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Gutiérrez Y, Fresch M, Ott D, Brockmeyer J, Scherber C. Diet composition and social environment determine food consumption, phenotype and fecundity in an omnivorous insect. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2020; 7:200100. [PMID: 32431901 PMCID: PMC7211883 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Nutrition is the single most important factor for individual's growth and reproduction. Consequently, the inability to reach the nutritional optimum imposes severe consequences for animal fitness. Yet, under natural conditions, organisms may face a mixture of stressors that can modulate the effects of nutritional asymmetry. For instance, stressful environments caused by intense interaction with conspecifics. Here, we subjected the house cricket Acheta domesticus to (i) either of two types of diet that have proved to affect cricket performance and (ii) simultaneously manipulated their social environment throughout their complete life cycle. We aimed to track sex-specific consequences for multiple traits during insect development throughout all life stages. Both factors affected critical life-history traits with potential population-level consequences: diet composition induced strong effects on insect development time, lifespan and fitness, while the social environment affected the number of nymphs that completed development, food consumption and whole-body lipid content. Additionally, both factors interactively determined female body mass. Our results highlight that insects may acquire and invest resources in a different manner when subjected to an intense interaction with conspecifics or when isolated. Furthermore, while only diet composition affected individual reproductive output, the social environment would determine the number of reproductive females, thus indirectly influencing population performance.
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- Yeisson Gutiérrez
- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Impact of certain additives to diet on the biological and biochemical characteristics of peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH AND APPLIED SCIENCES 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jrras.2018.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Espeset A, Kobiela ME, Sikkink KL, Pan T, Roy C, Snell-Rood EC. Anthropogenic increases in nutrients alter sexual selection dynamics: a case study in butterflies. Behav Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arz004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Anne Espeset
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
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Stevens CJ, David TI, Storkey J. Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in terrestrial ecosystems: Its impact on plant communities and consequences across trophic levels. Funct Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Lancaster Environment CentreLancaster University Lancaster UK
- Sustainable Agriculture SciencesRothamsted Research Harpenden UK
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- Sustainable Agriculture SciencesRothamsted Research Harpenden UK
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Harrison SJ, Godin JGJ, Bertram SM. Influence of dietary nutrient balance on aggression and signalling in male field crickets. Anim Behav 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Snell-Rood E, Cothran R, Espeset A, Jeyasingh P, Hobbie S, Morehouse NI. Life-history evolution in the anthropocene: effects of increasing nutrients on traits and trade-offs. Evol Appl 2015; 8:635-49. [PMID: 26240602 PMCID: PMC4516417 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2015] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Variation in life-history traits can have major impacts on the ecological and evolutionary responses of populations to environmental change. Life-history variation often results from trade-offs that arise because individuals have a limited pool of resources to allocate among traits. However, human activities are increasing the availability of many once-limited resources, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, with potentially major implications for the expression and evolution of life-history trade-offs. In this review, we synthesize contemporary life history and sexual selection literature with current research on ecosystem nutrient cycling to highlight novel opportunities presented by anthropogenic environmental change for investigating life-history trait development and evolution. Specifically, we review four areas where nutrition plays a pivotal role in life-history evolution and explore possible implications in the face of rapid, human-induced change in nutrient availability. For example, increases in the availability of nutrients may relax historical life-history trade-offs and reduce the honesty of signaling systems. We argue that ecosystems experiencing anthropogenic nutrient inputs present a powerful yet underexplored arena for testing novel and longstanding questions in organismal life-history evolution.
