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Data supporting "Stems Matter: Xylem Physiological Limits Are an Accessible and Critical Improvement to Models of Plant Gas Exchange in Deep Time"

<p>Model outputs from from&nbsp;<em>Paleo</em>-BGC and&nbsp;<em>Paleo</em>-BGC+. Code detailing data structure and allowing reproduction of analysis can be found at&nbsp;github.com/wjmatthaeus</p>

opencc-by-4.0May 2022View details →
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Data supporting: Invader at the edge - genomic origins and physiological differences of round gobies across a steep urban salinity gradient

<p>Species invasions are a global problem of increasing concern, especially in highly connected aquatic environments. Despite this, salinity conditions can pose physiological barriers to their spread and understanding them is important for management. In Scandinavia's largest cargo port, the invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), is established across a steep salinity gradient. We used 12 937 SNPs to identify the genetic origin and diversity of three sites along the salinity gradient and round goby from <span>western,</span> <span>central and </span>northern Baltic Sea, as well as north European rivers. Fish from two sites<span> from the extreme ends of the gradient</span> were also acclimated to freshwater and seawater, and tested for respiratory and osmoregulatory physiology. Fish from the high salinity environment in the outer port showed higher genetic diversity, and closer relatedness to the other regions, compared to fish from lower salinity upstream the river. Fish from the high salinity site also had higher maximum metabolic rate, fewer blood cells and lower blood Ca2+. Despite these genotypic and phenotypic differences, salinity acclimation affected fish from both sites in the same way: seawater increased the blood osmolality and Na+ levels, and freshwater increased the levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Our results show genotypic and phenotypic differences over short spatial scales across this steep salinity gradient. These patterns of the physiologically robust round goby are likely driven by multiple introductions into the high salinity site, and a process of sorting, likely based on behaviour or selection, along the gradient. Since this euryhaline fish risks spreading from this area, seascape genomics and phenotypic characterisation can inform management strategies even within an area as small as a coastal harbour inlet.</p>

opencc-zeroJun 2022View details →
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Tabular data of fast-scanning voltammetry and physiology experiments in LRRK2 KI mice

<p>The tabular data of fast-scanning cyclic voltammetry and physiology experiments from manuscript: &quot;R1441C and G2019S LRRK2 knockin mice have distinct striatal molecular, physiological, and behavioral alterations.&quot; by Xenias et al.&nbsp;</p>

opencc-by-4.0Oct 2022View details →
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Data from: Sex-specific effects of dietary restriction on physiological variables in Japanese quails

<p>Nutritional limitation is a common phenomenon in nature that leads to trade-offs among processes competing for limited resources. These trade-offs are mediated by changes in physiological traits such as growth factors and circulating lipids. However, studies addressing the sex-specific effect of nutritional deficiency on these physiological variables are limited in birds. We used dietary restriction to mimic the depletion of resources to various degrees and investigated sex-specific effects on circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and triglycerides in Japanese quails (<em>Coturnix japonica</em>) subjected to <em>ad libitum</em>, 20%, 30% or 40% restriction of their daily requirement, for two weeks. We also explored the association of both physiological variables with body mass and egg production. While dietary restriction showed no effects on circulating IGF-1, this hormone exhibited a marked sexual difference, with females having 64.7% higher IGF-1 levels than males. Dietary restriction significantly reduced plasma triglyceride levels in both sexes. Females showed more than six-fold higher triglyceride levels than males. Triglyceride levels were positively associated with body mass in females while showed not association in males. Overall, our findings revealed sex-specific expression of physiological variables under dietary restriction conditions, which coincide with body size.</p>

opencc-zeroMay 2024View details →
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Data for "The effect of drought on agronomic and plant physiological characteristics of cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) cultivars "

<p>Data for " The effect of drought on agronomic and plant physiological characteristics of cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) cultivars "</p> <p>Data include all raw data necessary for the analyses of the manuscript. &nbsp;These include data on climatic parameters the experiment design, the growth, the fresh and dry matter yield, the crude protein content, the water use and the water use efficiency.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Description of the data and file structure</p> <p>The data are divided into two sheets. &nbsp;The first contains data necessary for the analyses presented in the main text. &nbsp;The second includes data about temperature solar radiation and Vapor Pressure.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Jun 2024View details →
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Data from: Leaf morphological traits show greater responses to changes in climate than leaf physiological traits and gas exchange variables

