cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q7f6v
title: Data from: Habitat saturation promotes delayed dispersal in a social reptile

description: When and where offspring disperse has important implications for the
 evolutionary emergence and maintenance of group living. In non-cooperative
 breeders, direct benefits of delayed dispersal are relatively limited,
 suggesting that decisions regarding whether or not to remain in the
 parental territory are largely driven by the availability of suitable
 habitat in which to settle. While there is ample evidence of correlations
 between habitat saturation and delayed dispersal, experimental tests are
 rare, particularly for species with facultative group formation. We
 manipulated the density of conspecifics in enclosed populations of a
 family living reptile to experimentally evaluate the influence of habitat
 saturation on the tendency to delay dispersal. Habitat saturation did not
 influence whether or not offspring explored their surroundings. However,
 when conspecific density was high, more offspring delayed dispersal and
 those that did settle in high-density enclosures had reduced survival.
 These patterns appear to be due to increased dispersal costs imposed by
 conspecific aggression; offspring that explored high-density enclosures
 had reduced body condition and a greater risk of mortality. We discuss
 these results in the context of the evolutionary origins of family living.
description: Halliwell_BEHECO-2016-0350.R1_Data
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t84q0
title: Data from: The challenge of modeling niches and distributions for data-poor species: a comprehensive approach to model complexity

description: Models of species ecological niches and geographic distributions now
 represent a widely used tool in ecology, evolution, and biogeography.
 However, the very common situation of species with few available
 occurrence localities presents major challenges for such modeling
 techniques, in particular regarding model complexity and evaluation. Here,
 we summarize the state of the field regarding these issues and provide a
 worked example using the technique Maxent for a small mammal endemic to
 Madagascar (the nesomyine rodent Eliurus majori). Two relevant
 model-selection approaches exist in the literature (information criteria,
 specifically AICc; and performance predicting withheld data, via a
 jackknife), but AICc is not strictly applicable to machine-learning
 algorithms like Maxent. We compare models chosen under each selection
 approach with those corresponding to Maxent default settings, both with
 and without spatial filtering of occurrence records to reduce the effects
 of sampling bias. Both selection approaches chose simpler models than
 those made using default settings. Furthermore, the approaches converged
 on a similar answer when sampling bias was taken into account, but
 differed markedly with the unfiltered occurrence data. Specifically, for
 that dataset, the models selected by AICc had substantially fewer
 parameters than those identified by performance on withheld data. Based on
 our knowledge of the study species, models chosen under both AICc and
 withheld-data-selection showed higher ecological plausibility when
 combined with spatial filtering. The results for this species intimate
 that AICc may consistently select models with fewer parameters and be more
 robust to sampling bias. To test these hypotheses and reach general
 conclusions, comprehensive research should be undertaken with a wide
 variety of real and simulated species. Meanwhile, we recommend that
 researchers assess the critical yet underappreciated issue of model
 complexity both via information criteria and performance on withheld data,
 comparing the results between the two approaches and taking into account
 ecological plausibility.
description: dataAppendixGazetteer of specimens corresponding to localities of Eliurus majori employed in this study, providing museum, catalog number, specific locality, altitude (in meters), and latitude and longitude (in decimal degrees). Museum abbreviations are as follows: FMNH: Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, USA); UADBA: Université d‘Antananarivo, Département de Biologie Animale (Antananarivo, Madagascar). All identifications were verified based on DNA sequences.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.gc06qt7
title: Data from: Interspecific aggression among parapatric and sympatric songbirds on a tropical elevational gradient

description: Interspecific competition is hypothesized to be a strong force that sets
 species range limits and drives parapatric distributions of closely
 related species on tropical mountains. Yet, experimental evidence that
 competition drives spatial segregation of closely related species on
 elevational gradients is rare. To test whether competition limits
 elevational ranges of tropical songbirds, we conducted reciprocal playback
 experiments on two pairs of species with adjacent but non-overlapping
 (parapatric) distributions and one pair of sympatric species. We found
 asymmetric interspecific aggression in one parapatric pair (Pycnonotidae)
 and a complete absence of interspecific aggression in the other
 (Zosteropidae). We also found asymmetric interspecies aggression in a pair
 of sympatric flycatchers (Muscicapidae). Our results indicate that
 interspecific aggression may set range limits in some cases, but it is not
 a prerequisite for parapatry. Furthermore, the presence of interspecific
 aggression between co-occurring relatives suggests that while competition
 may play a role in limiting species distributions, interspecific
 aggression alone is not sufficient evidence to assert that competition is
 the primary driver of parapatric distributions.
description: playback_data_summaryCSV_cleanbehavioral data associated with playback trials.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.66bh6
title: Data from: Multivariate female preference tests reveal latent perceptual biases

