cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qh1n088f
title: Data from: Divergence of ovipositor length and egg shape in a brood parasitic bitterling fish through the use of different mussel hosts

description: Bitterling fishes deposit their eggs on the gills of living mussels using
 a long ovipositor. We examined whether ovipositor length and egg shape
 correlated with differences in host mussel species in the family Unionidae
 among populations of the tabira bitterling (Acheilognathus tabira) in
 Japan. Bitterling populations that use mussels in the sub-family
 Anodontinae possessed longer ovipositors and more elongated eggs than
 those using mussels of Unioninae, as expected from the difference in host
 size between the sub-families (anodontine mussels are larger than unionine
 mussels). Based on a robust phylogeny of A. tabira populations, we
 demonstrated that the evolution of both ovipositor length and egg shape
 were correlated with host differences, but not with each other, suggesting
 that these traits have been selected for independently. Our study
 demonstrates how adaptive traits for brood parasitism may diverge with
 host shift due to different host availability and/or interspecific
 competition for hosts.
description: A.tabira_summary_data.Sample locality, subspecies, habitat type, host mussel, and dimensions of females and mature eggs for Acheilognathus tabira. All data were collected from field-collected samples.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.d21t0
title: Data from: Rapid range expansion increases genetic differentiation while causing limited reduction in genetic diversity in a damselfly

description: Many ectothermic species are currently expanding their geographic range
 due to global warming. This can modify the population genetic diversity
 and structure of these species because of genetic drift during the
 colonization of new areas. Although the genetic signatures of historical
 range expansions have been investigated in an array of species, the
 genetic consequences of natural, contemporary range expansions have
 received little attention, with the only studies available focusing on
 range expansions along a narrow front. We investigate the genetic
 consequences of a natural range expansion in the Mediterranean damselfly
 Coenagrion scitulum, which is currently rapidly expanding along a broad
 front in different directions. We assessed genetic diversity and genetic
 structure using twelve microsatellite markers in five centrally located
 populations and five recently established populations at the edge of the
 geographic distribution. Our results suggest that, although a marginal
 significant decrease in the allelic richness was found in the edge
 populations, genetic diversity has been preserved during the range
 expansion of this species. Nevertheless, edge populations were genetically
 more differentiated compared to core populations, suggesting genetic drift
 during the range expansion. The smaller effective population sizes of the
 edge populations compared to central populations also suggest a
 contribution of genetic drift after colonization. We argue and document
 that range expansion along multiple axes of a broad expansion front
 generates little reduction in genetic diversity, yet stronger
 differentiation of the edge populations.
description: Microsatellite data of
 core and edge populations of Coenagrion scitulum in Western
 EuropeGenotype data of
 Coenagrion scitulum individuals from five core and five edge populations.
 Samples were collected in the field and the extracted DNA was genotyped
 for twelve microsatellite loci.Cscitulum_microsatellite_dryad.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5181v
title: Data from: Individual ant workers show self-control

description: Often, the first option is not the best. Self-control can allow humans and
 animals to improve resource intake under such conditions. Self-control in
 animals is often investigated using intertemporal choice tasks—choosing a
 smaller reward immediately or a larger reward after a delay. However,
 intertemporal choice tasks may underestimate self-control, as test
 subjects may not fully understand the task. Vertebrates show much greater
 apparent self-control in more natural foraging contexts and spatial
 discounting tasks than in intertemporal choice tasks. However, little is
 still known about self-control in invertebrates. Here, we investigate
 self-control in the black garden ant Lasius niger. We confront individual
 workers with a spatial discounting task, offering a high-quality reward
 far from the nest and a poor-quality reward closer to the nest. Most ants
 (69%) successfully ignored the closer, poorer reward in favour of the
 further, better one. However, when both the far and the close rewards were
 of the same quality, most ants (83%) chose the closer feeder, indicating
 that the ants were indeed exercising self-control, as opposed to a
 fixation on an already known food source.
description: S2 - raw
 data
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n386bb2
title: Data from: Latitudinal variation in seagrass herbivory: global patterns and explanatory mechanisms