<p>Adaptation to changing conditions is one of the strategies plants use to survive climate change. Here, we ask whether plants' leaf morphological and physiological traits/gas exchange variables have changed in response to recent, anthropogenic climate change. We grew seedlings from resurrected historic seeds from <em>ex-situ </em>seed banks and paired modern seeds in a common-garden experiment. Species pairs were collected from regions that had undergone differing levels of climate change using an emerging framework – Climate Contrast Resurrection Ecology, allowing us to hypothesise that regions with greater changes in climate (including temperature, precipitation, climate variability and climatic extremes) there would be greater trait responses in leaf morphology and physiology over time. Our found that in regions where there were greater changes in climate, there were greater changes in average leaf area, leaf margin complexity, leaf thickness and leaf intrinsic water use efficiency. Changes in leaf roundness, photosynthetic rate, stomatal density and the leaf economic strategy of our species were not correlated with changes in the climate. Our results show that leaves do have the ability to respond to changes in climate, however, there are greater inherited responses in morphological leaf traits than in physiological traits/variables, and greater responses to extreme measures of climate than gradual changes in climatic means. It is vital for accurate predictions of species' responses to impending climate change to ensure that future climate change ecology studies utilise knowledge about the difference in both leaf trait and gas exchange responses, and the climate variables that they respond to.</p>

opencc-zeroJun 2024View details →
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Data set for manuscript titled "Morphological, physiological and metabolic responses of diverse barley inbreds to dry down and moderate drought stress"

<p>The primary aim of the study was to understand the genotypic diversity on plant morphology, photosynthetic responses, metabolite shift and their relationship in diverse barley inbreds under dry down (DD) and moderate drought (MD) stress using 23 genetically diverse parental inbreds. The data were collected from over a period of 28 days after the start of stress treatment. The publised data set indcludes the emmeans of all the evaluated characters. Metabolite profiling was done in samples collected from 7 d and 12 d after the start of DD and MD stress.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Jun 2024View details →
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Data from: Age-related physiological dysregulation progresses slowly in semi-free-ranging chimpanzees

<p>Lifestyle has widespread effects on human health and aging. Prior results from chimpanzees, one of the closest evolutionary relatives of humans, indicate that these lifestyle effects may also be shared with other species, as semi-free-ranging chimpanzees fed a naturalistic diet show healthier values in several specific health biomarkers, compared with their sedentary, captive counterparts. Here, we examined how lifestyle factors associated with different environments affect rates of physiological aging in closely related chimpanzees (<em>Pan troglodytes</em>). We compared physiological dysregulation, an index of biological aging, in semi-free-ranging chimpanzees in an African sanctuary versus captive chimpanzees in US laboratories. If the rate of aging is accelerated by a high-calorie diet and sedentism, we predicted greater age-related dysregulation in the laboratory populations. Conversely, if the costs of a wild lifestyle accelerate aging, then semi-free-ranging chimpanzees at the sanctuary, whose environment better approximates the wild, should show greater age-related dysregulation. We further tested whether dysregulation differed based on sex or body system, as in humans. We found that semi-free-ranging chimpanzees showed lower overall dysregulation, as well as lower age-related change in dysregulation, than laboratory chimpanzees. Males experienced lower dysregulation in both contexts, and the two populations exhibited distinct aging patterns based on the body system. Our results support the conclusion that naturalistic living conditions result in healthier aging in chimpanzees. These data provide support for the proposal that lifestyle effects on human health and aging are conserved from deeper into our evolutionary history.</p>

opencc-zeroJul 2024View details →
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Data from: Sexual color ornamentation, microhabitat choice, and thermal physiology in the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis)

<p>Common wall lizards (<em>Podarcis muralis</em>) in Italy show a striking variation in body coloration across the landscape, with highly exaggerated black and green colors in hot and dry climates and brown and white colors in cool and wet climates. Males are more intensely colored than females, and previous work has suggested that the maintenance of variation in coloration across the landscape reflects climatic effects on the strength of male&ndash;male competition, and through this sexual selection. However climatic effects on the intensity of male&ndash;male competition would need to be exceptionally strong to fully explain the geographic patterns of color variation. Thus, additional processes may contribute to the maintenance of color variation. Here we test the hypothesis that selection for green and black ornamentation in the context of male&ndash;male competition is opposed by selection against ornamentation because the genes involved in the regulation of coloration have pleiotropic effects on thermal physiology, such that ornamentation is selected against in cool climates. Field observations revealed no association between body coloration and microhabitat use or field active body temperatures. Consistent with these field data, lizards at the extreme ends of the phenotypic distribution for body coloration did not show any differences in critical minimum temperature, preferred body temperature, temperature‐dependent metabolic rate, or evaporative water loss when tested in the laboratory. Combined, these results provide no evidence that genes that underlie sexual ornamentation are selected against in cool climate because of pleiotropic effects on thermal biology.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Jul 2024View details →
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Expression data of the flowering time genes in chickpea, extracted from Ridge et al. (2017). Plant Physiology 175, 802-815.

