cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0jg44
title: Data from: Effects of neonatal size on maturity and escape performance in the Trinidadian guppy

description: The livebearing Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) produces bigger
 offspring in populations exposed to low predation and produces smaller,
 more numerous offspring in populations subject to high predation (HP).
 Like most fishes, guppies respond to predator attacks with a fast-start
 escape response. From the scaling of teleost fast-start performance, we
 predict that larger guppy neonates should exhibit faster, more effective
 escape responses than smaller neonates. Increasing performance with
 increasing size could be due simply to size, or to both size and the
 acquisition of more mature body forms, as is seen in larval-stage fishes.
 We find no difference in external body proportions among guppy offspring
 varying in size from 5·1 mm to 7·1 mm at birth, suggesting offspring are
 born morphologically mature. However, based on the degree of skeletal
 ossification, as a proxy for internal maturity, we find that guppies are
 still maturing rapidly around the time of birth. The smallest neonates
 from the very HP Caroni confluence lack ossification of key skeletal
 elements that are present in their larger low predation counterparts. In
 guppies from the Aripo/Caroni drainage, we show that neonatal escape
 performance covaries with responsiveness and increases with size along a
 gradient of HP offspring, but is lower in the largest low predation
 offspring. The scaling of escape performance in the HP populations
 performing maximally (scaling with length as L2·76) exceeds predictions
 from size alone (scaling exponent of L1·0 indicates performance increases
 linearly with body size). This suggests that guppy neonates, like rapidly
 developing larval fishes, vary substantially in morphological maturity
 among populations. The finding that neonatal guppy offspring covary in
 both size and maturity at birth means that being smaller also means being
 less mature, which amplifies the negative escape performance effects of
 being born small. Despite the negative consequences of being born both
 small and immature, HP environments select heavily for high fecundity, and
 thus small offspring size. We find selection favours female life-history
 traits over offspring escape performance.
description: Neonatal guppy
 morphology and performanceData set documenting
 inter-population variation of neonatal size, morphology and escape
 performance (including response time) in Poecilia reticulata. Data
 collected spring of 2013. Populations include Aripo high and low
 predation; Oropouche high and low predation; Caroni.Guppy escape
 data.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.30mc3h7
title: Data from: Subordinate females in the cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler obtain direct benefits by joining unrelated groups

description: 1. In many cooperatively breeding animals, a combination of ecological
 constraints and benefits of philopatry favours offspring taking a
 subordinate position on the natal territory instead of dispersing to breed
 independently. However, in many species individuals disperse to a
 subordinate position in a non-natal group (“subordinate between-group”
 dispersal), despite losing the kin-selected and nepotistic benefits of
 remaining in the natal group. It is unclear which social, genetic and
 ecological factors drive between-group dispersal. 2. We aim to elucidate
 the adaptive significance of subordinate between-group dispersal by
 examining which factors promote such dispersal, whether subordinates gain
 improved ecological and social conditions by joining a non-natal group,
 and whether between-group dispersal results in increased lifetime
 reproductive success and survival. 3. Using a long-term dataset on the
 cooperatively-breeding Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis), we
 investigated how a suite of proximate factors (food availability, group
 composition, age and sex of focal individuals, population density) promote
 subordinate between-group dispersal by comparing such dispersers with
 subordinates that dispersed to a dominant position or became floaters. We
 then analysed whether subordinates that moved to a dominant or non-natal
 subordinate position, or became floaters, gained improved conditions
 relative to the natal territory, and compared fitness components between
 the three dispersal strategies. 4. We show that individuals that joined
 another group as non-natal subordinates were mainly female and that,
 similar to floating, between-group dispersal was associated with social
 and demographic factors that constrained dispersal to an independent
 breeding position. Between-group dispersal was not driven by improved
 ecological or social conditions in the new territory and did not result in
 higher survival. Instead, between-group dispersing females often became
 co-breeders, obtaining maternity in the new territory, and were likely to
 inherit the territory in the future, leading to higher lifetime
 reproductive success compared to females that floated. Males never
 reproduced as subordinates, which may be one explanation why subordinate
 between-group dispersal by males is rare. 5. Our results suggest that
 subordinate between-group dispersal is used by females to obtain
 reproductive benefits when options to disperse to an independent breeding
 position are limited. This provides important insight into the additional
 strategies that individuals can use to obtain reproductive benefits.
description: Zip file containing all
 datasets for this publicationThis .zip file contains
 10 different datasets, which have been split up for each analysis
 separately, for easier reproducibility. The info.txt file which is
 included, explains the data contained in each file.Data.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.38t23
title: Data from: Natal foraging philopatry in eastern Pacific hawksbill turtles

