cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.15468/b8drpj
title: The World Catalog of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): Additional Updates and Errata

description: This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Borkent, Art, Evenhuis, Neal L., Dominiak, Patrycja (2025): The World Catalog of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): Additional Updates and Errata. Zootaxa 5631 (2): 245-268, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.2.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.2.2AbstractA list of corrections and the addition of new taxa described since Borkent & Dominiak (2020) published a catalog of the Ceratopogonidae of the world and Borkent et al. (2022) provided an update of corrections and new taxa is provided. We record a further 66 extant and 3 fossil species and 2 new fossil genera, as well as four new tribes that have also been proposed by Borkent (2024). A table recording the number of species in each genus and subgenus indicates that the family now includes 6346 extant and 303 fossil species and 107 extant and 23 fossil genera. The number of species names regarded as nomina dubia is now 189.Atrichopogon wirthi Szadziewski & Borkent, 2003 is considered a junior synonym of A. wirthorum Delécolle & Braverman, 1997, syn. nov. The fossil genus Nelohelea Szadziewski & Sontag is here placed in the tribe Washingtonheleini.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9120
title: Data from: Only helpful when required: a longevity cost of harbouring defensive symbionts

description: Maternally transmitted symbionts can spread in host populations if they
 provide a fitness benefit to their hosts. Hamiltonella defensa, a
 bacterial endosymbiont of aphids, protects hosts against parasitoids but
 only occurs at moderate frequencies in most aphid populations. This
 suggests that harbouring this symbiont is also associated with costs, yet
 the nature of these costs has remained elusive. Here we demonstrate an
 important and clearly defined cost: reduced longevity. Experimental
 infections with six different isolates of H. defensa caused strongly
 reduced lifespans in two different clones of the black bean aphid, Aphis
 fabae, resulting in a significantly lower lifetime reproduction. However,
 the two aphid clones were unequally affected by the presence of H.
 defensa, and the magnitude of the longevity cost was further determined by
 genotype × genotype interactions between host and symbiont, which has
 important consequences for their coevolution.
description: dryad_jeb_2011_00176R1
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fk444
title: Data from: Wake up and smell the conflict: odour signals in female competition

description: Odour signals used in competitive and aggressive interactions between
 males are well studied in the context of sexual selection. By contrast,
 relatively little is known about comparable signals used by females,
 despite current interest in the evolution of female ornaments and
 weaponry. Available evidence suggests that odour signals are important in
 competitive interactions between female mammals, with reductions or
 reversals of male-biased sexual dimorphism in signalling where female
 competition is intense. Scent marking is often associated with conflict
 between females over access to resources or reproductive opportunities.
 Female scent marks may therefore provide reliable signals of competitive
 ability that could be used both by competitors and potential mates.
 Consistent with this hypothesis, we report that aggressive behaviour of
 female house mice is correlated with the amount of major urinary protein
 (MUP) excreted in their urine, a polymorphic set of proteins that are used
 in scent mark signalling. Under semi-natural conditions, females with high
 MUP output are more likely to produce offspring sired by males that have
 high reproductive success, and less likely to produce offspring by
 multiple different sires, suggesting that females with strong MUP signals
 are monopolized by males of particularly high quality. We conclude that
 odour signals are worthy of more detailed investigation as mediators of
 female competition.
description: Stockley et al Phil
 Trans 2013Excel data file. Sheet
 1: Data from experiment to investigate if urinary protein output of female
 house mice predicts total number of aggressive or submissive behaviours
 recorded during a 30 min encounter with an unfamiliar female conspecific
 (Section 5(c) and Table 1 in paper). Sheet 2: Data on urinary protein
 output, paternity outcomes of mating and reproductive success for female
 house mice captured from four large semi-natural enclosures (Sections 5(b)
 & (c), Figure 1 in paper).
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.m086rm8
title: Data from: New species of Karydomys (Rodentia) from the Miocene of Chios Island (Greece) and phylogenetic relationships of this rare democricetodontine genus