<p>This data is supplementary to the following paper:&nbsp;Gursky, V.V.,&nbsp;Kozlov, K.N.,&nbsp;Nuzhdin, S.V.,&nbsp;and Samsonova, M.G. (2018) Dynamical Modeling of the Core Gene Network Controlling Flowering Suggests Cumulative Activation from the&nbsp;<em>FLOWERING LOCUS T&nbsp;</em>Gene Homologs in Chickpea.&nbsp;<em>Frontiers in Genetics</em>.&nbsp;9:547. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00547</p> <p>The data was obtained by digitizing Figure 5 of the following paper:&nbsp;Ridge, S., Deokar, A., Lee, R., Daba, K., Macknight, R. C., Weller, J. L., and&nbsp;Tar&#39;an, B. (2017). The chickpea Early flowering 1 (Efl1) locus is an ortholog of arabidopsis ELF3.&nbsp;<em>Plant Physiology&nbsp;</em>175, 802-815. doi:10.1104/pp.17.00082</p> <p>The archive contains files (in csv format) with the expression data of each of the following ten&nbsp;genes: <em>FTa1</em>,&nbsp;<em>FTa2</em>,&nbsp;<em>FTa3</em>,&nbsp;<em>FTb</em>,&nbsp;<em>FTc</em>,&nbsp;<em>AP1</em>,&nbsp;<em>FD</em>,&nbsp;<em>TFL1a</em>,&nbsp;<em>TFL1c</em>, and&nbsp;<em>LFY</em>, for the cultivars CDC Frontier and&nbsp;ICCV 96029 and for two growth&nbsp;conditions (long day, LD, and short day, SD). Each file is named according to the following scheme: &lt;Gene name&gt;_&lt;Cultivar name&gt;_&lt;Growth conditions&gt;.csv. Each file contains values in the following three columns (separated by commas): time (in days after sowing), relative transcription level (%ACTIN), and standard error. In the case of the genes&nbsp;<em>AP1</em>,&nbsp;<em>FD</em>,&nbsp;<em>TFL1a</em>,&nbsp;<em>TFL1c</em>, and&nbsp;<em>LFY</em>, the standard error was assumed equal to the size of the points in the figure when the actual error range was smaller than that size (and, thus, not visible in the figure). In the case of the genes&nbsp;<em>FTa1</em>,&nbsp;<em>FTa2</em>,&nbsp;<em>FTa3</em>,&nbsp;<em>FTb</em>, and&nbsp;<em>FTc</em>, the standard error was recorded as 0 for such points&nbsp;(the&nbsp;error for these genes was not used in the study).</p> <p>The data was extracted with the help of&nbsp;the web-based tool <em>WebPlotDigitizer</em>&nbsp;(https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer).</p>

opencc-by-4.0Oct 2018View details →
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Data associated with the manuscript "Complex epistatic interactions between ELF3, PRR9, and PRR7 regulates the circadian clock and plant physiology"

<p>Datasets associated with the figures in the paper entilted: "<strong>Complex epistatic interactions between ELF3, PRR9, and PRR7 regulates the circadian clock and plant physiology"</strong></p>

opencc-by-4.0Nov 2023View details →
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Data from: Molecular physiology of chemical defenses in a poison frog