description: Aim: The aim was to quantify latitudinal patterns in seagrass–herbivore
 interactions in the context of a warming climate. Location: We carried out
 a global meta‐analysis combined with a field experiment across 1,700 km
 and 12° of latitude in Western Australia. Time period: 1984–2014. Major
 taxa studied: Seagrasses. Methods: We first synthesized the global
 literature on herbivore exclusion experiments in seagrasses to test
 whether differences in herbivore impacts are related to latitude and sea
 surface temperature. We then quantified leaf production and consumption
 rates in the field at nine meadows of the seagrass Amphibolis antarctica
 across 1,700 km, from tropical to temperate latitudes. Seagrass biomass
 and nutritional traits (nitrogen, C:N, phenolics) were also measured.
 Results: Our meta‐analysis showed that herbivores had a similar net impact
 on seagrasses across 37° of absolute latitude, and there was little
 variation in herbivore exclusion effects at different temperatures. In the
 field, rates of both production and consumption of seagrass were greatest
 in the tropics and decreased with latitude. Seagrass nutritional quality
 was lowest in the tropics, where fish removed c. 30% of primary
 production. Consumption of the more nutritious temperate seagrasses was
 lower overall but also highly variable and dominated by invertebrates.
 Main conclusions: In tropical latitudes, faster growth rates compensated
 for greater consumption of A. antarctica by herbivores. This resulted in
 similar net impacts of herbivores across latitudes, because higher
 latitude plants grew more slowly but also suffered less herbivory. This
 match between consumption and production rates might explain the global
 patterns derived from the literature, which show little latitudinal
 variation in the effects of consumers on seagrasses. As ocean temperatures
 continue to rise and overall herbivory levels are expected to increase in
 temperate regions, the survival of seagrass meadows in higher latitudes
 will depend on the ability of plants to increase growth at compensatory
 rates.
description: Verges et al 2018 ALL
 DATACollected in the field
 on tagged shoots or using 25 x 25 cm2 quadrats (for density and biomass
 data)
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.91n36
title: Data from: Social capital as a determinant of pregnant mother’s place of delivery: experience from Kongwa District in central Tanzania

description: Introduction: Maternal ill health contributes highly to the global burden
 of diseases in countries South of Sahara including Tanzania. Ensuring that
 all deliveries take place in health facilities and hence attended by
 skilled health personnel is one of the strategies advocated by global and
 national policies, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
 However, the number of women delivered by skilled health personnel has
 remained low in sub Saharan Africa despite of a number of interventions.
 We sought to determine the role of social capital in facilitating health
 facility delivery. Methods: We randomly selected 744 households with
 children aged less than five years from two randomly selected wards in a
 rural area in Tanzania. Mothers were enquired about place of delivery of
 the last child. Social capital was assessed using a modified questionnaire
 with both structural and cognitive aspects of social capital, administered
 in face-to-face interviews. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to
 develop asocial capital index measure. Uni-variate and multivariable
 regression models were run using STATA 12. Results: Majority (85.9%) of
 the mothers reported to have delivered in a health facility during their
 last birth. Compared to the lowest social capital quintile, delivering in
 a health facility increased significantly with increase in social capital
 level: low (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) = 2.9; Confidence Interval (CI):
 1.4–6.1, p = 0.004); moderate (AOR = 5.5, CI: 2.3–13.3,
 p-value&lt;0.001); high (AOR = 4.7; CI: 1.9–11.6,
 p-value&lt;0.001) and highest (AOR = 5.6, CI: 2.4–13.4,
 p-value&lt;0.001) and χ2-test for the trend was significant (χ2 =
 17.21, p&lt;0.001). Conclusion: Overall, social capital seems to play
 an important role in enhancing health facility delivery that may lead to
 improved maternal and child health. Concerted efforts should focus on
 promoting and supporting effective social capital and in particular
 cognitive social capital.
description: Social Capital as a
 Determinant of Pregnant Mother’s Place of Delivery: Experience From Kongwa
 District in Central Tanzania.This is data set was
 collected in Kongwa district in Tanzania. The dependent variable is
 delivering in a health facility. The independent variables are social
 capital and social demographic characteristics.delivery_paper.dta
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.14cn58v
title: Data from: Functional relations between body mass and risk-taking behavior in wild great tits

description: Natural selection often favors particular combinations of
 functionally-related traits, resulting in adaptive phenotypic integration.
 Phenotypic integration has been proposed as a potential mechanism
 explaining the existence of repeatable among-individual differences in
 behavior (i.e., animal personality). In this study, we investigated
 patterns of covariation between morphology and behavior in a population of
 free-living great tits (Parus major) monitored for seven years. In
 particular, we aimed to disentangle the effect of structural size versus
 body condition on risk-taking behavior. To do so, we repeatedly quantified
 multiple morphological (body mass, wing, tarsus, and bill length) and
 behavioral traits (aggressiveness and exploration) in 742 individual
 males. Structural equation modelling (SEM) allowed us to test causal a
 priori hypothesized relationships between the different morphological and
 behavioral traits. Our best-fitting SEM model supported the existence of a
 behavioral character, “risk-taking behavior” that covaried simultaneously
 with the latent variable “body size”, and “body condition”. Our findings
 thus demonstrate that an individual’s morphological and behavioral traits
 represent expressions of an integrated phenotype, suggesting a role for
 phenotypic integration in generating animal personality in a wild bird
 population.
description: Moiron et al_Dataset
 State and Behaviour Integration MSMoiron et al_Dataset
 Integration MS.txt
DOI: 10.15468/dl.2rwj42
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 396 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Philadelphus inodorus",
 "HasCoordinate is true",
 "BasisOfRecord is one of (Specimen)"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 396 records from 102 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0001058-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fv35j
title: Data from: Reduction of the pectoral spine and girdle in domesticated Channel Catfish is likely caused by changes in selection pressure

