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Code for individual-based simulations in "Environmental fluctuations can promote evolutionary rescue in high-extinction-risk scenarios"

<p>Substantial environmental change can force a population onto a path towards extinction, but under some conditions, adaptation by natural selection can rescue the population and allow it to persist. This process, known as evolutionary rescue, is believed to be less likely to occur with greater magnitudes of random environmental fluctuations because environmental variation decreases expected population size, increases variance in population size, and increases evolutionary lag. However, previous studies of evolutionary rescue in fluctuating environments have only considered scenarios in which evolutionary rescue was likely to occur. We extend these studies to assess how baseline extinction risk (which we manipulated via changes in the initial population size, degree of environmental change, or mutation rate) influences the effects of environmental variation on evolutionary rescue following an abrupt environmental change. Using a combination of analytical models and stochastic simulations, we show that autocorrelated environmental variation hinders evolutionary rescue in low-extinction-risk scenarios but facilitates rescue in high-risk scenarios. In these high-risk cases, the chance of a run of good years counteracts the otherwise negative effects of environmental variation on evolutionary demography. These findings can inform the development of effective conservation practices that consider evolutionary responses to abrupt environmental changes.</p>

opencc-zeroAug 2020View details →
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Data from: Species abundance fluctuations over 31 years are associated with plant-soil feedback in a species-rich mountain meadow

<p>1. Increasing evidence suggest that plant-soil interactions play an essential role in plant community assembly processes. Empirical investigations show that plant species abundance in the field is often related to plant-soil biota interactions, however, the direction of these relations have yielded inconsistent results.</p> <p>2. We combined unique 31-year long field data on species abundances from a species-rich mountain meadow with single time point plant-soil feedback greenhouse experiments of 24 co-occurring plant species. We tested whether these relations were dynamic in time, whether coupled increases and decreases in abundance between years were related to plant-soil feedback and whether these changes were underlain by years in which manuring was applied.</p> <p>3. The prevailingly negative relationship between plant-soil feedback and plant relative abundance in the field was significantly time-dependent, which may reconcile the contrasting results in literature. Furthermore, significant coupled oscillations appeared between species relative abundance changes and plant-soil feedback, which were likely moderated by years in which manuring was applied. Our results are consistent with the notion that the more abundant species are stabilised by negative plant-soil feedback, and the less abundant species co-vary with the fluctuations of these more competitive species.</p> <p>4. Synthesis: Our results project plant-soil feedback as an important regulatory mechanism in plant communities, operating in conjunction with a species' competitive ability and soil nutrient availability. We suggest that negative feedback is particularly prominent in more abundant plant species that profit from more readily available soil nutrients than less abundant species with positive feedback. Negative plant-soil feedback may thus prevent more abundant plant species from outcompeting less abundant plant species, facilitating stable species co-existence.</p>

opencc-zeroDec 2020View details →
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Data from: Differing thermal sensitivities in a host-parasitoid interaction: high, fluctuating developmental temperatures produce dead wasps and giant caterpillars

