their phylogenetic position

FIGURE. Phylogenetic tree derived from Bayesian analysis, based on nrLSU data. Posterior probability (PP> 0.95) values from the Bayesian analysis are added at the nodes. The scale bar represents the number of nucleotide changes per site. (T) indicates the type specimen for this species. The new species are in bold.

FIGURE. Entoloma argus: a–c. basidiocarps; d. basidiospores; e. cheilocystidia; f. pileipellis (a, d–f, from LE F-312694, holotype; b–c, from LE F-315915). Scale bars a–c 1 cm, d–f 10 μm. Photos by O. Morozova. in Four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) subgenera Cyanula and Claudopus from Vietnam and their phylogenetic position

FIGURE. Entoloma argus: a–c. basidiocarps; d. basidiospores; e. cheilocystidia; f. pileipellis (a, d–f, from LE F-312694, holotype; b–c, from LE F-315915). Scale bars a–c 1 cm, d–f 10 μm. Photos by O. Morozova.

FIGURE. Entoloma arion: a–c. basidiocarps; d. cheilocystidia; e. basidiospores; f. pileipellis; g. caulocystidia (all from LE F-312691, holotype). Scale bars a–c 1 cm, d–g 10 μm. Photos by O. Morozova. in Four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) subgenera Cyanula and Claudopus from Vietnam and their phylogenetic position

FIGURE. Entoloma arion: a–c. basidiocarps; d. cheilocystidia; e. basidiospores; f. pileipellis; g. caulocystidia (all from LE F-312691, holotype). Scale bars a–c 1 cm, d–g 10 μm. Photos by O. Morozova.

FIGURE. Entoloma icarus: a–c. basidiocarps; d. basidiospores; e. cheilocystidia; f. pileipellis (all from LE F-312696, holotype). Scale bars a–c 1 cm, d–f 10 μm. Photos a by E. Popov, b–f by O. Morozova. in Four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) subgenera Cyanula and Claudopus from Vietnam and their phylogenetic position

FIGURE. Entoloma icarus: a–c. basidiocarps; d. basidiospores; e. cheilocystidia; f. pileipellis (all from LE F-312696, holotype). Scale bars a–c 1 cm, d–f 10 μm. Photos a by E. Popov, b–f by O. Morozova.

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Distribution. Known only from the type locality, the exact position of which is unknown because Salta is a large province in N Argentina. in Cricetidae

Distribution. Known only from the type locality, the exact position of which is unknown because Salta is a large province in N Argentina.

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''Eight-year efficacy update of the HOBOE randomized phase 3 trial in premenopausal patients with hormone-receptor positive early breast cancer comparing triptorelin plus either Tamoxifen or Letrozole or Zoledronic acid + Letrozole'' - dataset

Dataset for analysis of the manuscript ''Eight-year efficacy update of the HOBOE randomized phase 3 trial in premenopausal patients with hormone-receptor positive early breast cancer comparing triptorelin plus either Tamoxifen or Letrozole or Zoledronic acid + Letrozole''

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Data from: Space and rank: infants expect agents in higher position to be socially dominant

Social hierarchies exist throughout the animal kingdom, including among humans. Our daily interactions inevitably reflect social dominance relationships between individuals. How do we mentally represent such concepts? Studies show that social dominance is represented as vertical space (i.e., high=dominant) by adults and preschool children, suggesting a space-dominance representational link in social cognition. However, little is known about its early development. Here, we present experimental evidence that 12- to 16-month-old infants expect agents presented in a higher spatial position to be more socially dominant than agents in a lower spatial position. After infants repeatedly watched the higher and lower agents being presented simultaneously, they looked longer at the screen when the lower agent subsequently outcompeted the higher agent in securing a reward object, suggesting that this outcome violated their higher-is-dominant expectation. We first manipulated agents' positions by presenting them on a podium (Experiment 1). Then we presented the agents on a double-decker stand to make their spatial positions directly above or below each other (Experiment 2), and we replicated the results (Experiment 3). This research demonstrates that infants expect spatially higher-positioned agents to be socially dominant, suggesting deep roots of the space-dominance link in ontogeny.

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Data from: Type 1 interferon-inducible gene expression in QuantiFERON Gold TB-positive uveitis: a tool to stratify a high versus low risk of active tuberculosis?

QuantiFERON-Gold TB (QFT)-positive patients with undetermined cause of uveitis are problematic in terms of whether to diagnose and treat them for tuberculosis (TB). Here, we investigated whether peripheral blood expression of type 1 interferon (IFN)-inducible genes may be of use to stratify QFT-positive patients with uveitis into groups of high versus low risk of having active TB-associated uveitis. We recruited all new uveitis patients in Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia for one year. We included 12 patients with uveitis and clinically diagnosed active pulmonary TB, 58 QFT-positive patients with uveitis of unknown cause, 10 newly diagnosed sputum-positive active pulmonary TB patients without uveitis and 23 QFT-negative healthy controls. Expression of 35 type 1 IFN-inducible genes was measured in peripheral blood cells from active pulmonary TB patients without uveitis and healthy controls. Differentially expressed genes were identified and used for further clustering analyses of the uveitis groups. A type-1 IFN gene signature score was calculated and the optimal cut-off value for this score to differentiate active pulmonary TB from healthy controls was determined and applied to QFT-positive patients with uveitis of unknown cause. Ten type 1 IFN-inducible genes were differentially expressed between active pulmonary TB and healthy controls. Expression of these 10 genes in QFT-positive patients with uveitis of unknown cause revealed three groups: 1); patients resembling active pulmonary TB, 2); patients resembling healthy controls, and 3); patients displaying an in-between gene expression pattern. A type 1 IFN gene signature score ≥5.61 displayed high sensitivity (100%) and specificity (91%) for identification of active TB. Application of this score to QFT-positive patients with uveitis of unknown cause yielded two groups with expected different likelihood (high vs. low) of having active-TB uveitis, and therefore may be useful in clinical management decisions.