It has long been suggested that tropical species are generally more colourful than temperate
species, but whether latitudinal gradients in organismal colourfulness exist remains …

Sexual selection is proposed to be a powerful driver of phenotypic evolution in animal systems.
At macroevolutionary scales, sexual selection can theoretically drive both the rate and …

All organisms are infected with a range of symbionts spanning the spectrum of beneficial
mutualists to detrimental parasites. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a good example, as …

Ultraviolet colouration is thought to be an important form of signalling in many bird species,
yet broad insights regarding the prevalence of ultraviolet plumage colouration and the factors …

… Vale PF, Jardine MD. Sex-specific behavioural symptoms of viral gut infection and Wolbachia
in Drosophila melanogaster. J Insect Physiol 2015; 82:28-32; PMID:26301521; http://dx.doi.…

Meaning, we have learnt from Saussure, resides in difference, and the new historicists will
not thank me for threatening in my title to render them meaningless.'It is, on the contrary, the …

Trivial head trauma may be complicated by severe, sometimes even fatal, cerebral edema
and coma occurring after a lucid interval (“delayed cerebral edema”). Attacks of familial …

… , PhD 5 , Vlado Perkovic MBBS, PhD 3 , Gianni Tognoni MD 6 , Giusi Graziano MSc 6 , Meg
Jardine MBBS, PhD 3 , Fabio Pellegrini MSc 6 7 , Antonio Nicolucci MD 6 , Angela Webster …

The amount of genetic variation for fitness within populations tends to exceed that expected
under mutation–selection–drift balance. Several mechanisms have been proposed to …

BACKGROUND: The associations between decreased kidney function and cardiovascular
disease recently have been established. However, there is uncertainty about the consistency …