<p>1. Insect parasitoids, and the arthropod hosts they consume during development, are important ecological players in almost all environments across the globe. As ectothermic organisms, both parasitoid and host are strongly impacted by environmental temperature. If thermal tolerances differ between host insect and parasitoid, then the outcome of their interaction will be determined by the ambient temperature. As mean temperatures continue to rise and extreme temperatures become more frequent, we must determine the effect of high temperature stress on host-parasitoid systems to predict how they will fare in the face of climate change.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpMiddle">2. The majority of studies conducted on host-parasitoid systems focus on either performance under constant temperature, or a fixed metric of thermal tolerance (CT<sub>max</sub>) for individual organisms. However, performance at constant temperatures is not predictive of performance under ecologically relevant, fluctuating temperatures, and measurements of thermal thresholds provide little information regarding the effects of temperature throughout development. We address this by testing the effects of increasing mean temperature in both constant and fluctuating (±10°C) environments throughout development on the performance of the parasitoid wasp <i>Cotesia congregata</i> and its lepidopteran larval host, <i>Manduca sexta.</i></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpLast">3. The growth of <i>M. sexta</i> was influenced by mean temperature, diurnal fluctuations, and parasitization status. Caterpillar growth rate increased with increasing mean temperature, but decreased in response to diurnal fluctuations and parasitization by <i>C. congregata </i>wasps.</p> <p>4. Wasp survival decreased with increasing mean temperature, and diurnal fluctuations decreased wasp survival, especially at higher mean temperatures. Diurnal fluctuations at our highest mean temperature treatment (30°C±10°C) resulted in complete wasp mortality, and parasitized hosts displayed abnormal physiology, wherein they failed to exhibit wasp emergence, did not enter the prepupal stage, continued to feed, and grew up to two-fold larger than a normal, unparasitized caterpillar.</p> <p>5. Our results indicate hosts and parasitoids in this system have different thermal tolerances during development; the parasitoid wasp suffered complete mortality at a temperature regime that is mildly stressful for the unparasitized caterpillar host species. Our findings suggest <i>C. congregata </i>will suffer more severely under increasing temperatures than <i>M. sexta</i>, with cascading trophic and ecological effects.</p>

opencc-zeroDec 2020View details →
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Source code and datasets used to link new waves of plague outbreaks in medieval Europe to climate fluctuations affecting the reservoirs of the disease in Asia.

<p>The zipfile contains the project directory which includes the source code and datasets&nbsp;used in the paper on <strong>Climate-driven introduction&nbsp;of the Black Death and&nbsp;successive plague reintroductions into Europe</strong>, as&nbsp;published in&nbsp;<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> (PNAS). Access the paper at&nbsp;http://www.doi.org/pnas.1412887112</p> <p>If you are not familiar with Clojure, Leiningen, and its project directory format, see&nbsp;http://clojure.org/getting_started for&nbsp;one of the IDE&#39;s to run the clojure code in, and use&nbsp;http://leiningen.org/ as the project / dependency manager.</p>

openeclipse-1.0Feb 2015View details →
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Data underpinning "Chaotic fluctuations in a universal set of transmon qubit gates"

<p>Transmon qubits arise from the quantization of nonlinear resonators, systems that are prone to the buildup of strong, possibly even chaotic, fluctuations. One may wonder to what extent fast gate operations, which involve the transient population of states outside the computational subspace, can be affected by such instabilities. We<br>here consider the eigenphases and -states of the time evolution operators describing a universal gate set, and analyze them by methodology otherwise applied in the context of many-body physics. Specifically, we discuss their spectral statistic, the distribution of time dependent level curvatures, and state occupations in- and outside the computational subspace. We observe that fast entangling gates, operating at speeds close to the so-called quantum speed limit, contain transient regimes where the dynamics indeed becomes partially chaotic. We find that for these gates even small variations of Hamiltonian or control parameters lead to large gate errors and speculate on the consequences for the practical implementation of quantum control.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Nov 2023View details →
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Nitrogen redistribution and seasonal trait fluctuation facilitate plant N conservation and ecosystem N retention

