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DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q0834p71
title: Data from: Historical and contemporary factors shape the population genetic structure of the broadcast spawning coral, Acropora millepora, on the Great Barrier Reef

description: Effective management of reef corals requires knowledge of the extent to
 which populations are open or closed and the scales over which genetic
 exchange occurs, information which is commonly derived from population
 genetic data. Such data are sparse for Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals and
 other organisms, with the studies that are available being mostly based on
 a small number of sampling locations spanning only part of the GBR. Using
 11 microsatellite loci, we genotyped 947 colonies of the reef-building
 coral Acropora millepora from 20 sites spanning almost the full length of
 the GBR (~12 degrees of latitude and ~1,550 km). The results show a major
 divide between the southernmost central to southern offshore populations
 and all other sampled populations. We interpret this divide as a signature
 of allopatric divergence in northern and southern refugia during the
 Pleistocene glaciations, from which the GBR was subsequently recolonised.
 Superimposed on this pattern is a cross-shelf genetic division, as well as
 a separation of inshore populations south of the Cape Clifton Front at
 ~21.5-22°S. Most inshore populations north of this, as well as mid-shelf
 populations in the northern and far northern GBR are open, exchanging
 recruits frequently. In contrast, inshore populations south of the Cape
 Clifton Front and offshore populations in the central and southern GBR are
 largely self-seeding, at least within the spatial resolution that was
 achieved given our sampling intensity. Populations that have been impacted
 by recent disturbance events causing extensive coral mortality show no
 evidence of reduced genetic diversity.
description: van Oppen et al. 2011
 Acropora millepora microsatellite dataAcropora millepora
 microsatllite data, 11 loci, 20 populations, repeated Multi Locus
 Genotypes have been removed. Column A: sample ID. Column B: collection
 locations. Colums C-X: The two alleles for each locus are given in two
 consecutive columns (i.e., columns C and D show the alleles for locus
 Am2_002). The locus names are given at the top of each column. All data
 for an individual are given in a single row following the sample ID and
 collection location name. Alleles are given as their size in base pairs.
 Coordinates of sampling locations, sampling depth and collection date are
 given in Supplementary Table 1.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kt70b
title: Data from: Geographic variation in hybridization and ecological differentiation between three syntopic, morphologically similar species of montane lizards

description: To understand factors shaping species boundaries in closely related taxa,
 a powerful approach is to compare levels of genetic admixture at multiple
 points of contact and determine how this relates to intrinsic and
 extrinsic factors, such as genetic, morphological and ecological
 differentiation. In the Australian Alps, the threatened alpine bog skink
 Pseudemoia cryodroma co-occurs with two morphologically and ecologically
 similar congeners, P. entrecasteauxii and P. pagenstecheri, and all three
 species are suspected to hybridize. We predicted that the frequency of
 hybridization should be negatively correlated with genetic divergence,
 morphological differentiation and microhabitat separation. We tested this
 hypothesis using a mitochondrial locus, 13 microsatellite loci,
 morphological and microhabitat data and compared results across three
 geographically isolated sites. Despite strong genetic structure between
 species, we detected hybridization between all species pairs, including
 evidence of backcrossed individuals at the two sites where all three
 species are syntopic. Hybridization frequencies were not consistently
 associated with genetic, morphological or ecological differentiation.
 Furthermore, P. entrecasteauxii and P. pagenstecheri only hybridized at
 the two sites where they are syntopic with P. cryodroma, but not at the
 largest site where P. cryodroma was not recorded, suggesting that P.
 cryodroma may serve as a bridging species. This study reveals the complex
 dynamics within a three species hybrid zone and provides a baseline for
 assessing the impact of climate change and anthropogenic habitat
 modification on future hybridization frequencies.
description: Microsatellite genotypes
 for Pseudemoia sppPseudemoia_microsats_hybrids.xlsxMorphological measurements of Pseudemoia spp.Pseudemoia_morph_hybrids.xlsxMicrohabitat data for Pseudemoia spp.Pseudemoia_habitat_hybrids.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.js446q8
title: Data from: Evolution of non-kin cooperation: social assortment by cooperative phenotype in guppies

