• False‐negative detections from environmental DNA collected in the presence of large numbers of killer whales (Orcinus orca) 

  Pinfield, Róisín; Dillane, Eileen; Runge, Anne Kathrine W.; Evans, Alice; Mirimin, Luca; Niemann, Jonas; Reed, Thomas E.; Reid, David G.; Rogan, Emer; Samarra, Filipa I. P.; Sigsgaard, Eva Egelyng; Foote, Andrew D. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019-09-12)

  While environmental DNA (eDNA) is becoming increasingly established in biodiversity monitoring of freshwater ecosystems, the use of eDNA surveys in the marine environment is still in its infancy. Here, we use two approaches: ...
• Tissue-specific geometry and chemistry of modern and fossilized melanosomes reveal internal anatomy of extinct vertebrates 

  Rossi, Valentina; McNamara, Maria E.; Webb, Sam M.; Ito, Shosuke; Wakamatsu, Kazumasa (National Academy of Sciences, 2019-08-19)

  Recent reports of nonintegumentary melanosomes in fossils hint at functions for melanin beyond color production, but the biology and evolution of internal melanins are poorly understood. Our results show that internal ...
• Processive recoding and metazoan evolution of selenoprotein P: Up to 132 UGAs in molluscs 

  Baclaocos, Janinah; Santesmasses, Didac; Mariotti, Marco; Bierła, Katarzyna; Vetick, Michael B.; Lynch, Sharon; McAllen, Rob; Mackrill, John J.; Loughran, Gary; Guigó, Roderic; Szpunar, Joanna; Copeland, Paul R.; Gladyshev, Vadim N.; Atkins, John F. (Academic Press, 2019-08-20)

  Selenoproteins typically contain a single selenocysteine, the 21st amino acid, encoded by a context-redefined UGA. However, human selenoprotein P (SelenoP) has a redox-functioning selenocysteine in its N-terminal domain ...
• Environmental effects on parental care visitation patterns in blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus 

  Lejeune, Léa; Savage, James L.; Bründl, Aisha C.; Thiney, Alice; Russell, Andrew F.; Chaine, Alexis S. (Frontiers Media, 2019-09-24)

  In bi-parental care systems each parent shares benefits with its unrelated partner from the common investment in offspring, but pays an individual cost of providing that care, leading to sexual conflict. However, several ...
• Sampling strategies for species with high breeding-site fidelity: A case study in burrow-nesting seabirds 

  Arneill, Gavin E.; Wood, Matt J.; Murphy, David; Pisani, Luca; Jessopp, Mark J.; Quinn, John L. (PLOS, 2019-08-27)

  Sampling approaches used to census and monitor populations of flora and fauna are diverse, ranging from simple random sampling to complex hierarchal stratified designs. Usually the approach taken is determined by the spatial ...

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