cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kh189327x
title: Estimates of circadian period for family lines of Boechera stricta

description: Circadian clocks confer adaptation to predictable 24-h fluctuations in the
 exogenous environment, but it has yet to be determined what ecological
 factors maintain natural genetic variation in endogenous circadian period
 outside of the hypothesized optimum of 24 h. We estimated quantitative
 genetic variation in circadian period in leaf movement in 30 natural
 populations of the Arabidopsis relative Boechera stricta sampled within
 only 1° of latitude but across an elevation gradient spanning 2460−3300 m
 in the Rocky Mountains. Measuring ~3800 plants from 473 maternal families
 (7−20 per population), we found that genetic variation was of similar
 magnitude among vs. within populations, with population means varying
 between 21.9−24.9 h and maternal family means within populations varying
 by up to ~6 h. After statistically accounting for spatial autocorrelation
 at a habitat extreme, we found that elevation explained a significant
 proportion of genetic variation in circadian period, such that
 higher-elevation populations had shorter mean period lengths and reduced
 intrapopulation ranges. Environmental data indicate that these spatial
 trends could be related to steep regional climatic gradients in
 temperature, precipitation, and their intra-annual variability. Our
 findings suggest that spatially fine-grained environmental heterogeneity
 contributes to naturally occurring genetic variation in circadian traits
 in wild populations.
DOI: 10.17172/nomad/2026.01.28-1
title: NOMAD dataset: Data publication (From half-cells to full-cells: across-scale comparative evaluation of lanthanum-based perovskites as high-performance anode materials for the oxygen evolution reaction)
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.cc2fqz68c
title: A simple artificial diet for feeding and sequestration assays for the milkweed bugs Oncopeltus fasciatus and Spilostethus saxatilis (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)

description: Insect artificial diets are not only an important tool for mass rearing,
 nutritional research, and maintaining laboratory colonies but also for
 studying insect-plant interactions. For herbivorous insects able to
 sequester plant toxins, feeding and sequestration assays based on
 artificial diet allow for the investigation of physiological, ecological,
 and evolutionary questions which may be difficult to study using real
 plants representing complex chemical environments. We developed a simple
 artificial diet, consisting of sunflower meal pressed into pills, for the
 milkweed bugs Oncopeltus fasciatus and Spilostethus saxatilis
 (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae), which are capable of sequestering cardenolides
 and colchicum alkaloids, respectively. We assessed insect performance,
 suitability of the diet for sequestration assays, and its shelf life.
 Compared to sunflower seeds which are widely used as a laboratory
 maintenance diet for milkweed bugs, no differences were found in terms of
 weight development, presence of deformities, speed of development, or
 mortality. Importantly, after feeding O. fasciatus and S. saxatilis
 sunflower pills enriched with crystalline ouabain (cardenolide) or
 colchicine (colchicum alkaloid), respectively, sequestration was observed
 in both species. Moreover, as a prerequisite to test ecological
 hypotheses, our method allows for adequate concentration control and
 homogenous distribution of toxins across the diet. Under relatively warm
 conditions (27°C and 60% r.h.), the new diet was stable for up to 10 days
 when used for feeding assays with adult bugs. Therefore, studies focusing
 on the role of plant toxins in predator-prey interactions and plant
 defense, but also insecticide research could benefit from using this
 approach. 
description: Details on data collection and processing are described in the
 manuscript.
description: All files are listed in a text file (README) containing general
 information, sharing/access information, data and file overview,
 methodological information and an explanation of the raw data and R
 outputs. Datasets are presented in individual CSV files. R outputs are
 compiled in PDF files.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.12jm63z0z
title: Effects of oviposition in a non-host species on foraging behaviour of the parasitoid Cotesia glomerata

description: Parasitoids lay their eggs in or on a host, usually another insect. During
 foraging, parasitoids can encounter insects that differ in terms of host
 suitability and quality. At one extreme end of this spectrum are non-hosts
 that are unsuitable for offspring development. Non-hosts are generally
 ignored but parasitization does occur and occasionally also results in egg
 deposition. Here, we investigate how oviposition in a non-host influences
 subsequent foraging behaviour of a parasitoid and whether this is mediated
 by learning. Our study system consists of the endoparasitoid Cotesia
 glomerata and the presumed non-host caterpillar Mamestra brassicae. In the
 presence of Pieris brassicae hosts and/or their traces (frass), we
 observed that C. glomerata inserts its ovipositor into M. brassicae
 caterpillars. Eggs were deposited, but all eggs disappeared within 96h,
 confirming the non-host status of M. brassicae. In contrast to our
 expectation, there was no memory retention after oviposition in a non-host
 and parasitoids did not alter their behaviour with respect to non-host
 contacts and ovipositions. Instead, C. glomerata became more motivated to
 forage on a non-host infested leaf. We propose that egg deposition in
 non-hosts by C. glomerata might be due to their high egg load, which is
 thought to make parasitoids less selective on host quality, especially
 when they have few reproductive opportunities. In such cases, fitness
 costs to individual females are low. Egg deposition in non-hosts might
 ultimately lead to host range expansion if parasitoids overcome the
 defence response of non-hosts over evolutionary time.
description: The data were collected according to the methods described in the
 manuscript and can be analysed according to the described models
description: Explanation of the parameters and values is given in the first
 worksheet of the data-file: "explanation"
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kprr4xh6p
title: Extreme environments filter functionally rich communities of Atlantic Forest treefrogs along altitudinal and latitudinal gradients