<ol> <li><span>Low available soil nitrogen (N) limits plant productivity in alpine regions, and alpine plants thus resorb and reallocate N from senescing tissues to conserve this limited N during the nongrowing season. However, the destination and extent of N redistribution during plant senescence among above- and below-ground organs, let alone other processes of translocation outside of plants and into the soil components, remain poorly understood. </span></li> <li><span>Utilizing the <sup>15</sup>N stable isotope as a tracer, we quantified N redistribution among above- and below-ground plant organs and different soil components during senescence in an alpine meadow ecosystem, and explored the relationship between <sup>15</sup>N among plant-soil N pools with seasonal fluctuations of plant functional traits.</span></li> <li><span>We found a substantial depletion of <sup>15</sup>N in fine roots (-40% ± 2.8%) and aboveground tissues (-51% ± 5.1%), and an enhanced <sup>15</sup>N storage primarily in coarse roots (+79% ± 27%) and soil organic matter (+37% ± 10%) during plant senescence. In parallel, we observed a temporal variation in plant functional traits, representing a shift from more acquisitive to more conservative strategies as the growing season ends, such as higher coarse root N and coarse root to fine root ratio. The seasonal trait variations were highly correlated with the <sup>15</sup>N retention in coarse roots and soil organic matter. Particularly, <sup>15</sup>N retention in particulate and mineral-associated organic matter increased by 30% ± 12% and 24% ± 9%, respectively, suggesting a potential pathway through which fine root and microbial mortality contribute to <sup>15</sup>N redistribution into soil N pools during senescence.</span></li> <li> <span><em>Synthesis</em>. </span><span>N redistribution and seasonal plant trait fluctuation facilitate plant N conservation and ecosystem N retention in the alpine system. This study suggests a coupled aboveground-belowground N conserving strategy that may optimize the temporal coupling between plant N demand and ecosystem N supply in N-limited alpine ecosystems. </span> </li> </ol>

opencc-zeroDec 2023View details →
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Resistance of rocky intertidal communities to oceanic climate fluctuations

<p>A powerful way to predict how ecological communities will respond to future climate change is to test how they have responded to the climate of the past. We used climate oscillations including the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), North Pacific Gyre Oscillation, and El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and variation in upwelling, air temperature, and sea temperatures to test the sensitivity of nearshore rocky intertidal communities to climate variability. Prior research shows that multiple ecological processes of key taxa (growth, recruitment, and physiology) were sensitive to environmental variation during this time frame. We also investigated the effect of the concurrent sea star wasting disease outbreak in 2013–2014. We surveyed nearly 150 taxa from 11 rocky intertidal sites in Oregon and northern California annually for up to 14 years (2006–2020) to test if community structure (i.e., the abundance of functional groups) and diversity were sensitive to past environmental variation. We found little to no evidence that these communities were sensitive to annual variation in any of the environmental measures and that each metric was associated with &lt; 8.6% of yearly variation in community structure. Only the years elapsed since the outbreak of sea star wasting disease had a substantial effect on community structure, but in the mid-zone only where spatially dominant mussels are a main prey of the keystone predator sea star, <em>Pisaster ochraceus</em>. We conclude that the established sensitivity of multiple ecological processes to annual fluctuations in climate has not yet scaled up to influence community structure. Hence, the rocky intertidal system along this coastline appears resistant to the range of oceanic climate fluctuations that occurred during the study. However, given ongoing intensification of climate change and increasing frequencies of extreme events, future responses to climate change seem likely.</p>

opencc-zeroJan 2024View details →
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Can livestock grazing dampen density dependent fluctuations in wild herbivore populations?

<p>Conservation policy for the high mountains of Asia increasingly recognises the need to encompass large multi-use landscapes beyond the protected area network. Due to limited long-term research in this region, our understanding of even fundamental processes, such as factors regulating large mammal populations is poor.</p> <p>Understanding the factors that regulate animal populations, especially those generating cyclicity, is a long-standing problem in ecology. Long-term research across multiple taxa (mainly from Europe and North America) has focused on the relative roles of food and predation in generating cyclicity in population dynamics. It remains unclear how trophic interactions that are influenced by anthropogenic stressors can affect population dynamics in human-modified landscapes. </p> <p>We present a 10-year study to compare the effects of livestock grazing on density dependent dynamics in two populations of bharal, <em>Pseudois nayaur</em>, in the Himalaya. We combine this with a mechanistic understanding of whether density dependence in these two sites acts predominantly by affecting adult survival or recruitment. We compared and quantified density dependence in the bharal population by fitting Bayesian Gompertz state‐space (GSS) models.</p> <p>We found evidence for negative density dependence which indicates possible cyclic dynamics in the bharal population of the site (Tabo) with low livestock density. The population dynamics of this site were driven by recruited offspring – with a 2-year density dependent lag effect – rather than adult survival. In the site with high livestock density (Kibber), this density dependence was not detected. We postulate the potential role of excessive grazing by livestock in affecting offspring recruitment, thereby affecting the bharal population in Kibber.</p> <p><em>Synthesis and applications</em>: Our results suggest that conservation action to facilitate wild herbivore population recovery, such as the development of protected areas and village reserves, needs to account for density dependent regulation. Sites with trophy hunting require continuous monitoring to understand the effects of density dependence so that appropriate hunting quotas can be formulated.</p>

opencc-zeroMar 2024View details →
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Leaf fluctuating asymmetry is not a reliable indicator of stress

