• The early origin of feathers 

  Benton, Michael J.; Dhouailly, Danielle; Jiang, Baoyu; McNamara, Maria E. (Elsevier, 2019-06-01)

  Feathers have long been regarded as the innovation that drove the success of birds. However, feathers have been reported from close dinosaurian relatives of birds, and now from ornithischian dinosaurs and pterosaurs, the ...
• The application of CRISPR-Cas for single species identification from environmental DNA 

  Williams, Molly-Ann; O'Grady, Joyce; Ball, Bernard; Carlsson, Jens; de Eyto, Elvira; McGinnity, Philip; Jennings, Eleanor; Regan, Fiona; Parle-McDermott, Anne (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019-06-08)

  We report the first application of CRISPR‐Cas technology to single species detection from environmental DNA (eDNA). Organisms shed and excrete DNA into their environment such as in skin cells and faeces, referred to as ...
• Spatial variation in a top marine predator’s diet at two regionally distinct sites 

  Gosch, Martha; Cronin, Michelle A.; Rogan, Emer; Hunt, William; Luck, Cian; Jessopp, Mark (PLoS ONE, 2019-01-02)

  In ecological studies it is often assumed that predator foraging strategies and resource use are geographically and seasonally homogeneous, resulting in relatively static trophic relationships. However, certain centrally ...
• Heritability estimation via molecular pedigree reconstruction in a wild fish population reveals substantial evolutionary potential for sea-age at maturity, but not size within age-classes 

  Reed, Thomas E.; Prodöhl, Paulo A.; Bradley, Caroline; Gilbey, John; McGinnity, Philip; Primmer, Craig R.; Bacon, Phil J. (NRC Research Press, 2018-07-30)

  While evolutionary responses require heritable variation, estimates of heritability (h2) from wild fish populations remain rare. A 20-year molecular pedigree for a wild Scottish population of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) ...
• Modeling the functional link between movement, feeding activity, and condition in a marine predator 

  Pirotta, Enrico; Schwarz, Lisa K.; Costa, Daniel P.; Robinson, Patrick W.; New, Leslie (Oxford University Press, 2018-12-27)

  The ability to quantify animals’ feeding activity and the resulting changes in their body condition as they move in the environment is fundamental to our understanding of a population’s ecology. We use satellite tracking ...

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