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Biological Reviews,Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 469-480, February 2018. (Source: Biological Reviews)
Source: Biological Reviews - August 10, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Endocrine disruption in aquatic systems: up ‐scaling research to address ecological consequences
Biological Reviews,Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 626-641, February 2018. (Source: Biological Reviews)
Source: Biological Reviews - August 9, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
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Biological Reviews,Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 626-641, February 2018. (Source: Biological Reviews)
Source: Biological Reviews - August 9, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Endocrine disruption in aquatic systems: up ‐scaling research to address ecological consequences
ABSTRACT
Endocrine‐disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can alter biological function in organisms at environmentally relevant concentrations and are a significant threat to aquatic biodiversity, but there is little understanding of exposure consequences for populations, communities and ecosystems. The pervasive nature of EDCs within aquatic environments and their multiple sub‐lethal effects make assessments of their impact especially important but also highly challenging. Herein, we review the data on EDC effects in aquatic systems focusing on studies assessing populations and ecosystems, and including how biotic and abiotic p...
Source: Biological Reviews - August 9, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Fredric M. Windsor, Steve J. Ormerod, Charles R. Tyler Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Genetics of dispersal
Biological Reviews,Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 574-599, February 2018. (Source: Biological Reviews)
Source: Biological Reviews - August 3, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
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Biological Reviews,Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 574-599, February 2018. (Source: Biological Reviews)
Source: Biological Reviews - August 3, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Building essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale
Biological Reviews,Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 600-625, February 2018. (Source: Biological Reviews)
Source: Biological Reviews - August 2, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
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Biological Reviews,Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 600-625, February 2018. (Source: Biological Reviews)
Source: Biological Reviews - August 2, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Reappraising the early evidence of durophagy and drilling predation in the fossil record: implications for escalation and the Cambrian Explosion
ABSTRACT
The Cambrian Explosion is arguably the most extreme example of a biological radiation preserved in the fossil record, and studies of Cambrian Lagerstätten have facilitated the exploration of many facets of this key evolutionary event. As predation was a major ecological driver behind the Explosion – particularly the radiation of biomineralising metazoans – the evidence for shell crushing (durophagy), drilling and puncturing predation in the Cambrian (and possibly the Ediacaran) is considered. Examples of durophagous predation on biomineralised taxa other than trilobites are apparently rare, reflecting pre...
Source: Biological Reviews - August 1, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Russell D. C. Bicknell, John R. Paterson Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Biological hierarchies and the nature of extinction
ABSTRACT
Hierarchy theory recognises that ecological and evolutionary units occur in a nested and interconnected hierarchical system, with cascading effects occurring between hierarchical levels. Different biological disciplines have routinely come into conflict over the primacy of different forcing mechanisms behind evolutionary and ecological change. These disconnects arise partly from differences in perspective (with some researchers favouring ecological forcing mechanisms while others favour developmental/historical mechanisms), as well as differences in the temporal framework in which workers operate. In particular, l...
Source: Biological Reviews - August 1, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Curtis R. Congreve, Amanda R. Falk, James C. Lamsdell Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Comparing species interaction networks along environmental gradients
ABSTRACT
Knowledge of species composition and their interactions, in the form of interaction networks, is required to understand processes shaping their distribution over time and space. As such, comparing ecological networks along environmental gradients represents a promising new research avenue to understand the organization of life. Variation in the position and intensity of links within networks along environmental gradients may be driven by turnover in species composition, by variation in species abundances and by abiotic influences on species interactions. While investigating changes in species composition has a lon...
Source: Biological Reviews - August 1, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Lo ïc Pellissier, Camille Albouy, Jordi Bascompte, Nina Farwig, Catherine Graham, Michel Loreau, Maria Alejandra Maglianesi, Carlos J. Melián, Camille Pitteloud, Tomas Roslin, Rudolf Rohr, Serguei Saavedra, Wilfried Thuiller, Guy Woodward, Niklaus E. Zi Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
ATAD3 proteins: brokers of a mitochondria –endoplasmic reticulum connection in mammalian cells
ABSTRACT
In yeast, a sequence of physical and genetic interactions termed the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)–mitochondria organizing network (ERMIONE) controls mitochondria–ER interactions and mitochondrial biogenesis. Several functions that characterize ERMIONE complexes are conserved in mammalian cells, suggesting that a similar tethering complex must exist in metazoans. Recent studies have identified a new family of nuclear‐encoded ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities (AAA+‐ATPase) mitochondrial membrane proteins specific to multicellular eukaryotes, called the ATPase family AAA domain‐containing pr...
Source: Biological Reviews - August 1, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Jacques Baudier Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The evolution of gonad expenditure and gonadosomatic index (GSI) in male and female broadcast ‐spawning invertebrates
ABSTRACT
Sedentary broadcast‐spawning marine invertebrates, which release both eggs and sperm into the water for fertilization, are of special interest for sexual selection studies. They provide unique insight into the early stages of the evolutionary succession leading to the often‐intense operation of both pre‐ and post‐mating sexual selection in mobile gonochorists. Since they are sessile or only weakly mobile, adults can interact only to a limited extent with other adults and with their own fertilized offspring. They are consequently subject mainly to selection on gamete production and gamete success, and so hi...
Source: Biological Reviews - August 1, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Geoff A. Parker, Steven A. Ramm, Jussi Lehtonen, Jonathan M. Henshaw Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
New ‐age ideas about age‐old sex: separating meiosis from mating could solve a century‐old conundrum
ABSTRACT
Ever since Darwin first addressed it, sexual reproduction reigns as the ‘queen’ of evolutionary questions. Multiple theories tried to explain how this apparently costly and cumbersome method has become the universal mode of eukaryote reproduction. Most theories stress the adaptive advantages of sex by generating variation, they fail however to explain the ubiquitous persistence of sexual reproduction also where adaptation is not an issue. I argue that the obstacle for comprehending the role of sex stems from the conceptual entanglement of two distinct processes – gamete production by meiosis and gamete fus...
Source: Biological Reviews - August 1, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Michael Brandeis Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The arms race between heliconiine butterflies and Passiflora plants – new insights on an ancient subject
ABSTRACT
Heliconiines are called passion vine butterflies because they feed exclusively on Passiflora plants during the larval stage. Many features of Passiflora and heliconiines indicate that they have radiated and speciated in association with each other, and therefore this model system was one of the first examples used to exemplify coevolution theory. Three major adaptations of Passiflora plants supported arguments in favour of their coevolution with heliconiines: unusual variation of leaf shape within the genus; the occurrence of yellow structures mimicking heliconiine eggs; and their extensive diversity of defence co...
Source: Biological Reviews - August 1, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Érika C. P. de Castro, Mika Zagrobelny, Márcio Z. Cardoso, Søren Bak Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
