Ecology

Latest articles

1. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Multiple preferred escape trajectories are explained by a geometric model incorporating prey’s turn and predator attack endpoint

   Yuuki Kawabata, Hideyuki Akada ... Paolo Domenici

   The mathematical model incorporating new parameters explains multimodal distributions in escape direction (i.e., multiple preferred escape trajectories), which are previously observed in various animal taxa.
2. 1. Ecology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Non-invasive real-time genomic monitoring of the critically endangered kākāpō

   Lara Urban, Allison K Miller ... Andrew Digby
3. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   The deep-rooted origin of disulfide-rich spider venom toxins

   Naeem Yusuf Shaikh, Kartik Sunagar

   A remarkable case of the common evolutionary origin of a prominent spider venom component.
4. 1. Ecology
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Antibiotic Resistance: A mobile target

   Carolina Oliveira de Santana, Pieter Spealman, Gabriel G Perron

   The global spread of antibiotic resistance could be due to a number of factors, and not just the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and medicine as previously thought.
5. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Community diversity is associated with intra-species genetic diversity and gene loss in the human gut microbiome

   Naïma Madi, Daisy Chen ... Nandita R Garud

   Longstanding eco-evolutionary theories are tested using shotgun metagenomic data from the human gut microbiome, showing links between community diversity and the evolutionary trajectory of a focal species within the community.
6. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Ecology

   A parasitic fungus employs mutated eIF4A to survive on rocaglate-synthesizing Aglaia plants

   Mingming Chen, Naoyoshi Kumakura ... Shintaro Iwasaki

   Secondary metabolites rocaglates produced by plants lead to a plant‒fungus tug-of-war, utilizing unique amino acid substitutions in eIF4A, a target of the compounds.
7. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Ecology

   Competitive interactions between culturable bacteria are highly non-additive

   Amichai Baichman-Kass, Tingting Song, Jonathan Friedman
8. 1. Ecology
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Ecology, more than antibiotics consumption, is the major predictor for the global distribution of aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes

   Léa Pradier, Stéphanie Bedhomme

   Mobility across ecological contexts and continents is more important to describe the worldwide spread of bacterial resistance to aminoglycosides (a family of antibiotics), than the consumption of aminoglycosides itself.
9. 1. Ecology

   Protein feeding mediates sex pheromone biosynthesis in an insect

   Shiyu Gui, Boaz Yuval ... Daifeng Cheng

   Protein feeding stimulates the production of sex pheromones and promotes fly mating in Bactrocera dorsalis.
10. 1. Ecology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host-microbiome metabolism of a plant toxin in bees

    Erick VS Motta, Alejandra Gage ... Nancy Moran

    The bee gut microbiota contributes to the metabolism of the cyanogenic glycoside amygdalin.