Search Results - "Buechel, Severine D"
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Convergent recombination suppression suggests role of sexual selection in guppy sex chromosome formation
Published in Nature communications (31-01-2017)“…Sex chromosomes evolve once recombination is halted between a homologous pair of chromosomes. The dominant model of sex chromosome evolution posits that…”
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Brain size affects performance in a reversal-learning test
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (31-01-2018)“…It has become increasingly clear that a larger brain can confer cognitive benefits. Yet not all of the numerous aspects of cognition seem to be affected by…”
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Plastic changes in brain morphology in relation to learning and environmental enrichment in the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata )
Published in Journal of experimental biology (2019)“…Despite the common assumption that the brain is malleable to surrounding conditions mainly during ontogeny, plastic neural changes can occur also in adulthood…”
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Comparative support for the expensive tissue hypothesis: Big brains are correlated with smaller gut and greater parental investment in Lake Tanganyika cichlids
Published in Evolution (01-01-2015)“…The brain is one of the most energetically expensive organs in the vertebrate body. Consequently, the energetic requirements of encephalization are suggested…”
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On the role of body size, brain size, and eye size in visual acuity
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-12-2017)“…The visual system is highly variable across species, and such variability is a key factor influencing animal behavior. Variation in the visual system, for…”
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Brain size affects female but not male survival under predation threat
Published in Ecology letters (01-07-2015)“…There is remarkable diversity in brain size among vertebrates, but surprisingly little is known about how ecological species interactions impact the evolution…”
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Brain size does not predict learning strategies in a serial reversal learning test
Published in Journal of experimental biology (04-08-2020)“…Reversal learning assays are commonly used across a wide range of taxa to investigate associative learning and behavioural flexibility. In serial reversal…”
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A depauperate immune repertoire precedes evolution of sociality in bees
Published in Genome Biology (24-04-2015)“…Sociality has many rewards, but can also be dangerous, as high population density and low genetic diversity, common in social insects, is ideal for parasite…”
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The link between relative brain size and cognitive ageing in female guppies (Poecilia reticulata) artificially selected for variation in brain size
Published in Experimental gerontology (01-04-2021)“…Cognitive ageing is the general process when certain mental skills gradually deteriorate with age. Across species, there is a pattern of a slower brain…”
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Brain size affects responsiveness in mating behaviour to variation in predation pressure and sex ratio
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology (01-02-2020)“…Despite ongoing advances in sexual selection theory, the evolution of mating decisions remains enigmatic. Cognitive processes often require simultaneous…”
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Artificial selection for schooling behaviour and its effects on associative learning abilities
Published in Journal of experimental biology (07-12-2020)“…The evolution of collective behaviour has been proposed to have important effects on individual cognitive abilities. Yet, in what way they are related remains…”
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Artificial selection on male genitalia length alters female brain size
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (30-11-2016)“…Male harassment is a classic example of how sexual conflict over mating leads to sex-specific behavioural adaptations. Females often suffer significant costs…”
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Variation in sexual brain size dimorphism over the breeding cycle in the three-spined stickleback
Published in Journal of experimental biology (2019)“…Snapshot analyses have demonstrated dramatic intraspecific variation in the degree of brain sexual size dimorphism (SSD). Although brain SSD is believed to be…”
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Social chromosome variants differentially affect queen determination and the survival of workers in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta
Published in Molecular ecology (01-10-2014)“…Intraspecific variation in social organization is common, yet the underlying causes are rarely known. An exception is the fire ant Solenopsis invicta in which…”
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Different mating contexts lead to extensive rewiring of female brain coexpression networks in the guppy
Published in Genes, brain and behavior (01-03-2021)“…Understanding the basis of behavior requires dissecting the complex waves of gene expression that underlie how the brain processes stimuli and produces an…”
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Rapid mosaic brain evolution under artificial selection for relative telencephalon size in the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata )
Published in Science advances (12-11-2021)“…The mosaic brain evolution hypothesis, stating that brain regions can evolve relatively independently during cognitive evolution, is an important idea to…”
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On the power to detect rare recombination events
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Male‐biased gene expression resolves sexual conflict through the evolution of sex‐specific genetic architecture
Published in Evolution letters (01-04-2018)“…Many genes are subject to contradictory selection pressures in males and females, and balancing selection resulting from sexual conflict has the potential to…”
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Functional convergence of genomic and transcriptomic architecture underlies schooling behaviour in a live-bearing fish
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (01-01-2024)“…The organization and coordination of fish schools provide a valuable model to investigate the genetic architecture of affiliative behaviours and dissect the…”
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Female brain size affects the assessment of male attractiveness during mate choice
Published in Science advances (01-03-2017)“…Mate choice decisions are central in sexual selection theory aimed to understand how sexual traits evolve and their role in evolutionary diversification. We…”
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