description: Cooperation among non-kin constitutes a conundrum for evolutionary
 biology. Theory suggests that non-kin cooperation can evolve if
 individuals differ consistently in their cooperative phenotypes and assort
 socially by these, such that cooperative individuals interact
 predominantly with one another. However, our knowledge of the role of
 cooperative phenotypes in the social structuring of real-world animal
 populations is minimal. In this study, we investigated cooperative
 phenotypes and their link to social structure in wild Trinidadian guppies
 (Poecilia reticulata). We first investigated whether wild guppies are
 repeatable in their individual levels of cooperativeness (i.e. have
 cooperative phenotypes) and found evidence for this in seven out of eight
 populations, a result which was mostly driven by females. We then examined
 the social network structure of one of these populations where the
 expected fitness impact of cooperative contexts is relatively high, and
 found assortment by cooperativeness, but not genetic relatedness. In
 contrast, in accordance with our expectations we did not find assortment
 by cooperativeness in a population where the expected fitness impact of
 cooperative contexts is lower. Our results provide empirical support for
 current theory and suggest that assortment by cooperativeness is important
 for the evolution and persistence of non-kin cooperation in real-world
 populations.
description: Data files, Brask et al
 2018Data from wild guppies
 (Poecilia reticulata) used in the analysis described in the article
 entitled "Evolution of non-kin cooperation: social assortment by
 cooperative phenotype in guppies" by J. B. Brask et
 al.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.04416
title: Data from: Plant connectivity underlies plant-pollinator-exploiter distributions in Ficus petiolaris and associated pollinating and non-pollinating fig wasps

description: Mutualism is ubiquitous in nature, and nursery pollination mutualisms
 provide a system well suited to quantifying the benefits and costs of
 symbiotic interactions. In nursery pollination mutualisms, pollinators
 reproduce within the inflorescence they pollinate, with benefits and costs
 being measured in the numbers of pollinator offspring and seeds produced.
 This type of mutualism is also typically exploited by seed-consuming
 non-pollinators that obtain resources from plants without providing
 pollination services. Theory predicts that the rate at which
 pollen-bearing “foundresses” visit a plant will strongly affect the
 plant's production of pollinator offspring, non-pollinator offspring,
 and seeds. Spatially aggregated plants are predicted to have high rates of
 foundress visitation, increasing pollinator and seed production, and
 decreasing non-pollinator production; very high foundress visitation may
 also decrease seed production indirectly through the production of
 pollinators. Working with a nursery mutualism comprised of the Sonoran
 Desert rock fig, Ficus petiolaris, and host-specific pollinating and
 non-pollinating fig wasps, we use linear models to evaluate four
 hypotheses linking species interactions to benefits and costs: 1)
 foundress density increases with host-tree connectivity, 2) pollinator
 production increases with foundress density, and 3) non-pollinator
 production and 4) seed production decrease with pollinator production. We
 also directly test how tree connectivity affects non-pollinator
 production. We find strong support for our four hypotheses, and we
 conclude that tree connectivity is a key driver of foundress visitation,
 thereby strongly affecting spatial distributions in the F. petiolaris
 community. We also find that foundress visitation decreases at the
 northernmost edge of the F. petiolaris range. Finally, we find
 species-specific effects of tree connectivity on non-pollinators to be
 strongly correlated with previously estimated non-pollinator dispersal
 abilities. We conclude that plant connectivity is highly important for
 predicting plant-pollinator-exploiter dynamics, and discuss the
 implications of our results for species coexistence and adaptation.
description: FpetWasp_DataThese data are derived from syconia (enclosed inflorescences) collected between 2007-2013 from multiple Ficus petiolaris trees along a broad latitudinal gradient in Baja, Mexico. Data collected include multiple estimates of tree connectivity. They also include per syconium counts of foundress pollinators, pollinator offspring, associated species of nonpollinators, and seeds. Syconia volumes and tree latitudes are also included.FpetWasp_AnalysisThis file recreates the entire analysis of Duthie and Nason (2016) in R, including analysis of the appendix, using the file `FpetWasp_Data.csv'. It also recreates all figures used in the manuscript. More detailed explanations are included in the comments of this file.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8h8cn3q
title: Data from: Resource dispersion influences dispersal evolution of highly insulated insect communities

