Search Results - "Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences"

The worldwide importance of honey bees as pollinators in natural habitats by Hung, Keng-Lou James, Kingston, Jennifer M., Albrecht, Matthias, Holway, David A., Kohn, Joshua R.

“…The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most frequent floral visitor of crops worldwide, but quantitative knowledge of its role as a pollinator outside…”
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Mitochondrial phylogenomics of Hemiptera reveals adaptive innovations driving the diversification of true bugs by Li, Hu, Leavengood, John M., Chapman, Eric G., Burkhardt, Daniel, Song, Fan, Jiang, Pei, Liu, Jinpeng, Zhou, Xuguo, Cai, Wanzhi

“…Hemiptera, the largest non-holometabolous order of insects, represents approximately 7% of metazoan diversity. With extraordinary life histories and highly…”
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Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects by Baldock, Katherine C. R., Goddard, Mark A., Hicks, Damien M., Kunin, William E., Mitschunas, Nadine, Osgathorpe, Lynne M., Potts, Simon G., Robertson, Kirsty M., Scott, Anna V., Stone, Graham N., Vaughan, Ian P., Memmott, Jane

“…Insect pollinators provide a crucial ecosystem service, but are under threat. Urban areas could be important for pollinators, though their value relative to…”
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Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover by Plowright, Raina K., Eby, Peggy, Hudson, Peter J., Smith, Ina L., Westcott, David, Bryden, Wayne L., Middleton, Deborah, Reid, Peter A., McFarlane, Rosemary A., Martin, Gerardo, Tabor, Gary M., Skerratt, Lee F., Anderson, Dale L., Crameri, Gary, Quammen, David, Jordan, David, Freeman, Paul, Wang, Lin-Fa, Epstein, Jonathan H., Marsh, Glenn A., Kung, Nina Y., McCallum, Hamish

“…Viruses that originate in bats may be the most notorious emerging zoonoses that spill over from wildlife into domestic animals and humans. Understanding how…”
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Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification by Pywell, Richard F., Heard, Matthew S., Woodcock, Ben A., Hinsley, Shelley, Ridding, Lucy, Nowakowski, Marek, Bullock, James M.

“…Ecological intensification has been promoted as a means to achieve environmentally sustainable increases in crop yields by enhancing ecosystem functions that…”
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A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special? by Luis, Angela D., Hayman, David T. S., O'Shea, Thomas J., Cryan, Paul M., Gilbert, Amy T., Pulliam, Juliet R. C., Mills, James N., Timonin, Mary E., Willis, Craig K. R., Cunningham, Andrew A., Fooks, Anthony R., Rupprecht, Charles E., Wood, James L. N., Webb, Colleen T.

“…Bats are the natural reservoirs of a number of high-impact viral zoonoses. We present a quantitative analysis to address the hypothesis that bats are unique in…”
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Fear of the human ‘super predator’ reduces feeding time in large carnivores by Smith, Justine A., Suraci, Justin P., Clinchy, Michael, Crawford, Ayana, Roberts, Devin, Zanette, Liana Y., Wilmers, Christopher C.

“…Large carnivores' fear of the human ‘super predator’ has the potential to alter their feeding behaviour and result in human-induced trophic cascades. However,…”
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The contribution of additive genetic variation to personality variation: heritability of personality by Dochtermann, Ned A., Schwab, Tori, Sih, Andrew

“…Individual animals frequently exhibit repeatable differences from other members of their population, differences now commonly referred to as ‘animal…”
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Bee pollination improves crop quality, shelf life and commercial value by Klatt, Björn K., Holzschuh, Andrea, Westphal, Catrin, Clough, Yann, Smit, Inga, Pawelzik, Elke, Tscharntke, Teja

“…Pollination improves the yield of most crop species and contributes to one-third of global crop production, but comprehensive benefits including crop quality…”
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A well-constrained estimate for the timing of the salmonid whole genome duplication reveals major decoupling from species diversification by Macqueen, Daniel J., Johnston, Ian A.

