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Optimal sampling of seeds from plant populations for ex-situ conservation of genetic biodiversity…

Persistent oscillations and backward bifurcation in a malaria model with varying human and mosquito populations…

Ecological effects and human use of commercial mosquito insecticides in aquatic communities

The elemental composition of virus particles: implications for marine biogeochemical cycles

Investigating the performance of AIC in selecting phylogenetic models

Effects of animal movement strategies and costs on the distribution of active subsidies across simple landscapes

An overview of the utility of population simulation software in molecular ecology

Spatial genetic structure in 21 populations of butternut, a temperate forest tree (Juglans cinerea L.), is correlated to spatial arrangement, habitat, and land-use history

Competition for antigen between Th1 and Th2 responses determines the timing of the immune response switch during Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection in ruminants

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

Effects of subsidy quality on reciprocal subsidies: How leaf litter species changes frog biomass

An image processing based paradigm for the extraction of tonal sounds in cetacean communications

Water stress strengthens mutualism among ants, trees, and scale insects

Behavioral refuges and predator-prey coexistence

Mighty small: Observing and modeling individual microbes becomes big science

The encoding of individual identity in dolphin signature whistles: how much information is needed?

Entropy rate as a measure of animal vocal complexity

Evaluation of the "Iceberg Phenomenon" in Johne's Disease through mathematical modeling

Evaluating the significance of paleophylogeographic species distribution models in reconstructing quaternary range-shifts of Nearctic Chelonians

Carryover effects in amphibians: How much complexity is needed to predict survival?

Demographic network and multi-season occupancy modeling of Rana sylvatica reveal spatial and temporal patterns of connectivity

War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies

Strong species-environment feedback shapes plant community assembly along environmental gradients

Modeling the forest

Latent tuberculosis: Models, computational efforts and the pathogen's regulatory mechanisms during dormancy

Cellular and population plasticity of helper CD4(+) T cell responses

Defoliaton and bark harvesting affect life history traits of a tropical tree

Homosexuality via canalized sexual development: A testing protocol for a new epigenetic model

Asymmetric selection and the evolution of extraordinary defences. Nature Communications

Analysis and simulation of propagule dispersal and salinity intrusion from storm surge on the movement of a marsh–mangrove ecotone in south Florida

Evolution of mate choice and the so called magic traits in ecological speciation

Demographic network and multi-season occupancy modeling of Rana sylvatica reveal spatial and temporal patterns of population connectivity and persistence

The ability of landowners and their cooperatives to leverage payments greater than opportunity costs from conservation contract

Structural balance in the social networks of a wild mammal

Spatial subsidies, trophic state, and community structure: Examining the effects of leaf litter input on ponds

The impact of bed-net use on malaria prevalence

Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures

Species tree inference by the STAR method and its generalizations

Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures

Global mapping of infectious disease

Optimal control in individual-based models: Implications from aggregated methods

Behavioural changes and the adaptive diversification of pigeons and doves

On the role of screening and educational campaigns on controlling HCV in correctional institutions

Fatal or harmless: Extreme bistability induced by sterilizing, sexually transmitted pathogens

Identifying Transmission Cycles at the Human-Animal Interface: The role of animal reservoirs in maintaining Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

Homosexuality as a consequence of epigenetically canalized sexual development

Mathematical modeling of viral zoonoses in wildlife

Stochastic models for competing species with a shared pathogen

Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures

Incentives in the family II: Behavioral dynamics and the evolution of non-costly signaling

Communicating science through music: A case study from mathematics and biology

Multiple merger genes genealogies in two species: Monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly for two examples of Lambda coalescents

Modeling stabilizing selection: Expanding the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model of adaptive evolution

Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favors escape from parasites and pathogens

Human origins and the transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding

On the evolutionary origins of the egalitarian syndrome

Using optimal control theory to identify network structures that foster synchrony

How facilitation may interfere with ecological speciation

Genetic evidence for hybridization in red oaks (Quercus sect. Lobatae, Fagaceae)

Beyond Lyme: Aeitology of tick-borne human diseases with emphasis on the south-eastern United States

How a hurricane disturbance influences extreme CO2 fluxes and variance in a tropical forest

Optimal control of integrodifference equations with growth-harvesting-dispersal order

Data-driven models for regional coral-reef dynamics

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