<p>Stress experienced during development in organisms with bilateral structures could result in developmental instability, which is expressed as subtle non-directional deviations from perfect symmetry, known as fluctuating asymmetry (FA). As such, FA has been proposed, and extensively used, as a trait indicating stress for many organisms with bilateral structures and many types of stress. However, while this concept may apply to animals, the evidence for plants' main vegetative structures, i.e., leaves, remains equivocal, and a comprehensive synthesis on this topic is still missing.</p> <p>We designed observational field and controlled greenhouse studies, combining different growth and leaf forms across multiple stress gradients, comprising 21 species and 80 populations. We measured FA as the difference between the left and right area of the leaf, an approach that accommodates diverse leaf forms. We used high-precision, blind, single-person measurements and tested for other forms of symmetry and the effect of leaf size. We further complemented our study with a systematic literature review of FA in plant leaves, compiling 51 studies comprising 72 species, 23 stress types, and 131 unique entries (species × stress type). </p> <p>We consistently found no effect of stress on leaf FA in any of the studied species in both our field and experimental gradients. In the systematic literature review, only 39% of the unique entries showed the expected increase in FA with stress, 53% showed no effect, 9% showed an opposite trend of a decrease in FA with stress, and 1% showed an unimodal relationship. Importantly, only 40% of all entries fulfilled the crucial step of controlling for a high-precision measurement, and of these 49% reported the expected increase of FA with stress. </p> <p>Both the results of our observational and experimental approaches and the systematic literature review failed to support a clear relationship between stress and FA in plant leaves. These results clearly show that FA in plant leaves cannot be used as a reliable trait indicating stress during development.</p>

opencc-zeroMar 2024View details →
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Auralization of amplitude fluctuations in aircraft flyover

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opencc-by-4.0Apr 2024View details →
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Data from: Phenotypic plasticity and the effects of thermal fluctuations on specialists and generalists

<p>Classical theories predict that relatively constant environments should generally favor specialists, while fluctuating environments should select for generalists. However, theoretical and empirical results have pointed out that generalist organisms might on the contrary perform poorly under fluctuations. In particular, if generalism is underlaid by phenotypic plasticity, performance of generalists should be modulated by the temporal characteristics of environmental fluctuations. Here, we used experiments in microcosms and a mathematical model to test whether the period or autocorrelation of thermal fluctuations mediate links between the level of generalism and the performance of organisms under fluctuations. In the experiment, thermal fluctuations consistently impeded performance compared to constant conditions. However, the intensity of this effect depended on the level of generalism: while the more specialists strains performed better under fast or negatively autocorrelated fluctuations, plastic generalists performed better under slow or positively autocorrelated fluctuations. Our model suggests that these effects of fluctuations on organisms' performance may result from a time delay in the expression of plasticity, restricting its benefits to slow-enough fluctuations. This study points out the need to further investigate the temporal dynamics of phenotypic plasticity to better predict its fitness consequences under environmental fluctuations.</p>

opencc-zeroApr 2024View details →
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Contrasting sensitivity of weathering proxies to Quaternary climate and sea-level fluctuations on the southern slope of the South China Sea