description: Karydomys is a rare and little diversified democricetodontine, of which
 only six species are currently recognized. This group of rodents is first
 recorded in the early Miocene (MN3) in China and spread quickly thereafter
 to Kazakhstan and Greece (MN4). Karydomys reached south‐western and
 central Europe by early middle Miocene times (MN5), from where it became
 extinct shortly thereafter (MN6). A new species of Karydomys is here
 described from the Miocene Keramia Formation of Chios Island
 (north‐eastern Aegean Sea). Karydomys strati sp. nov. is characterized by
 the presence of a labial spur on the anterolophule, the lack of anterior
 protolophule on the M1 and by the presence of a double metalophule on the
 M2. A cladistics analysis involving all the species of Karydomys and some
 closely related species of Democricetodon and Cricetodon show that
 Karydomys split early into two different lineages, an ‘eastern stock’,
 which includes the central Asian (K. debruijni and K. dzerzhinskii) and
 Greek (K. symeonidisi, K. boskosi and K. strati) species, and a ‘western
 lineage’ comprising the western and central European species (K. wigharti
 and K. zapfei). The evolutionary stage of Karydomys strati suggests that
 the lowermost part of the Keramia Formation, usually attributed to the
 middle Miocene, is older than previously thought.
description: Karydomys cladistic
 analysisCharacter-taxon matrix
 in TNT format used in the cladistic analysis of Karydomys presented in
 this paper.S2.tntS1Character list used in the cladistic analysis
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.vc8h5
title: Data from: Re-evaluation of the ontogeny and reproductive biology of the Triassic fish Saurichthys (Actinopterygii, Saurichthyidae)

description: Viviparity has evolved independently at least 12 times in ray-finned
 fishes. However, the fossil record of actinopterygian viviparity is poor,
 with only two documented occurrences. Both of these are from the
 non-teleost actinopterygian Saurichthys, and include S. curionii and S.
 macrocephalus from the Middle Triassic Meride Limestone (Monte San
 Giorgio, Switzerland). Here, we present new data on the reproductive
 biology of these species, giving unprecedented insights into their
 life-history. Based on positional and preservational criteria, six
 specimens were identified as unambiguously gravid. Embryos were positioned
 dorsal to the gastrointestinal tract, parallel to the axial skeleton and
 to each other, in the posterior two-thirds of the abdominal region. A
 minimum of 16 embryos are preserved in the most fecund females and, based
 on the largest preserved embryos and smallest preserved neonates, birth
 must have occurred at 7–12% of maternal fork length. Embryonic crania and
 teeth are relatively well-ossified, however ossification of the parietal
 region is delayed. In the postcranium, the median scale rows and
 lepidotrichia are ossified, but not the lateral scale rows. Ossified
 squamation and gradual allometric growth suggests that neonates did not
 undergo metamorphosis and were relatively precocial. When considered in a
 phylogenetic context, neither live birth nor internal fertilization
 appears to represent the primitive state for saurichthyid fishes.
description: Appendix 1: Appendix S1.
 Specimens and measurements (in millimeters) used in regression
 analyses.Appendix S1. Specimens
 and measurements (in millimeters) of Saurichthys specimens used in the
 regression analyses.Maxwelletal_Appendix1.docx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rp30d
title: Data from: Feather corticosterone reveals effect of moulting conditions in the autumn on subsequent reproductive output and survival in an Arctic migratory bird

description: For birds, unpredictable environments during the energetically stressful
 times of moulting and breeding are expected to have negative fitness
 effects. Detecting those effects however, might be difficult if
 individuals modulate their physiology and/or behaviours in ways to
 minimize short-term fitness costs. Corticosterone in feathers (CORTf) is
 thought to provide information on total baseline and stress-induced CORT
 levels at moulting and is an integrated measure of
 hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal activity during the time feathers are
 grown. We predicted that CORTf levels in northern common eider females
 would relate to subsequent body condition, reproductive success and
 survival, in a population of eiders nesting in the eastern Canadian Arctic
 during a capricious period marked by annual avian cholera outbreaks. We
 collected CORTf data from feathers grown during previous moult in autumn
 and data on phenology of subsequent reproduction and survival for 242
 eider females over 5 years. Using path analyses, we detected a direct
 relationship between CORTf and arrival date and body condition the
 following year. CORTf also had negative indirect relationships with both
 eider reproductive success and survival of eiders during an avian cholera
 outbreak. This indirect effect was dramatic with a reduction of
 approximately 30% in subsequent survival of eiders during an avian cholera
 outbreak when mean CORTf increased by 1 standard deviation. This study
 highlights the importance of events or processes occurring during moult on
 subsequent expression of life-history traits and relation to individual
 fitness, and shows that information from non-destructive sampling of
 individuals can track carry-over effects across seasons.
description: Common eider data for
 Harms et al MS: Feather corticosterone reveals effect of moulting
 conditions in an Arctic migratory birdThese data were
 collected from the field from 2007-2011. Column headings are as follows:
 ID (year plus bird band number); Band (bird band number); year (year eider
 was captured); CORTf (feather corticosterone in pg/mm); arrival (eider
 arrival date on breeding colony in Julian days); relArrival (relative
 arrival date); mass (eider mass in grams); Lay (date first egg was laid);
 relLay (relative lay date); nest (at least one egg was successfully
 hatched); Survival (1=eider found dead by end of breeding season, 0= eider
 that was not found dead during breeding season)Harms et al_Proc B_ final data
 for CORTf MS.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0qr68
title: Data from: Field swimming behavior in largemouth bass deviates from predictions based on economy and propulsive efficiency