description: Communities in which species are obligately associated with a single host
 plant are ideal to test adaptive responses of community traits to
 selection since such communities are often highly insulated. Fig species
 provide oviposition resources to co-evolved fig-wasp communities.
 Dispersing fig-wasp communities move from one host plant to another for
 oviposition. We compared the spatial dispersion of two fig species and the
 dispersal capacities of their multitrophic wasp communities. Dispersal
 capacities were assessed by measuring vital dispersal correlates, namely
 tethered flight durations, somatic lipid contents and resting metabolic
 rates. We suggest that dispersal-trait distributions of congeneric wasp
 species across the communities are an adaptive response to host plant
 dispersion. Larger dispersal capacities of the entire multitrophic
 community are related to more widely dispersed resources. Our results
 provide evidence and a novel perspective for understanding the potential
 role of adaptation in whole-community dispersal-trait distributions.
description: Raw data and
 Code_Venkateswaran and Borges_2018_Dryad
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.p1tf6
title: Data from: Host immunity, nutrition and coinfection alter longitudinal infection patterns of schistosomes in a free ranging African buffalo population

description: Schistosomes are trematode parasites of global importance, causing
 infections in millions of people, livestock, and wildlife. Most studies on
 schistosomiasis, involve human subjects; as such, there is a paucity of
 longitudinal studies investigating parasite dynamics in the absence of
 intervention. As a consequence, despite decades of research on
 schistosomiasis, our understanding of its ecology in natural host
 populations is centered around how environmental exposure and acquired
 immunity influence acquisition of parasites, while very little is known
 about the influence of host physiology, coinfection and clearance in the
 absence of drug treatment. We used a 4-year study in free-ranging African
 buffalo to investigate natural schistosome dynamics. We asked (i) what are
 the spatial and temporal patterns of schistosome infections; (ii) how do
 parasite burdens vary over time within individual hosts; and (iii) what
 host factors (immunological, physiological, co-infection) and
 environmental factors (season, location) explain patterns of schistosome
 acquisition and loss in buffalo? Schistosome infections were common among
 buffalo. Microgeographic structure explained some variation in parasite
 burdens among hosts, indicating transmission hotspots. Overall, parasite
 burdens ratcheted up over time; however, gains in schistosome abundance in
 the dry season were partially offset by losses in the wet season, with
 some hosts demonstrating complete clearance of infection. Variation among
 buffalo in schistosome loss was associated with immunologic and
 nutritional factors, as well as co-infection by the gastrointestinal
 helminth Cooperia fuelleborni. Our results demonstrate that schistosome
 infections are surprisingly dynamic in a free-living mammalian host
 population, and point to a role for host factors in driving variation in
 parasite clearance, but not parasite acquisition which is driven by
 seasonal changes and spatial habitat utilization. Our study illustrates
 the power of longitudinal studies for discovering mechanisms underlying
 parasite dynamics in individual animals and populations.
description: Schistosome CAA
 titersThis file contains CAA
 titers, schistosome status, season, age and capture information for
 buffalo involved in this publication. Additional information is published
 under Dryad submission
 http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q2m38.Data for
 Dryad.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j7q43
title: Data from: Aridity shapes cyanogenesis cline evolution in white clover (Trifolium repens L.)

