Svenja Wöhle, Karolin Thomisch, Elke Burkhardt, Ilse Van Opzeeland, Elena Schall
{"title":"Geographical distribution of two acoustic fin whale (<i>Balaenoptera physalus</i>) populations across the Weddell Sea.","authors":"Svenja Wöhle, Karolin Thomisch, Elke Burkhardt, Ilse Van Opzeeland, Elena Schall","doi":"10.1098/rsos.241866","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.241866","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding and identifying population-specific acoustic features is crucial to passive acoustic monitoring-based remote sensing of population distributions. Fin whales are known to produce 20-Hz pulses, often accompanied by a simultaneous higher frequency (HF) component. The centre frequency of this component has been found to differ regionally, presumably representing a population-specific acoustic characteristic. Within the Southern Ocean, five distinct HF components have been identified so far, two of which are present in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean (ASSO) with peak frequencies around 86 and 99 Hz. This study investigates the extent to which these HF components indicate distinct acoustic fin whale populations and their spatial distribution across the ASSO. By automatically analysing passive acoustic data from 2013, across 10 recording positions, our data show that while the 99-Hz component was detected at seven recording positions throughout the ASSO, the 86-Hz HF component is only present in its western area, centred around the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Additional 2019 data from the Western Antarctic Peninsula confirmed the consistent presence of the 86-Hz component, suggesting that these components are robust indicators of distinct acoustic populations. Knowledge on population-specific key habitats is key to strategic and effective conservation efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 3","pages":"241866"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11879617/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Klebel, Vincent Traag, Ioanna Grypari, Lennart Stoy, Tony Ross-Hellauer
{"title":"The academic impact of Open Science: a scoping review.","authors":"Thomas Klebel, Vincent Traag, Ioanna Grypari, Lennart Stoy, Tony Ross-Hellauer","doi":"10.1098/rsos.241248","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.241248","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Open Science seeks to make research processes and outputs more accessible, transparent and inclusive, ensuring that scientific findings can be freely shared, scrutinized and built upon by researchers and others. To date, there has been no systematic synthesis of the extent to which Open Science (OS) reaches these aims. We use the PRISMA scoping review methodology to partially address this gap, scoping evidence on the academic (but not societal or economic) impacts of OS. We identify 485 studies related to all aspects of OS, including Open Access (OA), Open/FAIR Data (OFD), Open Code/Software, Open Evaluation and Citizen Science (CS). Analysing and synthesizing findings, we show that the majority of studies investigated effects of OA, CS and OFD. Key areas of impact studied are citations, quality, efficiency, equity, reuse, ethics and reproducibility, with most studies reporting positive or at least mixed impacts. However, we also identified significant unintended negative impacts, especially those regarding equity, diversity and inclusion. Overall, the main barrier to academic impact of OS is lack of skills, resources and infrastructure to effectively re-use and build on existing research. Building on this synthesis, we identify gaps within this literature and draw implications for future research and policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 3","pages":"241248"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11879623/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aamir Mehmood, Suresh A Singh, Armin Elsler, Michael J Benton
{"title":"The ecology and geography of temnospondyl recovery after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.","authors":"Aamir Mehmood, Suresh A Singh, Armin Elsler, Michael J Benton","doi":"10.1098/rsos.241200","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.241200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the mysteries of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction was the subsequent success of temnospondyls. Temnospondyls were key early tetrapods in the Carboniferous and Permian and hardly seem to be ideal pioneers in a tough post-extinction world. Did they survive because of some unusual adaptations or by occupying some limited part of the world? We explore temnospondyl success in the Triassic by comparing their functional ecomorphology and palaeogeographic distributions. We find that Early Triassic temnospondyls exhibited all skull sizes and shapes, reflecting a wide diversity of feeding modes: abundant parabolic-snouted forms, and less common longirostrine (long-snouted) and insectivorous (short-skulled) forms. In fact, morphospace occupation by temnospondyls increased dramatically from Late Permian to Early Triassic, and then decreased in the Middle Triassic, but without emphasis on one feeding mode or another. Nor is there any evidence for unusual patterns of evolution: Temnospondyli and subclade Trematosauria follow an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck evolutionary model, suggesting evolution towards a common skull shape. Metoposauroidea, Brachyopoidea and basal Stereospondyli evolved by the stasis model. Further, these Early Triassic temnospondyls did not occupy a limited part of the world; they show temperate distributions, but with some specimens in equatorial regions, contradicting the idea of a permanently impermeable tropical dead zone.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 3","pages":"241200"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11879622/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qian Zhao, Michael S Engel, Diying Huang, Chenyang Cai
{"title":"A Cretaceous sap beetle with specialized mandibles (Coleoptera : Nitidulidae).","authors":"Qian Zhao, Michael S Engel, Diying Huang, Chenyang Cai","doi":"10.1098/rsos.241761","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.241761","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sap beetles (Nitidulidae) are species-rich, highly diverse, widely distributed and exhibit varied food habits. However, studies on nitidulids in Kachin amber are scarce, particularly those involving nitidulids with specialized mandibles. Here, we report a new genus and species of Nitidulidae, <i>Vetunitidula mandibulata</i> gen. et sp. nov., from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (approx. 99 Ma). This species is characterized by distinctly enlarged mandibles and a loose three-article antennal club, suggesting it as a stem-group nitidulid. The enlarged mandibles may be a manifestation of sexual dimorphism, as in some extant species. Together with previous studies of fossil nitidulids, our discovery highlights the remarkable diversity and morphological disparity of sap beetles during the late Mesozoic.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 2","pages":"241761"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11862830/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143515974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariana Barros, Pau Arroyo, Jose A Sáez, Salvador Gil, Margarita Parra, Susana P G Costa, M Manuela M Raposo, Pablo Gaviña
