cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5ds98
title: Data from: Investigating variation in third-party intervention behavior during a fallow deer (Dama dama) rut

description: Pairwise contests are frequently disrupted by the intervention of
 third-party group members. However, little is known about whether an
 individual’s engagement in intervention behavior varies over time, or what
 factors might be associated with such variation. Using a hierarchical
 “hurdle” model with 2 levels, we investigated the conditions under which
 focal males: 1) would or would not engage in an intervention, and 2)
 varied the number of interventions per day they engaged in. The lower
 level of the model showed that the proportion of unique opponents per day
 (estimated from the overall number of mature males in the herd) that focal
 males competed with, and the number of interventions suffered by a focal
 male were associated with an increased probability that this individual
 would itself engage in third-party intervention behavior. At the upper
 level of the model, there was no association between these 2 variables and
 the rate at which individuals engaged in intervention behavior. The number
 of matings observed per day and aggression rate within the herd failed to
 contribute meaningfully to either level of the model. We also show that,
 although inconsistent over days and between years, some individuals
 displayed a greater propensity to intervene than others. The data from our
 study show that intervention behavior is more likely to occur as a result
 of individual directly experiencing aggressive behavior at a sufficiently
 high level, and not as a result of individuals monitoring aggressive or
 sexual activity in the wider social group.
description: Intervention rate over
 time in fallow deerThis is the datafile
 used in the paper. I did not change the variable names as these are used
 in the model descriptions in the code provided as supplementary material.
 If you want more details then please email me.BE
 data.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5n675
title: Data from: Direct litter interference and indirect soil competitive effects of two contrasting phenotypes of a spiny legume shrub drive the forb composition of an oromediterranean community

description: Contrasting phenotypes of foundation species are known to differentially
 affect understorey plants. However, there is little knowledge on both the
 mechanisms of competition (resource competition versus interference) of
 stress-tolerant phenotypes and the importance of indirect interactions. In
 an oromediterranean community from Mount Lebanon we assessed the effects
 on understorey forbs of two contrasting phenotypes, a tight competitive
 from stressful habitat and a loose facilitative from more benign habitat.
 In a dry south and a wet north exposure we assessed short-term resource
 effects removing shrub canopy and long-term soil effects (including litter
 interference) with the comparison of forb performances in adjacent
 naturally open areas vs no shrub. Indirect effects were quantified through
 the removal of grasses. Abundance, richness and biomass of forbs were
 measured in all treatments after one year of experiment, together with
 litter depth and soil moisture. We found strong direct negative soil
 effects of the tight phenotype on all forb performances and in particular
 in south exposure. These effects were due to litter interference on water
 availability, but not to resource competition. They were likely explained
 by the high hydrophobicity of organic matter accumulating in the stressful
 habitat of the tight phenotype. We also found an indirect competition of
 the loose phenotype for forb richness, due to its direct positive soil
 effect on competitive grasses, and in particular in south exposure. Our
 results improve our knowledge on the importance of litter interference in
 dry nutrient-poor habitats and the role of indirect interactions in
 phenotypic effects on understorey species.
description: Community level
 abundance
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b32h9
title: Data from: Food availability modulates the effects of maternal antibodies on growth and immunity in young feral pigeons

description: It is now widely acknowledged that mothers can transfer their own immune
 experience to their progeny through the allocation of specific maternal
 antibodies (hereafter referred as MatAb) that can shape offspring
 phenotype and affect their fitness. However, the importance of
 environmental variability in modulating the effects of MatAb on offspring
 traits is still elusive. Using an experimental approach, we investigated
 how food availability interacted with MatAb to solve the trade-off between
 humoral immunity and growth in young feral pigeons (Columba livia).
 Results show that the inhibitory effect of MatAb on the humoral response
 of chicks was detected regardless of the food treatment. In addition, body
 mass growth was higher in chicks receiving lower amounts of maternal
 antibodies but only in chicks of the ad libitum food treatment. This
 contradicts previous studies and suggests that the transfer of MatAb could
 entail some costs for chicks and reduce their growth. Taken together these
 results reinforce the idea that the maternal antibodies play a central
 role in shaping offspring life-history traits but that their adaptive
 value is highly dependent on the environmental context in which they are
 transmitted by the mother.
description: Food availability
 modulates the effects of maternal antibodies on growth and immunity in
 young feral pigeonsDatatPigeonGasparini.xls
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2v0f7
title: Data from: Functional morphological adaptations of the bony labyrinth in marsupials (Mammalia, Theria)