Poison frogs sequester small molecule lipophilic alkaloids from their diet of leaf litter arthropods for use as chemical defenses against predation. Although the dietary acquisition of chemical defenses in poison frogs is well-documented, the physiological mechanisms of alkaloid sequestration has not been investigated. Here, we used RNA sequencing and proteomics to determine how alkaloids impact mRNA or protein abundance in the Little Devil Frog (Oophaga sylvatica) and compared wild caught chemically defended frogs to laboratory frogs raised on an alkaloid-free diet. To understand how poison frogs move alkaloids from their diet to their skin granular glands, we focused on measuring gene expression in the intestines, skin, and liver. Across these tissues, we found many differentially expressed transcripts involved in small molecule transport and metabolism, as well as sodium channels and other ion pumps. We then used proteomic approaches to quantify plasma proteins, where we found several protein abundance differences between wild and laboratory frogs, including the amphibian neurotoxin binding protein saxiphilin. Finally, because many blood proteins are synthesized in the liver, we used thermal proteome profiling as an untargeted screen for soluble proteins that bind the alkaloid decahydroquinoline. Using this approach, we identified several candidate proteins that interact with this alkaloid, including saxiphilin. These transcript and protein abundance patterns suggest the presence of alkaloids influences frog physiology and that small molecule transport proteins may be involved in toxin bioaccumulation in dendrobatid poison frogs.

opencc-zeroDec 2018View details →
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Data from: Amelioration of ocean acidification and warming effects through physiological buffering of a macroalgae

<p>Concurrent anthropogenic global climate change and ocean acidification is expected to have a negative impact on calcifying marine organisms. While knowledge of biological responses of organisms to oceanic stress has emerged from single species experiments, these do not capture ecologically relevant scenarios where the potential for multi-organism physiological interactions is assessed. Marine algae provide an interesting case study, as their photosynthetic activity elevates pH in the surrounding microenvironment, potentially buffering more acidic conditions for associated epiphytes. We present findings that indicate increased tolerance of an important epiphytic foraminifera, <em>Marginopora vertebralis</em>, to the effects of increased temperature (±3 °C) and pCO<sub>2</sub> (~1000 µatm) when associated with its common algal host, <em>Laurencia intricata</em>. Specimens of <em>M. vertebralis </em>were incubated for 15 days in flow-through aquaria simulating current and end-of-century temperature and pH conditions. Physiological measures of growth (change in wet weight), calcification (measured change in total alkalinity in closed bottles), photochemical efficiency (<em>Fv/Fm</em>), total chlorophyll, photosynthesis (oxygen flux), and respiration, were determined. When incubated in isolation, <em>M. vertebralis </em>exhibited reduced growth in end-of-century projections of ocean acidification conditions, while calcification rates were lowest in the high-temperature, low-pH treatment. Interestingly, association with<em> L. intricata</em> ameliorated these stress effects with the growth and calcification rates of<em> M. vertebralis </em>being similar to those observed in ambient conditions. Total chlorophyll levels in <em>M. vertebralis</em> decreased when in association with <em>L. intricata</em>, while maximum photochemical efficiency increased in ambient conditions. Net production estimates remained similar between <em>M. vertebralis </em>in isolation and in association with <em>L. intricata</em>, although both production and respiration rates of<em> M. vertebralis</em> were significantly higher when associated with <em>L. intricata</em>. These results indicate that the association with <em>L. intricata</em> increases the resilience of <em>M. vertebralis</em> to stress, providing one of the first examples of physiological buffering by a marine alga that can ameliorate the negative effects of changing ocean conditions.</p>

opencc-zeroJul 2021View details →
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Data of cerebral and systemic physiological parameters while wearing face masks

<p>This repository contains two data sets and two R codes.</p> <p>- Fischer_et_al_Data_masks_group_average_time_plot.txt: contains the group average data over time of two groups wearing different face masks. The corresponding R code to create plots of the data over time is the file Fischer_et_al_Masks_plot_group_average_time.R</p> <p>- Fischer_et_al_Data_masks_lme_analysis.txt: contains average data for baseline (no mask) and average data of a period where a face mask was worn for each subject. Each subject was measured twice with two different mask types. The corresponding R code to analyze the data for the effect of wearing a mask on the different parameters can be done with the file&nbsp;Fischer_et_al_Masks_LME_analysis.R</p>

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Data and code from: Experimental evolution of environmental tolerance, acclimation, and physiological plasticity in a randomly fluctuating environment