description: Adaptive differentiation between populations is often proposed to be the
 product of multiple interacting selective pressures, although empirical
 support for this is scarce. In white clover, populations show adaptive
 differentiation in frequencies of cyanogenesis, the ability to produce HCN
 after tissue damage. This polymorphism arises through independently
 segregating polymorphisms for the presence/absence of two required
 cyanogenic components, cyanogenic glucosides and their hydrolyzing enzyme.
 White clover populations worldwide have evolved a series of recurrent,
 climate-associated clines, with higher frequencies of cyanogenic plants in
 warmer locations. These clines have traditionally been hypothesized to
 reflect a fitness tradeoff between chemical defense in herbivore-rich
 areas (warmer climates) and energetic costs of producing cyanogenic
 components in areas of low herbivore pressure (cooler climates). Recent
 observational studies suggest that cyanogenic components may be beneficial
 in water-stressed environments. We investigated fitness tradeoffs
 associated with temperature-induced water-stress in the cyanogenesis
 system using manipulative experiments in growth chambers and population
 surveys across a longitudinal precipitation gradient in the central U.S.
 We find that plants producing cyanogenic glucosides have higher relative
 fitness in treatments simulating a moderate, persistent drought stress. In
 water-neutral treatments, there are energetic costs to producing
 cyanogenic components, but only in treatments with nutrient stress. These
 fitness tradeoffs are consistent with cyanogenesis frequencies in natural
 populations, where we find clinal variation in the proportion of plants
 producing cyanogenic glucosides along the precipitation gradient. These
 results suggest that multiple selective pressures interact to maintain
 this adaptive polymorphism, and that modeling adaptation will require
 knowledge of environment-specific fitness effects.
description: SSR dataset from Kooyers
 et al. 2014Genotype information
 from 6 SSR markers for 190 individuals from 4 populations across an
 aridity gradient in the central U.S.Dryad_Entry.xlsxGrowth Chamber Experiment Dataset from Kooyers et al. 2014This is a comma delimited file which contains data from an experiment designed to examine the fitness of different cyanotypes under temperature (water) or fertilizer stress. This experiment was conducted in two growth chambers – one with a high temperature and one with a lower temperature-- and plants were watered only when 50% of plants in the low temperature growth chamber needed water. This created a drought stress for plants in the higher temperature chamber. We manipulated fertilizer treatment with plants assigned to either standard or low fertilizer treatments. Plants in the low fertilizer treatment were fertilized half as often as plants in the standard fertilizer treatment. This dataset was used for the analyses in Kooyers et al. 2014.Dryad_ChamberData.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7cs41
title: Data from: Flower-visiting bat species contribute unequally toward agricultural pollination ecosystem services in southern Thailand

description: The large majority of angiosperm species depend on animals for
 pollination, including many agricultural crops, and plant-pollinator
 interactions have been extensively studied. However, not all floral
 visitors actually transfer pollen, and efforts to distinguish true
 pollinators from mere visitors are particularly scarce among the bat
 pollination literature. To determine whether Old World bat species are
 equally effective pollinators in mixed-agricultural areas of southern
 Thailand, we examined six night-blooming plant taxa and quantified
 pollinator importance (PI) of seven common nectarivorous bat species. PI
 was calculated as the product of nightly bat visitation rate (obtained
 from mist-netting data) and pollen transfer efficiency (estimated from bat
 pollen loads). We found that PI varied by both bat species and plant
 species. In general, the nectar-specialist bat species were more important
 pollinators, yet their order of importance differed across our focal plant
 species. In addition, PI was dictated more by pollen transfer
 effectiveness than visitation rate. Our findings highlight the importance
 of Old World bat pollinators within southern Thailand's
 mixed-agricultural landscape and illustrate how seemingly similar floral
 visitors can have very different contributions toward plant pollination
 success.
description: Stewart and Dudash 2016
 floral visitation dataThe number of
 individuals of each bat species that visited the flowers of plant study
 species during each night of mist-netting.Biotropica2016visit.csvStewart and Dudash 2016 bat pollen load dataThe number of pollen grains (of plant study species) carried by each bat individual.Biotropica2016pollen.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.347tv64
title: Data from: Is biasing offspring sex ratio adaptive? a test of Fisher’s principle across multiple generations of a wild mammal in a fluctuating environment