description: Understanding how environmental filtering and biotic interactions
 structure communities across elevational and latitudinal gradients is
 still a matter of debate. To provide insight into their relative
 importance, we explore the mismatch between three dimensions of
 biodiversity (taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic), and compare their
 patterns to null models of random community assembly. We focus on a highly
 diverse tropical group: the tree frogs (hylids) of the Atlantic Forest of
 Brazil. For that, we combined geographic distribution data with
 phylogenetic and trait information for 158 species to produce maps of the
 three dimensions of diversity. We show that communities of tree frogs of
 the Hylidae family tend to have high functional richness along the
 Atlantic Forest, potentially driven by niche partitioning. However,
 environmental filtering gains importance in extreme environments, both at
 high elevations and higher latitudes. In these areas of the forest,
 clustering of both functional and phylogenetic diversity is observed.
 Trait overdispersion is found in areas of contact between vegetation
 types, or of adjacent biomes, reflecting the encounter of amphibian
 species adapted to distinct environmental conditions and landscape
 configurations. Considering all three dimensions of diversity along with
 multiple axes of environmental variation allows for a more comprehensive
 understanding of the processes shaping amphibian community assembly in
 this biodiversity hotspot.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.dbrv15f3k
title: Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the South-Western Atlantic Ocean

description: This study compares the δ15N values and the trophic position of two
 seabird species throughout the Late Holocene in three regions in the
 South-Western Atlantic Ocean to assess the hypothesis that the decimation
 of megafauna lead to changes in the trophic position of mesopredators.
 Modern and ancient mollusc shells were also analysed to account for
 changes in the isotopic baseline through time. Results revealed that
 modern Magellanic penguins have higher δ15N values than their ancient
 conspecifics in the three regions, after controlling for changes in the
 isotopic baseline. This was also true for modern Imperial shags compared
 to ancient unidentified cormorants/shags from the two areas where ancient
 specimens were recovered (Southern Patagonia and the Beagle Channel). Such
 temporal variability might be caused by three non-mutually exclusive
 processes: decreased availability of pelagic squat lobster resulting from
 decreasing primary productivity through the Late Holocene, increased
 availability of small fishes resulting from the sequential depletion of
 other piscivores (South American fur seal and sea lion and Argentine hake)
 since the late 18th century and modification of the migratory patterns of
 Magellanic penguins. Although disentangling the relative contribution of
 all those processes is impossible at this time, the results reported here
 demonstrate that the ecology of Magellanic penguins and Imperial shags has
 undergone major changes since the Late Holocene.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18400026
title: Auxiliary data for: Interplay between local and non-local frustration in the 1D ANNNI chain: I. The even case

description: Auxiliary data supporting the paper:

Interplay between local and non-local frustration in the 1D ANNNI chain: I. The even case

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2024).  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-5468/adc897

The repository contains datasets and final figures used to reproduce the results and plots presented in the paper.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18400411
title: LINF_320011700

description: Protein-tyrosine phosphatase | kPTP; Leishmania infantum (strain JPCM5)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18400410
title: LINF_320011700

description: Protein-tyrosine phosphatase | kPTP; Leishmania infantum (strain JPCM5)
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.pk0p2ngqs
title: Interspecific introgression of MHC genes in Triturus newts: Evidence from multiple contact zones