description: The question of why males of many species produce elaborate mating
 displays has now been largely resolved: females prefer to mate with males
 that produce such displays. However, the question of why females prefer
 such displays has been controversial, with an emerging consensus that such
 displays often provide information to females about the direct fitness
 benefits that males provide to females and/or the indirect fitness
 benefits provided to offspring. Alternative explanations, such as
 production of arbitrarily attractive sons or innate pre-existing female
 sensory or perceptual bias, have also received support in certain taxa.
 Here, we describe multivariate female preference functions for male
 acoustic traits in two chirping species of field crickets with slow pulse
 rates; our data reveal cryptic female preferences for long trills that
 have not previously been observed in other chirping species. The trill
 preferences are evolutionarily pre-existing in the sense that males have
 not (yet?) exploited them, and they coexist with chirp preferences as
 alternative stable states within female song preference space. We discuss
 escape from neuronal adaptation as a possible mechanism underlying such
 latent preferences
description: Female Phonotaxis
 DataPhonotaxis data for
 Gryllus firmus and Gryllus sp13.Gryllus firmus and Gsp13
 Phonotaxis Data.txt
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.40kp5
title: Data from: Acute peaks of testosterone suppress paternal care: evidence from individual hormonal reaction norms

description: A long-standing tenet of evolutionary endocrinology states that
 testosterone mediates the life-history trade-off between mating and
 paternal care. However, the support for a role of testosterone in
 suppressing paternal care is mixed: implantation studies in birds suggest
 that high-level testosterone implants suppress paternal care, but
 circulating levels of testosterone and paternal care are typically not
 correlated. Because any trade-off in real life must be realized with
 hormone levels that are within an individual’s reaction norm, it is
 crucial to show that natural changes in the hormone can modulate behavior.
 Here, we used GnRH injections to alter testosterone levels of free-living
 male black redstarts within each individuals’ hormonal reaction norm:
 experimental males resumed feeding their offspring later and showed a
 stronger suppression of offspring-feeding behavior than control males. For
 the first time, this study demonstrated that short-term peaks in
 testosterone within the hormonal reaction norm of individuals can suppress
 paternal behavior. Our findings reconcile previous seemingly contradictive
 evidence of implantation and correlation studies and demonstrate that the
 differential production of testosterone within the hormonal reaction norm
 of single individuals can indeed mediate the trade-off between mating and
 paternal care. On a broader note, our results suggest that natural and
 short peaks in testosterone can elicit adaptive behavioral changes.
description: Latency
 dataData to calculate
 latencies between release and when males returned to started feeding again
 depending on treatmentGnRH_latencies.csvFeeding rate dataData depicting feeding rates of male black redstarts before and after treatmentGnRH_mixed_parental.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qs6d4
title: Data from: The role of cognitive and affective empathy in spouses' support interactions: an observational study

description: The present study examined how support providers’ empathic dispositions
 (dispositional perspective taking, empathic concern, and personal
 distress) as well as their situational empathic reactions
 (interaction-based perspective taking, empathic concern, and personal
 distress) relate to the provision of spousal support during observed
 support interactions. Forty-five committed couples provided questionnaire
 data and participated in two ten-minute social support interactions
 designed to assess behaviors when partners are offering and soliciting
 social support. A video-review task was used to assess situational forms
 of perspective taking (e.g., empathic accuracy), empathic concern and
 personal distress. Data were analyzed by means of the multi-level
 Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Results revealed that providers
 scoring higher on affective empathy (i.e., dispositional empathic
 concern), provided lower levels of negative support. In addition, for male
 partners, scoring higher on cognitive empathy (i.e., situational
 perspective taking) was related to lower levels of negative support
 provision. For both partners, higher scores on cognitive empathy (i.e.,
 situational perspective taking) correlated with more instrumental support
 provision. Male providers scoring higher on affective empathy (i.e.,
 situational personal distress) provided higher levels of instrumental
 support. Dispositional perspective taking was related to higher scores on
 emotional support provision for male providers. The current study furthers
 our insight into the empathy-support link, by revealing differential
 effects (a) for men and women, (b) of both cognitive and affective
 empathy, and (c) of dispositional as well as situational empathy, on
 different types of support provision.
description: Verhofstadt et
 al_EmpathySupportObservational_PlosRdata file including
 data from 45 couples who participated in an observational lab study on
 empathy and social support
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.dg11vn5
title: Data from: Bacterial microbiota assemblage in Aedes albopictus mosquitoes and its impacts on larval development