<p>Tropical marginal seas host important sedimentary archives that may be exploited to reveal past changes in continental erosion, chemical weathering, and ocean dynamics. However, these records can be challenging to interpret due to the complex interactions between climate and particulate transport across ocean margins. For the southern South China Sea over the last 90 kyr, we observe a contrasting temporal relationship between the deposition of clay minerals and magnetic minerals, which were associated with two different hydrodynamic modes. Fine-grained clay minerals can be carried in suspension by ocean currents, leading to a rapid response to regional climate-driven inputs. In contrast, changes in magnetic mineralogy were linked to glacial-interglacial sea-level variability, from which we infer a control by bedload transport and resuspension. Overall, this study indicates that the transfer pathways and mechanisms imparted by varying hydrodynamic conditions exert a substantial influence on the distribution of terrigenous material in continental margin sediments.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Jul 2021View details →
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A modified fluctuation assay reveals a natural mutator phenotype that drives mutation spectrum variation within Saccharomyces cerevisiae

<p>Although studies of <em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</em> have provided many insights into mutagenesis and DNA repair, most of this work has focused on a few laboratory strains. Much less is known about the phenotypic effects of natural variation within <em>S. cerevisiae</em>'s DNA repair pathways. Here, we use natural polymorphisms to detect historical mutation spectrum differences among several wild and domesticated <em>S. cerevisiae</em> strains. To determine whether these differences are likely caused by genetic mutation rate modifiers, we use a modified fluctuation assay with a <em>CAN1</em> reporter to measure de novo mutation rates and spectra in 16 of the analyzed strains. We measure a 10-fold range of mutation rates and identify two strains with distinctive mutation spectra. These strains, known as AEQ and AAR, come from the panel's 'Mosaic beer' clade and share an enrichment for C &gt; A mutations that is also observed in rare variation segregating throughout the genomes of several Mosaic beer and Mixed origin strains. Both AEQ and AAR are haploid derivatives of the diploid natural isolate CBS 1782, whose rare polymorphisms are enriched for C &gt; A as well, suggesting that the underlying mutator allele is likely active in nature. We use a plasmid complementation test to show that AAR and AEQ share a mutator allele in the DNA repair gene <em>OGG1</em>, which excises 8-oxoguanine lesions that can cause C &gt; A mutations if left unrepaired.</p>

opencc-zeroDec 2021View details →
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Dataset for: 'Influence of seasonal temperature fluctuation on successful reproduction of the Gorongosa girdled lizard (Smaug mossambicus)' - Baker and Jones

<p>Datasets for recreating figures in &#39;Influence of seasonal temperature fluctuation on successful reproduction of the Gorongosa girdled lizard (<em>Smaug mossambicus)&#39;&nbsp;</em>, and an accompanying R script.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

opencc-by-4.0Dec 2021View details →
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simulation results - article "The advantage of sex: reinserting fluctuating selection in the pluralist approach"

<p>Results of the simulations of sexual vs asexual fluctuating selection associated with Red Queen like effect (frequency dependent selection and fitness reduction due to mutations in asexuals.&nbsp;</p> <p>Two excell sheets labeled figure 1 and figure 2.&nbsp;</p> <p>Figure 1 : 18 groups of&nbsp; 5 columns with 18 corresponding graphs.&nbsp;</p> <p>Columns :&nbsp;</p> <p>SD_env: Generation wise Standard Deviation of the randomly fluctuating environmental conditions.</p> <p>m: inverse of the strength of the frequency dependent selection. The strength of selection is 1/m.</p> <p>rho: autocorrelation of the&nbsp;randomly fluctuating environmental conditions. Either 0 or 0.6.</p> <p>proba_sex: observed frequency of fixed sexual forms for a given Standard Deviation of&nbsp;randomly fluctuating environmental conditions</p> <p>n: number of runs</p> <p>Figure 2&nbsp;: 25&nbsp;groups of&nbsp; 5 columns with 25&nbsp;corresponding graphs.&nbsp; Effect of a reduction of the twofold advantage of asexuals on the fluctuating selection.</p> <p>SD_env, proba_sex, n: same significance as in figure 1.</p> <p>mult_asex: reduction coefficient of the two fold advantage of asexuals due either to deleterious mutations accumulations or to intraspecific competition. If mult_asex=1 the advantage of asexuals over sexuals is 2. So the advantage of asexuals over sexuals is mult_asex*2</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

opencc-by-4.0Jan 2022View details →
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Role of individual dispersal in genetic resilience in fluctuating populations of the gray-sided vole Myodes rufocanus