<p>Environmental tolerance curves, representing absolute fitness against the environment, are an empirical assessment of the fundamental niche, and emerge from the phenotypic plasticity of underlying phenotypic traits. Dynamic plastic responses of these traits can lead to acclimation effects, whereby recent past environments impact current fitness. Theory predicts that higher levels of phenotypic plasticity should evolve in environments that fluctuate more predictably, but there have been few experimental tests of these predictions. Specifically, will still lack experimental evidence for evolution of acclimation effects in response to environmental predictability. Here, we exposed 25 genetically diverse populations of the halotolerant microalgae Dunaliella salina to different constant salinities, or to randomly fluctuating salinities, for over 200 generations. The fluctuating treatments differed in their autocorrelation, which determines the similarity of subsequent values, and thus environmental predictability. We then measured acclimated tolerance surfaces, mapping population growth rate against past (acclimation) and current (assay) environments. We found that experimental mean and variance in salinity caused the evolution of niche position (optimal salinity) and breadth, with respect to not only current but also past (acclimation) salinity. We also detected weak but significant evidence for evolutionary changes in response to environmental predictability, with higher predictability leading notably to an upwards shift in optimal salinities and stronger acclimation effect of past environment on current fitness. We further showed that these responses are related to the evolution of plasticity for intracellular glycerol, the major osmoregulatory mechanism in this species. However the direction of plasticity evolution did not match simple theoretical predictions. Our results underline the need for a more explicit consideration of the dynamics of environmental tolerance and its underlying plastic traits to reach a better understanding of ecology and evolution in fluctuating environments.</p>

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Data from: Interspecific allometric scaling in eDNA production among Northwestern Atlantic bony fishes reflects physiological allometric scaling

<p>Relating environmental DNA (eDNA) signal strength to organism abundance requires a fundamental understanding of eDNA production. A number of studies have demonstrated that eDNA production may scale allometrically – that is, larger organisms tend to exhibit lower mass-specific eDNA production rates, likely due to allometric scaling in key processes related to eDNA production (e.g. surface area, excretion/egestion). While most previous studies have examined intra-specific allometry, physiological rates and organism surface area also scale allometrically across species. We therefore hypothesize that eDNA production will similarly exhibit inter-specific allometric scaling. To evaluate this hypothesis, we reanalyzed previously published eDNA data from Stoeckle et al. (2021) which compared metabarcoding read count to organism count and biomass data obtained from trawl surveys off the New Jersey coast. Using a Bayesian model we empirically estimated the value of the allometric scaling coefficient ('b') for Northwestern Atlantic bony fishes to be 0.77 (credible interval = 0.64 – 0.92), although our model failed to converge for Chondrichthyan species. We found that integrating allometry significantly improved correlations between organism abundance and metabarcoding read count relative to traditional metrics of abundance (density and biomass) for bony fishes. Although substantial unexplained variation remains in the relationship between read count and organism abundance, our study provides evidence that eDNA production may scale allometrically across species in some contexts. Future studies investigating the relationship between eDNA signal strength and metrics of fish abundance could potentially be improved by accounting for allometry; to this end, we developed an online tool that can facilitate the integration of allometry in eDNA/abundance relationships.</p>

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Data from: Physiological response of mature red spruce trees to partial and complete sapwood severing

<p> Drought frequency and severity are projected to increase in many regions of the world, yet it remains unclear how mesic forest trees will respond to these novel climate conditions. Experimentally imposing drought in forests at the stand scale is logistically difficult, however, disturbing the hydraulic functioning of individual trees can induce severe water stress and may inform how large trees respond to future droughts. In this study, we manipulated water availability of red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) trees by partially or completely severing sapwood, and measured impacts on water relations and photosynthetic efficiency over four months. Trees with total sapwood severed (TOT) experienced a rapid 96.7% reduction in daily sap flow whereas trees with only partial sapwood severed (PAR; estimated 2 – 5% sapwood remaining) and no sapwood severed (CON; phloem girdled) experienced average reductions of 74.3% and 4.6%, respectively. Sapwood severing in TOT trees resulted in declining midday shoot water potential compared to PAR and CON trees, but TOT trees did not surpass the water potential indicative of 50% loss of conductivity until approximately 12 weeks post treatment. At seven weeks post treatment, TOT trees had 6.8 times lower midday stomatal conductance than PAR and CON trees. Furthermore, branch- and crown-wood water potentials reached extreme values (below measurement threshold of -7.7 MPa) in TOT trees by the time of tree harvest at 18 weeks but remained high and did not differ between PAR and CON trees. Our results indicate that with minimal intact sapwood, PAR trees still had sufficient hydraulic functioning to avoid water stress, while TOT trees had temporary resistance to water stress likely associated with declines in carbon sequestration and growth. These findings advance our understanding of how red spruce may physiologically respond to periods of water stress in future climates.</p>