description: Diprotodontia represents the largest and ecologically most distinct order
 of marsupials occurring in Australasian being highly divers in size,
 locomotion, habitat preferences, feeding, and activity pattern. The
 spatial orientation in the habitat and therefore the three-dimensional
 space is detected by the vestibular system of the inner ear, more
 precisely by the three semicircular canals. In this study, we investigated
 the bony labyrinth of diprotodontian and selected non-diprotodontian
 marsupial mammals of almost all genera with noninvasive micro-CT scanning
 and 3D-reconstructions. In principal component analyses, the subterranean
 taxon can be separated from gliding and saltatorial taxa, whereas arboreal
 species can be separated from saltatorial specimens. The highest PCA
 loadings of this functional distinction are clearly found in the diameter
 of the semicircular canals, whereas the overall shape (height, width,
 length) of the semicircular canals is less important. Additionally, the
 investigated arboreal and fossorial species of South America are nested in
 the morphospace of the Australasian taxa. Even if a phylogenetic signal in
 the anatomy of the bony labyrinth cannot be excluded entirely, the main
 functional morphological signal of the vestibular system is found in the
 diameter of the semicircular canals. With the large dataset of extant
 marsupial mammals analysed here, the locomotion mode of extinct taxa can
 be inferred in future studies independent of any evidence of postcranial
 material.
description: Suppl_Table1_Pfaff et
 alRaw
 data, Scan settings, species informations
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4jg3b
title: Data from: The role of aedeagus size and shape in failed mating interactions among recently diverged taxa in the Drosophila mojavensis species cluster

description: Background: Investigating the evolution of species-specific insect
 genitalia is central to understanding how morphological diversification
 contributes to reproductive isolation and lineage divergence. While many
 studies evoke some form of sexual selection to explain genitalia
 diversity, the basis of selection and the mechanism of heterospecific mate
 exclusion remains vague. I conducted reciprocal mate pair trials in the
 Drosophila mojavensis species cluster to quantify the frequency of failed
 insemination attempts, historically referred to as pseudocopulation,
 between lineages with discrete size and shape differences of the male
 aedeagus.ResultsIn cross-taxon matings aedeagus size had a significant
 effect on pseudocopulation frequencies, while aedeagus shape and genetic
 distance did not. The direction of the size difference was an important
 factor for successful mating. When females were mated to a cross-taxon
 male with a larger aedeagus than males from her own species, the pair
 could not establish a successful mating interaction. Females mated to
 cross-taxon males with a smaller aedeagus than conspecific males were able
 to establish the mating interaction but had issues disengaging at the end
 of the interaction.ConclusionsThe results of this study support a role for
 aedeagus size in the male-female mating interaction, with a secondary role
 for aedeagus shape. In natural populations, mating failure based on
 aedeagus size could serve as an important reproductive isolating mechanism
 resulting in failed insemination attempts after both the male and female
 show a willingness to mate.
description: All
 DataRaw Data for all
 variables measuredMating frequencies by
 cross and taxonTable for Regression
 Analysis
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2808g
title: Data from: Impact of male condition on his spermatophore and consequences for female reproductive performance in the Glanville fritillary butterfly

description: In butterflies, male reproductive success is highly related to the quality
 and the size of the spermatophore transferred to the female. The
 spermatophore is a capsule produced by the male during copulation, which
 in many species contains sperm in addition to a nuptial gift, and which is
 digested by the female after copulation. The nuptial gift may contribute
 to egg production and offspring quality, and in some cases also to female
 body maintenance. The production of the spermatophore, however, represents
 a cost for the male and, in polyandrous species, ejaculates are sometimes
 allocated adaptively across matings. Nonetheless, although the ecological
 factors affecting the reproductive success of female butterflies have been
 the topic of numerous studies, little information exists on the factors
 affecting males’ contribution to reproduction, and the indirect impacts on
 female fecundity and fitness. We used the Glanville fritillary butterfly,
 Melitaea cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758) (Nymphalidae), in order to assess
 variation in male allocation to matings. In this species, smaller males
 produce smaller spermatophores, but variation in spermatophore size is not
 correlated with female reproductive success. We show that spermatophore
 size increases with male age at first mating, decreases with mating
 frequency and adult food-deprivation, and is not influenced by
 developmental food-limitation. The length of copulation period does not
 influence the spermatophore size nor influences the polyandrous mating
 behavior in this species. Male contribution to his spermatophore size is
 clearly influenced by his condition and adult-resource at the time of
 mating. Despite this variation, spermatophore size does not seem to have a
 direct impact on female reproductive output or mating behavior.
description: Spermatophore
 measuresAll data related to
 spermatophore measurementsAdult&LarvalStress&CageCombined-Duplouyetal-2016.xlsxSpermatphore and Clutch dataAll data from cage experimentSpermatophoreSize-CageData-Dec2016.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3p1k5d2
title: Data from: Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in neotropical forests