description: The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are central to the
 adaptive immune response in vertebrates. Selection generally maintains
 high MHC variation because the spectrum of recognised pathogens depends on
 MHC polymorphism. Novel alleles favoured by selection originate by
 interallelic recombination or de novo mutations but may also be acquired
 by introgression from related species. However, the extent and prevalence
 of MHC introgression remain an open question. In this study, we tested for
 MHC introgression in six hybrid zones formed by six Triturus newt species.
 We sequenced and genotyped the polymorphic second exons of the MHC class I
 and II genes and compared their interspecific similarity at various
 distances from the centre of the hybrid zone. We found evidence for
 introgression of both MHC classes in the majority of examined hybrid
 zones, with support for a more substantial class I introgression.
 Furthermore, the overall MHC allele sharing outside of hybrid zones was
 elevated between pairs of Triturus species with abutting ranges,
 regardless of the phylogenetic distance between them. No effect of past
 hybrid zone movement on MHC allele sharing was found. Finally, using
 previously published genome-wide data, we demonstrated that MHC
 introgression was more extensive than genome-wide introgression,
 supporting its adaptive potential. Our study thus provides evidence for
 the prevalence of MHC introgression across multiple Triturus hybrid zones,
 indicating that MHC introgression between divergent hybridising species
 may be widespread and adaptive.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18400025
title: Auxiliary data for: Interplay between local and non-local frustration in the 1D ANNNI chain: I. The even case

description: Auxiliary data supporting the paper:

Interplay between local and non-local frustration in the 1D ANNNI chain: I. The even case

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2024).  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-5468/adc897

The repository contains datasets and final figures used to reproduce the results and plots presented in the paper.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jm63xsjdc
title: Shock or jump: deimatic behaviour is repeatable and polymorphic in a yellow-bellied toad

description: Inter-individual variation in antipredatory strategies has long attracted
 curiosity among scientists. Deimatisms is a complex and time-structured
 antipredatory strategy consisting in prey suddenly unleashing unexpected
 defences to frighten predators and stop their attack. Being deimatism
 traditionally considered as a stereotyped antipredatory response, the
 inter-individual variation in phenotypic traits related to deimatic
 displays is almost unexplored. In this study, we employed common garden
 experiments on 71 yellow-bellied toad Bombina pachypus to investigate the
 extent and pattern of inter-individual variation in the unken-reflex
 behaviour, a deimatic display performed by some amphibians. Results show
 that deimatic displays consistently differ among individuals. Only about
 half of the individuals reacted to the predation stimuli by exhibiting the
 display, which varied in responsiveness, duration and intensity. All the
 investigated descriptors were repeatable (R &gt; 0.50, p &lt;
 0.01). Finally, we found significant correlations between the measured
 parameters, defining two alternative behavioural profiles: individuals
 quickly doing unken-reflex, with high intensity and long duration of the
 display, and individuals avoiding unken-reflex but rather escaping. Such
 dichotomy resembles respectively the proactive and reactive coping styles.
 Such an unexpected variation in deimatic behaviour raises intriguing
 questions on the evolutionary processes shaping multiple adaptive
 responses to predation within populations.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fttdz08vx
title: Signal lengthening is not a strategy for animals to mitigate noise interference

description: Many species of animals rely on acoustic communication for critical life
 activities. The efficacy of acoustic communication, however, can be
 seriously hindered by ambient noise. Although it has been widely reported
 that signallers modify the structure of their acoustic signals in noise,
 whether such signal modulations contribute to reducing noise interference
 is often unclear. Signal duration is a perceptually important parameter
 that can directly affect signal detection. Here, we address whether signal
 lengthening is an adaptive strategy for improving acoustic communication
 in noise, combing results from a meta-analysis, a noise playback
 experiment, and numerical simulations. The meta-analysis showed that
 animals from arthropods to mammals showed a mixed pattern of signal
 duration modifications in response to noise, covering all three
 possibilities of an increase, a decrease, and no change. The noise
 playback experiment revealed that noise-induced signal duration modulation
 was characterized by strong inter-individual variations and correlated
 positively with signal amplitude, challenging the functional role of
 signal lengthening in reducing noise interference. Lastly, numerical
 simulations suggest that experimentally observed signal duration increases
 in noise disappear when the effect size is considered. We conclude that
 signal lengthening is not a strategy for animals to mitigate noise
 interference, despite its wide occurrence. 
description: We obtained echolocation calls of the great leaf-nosed bats in
 silence and a noise condition of 50 dB SPL. We analysed a total of 20,6667
 echolocation calls from 23 bats, with a median of 9240 calls per bat
 (range, 1366–15828 calls).  Echolocation calls of the
 bat were recorded with an array of 16 ultrasonic microphones (NEUmic,
 Ultra Sound Advice, London, UK) on the floor of a recording room. The
 echolocation calls recorded by the microphones were high-passed filtered
 at 20 kHz by an analog filter (VBF40, Kemo Ltd, Dartford, UK) and
 digitized by a sound-recording system (PXIe 8840, with a data
 acquisition card PXIe 6358, National Instruments, Austin,
 USA) at a sampling rate of 250 kHz.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9kd51c5kn
title: Scale-dependent species-area relationship: niche-based versus stochastic processes in a typical subtropical forest