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Data for: No physiological costs of dual sequestration of chemically different plant toxins in the milkweed bug Spilostethus saxatilis (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)

<p><span>Many herbivorous insects not only cope with plant toxins but also sequester them as a defense against predators and parasitoids. Sequestration is a product of the evolutionary arms race between plants and herbivorous insects and has been hypothesized to incur physiological costs due to specific adaptations required. Contradictory evidence about these costs exists for insects sequestering only one class of toxin, but very little is known about the physiological implications for species sequestering structurally different classes of compounds. <em>Spilostethus saxatilis</em> is a milkweed bug belonging to the cardenolide-sequestering heteropteran subfamily Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) that has shifted to the colchicine-containing plant <em>Colchicum autumnale</em>, a resource of chemically unrelated alkaloids. Using feeding-assays on artificial diet and chemical analysis, we assessed whether <em>S. saxatilis</em> is still able to sequester cardenolides apart from colchicine and related metabolites (colchicoids), and tested the effect of (1) either a natural cardenolide concentration (using ouabain as a model compound) or a natural colchicine concentration, (2) an increased concentration of both toxins, and (3) seeds of either <em>Asclepias syriaca</em> (cardenolides) or <em>C. autumnale</em> (colchicoids) on a set of life-history traits. For comparison, we assessed the same life-history traits in the milkweed bug <em>Oncopeltus fasciatus</em> exposed to cardenolides only. Although cardenolides and colchicoids have different physiological targets (Na<sup>+</sup>/K<sup>+</sup>-ATPase vs tubulin) and thus require different resistance traits, chronic exposure and sequestration of both isolated toxins caused no physiological costs such as reduced growth, increased mortality, lower fertility, or shorter adult life span in <em>S. saxatilis</em>. Indeed, an increased performance was observed in <em>O. fasciatus</em> and an according trend was found in <em>S. saxatilis</em> when feeding on isolated ouabain and isolated colchicine, respectively. Positive effects were even more pronounced when insects were provided with natural toxic seeds (i.e. <em>C. autumnale</em> for <em>S. saxatilis</em> and <em>A. syriaca</em> for <em>O. fasciatus</em>), especially in <em>O. fasciatus</em>. Our findings suggest, that S. saxatilis can sequester two chemically unrelated classes of plant compounds at a cost-free level, and that colchicoids may even play a beneficial role in terms of fertility.</span></p>

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Physiological constraints and cognitive chunking in Zebra Finch songs: Data and R script

<p>Learned bird songs often have a hierarchical organization. In the case of zebra finches, each bird's song is made up of a string of notes delivered in a stereotyped sequence to form a "motif", and motifs are repeated to form a song bout. During song learning, young males copy "chunks" of two or more consecutive notes from their tutors' songs. These chunks are represented as distinct units within memory (during learning) and within motor systems (during song production). During song performance, motifs may deviate from the learned sequence by stopping short, starting late, or by skipping, inserting or repeating notes. We measured acoustic and temporal variables related to the respiratory and vocal physiology of song production and asked how they related to deviations from each bird's "canonical" sequence. The best predictor of deviations from that sequence was the duration of the silent interval between notes, when inspiration normally occurs. Deviations from the canonical motif occurred less often after higher-pitched notes, perhaps because a high-low sequence forms a prosodic unit. Premature stops often followed louder and longer notes, suggesting that respiratory and muscular physiology influence the location of such stops. Boundaries between the learned chunks of a male's motif predicted where and how often non-canonical starts occurred. Physiological and cognitive elements also interacted to define the segmentation of zebra finch song sequences. Long silent intervals between notes were associated both with physiology (inspirations) and with the cognitive boundaries of learned chunks – and hence with deviations from the canonical motif.</p>

opencc-zeroMay 2023View details →
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Data from: Community composition and physiological plasticity control microbial carbon storage across natural and experimental soil fertility gradients

<p>Data associated with &#39;Community composition and physiological plasticity control microbial carbon storage across natural and experimental soil fertility gradients&#39; by Butler, Manzoni, and Warren, published in The ISME Journal (accepted 28/9/2023).</p>

opencc-by-4.0Oct 2023View details →

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The International Brain Laboratory public data releases expose standardized mouse decision-making experiments, including Neuropixels recordings, widefield calcium imaging, behavior, and session metadata accessed through the ONE API.

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