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  • Seek and ye shall find: new species and new records of Microporella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) in the Mediterranean 
    Di Martino, Emanuela; Rosso, Antonietta (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    The Mediterranean specimens of the genus Microporella collected from shallow water habitats during several surveys and cruises undertaken mostly off the Italian coast are revised. As a result of the disentanglement of the ...
  • Seismological expression of the iron spin crossover in ferropericlase in the Earth’s lower mantle 
    Shephard, Grace; Houser, Christine; Hernlund, John W; Valencia-Cardona, Juan J.; Trønnes, Reidar G; Wentzcovitch, RM (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Abstract The two most abundant minerals in the Earth’s lower mantle are bridgmanite and ferropericlase. The bulk modulus of ferropericlase (Fp) softens as iron d-electrons transition from a high-spin to low-spin state, ...
  • Selection on sperm size in response to promiscuity and variation in female sperm storage organs 
    Cramer, Becky; Yilma, Zelealem Belaineh; Lifjeld, Jan Terje (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Sperm cells are exceptionally morphologically diverse across taxa. However, morphology can be quite uniform within species, particularly for species where females copulate with many males per reproductive bout. Strong ...
  • Semantics in Support of Biodiversity Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction to the Biological Collections Ontology and Related Ontologies 
    Walls, Ramona L.; Deck, John; Guralnick, Robert; Baskauf, Steve; Beaman, Reed; Blum, Stanley; Bowers, Shawn; Buttigieg, Pier Luigi; Davis, Neil; Endresen, Dag Terje Filip; Gandolfo, Maria Alejandra; Hanner, Robert; Janning, Alyssa; Krishtalka, Leonard; Matsunaga, Andréa; Midford, Peter; Morrison, Norman; Ó Tuama, Éamonn; Schildhauer, Mark; Smith, Barry; Stucky, Brian J.; Thomer, Andrea; Wieczorek, John; Whitacre, Jamie; Wooley, John (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    The study of biodiversity spans many disciplines and includes data pertaining to species distributions and abundances, genetic sequences, trait measurements, and ecological niches, complemented by information on collection ...
  • Sequence clustering threshold has little effect on the recovery of microbial community structure 
    Botnen, Synnøve Smebye; Davey, Marie Louise; Halvorsen, Rune; Kauserud, Håvard (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Analysis of microbial community structure by multivariate ordination methods, using data obtained by high‐throughput sequencing of amplified markers (i.e., DNA metabarcoding), often requires clustering of DNA sequences ...
  • Sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of the common raven Corvus corax (Aves: Corvidae) confirms mitogenome-wide deep lineages and a paraphyletic relationship with the Chihuahuan raven C. cryptoleucus 
    Johnsen, Arild; Kearns, Anna Marika; Omland, Kevin E.; Anmarkrud, Jarl Andreas (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Previous studies based on single mitochondrial markers have shown that the common raven (Corvus corax) consists of two highly diverged lineages that are hypothesised to have undergone speciation reversal upon secondary ...
  • Severe conservation risks of roads on apex predators 
    Quintana, Itxaso; Cifuentes, Edgar F.; Dunnink, Jeffrey A.; Ariza, María; Martínez-Medina, Daniela; Fantacini, Felipe M.; Shrestha, Bibek R.; Richard, Freddie-Jeanne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The global expansion of road networks threatens apex predator conservation and ecosystem functioning. This occurs through wildlife-vehicle collisions, habitat loss and fragmentation, reduced genetic connectivity and increased ...
  • Sheep grazing and dynamics of alpine plants in a landscape-scale experiment 
    Evju, Marianne (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
    Large herbivores such as sheep affect plants directly and indirectly through selective foraging, trampling, urination and defecation, thereby modifying intra- and interspecific interactions and altering resource availability ...
  • Shifts in gut and vaginal microbiomes are associated with cancer recurrence time in women with ovarian cancer 
    Jacobson, David; Moore, Kathleen; Gunderson, Camille; Rowland, Michelle; Austin, Rita M; Honap, Tanvi Prasad; Xu, Jiawu; Warinner, Christina; Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan; Lewis, Cecil M. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Many studies investigating the human microbiome-cancer interface have focused on the gut microbiome and gastrointestinal cancers. Outside of human papillomavirus driving cervical cancer, little is known about the relationship ...
  • Signatures of diversifying selection and convergence acting on passerine Toll-like receptor 4 in an evolutionary context 
    Králová, Tereza; Albrecht, Tomas; Bryja, Josef; Horák, David; Johnsen, Arild; Lifjeld, Jan Terje; Novotny, Marian; Sedlacek, Ondrej; Velova, Hana; Vinkler, Michal (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Positive selection acting on Toll‐like receptors (TLRs) has been recently investigated to reveal evolutionary mechanisms of host–pathogen molecular co‐adaptation. Much of this research, however, has focused mainly on the ...