description: Locked pectoral spines of the Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus more
 than double the fish’s width and complicate ingestion by gape-limited
 predators. The spine mates with the pectoral girdle, a robust structure
 that anchors the spine. This study demonstrates that both spine and girdle
 exhibit negative allometric growth and that pectoral spines and girdles
 are lighter in domesticated than in wild Channel Catfish. This finding
 could be explained by changes in selection pressure for spine growth
 during domestication or by an epigenetic effect in which exposure to
 predators in wild fish stimulates pectoral growth. We tested the
 epigenetic hypothesis by exposing domesticated Channel Catfish fingerlings
 to Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides predators for 13 weeks. Spines
 and girdles grow isometrically in the fingerlings, and regression analysis
 indicates no difference in proportional pectoral growth between control
 and predator-exposed fish. Therefore a change in selection pressure likely
 accounts for smaller pectoral growth in domesticated Channel Catfish.
 Decreasing spine growth in older fish suggests anti-predator functions are
 most important in smaller fish. Additionally, growth of the appendicular
 and axial skeleton is controlled differentially, and mechanical properties
 of the spine and not just its length are an important component of this
 defensive adaptation.
description: Dimensions of catfish
 spinesRelationship of spine
 and girdle dimensions to fish dimensions.Means of TL, Wt, SpW, SpL, G
 Wt.xlsxWt vs
 GWGirdle weight vs fish
 weightWt vs
 SpWSpine weight against
 fish weightTL vs
 SpLSpine length against
 total length
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.26s8n73
title: Data from: Abundance of small mammals correlates with their elevational range sizes and elevational distributions in the subtropics

description: The idea that a positive abundance-range size relationship (ARR) is
 pervasive in nature has been challenged by recent studies focused on
 montane and island vertebrate assemblages. However, because some of these
 studies used species’ local abundance and regional or global range size in
 examining the ARRs, the negative and neutral trends reported are
 questionable. Here, by relating species’ mean abundance along elevational
 gradients to elevational range size, we examined the ARRs of non-flying
 small mammals on three subtropical mountains of Southwest China. We also
 examined the relationship between mean abundance and elevational range
 centre (reflecting species’ elevational distribution) on each mountain,
 and compared the elevational range centre and mean abundance between
 endemic and non-endemic species as they may have been subjected to
 different intensities of historical (e.g. geographical isolation and
 colonization) and ecological (e.g. ecological specialization) processes.
 The results show significantly positive relationship between mean
 abundance and elevational range size on each mountain. We also observed a
 consistent positive relationship between mean abundance and elevational
 range centre, probably due to the stronger local specialization of mid-
 and high-elevation species, lower species richness at higher elevations,
 and increasing extinction rate of small-ranged less abundant species
 towards higher elevations. A novel finding of our study is that endemic
 species show higher elevational range centres and higher mean abundance
 than non-endemic species on each mountain, which is most likely driven by
 the increasing geographical isolation with elevation and the higher degree
 of ecological specialization for endemic species. Measuring abundance and
 range size at the same spatial scale is a key prerequisite to evaluate the
 ARRs of montane small mammals.
description: Non-flying small mammal
 dataset of the Gongga, Baima Snow and Sejila MountainsNon-flying small mammal
 dataset of the Gongga, Baima Snow and Sejila Mountains in the Mountainous
 Region of Southwest ChinaSmall mammal dataset of three
 mountains.docx
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.29979.32807
title: DR. JOSE GNANA BABU Overcoming Translational Barriers In Neuroprotection: From Molecular Targets To Biomarkers"
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.m730b
title: Data from: Wall structure and material properties cause viscous damping of swimbladder sounds in the oyster toadfish Opsanus tau

description: Despite rapid damping, fish swimbladders have been modelled as underwater
 resonant bubbles. Recent data suggest that swimbladders of sound-producing
 fishes use a forced rather than a resonant response to produce sound. The
 reason for this discrepancy has not been formally addressed, and we
 demonstrate, for the first time, that the structure of the swimbladder
 wall will affect vibratory behaviour. Using the oyster toadfish Opsanus
 tau, we find regional differences in bladder thickness, directionality of
 collagen layers (anisotropic bladder wall structure), material properties
 that differ between circular and longitudinal directions (stress, strain
 and Young's modulus), high water content (80%) of the bladder wall
 and a 300-fold increase in the modulus of dried tissue. Therefore, the
 swimbladder wall is a viscoelastic structure that serves to damp
 vibrations and impart directionality, preventing the expression of
 resonance.
description: S1 Blad thickness for
 maleBladder thickness for
 juvenile, male and female oyster toadfishS2 Thickness
 rostroacaudal and dorsal, side and ventral transectsBladder thickness in
 dorsal, side ventral and in rostral caudal transects in the oyster
 toadfishS3 Stress, strain and
 modululsStress, strain and
 modulus of bladder wall in 0 and 90 degree pulls (circuluar and
 longitudinal
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b700h
title: Data from: A computer vision for animal ecology