<p class="a">Population densities of the grey-sided vole <i>Myodes rufocanus</i> fluctuate greatly within and across years in Japan. Here, to investigate the role of individual dispersal in maintaining population genetic diversity, we examined how genetic diversity varied during fluctuations in density by analyzing eight microsatellite loci in voles sampled three times per year for 5 years, using two fixed trapping grids (approximately 0.5 ha each). At each trapping session, all captured voles at each trapping grid were removed. The STRUCTURE program was used to analyze serially collected samples to examine how population crashes were related to temporal variability, based on local-scale genetic compositions in each population. In total, 461 and 527 voles were captured at each trapping grid during this study. The number of voles captured during each trapping session (i.e., vole density) varied considerably at both grids. Although patterns in fluctuations were not synchronized between grids, the peak densities were similar. At both grids, the mean allele number recorded at each trapping session was strongl<span>y</span><span><span>, positively,</span></span><span> a</span>nd non-linearly correlated with density. STRUCTURE analyses revealed that the proportions of cluster compositions among individuals at each grid differed markedly before and after the crash phase, implying the long-distance dispersal of voles from remote areas at periods of low density. The present results suggest that, in grey-sided vole populations, genetic diversity varies with density largely at the local scale; in contrast, genetic variation in a metapopulation is well-preserved at the regional scale due to the density-dependent dispersal behaviors of individuals. By influencing the dispersal patterns of individuals, fluctuations in density affect metapopulation structure spatially and temporally, while the levels of genetic diversity are preserved in a metapopulation.</p>

opencc-zeroJan 2022View details →
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How efficient is symbiont-mediated protection to heat under daily fluctuating thermal environments? A study on an aphid-bacterium mutualism

<p>These are the two datasets for the article &quot;<strong>How efficient is symbiont-mediated protection to heat under daily fluctuating thermal environments? A study on an aphid-bacterium mutualism</strong>&quot;.</p> <p>We examined the effects of four thermal regimes defined by their combination of mean temperature (18 or 25&deg;C) and diurnal thermal range (day-night fluctuations: 5 or 10&deg;C) on the interaction between the aphid&nbsp;<em>Acyrthosiphon pisum</em>, its obligate symbiont&nbsp;<em>Buchnera aphidicola&nbsp;</em>and the facultative heat-protective symbiont&nbsp;<em>Serratia symbiotica</em>. We used two clonal lines of <em>A. pisum </em>uninfected (5A) or infected with <em>S. symbiotica </em>(5AR). Thermal treatments were applied form aphid birth to death. We recorded both aphid traits (immature survival rate, longevity, immature development time, total fecundity, body size) and symbiont titres at the onset of reproduction (for both&nbsp;<em>B. aphidicola&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;<em>S. symbiotica</em>), expressed relatively to aphid gene copy&nbsp;number through quantitative PCRs (qPCRs).</p> <p><strong>Aphid traits</strong></p> <p>. Individual = identification of the individual</p> <p>. Line = aphid clonal line, either deprived of (5A) or infected with&nbsp;<em>S. symbiotica&nbsp;</em>(5AR)</p> <p>. MT = Mean Temperature, either 18&deg;C or 25&deg;C</p> <p>. DTR = Diurnal Temperature Range (day-night fluctuations), either 5&deg;C or 10&deg;C</p> <p>. surv.adult = whether (Y) or not (N) the individual survived until reaching reproduction (immature survival rate)</p> <p>. adulthood = time elapsed between birth and first reproduction (in days)</p> <p>. lifespan = time elapsed between birth and death (in days)</p> <p>. offspring = total number of larvae produced by each aphid throughout lifetime</p> <p>. tibia = hind tibia length as a proxy of body size (in mm)</p> <p>. wing = whether (Y) or not (N) the individual developed wings following imaginal moult</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Symbiont titres</strong></p> <p>. Individual = identification of the individual</p> <p>. Line = aphid clonal line, either deprived of (A) or infected with&nbsp;<em>S.&nbsp;symbiotica&nbsp;</em>(AR)</p> <p>. MT = Mean Temperature, either 18&deg;C or 25&deg;C</p> <p>. DTR = Diurnal Temperature Range (day-night fluctuations), either 5&deg;C or 10&deg;C</p> <p>. QPCR = identification of the microplate used during qPCR analyses (to handle pseudoreplication)</p> <p>. EfAlph = number of copies of aphid housekeeping gene elongation factor 1-alpha (<em>EF1-&alpha;</em>)</p> <p>. SdEfAlph = standard deviation of the aphid gene copy number, calculated over three technical replicates</p> <p>. DnaKBa = number of copies of&nbsp;<em>B.&nbsp;aphidicola&nbsp;</em>gene&nbsp;<em>dnaK</em></p> <p>. SdDnaKBa = standard deviation of&nbsp;<em>B. aphidicola&nbsp;</em>gene copy number, calculated over three technical replicates</p> <p>. DnakSs =&nbsp;number of copies of&nbsp;<em>S. symbiotica&nbsp;</em>gene&nbsp;<em>dnaK</em></p> <p>. SdDnaKSs =&nbsp;standard deviation of&nbsp;<em>S. symbiotica&nbsp;</em>gene copy number, calculated over three technical replicates</p> <p>. RappBa = ratio between DnaKBa and EfAlph to calculate relative titre of&nbsp;<em>B. aphidicola</em></p> <p>. RappSs =&nbsp;ratio between DnaKSs&nbsp;and EfAlph to calculate relative titre of&nbsp;<em>S. symbiotica</em></p>

