A new study published in Science and led by Monash University biologists reveals that the energy cost of reproduction is far greater than previously believed. Leer más.





Morphological diversity within organisms can arise from factors other than genetic diversity alone, and local adaptations and combinations of various factors are also involved in shaping morphology. Leer más.
This study investigated the effect of the growing season and individual growth rates on the occurrence of larval overwintering in Babina subaspera by laboratory-rearing experiments. Leer más.
We used commercially available, multi-purpose light-level geolocator dataloggers to continuously record light environment and time spent out of water during 5-months (1 May to 9 September 2021) in an ectothermic freshwater turtle species, the northern map turtle (Graptemys geographica). Leer más.
Results obtained from a full dataset of 392 individuals (356,874 bp; 24,192 SNPs) were compared with those obtained after excluding substantially admixed individuals (n = 95; 835,467 bp; 51,557 SNPs) to explore the consequences of introgression on phylogenetic inference and taxonomic arrangement of subspecies. Leer más.