description: 1. A central goal of animal ecology is to observe species in the natural
 world. The cost and challenge of data collection often limit the breadth
 and scope of ecological study. Ecologists often use image capture to
 bolster data collection in time and space. However, the ability to process
 these images remains a bottleneck. 2. Computer vision can greatly increase
 the efficiency, repeatability, and accuracy of image review. Computer
 vision uses image features, such as color, shape, and texture to infer
 image content. 3. I provide a brief primer on ecological computer vision
 to outline its goals, tools and applications to animal ecology. 4. I
 reviewed 187 existing applications of computer vision and divided articles
 into ecological description, counting, and identity tasks. 5. I discuss
 recommendations for enhancing the collaboration between ecologists and
 computer scientists and highlight areas for future growth of automated
 image analysis.
description: Review_revision
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1tp6101
title: Data from: Facilitation promotes invasions in plant-associated microbial communities

description: While several studies have established a positive correlation between
 community diversity and invasion resistance, it is less clear how species
 interactions within resident communities shape this process. Here, we
 experimentally tested how antagonistic and facilitative pairwise
 interactions within resident model microbial communities predict invasion
 by the plant–pathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum. We found that
 facilitative resident community interactions promoted and antagonistic
 interactions suppressed invasions both in the lab and in the tomato plant
 rhizosphere. Crucially, pairwise interactions reliably explained observed
 invasion outcomes also in multispecies communities, and mechanistically,
 this was linked to direct inhibition of the invader by antagonistic
 communities (antibiosis), and to a lesser degree by resource competition
 between members of the resident community and the invader. Together, our
 findings suggest that the type and strength of pairwise interactions can
 reliably predict the outcome of invasions in more complex multispecies
 communities.
description: Data from: Facilitation
 promotes invasions in plant-associated microbial
 communitiesinteraction_data_final.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.k28r8
title: Data from: Genetic structure reveals a history of multiple independent origins followed by admixture in the allopolyploid weed Salsola ryanii

description: It has recently become clear that many invasive species have evolved in
 situ via hybridization or polyploidy from progenitors which themselves are
 introduced species. For species formed by hybridization or polyploidy,
 genetic diversity within the newly formed species is influenced by the
 number of independent evolutionary origins of the species. For recently
 formed species, an analysis of genetic structure can provide insight into
 the number of independent origin events involved in the formation of the
 species. For a putative invasive allopolyploid species, the number of
 origins involved in the species formation, the genetic diversity present
 within these origins, and the level of gene flow between independent
 origins determines the genetic composition of the neospecies. Here we
 analyze the genetic structure of the newly formed allopolyploid species,
 Salsola ryanii, a tumbleweed which evolved within the last 20–100 years in
 California. We utilize the genetic structure analysis to determine that
 this new species is the result of at least three independent
 allopolyplodization events followed by gene flow between the descendants
 of independent origins.
description: Salsola SSR allele
 calls
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q7r61k7
title: Data from: C4 anatomy can evolve via a single developmental change

description: C4 photosynthesis boosts productivity in warm environments. Paradoxically,
 this complex physiological process evolved independently in numerous plant
 lineages, despite requiring specialized leaf anatomy. The anatomical
 modifications underlying C4 evolution have previously been evaluated
 through interspecific comparisons, which capture numerous changes besides
 those needed for C4 functionality. Here, we quantify the anatomical
 changes accompanying the transition between non-C4 and C4 phenotypes by
 sampling widely across the continuum of leaf anatomical traits in the
 grass Alloteropsis semialata. Within this species, the only trait that is
 shared and specific to C4 individuals is an increase in vein density,
 driven specifically by minor vein development. The minor veins are
 genetically determined, and their multiple effects facilitate C4 function.
 For species with the necessary anatomical preconditions, developmental
 proliferation of veins can therefore be sufficient to produce a functional
 C4 leaf anatomy, creating an evolutionary entry point to complex C4
 syndromes that can become more specialized.
description: Alloteropsis leaf
 anatomy datasetExcel file containing
 datasets presented in the paper. Column headings provide units. Methods
 section in the paper provides collection / analysis
 methods.Lundgren_et_al_EcologyLetters_Datasets.xlsx