description: The complex processes involved with animal migration have long been a
 subject of biological interest and broad-scale movement patterns of many
 marine turtle populations still remain unresolved. While it is widely
 accepted that once marine turtles reach sexual maturity they home to natal
 areas for nesting or reproduction, the role of philopatry to natal areas
 during other life stages has received less scrutiny, despite widespread
 evidence across the taxa. Here we report on genetic research that
 indicates that juvenile hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the
 eastern Pacific Ocean use foraging grounds in the region of their natal
 beaches, a pattern we term natal foraging philopatry (NFP). Our findings
 confirm that traditional views of natal homing solely for reproduction are
 incomplete and that many marine turtle species exhibit philopatry to natal
 areas to forage. Our results have important implications for life-history
 research and conservation of marine turtles and may extend to other
 wide-ranging marine vertebrates that demonstrate natal philopatry.
description: BAYES BSE
 fileBase file used in BAYES
 mixed-stock analysisBase.BSEBAYES CTL1CTL1 file used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisCTL1.CTLBAYES CTL2CTL2 file used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisCTL2.CTLBAYES CTL3CTL3 file used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisCTL3.CTLBAYES CTL4CTL4 file used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisCTL4.CTLBAYES CTL5CTL5 file used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisCTL5.CTLMIX_RFG1MIX file for RFG1 used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisMIX_RFG2MIX file for RFG2 used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisMIX_RFG3MIX file for RFG3 used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisMIX_RFG4MIX file for RFG4 used in BAYES mixed-stock analysisFst valuesFst values of foraging grounds used in the PCA (GenAlEx v.6.5) as basis for establishment of regional foraging ground clusters.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.h3t3qd3
title: Data from: Ornithine Decarboxylase Antizyme Inhibitor 2 (AZIN2) is a signature of secretory phenotype and independent predictor of adverse prognosis in colorectal cancer

description: Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is the rate-limiting enzyme of polyamine
 synthesis. The two ODC antizyme inhibitors (AZIN1) and (AZIN2) are
 regulators of the catalytic activity of ODC. While AZIN1 is a regulator of
 cell proliferation, AZIN2 is involved in intracellular vesicle transport
 and secretion. There are no previous reports on the impact of AZIN2
 expression in human cancer. We applied immunohistochemistry with
 antibodies to human AZIN2 on tissue micro- arrays of colorectal cancers
 (CRC) from 840 patients with a median follow-up of 5.1 years (range
 0-25.8). The 5-year disease-specific survival rate was 58.9% (95% Cl
 55.0-62.8%). High AZIN2 expression was associated with mucinous histology
 (p=0.002) and location in the right hemicolon (p=0.021). We found no
 association with age, gender, stage, or histological tumor grade. High
 tumor expression of AZIN2 predicted an unfavorable prognosis
 (p&lt;0.0001, log-rank test), compared to low AZIN2 expression. Cox
 multivariable analysis identified AZIN2 as an independent factor of an
 unfavorable prognosis in CRC. The strongest AZIN2 expression was seen in
 invasive tumor cells having morphological features of
 epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Induction of EMT in HT-29 CRC
 cells lead to upregulated expression of endogenous AZIN2. Given that AZIN2
 is a regulator of vesicle transport and secretion, we overexpressed human
 AZIN2 cDNA in T84 CRC cells, and found strongly enhanced accumulation of
 CD63-positive exosomes in the culture medium. These findings indicate that
 AZIN2 expression is a signature of EMT-associated secretory phenotype that
 is linked to an adverse prognosis in CRC.
description: AZIN2-informationClinical and AZIN2 expression information
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.nj1qv
title: Data from: Adaptive phenotypic variation among clonal ant workers

description: Phenotypic variations are observed in most organisms, but their
 significance is not always known. The phenotypic variations observed in
 social insects are exceptions. Genetically based response threshold
 variances have been identified among workers and are thought to play
 several important adaptive roles in social life, e.g. allocating tasks
 among workers according to demand, promoting the sustainability of the
 colony and forming the basis of rationality in collective decision-making.
 Several parthenogenetic ants produce clonal workers and new queens by
 asexual reproduction. It is not clearly known whether such genetically
 equivalent workers show phenotypic variations. Here, we demonstrate that
 clonal workers of the parthenogenetic ant Strumigenys membranifera show
 large threshold variances among clonal workers. A multi-locus genetic
 marker confirmed that colony members are genetic clones, but they showed
 variations in their sucrose response thresholds. We examined the changing
 pattern of the thresholds over time generating hypotheses regarding the
 mechanism underlying the observed phenotypic variations. The results
 support the hypothesis that epigenetic modifications that occur after
 eclosion into the adult form are the cause of the phenotypic variations in
 this asexual species.
description: Individuality of a
 clonal ant for DryadAll the used data in the
 article entitled "Adaptive phenotypic variation among clonal ant
 workers" .Individuality for
 Dryad.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.407c5
title: Data from: Lesser snow goose helminths show recurring and positive parasite infection-diversity relations