description: The nutrient demands of regrowing tropical forests are partly satisfied by
 nitrogen (N)-fixing legume trees, but our understanding of the abundance
 of those species is biased towards wet tropical regions. Here we show how
 the abundance of Leguminosae is affected by both recovery from disturbance
 and large-scale rainfall gradients through a synthesis of forest-inventory
 plots from a network of 42 Neotropical forest chronosequences. During the
 first three decades of natural forest regeneration, legume basal area is
 twice as high in dry compared to wet secondary forests. The tremendous
 ecological success of legumes in recently disturbed, water-limited forests
 is likely related to both their reduced leaflet size and ability to fix
 N2, which together enhance legume drought tolerance and water-use
 efficiency. Earth system models should incorporate these large-scale
 successional and climatic patterns of legume dominance to provide more
 accurate estimates of the maximum potential for natural N fixation across
 tropical forests.
description: Data from: Legume
 Abundance Along Successional And Rainfall Gradients In Neotropical
 ForestsThis database is the
 product of the 2ndFOR collaborative research network on secondary forests.
 The database contains total basal area data (in m2 ha-1) of legume trees
 (Leguminosae) for 1207 secondary forest plots differing in time since
 abandonment. The plots belong to different chonosequence studies. For a
 description of the database, see Gei et al. 2018. Legume Abundance Along
 Successional And Rainfall Gradients In Neotropical Forests. Nature Ecology
 and Evolution. The file "Legume basal area 2ndFOR data.csv"
 contains the following variables: Chronosequence: name of the
 chronosequence site Age: age of the plot (in years), "OG"
 indicates old-growth forest of unknown age LBA: total basal area of legume
 trees (Leguminosae) of the plot in m2 ha-1 Reference: a citation for the
 chronosequence study, if available PI/contact person: name(s) of the
 principal investigator(s) or contact person(s) for the chronosequence
 study.Legume basal area 2ndFOR
 data.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.vp4n8
title: Data from: Genetic population structure of U.S. Atlantic coastal striped bass (Morone saxatilis)

description: Genetic population structure of anadromous striped bass along the US
 Atlantic coast was analyzed using 14 neutral nuclear DNA microsatellites.
 Young-of-the-year and adult striped bass (n = 1114) were sampled from
 Hudson River, Delaware River, Chesapeake Bay, North Carolina, and South
 Carolina. Analyses indicated clear population structure with significant
 genetic differentiation between all regions. Global multilocus F ST was
 estimated at 0.028 (P &lt; 0.001). Population structure followed an
 isolation-by-distance model and temporal sampling indicated a stable
 population structure more than 2 years at all locations. Significant
 structure was absent within Hudson River, whereas weak but significant
 genetic differences were observed between northern and southern samples in
 Chesapeake Bay. The largest and smallest effective striped bass population
 sizes were found in Chesapeake Bay and South Carolina, respectively.
 Coalescence analysis indicated that the highest historical gene flow has
 been between Chesapeake Bay and Hudson River populations, and that
 exchange has not been unidirectional. Bayesian analysis of contemporary
 migration indicated that Chesapeake Bay serves as a major source of
 migrants for Atlantic coastal regions from Albemarle Sound northward. In
 addition to examining population genetic structure, the data acquired
 during this project were capable of serving as a baseline for assigning
 fish with unknown origin to source region.
description: microsatellite
 dataall abbreviations are
 given in Journal of Heredity articleStriped Bass microsatellite
 JH
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.d1hg5
title: Data from: Parsing the life-shortening effects of dietary protein: effects of individual amino acids

description: High-protein diets shorten lifespan in many organisms. Is it because
 protein digestion is energetically costly or because the final products
 (the amino acids) are harmful? To answer this question while circumventing
 the life-history trade-off between reproduction and longevity, we fed
 sterile ant workers on diets based on whole proteins or free amino acids.
 We found that (i) free amino acids shortened lifespan even more than
 proteins; (ii) the higher the amino acid-to-carbohydrate ratio, the
 shorter ants lived and the lower their lipid reserves; (iii) for the same
 amino acid-to-carbohydrate ratio, ants eating free amino acids had more
 lipid reserves than those eating whole proteins; and (iv) on whole protein
 diets, ants seem to regulate food intake by prioritizing sugar, while on
 free amino acid diets, they seem to prioritize amino acids. To test the
 effect of the amino acid profile, we tested diets containing proportions
 of each amino acid that matched the ant's exome; surprisingly,
 longevity was unaffected by this change. We further tested diets with all
 amino acids under-represented except one, finding that methionine, serine,
 threonine and phenylalanine are especially harmful. All together, our
 results show certain amino acids are key elements behind the high-protein
 diet reduction in lifespan.
description: Data_for_Parsing_the_life-shortening_effects_of_dietary_proteinThis folder contains 8 txt files with all the data to reproduce the results: Survival data from all diets; Lipid proportion and Foraging effort for Full mixture diets; Weight of food pellets for Full mixture diets.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qh113
title: Data from: Low temperature reveals genetic variability against male-killing Spiroplasma in Drosophila melanogaster natural populations