“…Whole genome duplication (WGD) is often considered to be mechanistically associated with species diversification. Such ideas have been anecdotally attached to…”
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A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs by Carballido, José L., Pol, Diego, Otero, Alejandro, Cerda, Ignacio A., Salgado, Leonardo, Garrido, Alberto C., Ramezani, Jahandar, Cúneo, Néstor R., Krause, Javier M.

“…Titanosauria was the most diverse and successful lineage of sauropod dinosaurs. This clade had its major radiation during the middle Early Cretaceous and…”
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Evolution of the immune system in humans from infancy to old age by Simon, A. Katharina, Hollander, Georg A., McMichael, Andrew

“…This article reviews the development of the immune response through neonatal, infant and adult life, including pregnancy, ending with the decline in old age. A…”
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Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, increases faunal diversity through physical engineering by Miller, Robert J., Lafferty, Kevin D., Lamy, Thomas, Kui, Li, Rassweiler, Andrew, Reed, Daniel C.

“…Foundation species define the ecosystems they live in, but ecologists have often characterized dominant plants as foundational without supporting evidence…”
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Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests by Martin, Philip A., Newton, Adrian C., Bullock, James M.

“…Although increasing efforts are being made to restore tropical forests, little information is available regarding the time scales required for carbon and plant…”
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Proteomic evidence of dietary sources in ancient dental calculus by Hendy, Jessica, Warinner, Christina, Bouwman, Abigail, Collins, Matthew J., Fiddyment, Sarah, Fischer, Roman, Hagan, Richard, Hofman, Courtney A., Holst, Malin, Chaves, Eros, Klaus, Lauren, Larson, Greger, Mackie, Meaghan, McGrath, Krista, Mundorff, Amy Z., Radini, Anita, Rao, Huiyun, Trachsel, Christian, Velsko, Irina M., Speller, Camilla F.

“…Archaeological dental calculus has emerged as a rich source of ancient biomolecules, including proteins. Previous analyses of proteins extracted from ancient…”
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Population viability at extreme sex-ratio skews produced by temperature-dependent sex determination by Hays, Graeme C., Mazaris, Antonios D., Schofield, Gail, Laloë, Jacques-Olivier

“…For species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) there is the fear that rising temperatures may lead to single-sex populations and population…”
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Open data and digital morphology by Davies, Thomas G., Rahman, Imran A., Lautenschlager, Stephan, Cunningham, John A., Asher, Robert J., Barrett, Paul M., Bates, Karl T., Bengtson, Stefan, Benson, Roger B. J., Boyer, Doug M., Braga, José, Bright, Jen A., Claessens, Leon P. A. M., Cox, Philip G., Dong, Xi-Ping, Evans, Alistair R., Falkingham, Peter L., Friedman, Matt, Garwood, Russell J., Goswami, Anjali, Hutchinson, John R., Jeffery, Nathan S., Johanson, Zerina, Lebrun, Renaud, Martínez-Pérez, Carlos, Marugán-Lobón, Jesús, O'Higgins, Paul M., Metscher, Brian, Orliac, Maëva, Rowe, Timothy B., Rücklin, Martin, Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R., Shubin, Neil H., Smith, Selena Y., Starck, J. Matthias, Stringer, Chris, Summers, Adam P., Sutton, Mark D., Walsh, Stig A., Weisbecker, Vera, Witmer, Lawrence M., Wroe, Stephen, Yin, Zongjun, Rayfield, Emily J., Donoghue, Philip C. J.

“…Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the…”
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The geography and ecology of plant speciation: range overlap and niche divergence in sister species by Anacker, Brian L., Strauss, Sharon Y.

“…A goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the roles of geography and ecology in speciation. The recent shared ancestry of sister species can leave a…”
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Hybridization as a facilitator of species range expansion by Pfennig, Karin S., Kelly, Audrey L., Pierce, Amanda A.

“…Explaining the evolution of species geographical ranges is fundamental to understanding how biodiversity is distributed and maintained. The solution to this…”
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The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions by Laland, Kevin N., Uller, Tobias, Feldman, Marcus W., Sterelny, Kim, Müller, Gerd B., Moczek, Armin, Jablonka, Eva, Odling-Smee, John

“…Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of…”
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