description: The patterns and mechanisms by which biological diversity is associated
 with parasite infection risk are important to study because of their
 potential implications for wildlife population's conservation and
 management. Almost all research in this area has focused on host species
 diversity and has neglected parasite diversity, despite evidence that
 parasites are important drivers of community structure and ecosystem
 processes. Here, we assessed whether presence or abundance of each of nine
 helminth species parasitizing lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens) was
 associated with indices of parasite diversity (i.e. species richness and
 Shannon's Diversity Index). We found repeated instances of focal
 parasite presence and abundance having significant positive co-variation
 with diversity measures of other parasites. These results occurred both
 within individual samples and for combinations of all samples. Whereas
 host condition and parasite facilitation could be drivers of the patterns
 we observed, other host- or parasite-level effects, such as age or sex
 class of host or taxon of parasite, were discounted as explanatory
 variables. Our findings of recurring and positive associations between
 focal parasite abundance and diversity underscore the importance of moving
 beyond pairwise species interactions and contexts, and of including the
 oft-neglected parasite species diversity in infection-diversity studies.
description: Lesser snow goose
 helminthsParasite counts (by
 parasite species), sex ('SEX'), age ('AGE') and
 location of collection ('SAMPL') of each (row) host lesser snow
 goose bird. Parasite species: HD = Heterakis dispar; TT = Trichostrongylus
 tenuis; DL = Drepanidotaenia lanceolata; DB = Drepanidotaenia barrowensis;
 CA = Capillaria anatis; SG = Sobolevicanthus gracilis; ER = Echinostoma
 revolutum; CL = Cladogyna longivaginata; PC = Platyscolex
 ciliata.Dargent et al. IJPPAW Data
 Dryad.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.25rg2h3
title: Data from: Sperm pre-fertilization thermal environment shapes offspring phenotype and performance

description: Sperm pre-fertilization environment has recently been suggested to mediate
 remarkable transgenerational consequences for offspring phenotype
 (transgenerational plasticity, TGB), but the adaptive significance of the
 process has remained unclear. Here, we studied the transgenerational
 effects of sperm pre-fertilization thermal environment in a cold-adapted
 salmonid, the European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus L.). We used a
 full-factorial breeding design where the eggs of five females were
 fertilized with the milt of 10 males that had been pre-incubated at two
 different temperatures (3.5°C and 6.5°C) for 15 hours prior to
 fertilization. Thermal manipulation did not affect sperm motility, cell
 size, fertilization success or embryo mortality. However, offspring that
 were fertilized with warm-treated milt were smaller and had poorer
 swimming performance than their full-siblings that had been fertilized
 with cold-treated milt. Furthermore, the effect of milt treatment on
 embryo mortality varied among different females (treatment×female
 interaction) and male-female combinations (treatment×female×male
 interaction). Together these results indicate that sperm pre-fertilization
 thermal environment shapes offspring phenotype and post-hatching
 performance and modify both the magnitude of female (dam) effects and the
 compatibility of the gametes. Generally, our results suggest that
 short-term changes in sperm thermal conditions may have negative impact
 for offspring fitness. Thus, sperm thermal environment may have an
 important role in determining the adaptation potential of organisms to
 climate change. Detailed mechanism(s) behind our findings require further
 attention.
description: Kekäläinen et
 al_DataThis file contains
 original data of the article
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5q5q6
title: Data from: Light and growth form interact to shape stomatal ratio among British angiosperms

description: In most plants, stomata are located only on the abaxial leaf surface
 (hypostomy), but many plants have stomata on both surfaces (amphistomy).
 High light and herbaceous growth form have been hypothesized to favor
 amphistomy, but these hypotheses have not been rigorously tested together
 using phylogenetic comparative methods. I leveraged a large dataset
 including stomatal ratio, Ellenberg light indicator value, growth form and
 phylogenetic relationships for 372 species of British angiosperms. I used
 phylogenetic comparative methods to test how light and/or growth form
 influence stomatal ratio and density. High light and herbaceous growth
 form are correlated with amphistomy, as predicted, but they also interact;
 the effect of light is pronounced in therophytes (annuals) and perennial
 herbs, but muted in phanerophytes (shrubs and trees). Furthermore,
 amphistomy and stomatal density evolve together in response to light.
 Comparative analyses of British angiosperms reveal two major insights.
 First, light and growth form interact to shape stomatal ratio; amphistomy
 is common under high light, but mostly for herbs. Second, coordinated
 evolution of adaxial stomatal density and light tolerance indicates that
 amphistomy helps to optimally balance light acquisition with gas exchange.
 Stomatal ratio may have potential as a functional trait for paleoecology
 and crop improvement.
description: Trait
 datastomata_filtered.csvPhylogenyangio_phy_modified.nex
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6kp30
title: Data from: Artificial light at night advances avian reproductive physiology