description: Interactions between bacterial microbiota and mosquitoes play an important
 role in mosquitoes’ capacity to transmit pathogens. However, microbiota
 assemblages within mosquitoes and the impact of microbiota in environments
 on mosquito development and survival remain unclear. This study examined
 microbiota assemblages and the effects of aquatic environment microbiota
 on the larval development of the Aedes albopictus mosquito, an important
 dengue virus vector. Life table studies have found that reducing bacterial
 load in natural aquatic habitats through water filtering and treatment
 with antibiotics significantly reduced the larva-to-adult emergence rate.
 This finding was consistent in two types of larval habitats
 examined—discarded tires and flowerpots, suggesting that bacteria play a
 crucial role in larval development. Pyrosequencing of the bacterial 16S
 rRNA gene was used to determine the diversity of bacterial communities in
 larval habitats and the resulting numbers of mosquitoes under both
 laboratory and field conditions. The microbiota profiling identified
 common shared bacteria among samples from different years; further studies
 are needed to determine whether these bacteria represent a core
 microbiota. The highest microbiota diversity was found in aquatic
 habitats, followed by mosquito larvae, and the lowest in adult mosquitoes.
 Mosquito larvae ingested their bacterial microbiota and nutrients from
 aquatic habitats of high microbiota diversity. Taken together, the results
 support the observation that Ae. albopictus larvae are able to utilize
 diverse bacteria from aquatic habitats, and that live bacteria from
 aquatic habitats play an important role in larval mosquito development and
 survival. These findings provide new insights into bacteria’s role in
 mosquito larval ecology.
description: Mothur command lines for
 Miseq sequence analysisThis is a file with the
 mothur commands used in current Miseq data analysis following:
 https://www.mothur.org/wiki/MiSeq_SOP.Mothur command lines for
 sequence analysis.batBeta analysis: Permanova
 and NMDS codeR code for Permanova and
 NMDS code in this research.Permanova and NMDS
 code.RVenn Diagram
 CodeR
 code for Venn Diagram in the analysis
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5vm48h0
title: Data from: Nocturnal departure timing in songbirds facing distinct migratory challenges

description: 1. Most migratory songbirds travel between their breeding areas and
 wintering grounds through a series of nocturnal flights. The timing of
 their departures defines the potential flight duration and thus the
 distance covered during a migratory night. Yet, migratory songbirds show
 substantial variation in their nocturnal departure timing. 2. With this
 study we aim to assess whether the respective challenges of the migration
 route, namely its distance and nature, help to explain this variation. 3.
 At a stopover site, we caught Northern Wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe) of
 two subspecies that differ in distance and nature of their onward
 migration route in spring, but not in autumn. We determined the start of
 their nocturnal migratory restlessness during short-term captivity, and
 radio-tracked their nocturnal departure timing after release in both
 migration seasons. 4. Northern Wheatears started their nocturnal migratory
 restlessness earlier when facing a long remaining migration distance and
 an extended sea barrier in spring. Individual departure directions
 generally affected the nocturnal departure timing with early departures
 being directed towards the respective migratory destination. In spring,
 this pattern was predominantly found in birds carrying relatively large
 fuel stores, but was absent in lean birds. At the same time, birds facing
 a short remaining migration distance and no extended sea barrier strongly
 reacted to relatively large fuel stores by an early start of nocturnal
 migratory behavior (migratory restlessness and departure timing), whereas
 this reaction was not found in birds facing a long remaining migration
 distance and sea barrier. 5. These results suggest that the basic diel
 schedule of birds’ migratory activity is adapted to the onward migration
 route. Further they suggest that birds adjust their behavioral response,
 i.e. start of nocturnal migratory behavior, to fuel stores in relation to
 their impending migratory challenges. This is a substantial step in
 understanding variation of nocturnal departure timing and its adjustments
 in migratory songbirds. Further, it emphasizes the importance of
 interpreting birds’ nocturnal migratory behavior in the respective
 ecological context.
description: Data_Mueller_et_al._2018This Zip archive includes two csv-files. These files provide all data used for the analyses included in the research article.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n09f3
title: Data from: The anatomy, taphonomy, taxonomy and systematic affinity of Markuelia: Early Cambrian to Early Ordovician scalidophorans

description: Markuelia is a vermiform, annulated introvertan animal known as embryonic
 fossils from the Lower Cambrian to Lower Ordovician. Analysis of an
 expanded and revised dataset for Introverta shows that the precise
 position of Markuelia within this clade is dependent on the taxa included.
 As a result, Markuelia is assigned to the scalidophoran total group to
 reflect uncertainty as to whether it is a stem-scalidophoran or a
 stem-priapulid. The taxonomy of the genus is revised to provide an
 improved taxonomic framework for material assigned to Markuelia. Five
 species are recognized: M. secunda Val’kov, M. hunanensis Dong and
 Donoghue, M. lauriei Haug et al., M. spinulifera sp. nov. and M. waloszeki
 sp. nov. Finally, the preservation of Markuelia is evaluated in the light
 of both the taphonomy of the fossil embryos themselves and the
 experimental taphonomy of the priapulid Priapulus caudatus, which has been
 proposed as both a close relative and an anatomical analogue of Markuelia.
description: Cladistic data
 matrixCladistic data
 matrixDong_et_al_2010_mtx
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18385066
title: Flakiness in Autonomous Test Agents - Dataset

description: This dataset accompanies the paper "Flakiness in Autonomous Test Agents" and provides all artifacts generated during our empirical study on flakiness in LLM-based Autonomous Test Agents (ATAs).