opencc-by-4.0Feb 2022View details →
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Predictability of thermal fluctuations influences functional traits of a cosmopolitan marine diatom

<p>Evolutionary theory predicts that organismal plasticity should evolve in environments that fluctuate regularly. However, in environments that fluctuate less predictably, plasticity may be constrained because environmental cues become less reliable for expressing the optimum phenotype. Here we examine how the predictability of +5 °C temperature fluctuations impacts the phenotype of the marine diatom <em>Thalassiosira pseudonana</em>. Thermal regimes were informed by temperatures experienced by microbes in an ocean simulation, and featured regular or irregular temporal sequences of fluctuations that induced mild physiological stress. Physiological traits (growth, cell size, complexity, pigmentation) were quantified at the individual cell level using flow cytometry. Changes in cellular complexity emerged as the first impact of predictability after only 8-11 days, followed by deleterious impacts on growth on days 13-16. Specifically, cells with a history of irregular fluctuation exposure exhibited a 50% reduction in growth compared with the stable reference environment, while growth was 3-18 times higher when fluctuations were regular. We observed no evidence of heat hardening (increasingly positive growth) with recurrent fluctuations. This study demonstrates that unpredictable temperature fluctuations impact this cosmopolitan diatom under ecologically-relevant time frames, suggesting shifts in environmental stochasticity under a changing climate could have widespread consequences amongst ocean primary producers.</p>

opencc-zeroMar 2022View details →
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Full data set for "Real-Space Observation of Fluctuating Antiferromagnetic Domains" article in Science Advances

<p>This is the full data set for the article, sufficient to reproduce any results shown. The data and data files description, and data retrieval instructions are in the Readme.txt file.&nbsp;</p>

opencc-by-4.0Apr 2022View details →
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Fig. 2 in A Pasture Of Big Ungulate Animals As Key Ecological Factor Influencing On The Fluctuation Of Natural Habitat Of Steppe Herbivorous Mammals

Fig. 2. The steppe marmot quantity dynamics in the 20–21th century (cattle vs the steppe marmot).

opencc-by-4.0Mar 2015View details →

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