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- Emilie Snell-Rood
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of MinnesotaTwin Cities, MN, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Southwestern Oklahoma State UniversityWeatherford, OK, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of MinnesotaTwin Cities, MN, USA
- Department of Biology, University of NevadaReno, NV, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of MinnesotaTwin Cities, MN, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA, USA
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Rożen A, Sobczyk Ł, Weiner J. The effect of pre-analytical treatment on the results of stoichiometric measurements in invertebrates. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 2015; 50:393-403. [PMID: 26300558 PMCID: PMC4536268 DOI: 10.1007/s13355-015-0346-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 04/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Growing interest in the application of stoichiometric approaches to community ecology has resulted in an increasing number of studies examining invertebrate body composition. Our experiments demonstrate various sources of possible error related to the use of pre-analytical procedures. We examined the effects of different preservatives (ethanol and formaldehyde) used in pitfall traps, time of preservation (2 weeks or 3 days) and drying method (vacuum drying at 50 °C and freeze-drying) on the determination of body composition in invertebrates representing taxa often used in such studies: earthworms and five species of insects (adults or larvae). The contents of C, N, S, P, Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, Ca, Mg and K in each animal were measured. The use of solvents (ethanol or formaldehyde) in pitfall traps and for preservation significantly affects the body composition and stoichiometry of earthworms, even during short exposure times. Insects (both adults and larvae) were affected only during a 2-week exposure; 3 days of exposure did not significantly change their chemical composition. Vacuum-oven drying of animals at 50 °C does not affect their body composition relative to freeze-drying.
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- Anna Rożen
- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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Harrison SJ, Raubenheimer D, Simpson SJ, Godin JGJ, Bertram SM. Towards a synthesis of frameworks in nutritional ecology: interacting effects of protein, carbohydrate and phosphorus on field cricket fitness. Proc Biol Sci 2015; 281:rspb.2014.0539. [PMID: 25143029 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Phosphorus has been identified as an important determinant of nutrition-related biological variation. The macronutrients protein (P) and carbohydrates (C), both alone and interactively, are known to affect animal performance. No study, however, has investigated the importance of phosphorus relative to dietary protein or carbohydrates, or the interactive effects of phosphorus with these macronutrients, on fitness-related traits in animals. We used a nutritional geometry framework to address this question in adult field crickets (Gryllus veletis). Our results showed that lifespan, weight gain, acoustic mate signalling and egg production were maximized on diets with different P : C ratios, that phosphorus did not positively affect any of these fitness traits, and that males and females had different optimal macronutrient intake ratios for reproductive performance. When given a choice, crickets selected diets that maximized both lifespan and reproductive performance by preferentially eating diets with low P : C ratios, and females selected diets with a higher P : C ratio than males. Conversely, phosphorus intake was not regulated. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of disentangling the influences of different nutrients, and of quantifying both their individual and interactive effects, on animal fitness traits, so as to gain a more integrative understanding of their nutritional ecology.
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- Sarah J Harrison
- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
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- Charles Perkins Centre and School of Biological Sciences and Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Charles Perkins Centre and School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
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Thomson IR, Darveau CA, Bertram SM. Body morphology, energy stores, and muscle enzyme activity explain cricket acoustic mate attraction signaling variation. PLoS One 2014; 9:e90409. [PMID: 24608102 PMCID: PMC3946518 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2013] [Accepted: 02/01/2014] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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High mating success in animals is often dependent on males signalling attractively with high effort. Since males should be selected to maximize their reproductive success, female preferences for these traits should result in minimal signal variation persisting in the population. However, extensive signal variation persists. The genic capture hypothesis proposes genetic variation persists because fitness-conferring traits depend on an individual's basic processes, including underlying physiological, morphological, and biochemical traits, which are themselves genetically variable. To explore the traits underlying signal variation, we quantified among-male differences in signalling, morphology, energy stores, and the activities of key enzymes associated with signalling muscle metabolism in two species of crickets, Gryllus assimilis (chirper: <20 pulses/chirp) and G. texensis (triller: >20 pulses/chirp). Chirping G. assimilis primarily fuelled signalling with carbohydrate metabolism: smaller individuals and individuals with increased thoracic glycogen stores signalled for mates with greater effort; individuals with greater glycogen phosphorylase activity produced more attractive mating signals. Conversely, the more energetic trilling G. texensis fuelled signalling with both lipid and carbohydrate metabolism: individuals with increased β-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase activity and increased thoracic free carbohydrate content signalled for mates with greater effort; individuals with higher thoracic and abdominal carbohydrate content and higher abdominal lipid stores produced more attractive signals. Our findings suggest variation in male reproductive success may be driven by hidden physiological trade-offs that affect the ability to uptake, retain, and use essential nutrients, although the results remain correlational in nature. Our findings indicate that a physiological perspective may help us to understand some of the causes of variation in behaviour.