description: Locomotion is energetically expensive. This may create selection pressures
 that favor economical locomotor strategies, such as adoption of low cost
 speeds and efficient propulsive movements. For swimming fish the energy
 expended to travel a unit distance, or cost of transport (COT), has a
 U-shaped relationship to speed. The relationship between propulsive
 kinematics and speed summarized by the Strouhal number (St = fA/U, where f
 is tail beat frequency, A is tail tip amplitude in m and U is swimming
 speed in m s-1) allows for maximal propulsive efficiency where 0.2
description: Largemouth bass field
 swimming dataSpeed and kinematic data
 for largemouth bass field swimming.Han et al
 data.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n49p1
title: Data from: Mismatch between the eye and the optic lobe in the giant squid

description: Giant squids (Architeuthis) are a legendary species among the cephalopods.
 They live in the deep sea and are well known for their enormous body and
 giant eyes. It has been suggested that their giant eyes are not adapted
 for the detection of either mates or prey at distance, but rather are best
 suited for monitoring very large predators, such as sperm whales, at
 distances exceeding 120 m and at a depth below 600 m (Nilsson et al. 2012
 Curr. Biol. 22, 683–688. (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.031)). However, it is
 not clear how the brain of giant squids processes visual information. In
 this study, the optic lobe of a giant squid (Architeuthis dux, male,
 mantle length 89 cm), which was caught by local fishermen off the
 northeastern coast of Taiwan, was scanned using high-resolution magnetic
 resonance imaging in order to examine its internal structure. It was
 evident that the volume ratio of the optic lobe to the eye in the giant
 squid is much smaller than that in the oval squid (Sepioteuthis
 lessoniana) and the cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis). Furthermore, the cell
 density in the cortex of the optic lobe is significantly higher in the
 giant squid than in oval squids and cuttlefish, with the relative
 thickness of the cortex being much larger in Architeuthis optic lobe than
 in cuttlefish. This indicates that the relative size of the medulla of the
 optic lobe in the giant squid is disproportionally smaller compared with
 these two cephalopod species. This morphological study of the giant squid
 brain, though limited only to the optic lobe, provides the first evidence
 to support that the optic lobe cortex, the visual information processing
 area in cephalopods, is well developed in the giant squid. In comparison,
 the optic lobe medulla, the visuomotor integration centre in cephalopods,
 is much less developed in the giant squid than other species. This finding
 suggests that, despite the giant eye and a full-fledged cortex within the
 optic lobe, the brain of giant squids has not evolved proportionally in
 terms of performing complex tasks compared with shallow-water cephalopod
 species.
description: Measurements of the
 optic lobesAll measurements of the
 optic lobes described in the paperGiantSquidData.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8hf1c
title: Data from: Fluctuating food resources influence developmental plasticity in wild boar

description: To maximize long-term average reproductive success, individuals can
 diversify the phenotypes of offspring produced within a reproductive event
 by displaying the ‘coin-flipping’ tactic. Wild boar (Sus scrofa scrofa)
 females have been reported to adopt this tactic. However, whether the
 magnitude of developmental plasticity within a litter depends on
 stochasticity in food resources has not been yet investigated. From
 long-term monitoring, we found that juvenile females produced
 similar-sized fetuses within a litter independent of food availability. By
 contrast, adult females adjusted their relative allocation to littermates
 to the amount of food resources, by providing a similar allocation to all
 littermates in years of poor food resources but producing highly
 diversified offspring phenotypes within a litter in years of abundant food
 resources. By minimizing sibling rivalry, such a plastic reproductive
 tactic allows adult wild boar females to maximize the number of
 littermates for a given breeding event.
description: Data
 mast
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.10940
title: Data from: The effects of tradition on problem solving by two wild populations of bearded capuchin monkeys in a probing task

description: The effects of culture on individual cognition have become a core issue
 among cultural primatologists. Field studies with wild populations provide
 evidence on the role of social cues in the ontogeny of tool use in
 non-human primates, and on the transmission of such behaviours over
 generations through socially biased learning. Recent experimental studies
 have shown that cultural knowledge may influence problem solving in wild
 populations of chimpanzees. Here, we present the results from a field
 experiment comparing the performance of bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus
 libidinosus) from two wild savannah populations with distinct toolkits in
 a probing task. Only the population that already exhibited the customary
 use of probing tools succeeded in solving the new problem, suggesting that
 their cultural repertoire shaped their approach to the new task. Moreover,
 only this population, which uses stone tools in a broader range of
 contexts, tried to use them to solve the problem. Social interactions can
 affect the formation of learning sets and they affect the performance of
 the monkeys in problem solving. We suggest that behavioural traditions
 affect the ways non-human primates solve novel foraging problems using
 tools.
description: DATASET_CARDOSO&OTTONIBehavioral data for ms published in Biology Letters "The effects of tradition on problem solving by two wild populations of bearded capuchin monkeys in a probing task."This is a xlsx file with the following variables (see ms for details): Individual identity (ID); Population, Sex, Age group, Number of visits to the boxes (NUMVISIT), Time Visit, Mean time spent per visit (MEAN_TIME VISIT), Insertion of fingers (FINGERS), Frequency of Probing Events (PROBE EVENT), Frequency of successful probing (SUCCESSFUL), Number of probe tools.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6p46m
title: Data from: Plant toxin levels in nectar vary spatially across native and introduced populations