description: Spiroplasma endosymbionts are maternally inherited microorganisms which
 infect many arthropod species. In some Drosophila species, it acts as a
 reproductive manipulator, spreading in populations by killing the sons of
 infected mothers. Distinct Drosophila melanogaster populations from Brazil
 exhibit variable male-killing Spiroplasma prevalences. In this study, we
 investigated the presence of variability for the male-killing phenotype
 among Drosophila and/or Spiroplasma strains and verified if it correlates
 with the endosymbiont prevalence in natural populations. For that, we
 analyzed the male-killing expression when Spiroplasma strains from
 different populations were transferred to a standard D. melanogaster line
 (Canton-S) and when a common Spiroplasma strain was transferred to
 different wild-caught D. melanogaster lines, both at optimal and
 challenging temperatures for the bacteria. No variation was observed in
 the male-killing phenotype induced by different Spiroplasma strains. No
 phenotypic variability among fly lines was detected at optimal temperature
 (23 °C), as well. Conversely, significant variation in the male-killing
 expression was revealed among D. melanogaster lines at 18.5 °C, probably
 caused by imperfect transmission of the endosymbiont. Distinct lines
 differed in their average sex ratios as well as in the pattern of
 male-killing expression as the infected females aged. Greater variation
 occurred among lines from one locality, although there was no clear
 correlation between the male-killing intensity and the endosymbiont
 prevalence in each population. Imperfect transmission or male killing may
 also occur in the field, thus helping to explain the low or intermediate
 prevalences reported in nature. We discuss the implications of our results
 for the dynamics of male-killing Spiroplasma in natural populations.
description: Screening for
 male-killing variation among Drosophila melanogaster and Spiroplasma
 strainsThis file contains 5
 spreadsheets with experimental data of screening for male-killing
 variation among Drosophila melanogaster and Spiroplasma strains, at 18.5
 and 23ºC.Data_Ventura_2013.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6j4p7
title: Data from: Spatial distribution of sand fly vectors and eco-epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis transmission in Colombia

description: Background: Leishmania is transmitted by Phlebotominae insects that
 maintain the enzootic cycle by circulating between sylvatic and domestic
 mammals; humans enter the cycles as accidental hosts due to the vector’s
 search for blood source. In Colombia, leishmaniasis is an endemic disease
 and 95% of all cases are cutaneous (CL), these cases have been reported in
 several regions of the country where the intervention of sylvatic areas by
 the introduction of agriculture seem to have an impact on the
 rearrangement of new transmission cycles. Our study aimed to update vector
 species distribution in the country and to analyze the relationship
 between vectors’ distribution, climate, land use and CL prevalence.
 Methods: A database with geographic information was assembled, and
 ecological niche modeling was performed to explore the potential
 distribution of each of the 21 species of medical importance in Colombia,
 using thirteen bioclimatic variables, three topographic and three
 principal components derived from NDVI. Binary models for each species
 were obtained and related to both land use coverage, and a CL prevalence
 map with available epidemiological data. Finally, maps of species
 potential distribution were summed to define potential species richness in
 the country. Results: In total, 673 single records were obtained with
 Lutzomyia gomezi, Lutzomyia longipalpis, Psychodopygus panamensis,
 Psathyromyia shannoni and Pintomyia evansi the species with the highest
 number of records. Eighteen species had significant models, considering
 the area under the curve and the jackknife results: L. gomezi and P.
 panamensis had the widest potential distribution. All sand fly species
 except for Nyssomyia antunesi are mainly distributed in regions with rates
 of prevalence between 0.33 to 101.35 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and 76%
 of collection data points fall into transformed ecosystems. Discussion:
 Distribution ranges of sand flies with medical importance in Colombia
 correspond predominantly to disturbed areas, where the original land
 coverage is missing therefore increasing the domiciliation potential. We
 highlight the importance of the use of distribution maps as a tool for the
 development of strategies for prevention and control of diseases.
description: CRISTINAFERROETAL_DATABASE_DRYADThis database contains 597 records of 18 sandfly species in Colombia. From these records, 517 are published records, and the remaining 80 records belong to unpublished field collections. Records were georeferenced when needed and localities were carefully revised.
DOI: 10.34740/kaggle/dsv/14632698
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