description: Fisher’s principle explains that population sex ratio in sexually
 reproducing organisms is maintained at 1:1 due to negative
 frequency-dependent selection, such that individuals of the rare sex
 realize greater reproductive opportunity than individuals of the more
 common sex until equilibrium is reached. If biasing offspring sex ratio
 towards the rare sex is adaptive, individuals that do so should have a
 higher number of grandoffspring. In a wild population of North American
 red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) that experiences fluctuations in
 resource abundance and population density, we show that overall across 26
 years, the secondary sex ratio was 1:1; however, stretches of years during
 which adult sex ratio was biased did not yield offspring sex ratios biased
 towards the rare sex. Females that had litters biased towards the rare sex
 did not have more grandoffspring. Critically, adult sex ratio was not
 temporally autocorrelated across years, thus the population sex ratio
 experienced by parents was independent of the population sex ratio
 experienced by their offspring by the time of their primiparity. Expected
 fitness benefits of biasing offspring sex ratio may be masked or negated
 by fluctuating environments across years, which limit the predictive value
 of the current sex ratio.
description: Red squirrel litter sex
 ratio dataCollected by the Kluane
 Red Squirrel Project (KRSP) in the field.RSQSRdata.xlsm
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.f61vq
title: Data from: Evaluation of microsatellite markers for populations studies and forensic identification of African lions (Panthera leo)

description: The South African lion (Panthera leo) population is highly fragmented.
 One-third of its wild lions occur in small (&lt;1000 km2) reserves.
 These lions were reintroduced from other areas of the species’ historical
 range. Management practices on these reserves have not prioritized genetic
 provenance or heterozygosity. These trends potentially constrain the
 conservation value of these lions. To ensure the best management and
 long-term survival of these subpopulations as a viable collective
 population, the provenance and current genetic diversity must be
 described. Concurrently, poaching of lions to supply a growing market for
 lion bones in Asia may become a serious conservation challenge in the
 future. Having a standardized, validated method for matching confiscated
 lion parts with carcasses will be a key tool in investigating these
 crimes. We evaluated 28 microsatellites in the African lion using samples
 from 18 small reserves and 1 captive facility in South Africa, two
 conservancies in Zimbabwe, and Kruger National and Kgalagadi Transfrontier
 Parks to determine the loci most suited for population management and
 forensic genetic applications. Twelve microsatellite loci with a match
 probability of 1.1×10−5 between siblings were identified for forensics. A
 further 10 could be added for population genetics studies.
description: Microsatellite data for
 Panthera leoData were prepared in
 Microsoft Excel. All samples are held at the Veterinary Genetics
 Laboratory, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa. The
 ItemID refers to a unique number for each sample on the database. Sample
 information was included with each sample submitted to the laboratory.
 Abbreviations: NP - National Park; GR - Game Reserve; NR - Nature Reserve;
 TFCA - Transfrontier Conservation Area; ZnF - Zinc
 Finger.Raw
 Panthera leo microsatellite data.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.h172b
title: Data from: Genetic profiling links changing sea-ice to shifting beluga whale migration patterns

description: There is increasing concern over how Arctic fauna will adapt to climate
 related changes in sea-ice. We used long-term sighting and genetic data on
 beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in conjunction with multi-decadal
 patterns of sea-ice in the Pacific Arctic to investigate the influence of
 sea-ice on spring migration and summer residency patterns. Substantial
 variations in sea-ice conditions were detected across seasons, years and
 sub-regions, revealing ice–ocean dynamics more complex than Arctic-wide
 trends suggest. This variation contrasted with a highly consistent pattern
 of migration and residency by several populations, indicating that belugas
 can accommodate widely varying sea-ice conditions to perpetuate philopatry
 to coastal migration destinations. However, a number of anomalous
 migration and residency events were detected and coincided with anomalous
 ice years, and in one case with an increase in killer whale (Orcinus orca)
 sightings and reported predation on beluga whales. The behavioural shifts
 were likely driven by changing sea-ice and associated changes in resource
 dispersion and predation risk. Continued reductions in sea-ice may result
 in increased predation at key aggregation areas and shifts in beluga whale
 behaviour with implications for population viability, ecosystem structure
 and the subsistence cultures that rely on them.
description: O'Corry-Crowe et al
 2016 - Biology Letters - mtDNA datamtDNA haplotype sequence
 data for beluga whalesO'Corry-Crowe et al
 2016 - Biology Letters - microsat datamicrosatellite data for
 beluga whales