description: Secondary compounds in nectar can function as toxic chemical defences
 against floral antagonists, but may also mediate plant-pollinator
 interactions. Despite their ecological importance, few studies have
 investigated patterns of spatial variation in toxic nectar compounds in
 plant species, and none outside their native range. Grayanotoxin I (GTX I)
 occurs in nectar of invasive Rhododendron ponticum where it is toxic to
 honeybees and some solitary bee species. We examined (i) geographic
 variation in the composition of nectar GTX I, as well as GTX III (which is
 not toxic to these species), in the native and introduced range of R.
 ponticum, (ii) how their expression is structured at patch and landscape
 scales within ranges, and (iii) if climatic and environmental factors
 underpin spatial patterns. While both GTXs varied within ranges, variation
 in GTX I, but not GTX III, was detected between ranges. GTX I expression
 was thus markedly lower or (in 18% of cases) absent from nectar in
 introduced plants. Spatial autocorrelation was apparent at both patch and
 landscape scales, and in part related to heat load interception by plants
 (a function of latitude, aspect and slope). As expression of nectar GTXs
 was generally robust to environmental variation, and aggregated in space,
 this trait has the potential to be spatially discriminated by consumers.
 Given the specificity of change to GTX I, and its differential toxicity to
 some bee species, we conclude that its expression was likely to have been
 influenced during invasion by interaction with herbivores/consumers,
 either via pollinator-mediated selection or enemy-release from floral
 antagonists. Synthesis. As the first demonstration of large-scale
 geographic variation and spatial structure in toxic nectar compounds, this
 work deepens our understanding of the chemical ecology of floral
 interactions in native and introduced species. Spatially explicit studies
 of nectar secondary compounds are thus required to show how the extent and
 structure of spatial variation may affect floral ecology. Future
 development of invasion theory should incorporate a holistic view of plant
 defence, beyond antagonistic interactions, which integrates the
 consequences of chemically defended mutualist rewards.
description: Data_nectar_GTX_spatialData file (.csv format) containing individual plant coordinates, nectar GTX concentration and climatic and environmental covariates
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3j6rr
title: Data from: Balance deficiencies in women with fibromyalgia assessed using computerized dynamic posturography: a cross-sectional study in Spain

description: Objectives: Our aims were: 1) to compare the sensory organization of
 balance control and balance strategies between women with fibromialgia
 (FM) and healthy women; 2) to investigate which sensory component, i.e.,
 vestibular, visual or somato-sensory, is the most affected in FM; and, 3),
 to determine the associations between the functional independence measure
 (FIM) and balance responses in FM. Design: Cross-sectional observational
 study. Setting: Urban regional hospital and university (Universidad Rey
 Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain). Participants: Twenty women with FM and 20
 matched healthy women. Primary/secondary outcome measures: The Sensory
 Organization Test (SOT) was used to determine postural sway and balance
 during six different conditions with subjects in a standing position. The
 Functional Independence Measure (FIM) was used to determine the level of
 functional independence in daily life activities. Between-group
 differences were analyzed with ANCOVA and the Spearman’s test was used for
 correlations. Results: Significant between-groups and between-conditions
 differences were found for all SOT conditions (all, P&lt;0.001): women
 with FM showed lower scores being the vestibular score the most affected.
 Different correlations between SOT conditions and some specific daily life
 activities were observed in the FM group: bathing activity and balance
 condition 6 (rs=0.541; P&lt;0.001), bed transfers activity and
 conditions 2 (rs=0.491; P&lt;0.001) and 3 (rs=0.510; P&lt;0.001),
 positioning strategy 6 and dressing the upper (rs=0.530; P&lt;0.001)
 or lower (rs=0.562; P&lt;0.001) body, and toileting (rs=0.521;
 P&lt;0.001): the greater the loss of balance, the greater the
 interference on some daily life activities. Conclusions: Women with FM
 exhibited balance deficiencies and used different strategies for
 maintaining their balance in standing which was associated with a negative
 impact on functional independence.
description: Data file_FUNCTIONALITY,
 BALANCE AND STRATEGYData file_FUNCT AND
 SOT.xlsx