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Phylotranscriptomic analysis uncovers a wealth of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases variants in echinoderms
(2015)Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) help regulate the extracellular matrix (ECM) in animals, mostly by inhibiting matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). They are important activators of mutable collagenous tissue ... -
Estimating uncertainty and reliability of social network data using Bayesian inference
(2015)Social network analysis provides a useful lens through which to view the structure of animal societies, and as a result its use is increasingly widespread. One challenge that many studies of animal social networks face is ... -
Modelling humanmobility patterns using photographic data shared online
(2015)Humans are inherently mobile creatures. The way we move around our environment has consequences for a wide range of problems, including the design of efficient transportation systems and the planning of urban areas. Here, ... -
Concordance on zebra stripes is not black and white
(2015)We agree that the results of Larisonet al.[1]andCaroet al.[2] are largely congruent—however, we remain divided on their interpretation. Both papers assessed a number of variables for an association with striping. Larisonet ... -
Emergence of intercolonial variation in termite shelter tube patterns and prediction of its underlying mechanism
(2015)Building behaviours occur in various organisms from bacteria to humans. Social insects build various structures such as large nests and underground galleries, achieved by self-organization. Structures built by social insects ... -
Seasonal changes in the altitudinal distribution of nocturnallymigrating birds during autumnmigration
(2015)Wind plays a significant role in the flight altitudes selected by nocturnally migrating birds. At mid-latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, atmospheric conditions are dictated by the polar-front jet stream, whose amplitude ... -
Differential responses of coral larvae to the colour of ambient light guide them to suitable settlement microhabitat
(2015)Reef-building corals produce planktonic planula larvae that must select an appropriate habitat to settle and spend the rest of their life, a behaviour that plays a critical role in survival. Here, we report that larvae ... -
The contribution of seed dispersers to tree species diversity in tropical rainforests
(2015)Tropical rainforests are known for their extreme biodiversity, posing a challenging problem in tropical ecology. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain the diversity of tree species, yet our understanding of this ... -
Frog tongue acts as muscle-powered adhesive tape
(2015)Frogs are well known to capture fast-moving prey by flicking their sticky tongues out of the mouth. This tongue projection behaviour happens extremely fast which makes frog tongues a biological high-speed adhesive system. ... -
A severe red tide causes an anomalous decrease in biological sound
(2015)Although harmful algal blooms (HABs) are known to cause morbidity and mortality in marine organisms, their sublethal effects are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to compare ambient noise levels during a ... -
Temporal modelling of ballast water discharge and ship-mediated invasion risk to Australia
(2015)Biological invasions have the potential to cause extensive ecological and economic damage. Maritime trade facilitates biological invasions by transferring species in ballast water, and on ships’ hulls. With volumes of ... -
Analysis of millimetre wave polarization diverse multiple input multiple output capacity
(2015)Millimetre-waves offer the possibility of wide bandwidth and consequently high data rate for wireless communications. For both uni- and dual-polarized systems, signals sent over a link may suffer severe degradation due to ... -
Concordance on zebra stripes
(2015)The functional significance of the extraordinary black and white stripes of zebras is still mysterious but now an active field of research. Four major hypotheses have been put forward: stripes are an antipredator defence ... -
On themodularity of certain functions from the Gromov–Witten theory of elliptic orbifolds
(2015)In this paper, we study modularity of several functions which naturally arose in a recent paper of Lau and Zhou on open Gromov–Witten potentials of elliptic orbifolds. They derived a number of examples of indefinite theta ... -
Response to comment by Loiselle & Ramchandra
(2015)I thank Loiselle and Ramchandra (hereafter ‘the authors’) for their interest. First, I should say that it might have been a mistake to use the term ‘false discovery rate’. This is so because the same term is used in the ... -
The invasive plant, Brassica nigra,degrades local mycorrhizas across a wide geographical landscape
(2015)Disruption of mycorrhizal fungi that form symbioses with local native plants is a strategy used by some invasive exotic plants for competing within their resident communities. Example invasive plants include Alliaria ... -
Omura’s whales off northwest Madagascar
(2015)The Omura’s whale (Balaenoptera omurai)was describedas a new species in 2003 and then soon after as an ancient lineage basal to a Bryde’s/sei whale clade. Currently known only from whaling and stranding specimens primarily ... -
An advanced shape-fitting algorithmapplied to quadrupedal mammals
(2015)Body mass is a fundamental physical property of an individual and has enormous bearing upon ecology and physiology. Generating reliable estimates for body mass is therefore a necessary step in many palaeontological studies. ... -
High content screening identifies a role for Na+ channels in insulin production
(2015)Insulin production is the central feature of functionally mature and differentiated pancreaticβ-cells. Reduced insulin transcription and dedifferentiation have been implicated in type 2 diabetes, making drugs that could ... -
Flood pulse effects on multispecies fishery yields in the Lower Amazon
(2015)Seasonally fluctuating water levels, known as ‘flood pulses’, control the productivity of large river fisheries, but the extent and mechanisms through which flood pulses affect fishery yields are poorly understood. To ...