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- Ian R. Thomson
- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Abbas M, Klein AM, Ebeling A, Oelmann Y, Ptacnik R, Weisser WW, Hillebrand H. Plant diversity effects on pollinating and herbivorous insects can be linked to plant stoichiometry. Basic Appl Ecol 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2014.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Cothran RD, Stiff AR, Jeyasingh PD, Relyea RA. Eutrophication and predation risk interact to affect sexual trait expression and mating success. Evolution 2011; 66:708-719. [PMID: 22380434 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01475.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sexual traits are especially sensitive to low food resources. Other environmental parameters (e.g., predation) should also affect sexual trait expression by favoring investment in viability traits rather than sexual traits. We know surprisingly little about how predators alter investment in sexual traits, or how predator and resource environments interact to affect sexual trait investment. We explored how increasing phosphorous (P) availability, at a level mimicking cultural eutrophication, affects the development of sexual, nonsexual, and viability traits of amphipods in the presence and absence of predators. Sexual traits and growth were hypersensitive to low P compared to nonsexual traits. However, a key sexual trait responded to low P only when predator cues were absent. Furthermore, investment trade-offs between sexual traits and growth only occurred when P was low. The phenotypic changes caused by predator cues and increased P availability resulted in higher male mating success. Thus, eutrophication not only affects sexual trait expression but also masks the trade-off between traits with similar P demand. Sensitivity of sexually selected traits to changes in P, combined with the important roles these traits play in determining fitness and driving speciation, suggests that human-induced environmental change can greatly alter the evolutionary trajectories of populations.
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- Rickey D Cothran
- Department of Biological Sciences and Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15260 E-mail: of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, 501 Life Sciences West, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15260 E-mail: of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, 501 Life Sciences West, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15260 E-mail: of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, 501 Life Sciences West, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15260 E-mail: of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, 501 Life Sciences West, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
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Morehouse NI, Nakazawa T, Booher CM, Jeyasingh PD, Hall MD. Sex in a material world: why the study of sexual reproduction and sex-specific traits should become more nutritionally-explicit. OIKOS 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.18569.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lomborg JP, Toft S. Nutritional enrichment increases courtship intensity and improves mating success in male spiders. Behav Ecol 2009. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Hebets EA, Wesson J, Shamble PS. Diet influences mate choice selectivity in adult female wolf spiders. Anim Behav 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Jacot A, Scheuber H, Holzer B, Otti O, Brinkhof MWG. Diel variation in a dynamic sexual display and its association with female mate-searching behaviour. Proc Biol Sci 2008; 275:579-85. [PMID: 18089535 PMCID: PMC2596816 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2007] [Revised: 11/27/2007] [Accepted: 11/27/2007] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Dynamic sexual signals often show a diel rhythm and may vary substantially with time of day. Diel and short-term fluctuations in such sexual signals pose a puzzle for condition capture models of mate choice, which assume a female preference for male traits that reliably reflect a male's quality. Here we experimentally manipulated the food supply of individual male field crickets Gryllus campestris in their natural habitat in two consecutive seasons to determine (i) the effect of male nutritional condition on the fine-scaled variation of diel investment in acoustic signalling and (ii) the temporal association between the diel variation in male signalling and female mate-searching behaviour. Overall food-supplemented males signalled more often, but the effect was only visible during the daytime. In the evening and the night, signal output was still high but the time spent signalling was unrelated to a male's nutritional condition. Females' mate-searching behaviour also showed a diel rhythm with peak activity during the afternoon, when differences among calling males were highest, and where signal output reliably reflects male quality. These findings suggest that males differing in nutritional condition may optimize their investment in signalling in relation to time of day as to maximize mating success.
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- Alain Jacot
- Division of Evolutionary Ecology, Zoological Institute, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50a, CH-3032, Hinterkappelen, Switzerland.
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Jeyasingh PD, Weider LJ. Fundamental links between genes and elements: evolutionary implications of ecological stoichiometry. Mol Ecol 2007; 16:4649-61. [PMID: 17944849 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03558.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Punidan D Jeyasingh
- Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Biological Station and Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA.
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