description: Artificial light at night is a rapidly increasing phenomenon and it is
 presumed to have global implications. Light at night has been associated
 with health problems in humans as a consequence of altered biological
 rhythms. Effects on wild animals have been less investigated, but light at
 night has often been assumed to affect seasonal cycles of urban dwellers.
 Using light loggers attached to free-living European blackbirds (Turdus
 merula), we first measured light intensity at night which forest and city
 birds are subjected to in the wild. Then we used these measurements to
 test for the effect of light at night on timing of reproductive
 physiology. Captive city and forest blackbirds were exposed to either dark
 nights or very low light intensities at night (0.3 lux). Birds exposed to
 light at night developed their reproductive system up to one month
 earlier, and also moulted earlier, than birds kept under dark nights.
 Furthermore, city birds responded differently than forest individuals to
 the light at night treatment, suggesting that urbanization can alter the
 physiological phenotype of songbirds. Our results emphasize the impact of
 human-induced lighting on the ecology of millions of animals living in
 cities and call for an understanding of the fitness consequences of light
 pollution.
description: moltDataset used for the
 analysis of timing of initiation of moltbody mass and fat
 scoreDataset used for the
 analysis of variation in body mass and fat score during the
 experimentbodymass_procB.csvthresholdsDataset used for the interpolation of sigmoidal curves to gonadal growth data, in order to calculate dates of threshold passingsigmoids_procB.csvgonadal sizeDataset used to analyze timing of gonadal cyclegonads_procB.csvtestosteronedataset used to analyze variation in testosterone concentration during the reproductive cycletesto2010_procB.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b765br4
title: Data from: Phosphonate utilization by eukaryotic phytoplankton

description: Phytoplankton readily assimilate dissolved inorganic phosphorus
 (phosphate; Pi) into essential biomolecules, making it their preferred
 form of phosphorus (P). In low Pi marine environments, phytoplankton also
 utilize dissolved organic P (DOP) compounds to sustain primary
 productivity. Phosphonates comprise up to 10% of the DOP pool and have
 been shown to be an important source of P in the nutrition of marine
 prokaryotic phytoplankton. To date, the ability of eukaryotic
 phytoplankton to supplement growth with natural phosphonates remains
 unknown. Here, we show the growth rates of two eukaryotic phytoplankton
 species grown on phosphonate(s) as the sole source of P were significantly
 greater than growth rates under Pi-deficient conditions. Phosphonate did
 not support growth of a third species, indicating utilization is not
 universal among eukaryotic phytoplankton. Taken together, these results
 indicate that direct uptake and utilization of extracellular phosphonates
 may no longer be restricted to the realm of prokaryotes.
description: Phytoplankton growth
 with phosphonatesThis file contains
 growth data of three eukaryotic phytoplankton cultured under different
 phosphorus conditions.Whitney_Lomas_culture_data.xlsxPhosphonate growth metadataMetadata-LO-Letters-data_final.docx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.d5f54s7
title: Data from: The diversity of population responses to environmental change

description: The current extinction and climate change crises pressure us to predict
 population dynamics with ever-greater accuracy. Although predictions rest
 on the well-advanced theory of age-structured populations, two key issues
 remain poorly-explored. Specifically, how the age-dependency in
 demographic rates and the year-to-year interactions between survival and
 fecundity affect stochastic population growth rates. We use inference,
 simulations, and mathematical derivations to explore how environmental
 perturbations determine population growth rates for populations with
 different age-specific demographic rates and when ages are reduced to
 stages. We find that stage- vs. age-based models can produce markedly
 divergent stochastic population growth rates. The differences are most
 pronounced when there are survival-fecundity-trade-offs, which reduce the
 variance in the population growth rate. Finally, the expected value and
 variance of the stochastic growth rates of populations with different
 age-specific demographic rates can diverge to the extent that, while some
 populations may thrive, others will inevitably go extinct.
description: LifeTablesLife tables for 24 species of terrestrial vertebrates.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.31154449
title: <i>Acropora spathulata</i> WGS pictures 3/4

description: Pictures from <i>Acropora spathulata</i> colonies collected on the Great Barrier Reef within the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Project (RRAP)Samples metadata can be accessed through GEOME portal: https://n2t.net/ark:/21547/R2658
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.31154449.v1
title: <i>Acropora spathulata</i> WGS pictures 3/4

description: Pictures from <i>Acropora spathulata</i> colonies collected on the Great Barrier Reef within the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Project (RRAP)Samples metadata can be accessed through GEOME portal: https://n2t.net/ark:/21547/R2658