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Inheritance of early and late Ascochyta blight resistance in wide crosses of chickpea (2023)
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Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a globally important food legume but its yield is negatively impacted by the fungal pathogen Ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei) causing necrotic lesions leading to plant death. Past studies have found that Ascochyta res... Read More about Inheritance of early and late Ascochyta blight resistance in wide crosses of chickpea.

Innovation through Neurodiversity: Diversity is Beneficial (2023)
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Those experiencing high rapport or strong social connection are more likely to copy each other, or emulate each other’s ideas, either consciously or sub-consciously. In this study, we use this phenomenon to examine whether neurotype match or mismatch... Read More about Innovation through Neurodiversity: Diversity is Beneficial.

Feral American mink (Neogale vison) continues to expand its European range: time to harmonize population monitoring and coordinate control (2023)
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Multi-lingual literature searches are needed to unveil global knowledge (2023)
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The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques (2023)
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Despite playing a pivotal role in the inception of animal culture studies, macaque social learning is surprisingly understudied. Social learning is important to survival and influenced by dominance and affiliation in social animals. Individuals gener... Read More about The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques.

Modelling fine scale route choice of upstream migrating fish as they approach an instream structure (2023)
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This study used pattern-oriented modelling (POM) to investigate the space use and behavioural response of upstream migrating European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) to the two-dimensional hydrodynamic conditions created by an instream structure... Read More about Modelling fine scale route choice of upstream migrating fish as they approach an instream structure.

Drivers of the changing abundance of European birds at two spatial scales (2023)
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Detecting biodiversity change and identifying its causes is challenging because biodiversity is multifaceted and temporal data often contain bias. Here, we model temporal change in species' abundance and biomass by using extensive data describing the... Read More about Drivers of the changing abundance of European birds at two spatial scales.

Collectors, class and conflict at the Lower Palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884 (2023)
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This paper uses events following the 1878 discovery of a rich Lower Palaeolithic ‘living floor’ at Stoke Newington, London, to explore the social and economic relationships and imbalances that existed within Palaeolithic archaeology in the mid to lat... Read More about Collectors, class and conflict at the Lower Palaeolithic discovery at Stoke Newington, 1878-1884.

River fragmentation and barrier impacts on fishes have been greatly underestimated in the upper Mekong River (2022)
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River barriers reduce river connectivity and lead to fragmentation of fish habitats, which can result in decline or even extinction of aquatic biota, including fish populations. In the Mekong basin, previous studies have mainly focused on the impacts... Read More about River fragmentation and barrier impacts on fishes have been greatly underestimated in the upper Mekong River.

Fish diversity decline in the lower Gangetic plains: a victim of multiple stressors (2022)
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Analysis of long-term data provides a valuable approach to determining the extent of biodiversity decline and likely causes, but such approaches are rare in large tropical rivers. We investigated the response of the fish fauna to hydrological, climat... Read More about Fish diversity decline in the lower Gangetic plains: a victim of multiple stressors.

Inheritance of seed weight and growth habit in 10 intercross chickpea (Cicer arietinum) nested association mapping populations (2022)
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Objective of investigation Chickpea is a major global food legume for which seed weight and plant growth habit are important yield and harvestability components for plant breeding. This study tested seed weight and plant growth habit inheritance and... Read More about Inheritance of seed weight and growth habit in 10 intercross chickpea (Cicer arietinum) nested association mapping populations.

Identification of potentially zoonotic parasites in captive orangutans and semi-captive mandrills: phylogeny and morphological comparison (2023)
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Cysts and trophozoites of vestibuliferid ciliates and larvae of Strongyloides were found in fecal samples from captive orangutans Pongo pygmaeus and P. abelii from Czech and Slovak zoological gardens. As comparative material, ciliates from semi-capti... Read More about Identification of potentially zoonotic parasites in captive orangutans and semi-captive mandrills: phylogeny and morphological comparison.

Mid-Late Quaternary Fluvial Archives near the Margin of the MIS 12 Glaciation in Southern East Anglia, UK: Amalgamation of Multi-Disciplinary and Citizen-Science Data Sources (2022)
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This paper presents an updated geological reconstruction of the Quaternary evolution of the River Thames at its downstream extremities, close to the North Sea coast, based on new data from multi-disciplinary and citizen-science sources. In this area,... Read More about Mid-Late Quaternary Fluvial Archives near the Margin of the MIS 12 Glaciation in Southern East Anglia, UK: Amalgamation of Multi-Disciplinary and Citizen-Science Data Sources.

Ecomorphology of the cervid intermediate phalanx and its implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (2022)
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This paper reports on newly developed ecomorphological models for the cervid intermediate phalanx. Using a geometric morphometric approach, we quantitatively assess the overall gracility of the bone, the depth and concavity of the proximal articulati... Read More about Ecomorphology of the cervid intermediate phalanx and its implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar (2023)
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In at least 400 European caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens groups drew, painted and engraved non-figurative signs from at least ~42,000 BP and figurative images (notably animals) from at least 37,000 BP. Sin... Read More about An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar.

House screening for malaria control: views and experiences of participants in the RooPfs trial (2022)
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Background The housing stock of rural sub-Saharan Africa is changing rapidly. With millions of new homes required over the coming decades, there is an opportunity to protect residents by screening homes from malaria mosquitoes. This study, undertaken... Read More about House screening for malaria control: views and experiences of participants in the RooPfs trial.

Oculomotor rehearsal in visuospatial working memory (2022)
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The neural and cognitive mechanisms of spatial working memory are tightly coupled with the systems that control eye movements, but the precise nature of this coupling is not well understood. It has been argued that the oculomotor system is selectivel... Read More about Oculomotor rehearsal in visuospatial working memory.

Model Selection in Occupancy Models: Inference versus Prediction (2023)
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Occupancy models are a vital tool for ecologists studying the patterns and drivers of species occurrence, but their use often involves selecting among models with different sets of occupancy and detection covariates. The information-theoretic approac... Read More about Model Selection in Occupancy Models: Inference versus Prediction.

A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals (2022)
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It is widely believed that juvenile male mammals typically engage in higher rates of rough and tumble play (RTP) than do females, in preparation for adult roles involving intense physical competition between males. The consistency of this sex differe... Read More about A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals.

(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too (2022)
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The target paper shows how cultural adaptations to ecological problems can underpin “paradoxical” patterns of phenotypic variation. We argue: (1) Gendered social learning is a cultural adaptation to an ecological problem. (2) In evolutionarily novel... Read More about (Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too.