description: Determining the patterns and drivers of the small-scale species-area
 relationship (SAR) is crucial for improving our understanding of community
 assembly and biodiversity patterns. Niche-based and stochastic processes
 are two principal categories of mechanisms potentially driving SARs.
 However, their relative importance has rarely been quantified rigorously
 owing to scale-dependence and the simplified niche volumes often used. In
 a fully mapped, 24-ha plot of a typical subtropical forest, we built the
 SARs and well-defined niche-hyper-volumes of a broad range of
 environmental variables at scales of 10 - 70 m (cell sizes). We then
 simulated passive sampling and partitioned the variances of the SAR slopes
 to disentangle the two contrasting mechanisms. We found that the
 small-scale SAR best followed a power-law relationship, consistent with
 large-scale SARs. The SAR slope declined with increasing scale; it was
 lower than expected under passive sampling at scales below 30 m and higher
 at larger scales. Environmental niches explained more (39%-64%) of the
 slope at larger scales, exceeding 50% at scales &gt; 30 m, and these
 niches always captured the majority of the structured slopes.
 Environmental position (environmental mean values) effects were steady in
 absolute strength across scales and explained most (98%-68%) of the niche
 effect, but this proportion decreased with increasing scale. The effect of
 environmental heterogeneity increased with spatial scales, starting to
 rise at the 30 m scale after controlling for environmental position.
 Excluding soil properties from analyses strongly reduced these niche
 effects, highlighting the importance of soils for structuring the
 small-scale SAR. There was also substantial stochasticity in the SAR
 slopes, which was only partially explained by passive sampling. Synthesis:
 Our results show that the small-scale SAR in the studied subtropical
 forest follows a power-law, exhibits a scale shift in slope at 30 m, and
 is strongly shaped by niche effects that are dominated by environmental
 position relative to heterogeneity. However, soil heterogeneity controls
 the increase of niche effect and shift in the SAR slope with increasing
 spatial scales. Hence, edaphic factors can be responsible for
 scale-dependence in small-scale SARs, thereby linking small-scale and
 large-scale SARs. 
description: See the
 associated Open Access paper for methodology
description: Please see the ReadMe file
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.931zcrjnh
title: South African communal indigenous goats

description: Indigenous goats form the majority of populations in smallholder; low
 input, low output production systems and are considered an important
 genetic resource due to their adaptability to different production
 environments and support communal farming. Effective population size (Ne),
 inbreeding levels, and the runs of homozygosity (ROHs) are effective tools
 for exploring the genetic diversity and understanding the demographic
 history in efforts to support breeding strategies to use and conserve
 genetic resources. Across populations, the current Ne of Gauteng was the
 lowest at 371 animals, while the historical Ne across populations suggests
 that the ancestor Ne has decreased by 53.86%, 44.58%, 42.16% and
 41.16% in Free State (FS), North West (NW), Limpopo (LP) and Gauteng (GP),
 respectively, over the last 971 generations. Genomic inbreeding levels
 related to ancient kinship (FROH &gt;5Mb) was highest in FS
 (0.08±0.09) and lowest for Eastern Cape (EC) (0.02±0.02). A total of 871
 ROH island regions which include important environmental adaptation and
 hermo-tolerance genes such as IL10RB, IL23A, FGF9, IGF1, EGR1, MTOR and
 MAPK3 were identified (occurring in over 20% of the samples) in FS (n =
 37), GP (n = 42), NW (n = 2) populations only. The mean length of ROH
 across populations was 7.76Mb and ranged from 1.61Mb KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)
 to 98.05Mb (GP and NW). Distribution of ROH according to their size showed
 that the majority (n = 1949) of the detected ROH were &gt;5Mb in
 length than the other categories. Assuming two hypothetical ancestral
 populations, the population from KZN and LP are revealed, supporting PC 1.
 The genomes of KZN and LP shared an origin but have substantial admixture
 from the EC and NW populations. The findings revealed that the occurrence
 of high Ne and autozygosity varied largely across breeds in communal
 indigenous goat populations at recent and ancient events when a
 genome-wide Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker was used. The use
 of Illumina goat SNP50K BeadChip shows that there was a migration route of
 communal indigenous goat populations from the northern part (LP) of South
 Africa to the eastern areas of the KZN, that confirmed their historical
 relatedness and which coincide with the migration periods of the Bantu
 nation.
description: Data was colected from indigenous communal goats in four
 provinces of South Africa ( Free State, North West, Limpopo and Gauteng).
 The population was genotyped using illumina goat SNP50K
 BeadChip.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.svs5p9
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 277 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 The dataset includes 277 records from 8 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0003121-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.