Contents

The dataset includes:



ATA Execution Traces: Complete execution traces from the Autonomous Test Agent running a benchmark of 113 professionally authored end-to-end web tests across three web applications (Classifieds, Postmill, and OneStopMarket). The traces capture:



Full agent-LLM conversation histories

Actions performed and their outcomes

Assertion evaluations and verdicts

Multiple runs per test case under identical conditions (same model, prompts, temperature, and environment)



Knowledge Extraction Agent Conversations: Complete LLM conversation logs from the Knowledge Extraction Agent, which analyzes execution traces to generate Knowledge Items. These conversations document:



Trace analysis and identification of instability patterns

Knowledge Item proposals (52 total)

Alternative formulations provided for human validation




Context

The ATA uses Anthropic Claude Haiku as its underlying LLM, configured with a sampling temperature of 0.2. Each test was executed three times to identify flaky behavior, defined as inconsistent outcomes or trajectories under identical run conditions.

Purpose

This dataset enables researchers to:



Analyze ATA behavior and decision-making through detailed execution traces

Study the causes and patterns of flakiness in LLM-based testing agents

Examine the Knowledge Item extraction process and its effectiveness

Replicate or extend our flakiness measurement methodology

Develop improved stabilization techniques for autonomous test agents
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18385067
title: Flakiness in Autonomous Test Agents - Dataset

description: This dataset accompanies the paper "Flakiness in Autonomous Test Agents" and provides all artifacts generated during our empirical study on flakiness in LLM-based Autonomous Test Agents (ATAs).

Contents

The dataset includes:



ATA Execution Traces: Complete execution traces from the Autonomous Test Agent running a benchmark of 113 professionally authored end-to-end web tests across three web applications (Classifieds, Postmill, and OneStopMarket). The traces capture:



Full agent-LLM conversation histories

Actions performed and their outcomes

Assertion evaluations and verdicts

Multiple runs per test case under identical conditions (same model, prompts, temperature, and environment)



Knowledge Extraction Agent Conversations: Complete LLM conversation logs from the Knowledge Extraction Agent, which analyzes execution traces to generate Knowledge Items. These conversations document:



Trace analysis and identification of instability patterns

Knowledge Item proposals (52 total)

Alternative formulations provided for human validation




Context

The ATA uses Anthropic Claude Haiku as its underlying LLM, configured with a sampling temperature of 0.2. Each test was executed three times to identify flaky behavior, defined as inconsistent outcomes or trajectories under identical run conditions.

Purpose

This dataset enables researchers to:



Analyze ATA behavior and decision-making through detailed execution traces

Study the causes and patterns of flakiness in LLM-based testing agents

Examine the Knowledge Item extraction process and its effectiveness

Replicate or extend our flakiness measurement methodology

Develop improved stabilization techniques for autonomous test agents
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fc615
title: Data from: Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans?

description: The reconstruction of ancestors is a central aim of comparative anatomy
 and evolutionary developmental biology, not least in attempts to
 understand the relationship between developmental and organismal
 evolution. Inferences based on living taxa can and should be tested
 against the fossil record, which provides an independent and direct view
 onto historical character combinations. Here, we consider the nature of
 the last common ancestor of living ecdysozoans through a detailed analysis
 of palaeoscolecids, an early and extinct group of introvert-bearing worms
 that have been proposed to be ancestral ecdysozoans. In a review of
 palaeoscolecid anatomy, including newly resolved details of the internal
 and external cuticle structure, we identify specific characters shared
 with various living nematoid and The reconstruction of ancestors is a
 central aim of comparative anatomy and evolutionary developmental biology,
 not least in attempts to understand the relationship between developmental
 and organismal evolution. Inferences based on living taxa can and should
 be tested against the fossil record, which provides an independent and
 direct view onto historical character combinations. Here, we consider the
 nature of the last common ancestor of living ecdysozoans through a
 detailed analysis of palaeoscolecids, an early and extinct group of
 introvert-bearing worms that have been proposed to be ancestral
 ecdysozoans. In a review of palaeoscolecid anatomy, including newly
 resolved details of the internal and external cuticle structure, we
 identify specific characters shared with various living nematoid and
description: Cladistic data
 matrixCladistic data
 matrixHarvey_et_al_2010_Matrix.txt