  • Signatures of human-commensalism in the house sparrow genome 
    Ravinet, Mark; Elgvin, Tore Oldeide; Trier, Cassandra Nicole; Aliabadian, Mansour; Gavrilov, Andrey; Sætre, Glenn-Peter (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    House sparrows (Passer domesticus) are a hugely successful anthrodependent species; occurring on nearly every continent. Yet, despite their ubiquity and familiarity to humans, surprisingly little is known about their ...
  • Single-tree influence on understorey vegetation in five Chinese subtropical forests 
    Liu, Hai Ying; Halvorsen, Rune (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    The aim of this study is to examine the effect of individual canopy tree on the species composition and abundance of understorey vegetation in subtropical forests, by applying a model for tree influence on understorey ...
  • Six new species of Afrotropical Allodia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae): DNA barcodes indicate recent diversification with a single origin 
    Magnussen, Trude; Kjærandsen, Jostein; Johnsen, Arild; Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Only one species of the genus Allodia has been previously recorded from the Afrotropical region, Allodia (Brachycampta) flavorufa Matile, 1978. Six new species are described here, all representing the nominotypical subgenus, ...
  • Size‐and stage‐dependence in cause‐specific mortality of migratory brown trout 
    Nater, Chloe Rebecca; Vindenes, Yngvild; Aas, Per; Cole, Diana; Langangen, Øystein; Moe, S. Jannicke; Rustadbakken, Atle; Turek, Daniel; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn; Ergon, Torbjørn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    1. Evidence‐based management of natural populations under strong human influence frequently requires not only estimates of survival but also knowledge about how much mortality is due to anthropogenic vs. natural causes. ...
  • Sneaking up on ‘enemies’: alleviating inherent disadvantages in competitive outcomes in a nearly 3-million-year-old palaeocommunity from Florida, USA 
    Di Martino, Emanuela; Liow, Lee Hsiang; Perkins, Tom; Portell, Roger W.; Taylor, Paul D. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Bryozoans offer one of the few systems in which competitive interactions for living space can be studied in the fossil record. Here, we describe the outcome of competitive overgrowths in a 3‐million‐year‐old bryozoan ...
  • Snow-vegetation-atmosphere interactions in alpine tundra 
    Pirk, Norbert; Aalstad, Kristoffer; A. Yilmaz, Yeliz; Vatne, Astrid; Popp, Andrea L.; Horvath, Peter; Bryn, Anders; Vollsnes, Ane Victoria; Westermann, Sebastian; Berntsen, Terje Koren; Stordal, Frode; Tallaksen, Lena M. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract. The interannual variability of snow cover in alpine areas is increasing, which may affect the tightly coupled cycles of carbon and water through snow–vegetation–atmosphere interactions across a range of spatio-temporal ...
  • Sources of variation in small rodent trophic niche: New insights from DNA metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis 
    Soininen, Eeva M; Ehrich, Dorothee; Lecomte, Nicolas; Yoccoz, Nigel Gilles; Tarroux, Arnaud; Berteaux, Dominique; Gauthier, Gilles; Gielly, Ludovic; Brochmann, Christian; Gussarova, Galina; Ims, Rolf Anker (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    Intraspecific competition for food is expected to increase the trophic niche width of consumers, defined here as their diet diversity, but this process has been little studied in herbivores. Population densities of small ...
  • Spatial and temporal variation in Arctic freshwater chemistry— Reflecting climate-induced landscape alterations and a changing template for biodiversity 
    Huser, Brian J.; Futter, Martyn N.; Bogan, Daniel; Brittain, John Edward; Culp, Joseph M; Goedkoop, Willem; Gribovskaya, Iliada; Karlsson, Jan; Lau, Danny C.P.; Ruhland, Kathleen M; Schartau, Ann Kristin; Shaftel, Rebecca; Smol, John P.; Vrede, Tobias; Lento, Jennifer (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    1. Freshwater chemistry across the circumpolar region was characterised using a pan-Arctic data set from 1,032 lake and 482 river stations. Temporal trends were estimated for Early (1970–1985), Middle (1986–2000), and Late ...
  • Spatial patterns of phylogenetic and species diversity of fennoscandian vascular plants in protected areas 
    Matten, Damaris Marina; Mienna, Ida Marielle; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Mishler, Brent D; Moen, Victoria Stornes; Nygård, Malene Østreng; Vuorinen, Katariina Elsa M; Bendiksby, Mika; Martin, Michael David; Speed, James David Mervyn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Protected areas are one of the main strategic means for conserving biodiversity. Yet, the design of protected areas usually neglects phylogenetic diversity, an important diversity measure. In this paper we assess the ...
  • Spatially and Temporally Distributed Complexity—A Refreshed Framework for the Study of GRN Evolution 
    Minelli, Alessandro; Valero Gracia, Alberto (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Irrespective of the heuristic value of interpretations of developmental processes in terms of gene regulatory networks (GRNs), larger-angle views often suffer from: (i) an inadequate understanding of the relationship between ...