{"title":"Push-pull fluorophores based on NHS esters of bithiophene for labelling of biomolecules containing primary amines.","authors":"Mariana Barros, Pau Arroyo, Jose A Sáez, Salvador Gil, Margarita Parra, Susana P G Costa, M Manuela M Raposo, Pablo Gaviña","doi":"10.1098/rsos.241816","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.241816","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fluorescent labelling is a versatile tool to visualize biomolecules containing primary amines in their cellular environment, allowing the study of their function or interactions. Here, three organic fluorophores that can irreversibly bind to the primary amine group on the target biomolecule are reported. They consist of push-pull heterocyclic dyes based on bithiophene and incorporating a terminal <i>N</i>-hydroxysuccinimidyl ester as a reactive group for labelling primary amine groups from biomolecules as (poly)amines, peptides or proteins. Their potential as chemosensors for primary amines, using N<sub>α</sub>-Boc protected amino acid l-lysine as a model, was assessed through UV-Visible, fluorescence and <sup>1</sup>H NMR titrations.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 2","pages":"241816"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11863869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graham Birch, Hazel J Nichols, Francis Mwanguhya, Jonathan D Blount, Michael A Cant
{"title":"Strategic use of male alternative reproductive tactics in cooperatively breeding banded mongoose groups.","authors":"Graham Birch, Hazel J Nichols, Francis Mwanguhya, Jonathan D Blount, Michael A Cant","doi":"10.1098/rsos.242215","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.242215","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) allow less competitive individuals to reproduce by avoiding direct fights through sneaky strategies. Within cooperatively breeding groups ARTs are rarely reported, potentially owing to observational difficulties or reproductive suppression by group members. In societies where mating opportunities cannot be monopolized by one male, young males could use sneaky tactics as an intermediate 'stepping-stone' tactic to gain limited reproductive success while growing in resource-holding potential (RHP). Using decades of pedigree, weight, group demography and behavioural data, we investigated the use of sneaky 'sneaker' ARTs in wild male banded mongooses. In this species, groups typically contain more adult males than breeding females, leading to intense male-male competition. Instead of as a stepping-stone, sneaking tactics were typically used by males who had been displaced from mate-guarding status by stronger rivals. Additionally, sneakers had lower siring success compared with mate guards, despite similar weight loss costs, which may explain why males typically avoided reproductive activity entirely rather than sneaking. However, young sneakers gain access to older, higher fecundity females in the group and sneaking may even facilitate inbreeding avoidance. Overall, ARTs in stable social groups can predictively emerge from changes in relative RHP and social status over the lifetime.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 2","pages":"242215"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11858791/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of art knowledge training on aesthetic judgements and executive functions.","authors":"Ionela Bara, Emily S Cross, Richard Ramsey","doi":"10.1098/rsos.240175","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.240175","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study of how we develop art knowledge can provide valuable insights into the underlying cognitive systems that support expertise and knowledge transfer to new contexts. An important and largely unanswered question is whether art knowledge training impacts subsequent judgements of artworks and executive functions. Across three pre-registered experiments (<i>N</i> > 630 total), which used a training intervention and Bayesian regression modelling, we explore whether art knowledge training impacts subsequent judgements of artworks and executive functions. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed an effect of art training on aesthetic judgements for trained but not untrained artworks. These training effects were generalized to unseen artworks produced by the same artist (Experiment 1) or another artist with a similar style (Experiment 2), but not to different art styles. Experiment 2 also showed that with larger training 'doses' (>16 minutes), the generalization effects are stronger. Experiment 3 showed invariance of the attentional network to art training versus non-art training, suggesting similar sensitivity of executive functions to different types of training. This work shines new light on the cognitive systems that support learning and generalization of learning to new contexts. Likewise, from an applied perspective, it emphasizes that learning and generalization can occur rapidly with a relatively short (approx. 16 minutes) training video.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 2","pages":"240175"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11858790/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grace A T Hong, Bret W Tobalske, Nienke van Staaveren, Emily M Leishman, Tina M Widowski, Donald R Powers, Alexandra Harlander
{"title":"Hen-durance training-effects of an exercise regimen on laying hen muscle architecture and fracture prevalence.","authors":"Grace A T Hong, Bret W Tobalske, Nienke van Staaveren, Emily M Leishman, Tina M Widowski, Donald R Powers, Alexandra Harlander","doi":"10.1098/rsos.241191","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.241191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Domestic chickens kept for egg laying navigate inclines such as ramps in some commercial housing systems to aid in transitions between housing tiers. Laying hens use their wings and hindlimbs in a locomotion called wing-assisted incline running (WAIR) to ascend steep inclines. There is a potential relationship between the strength of the main flight muscles and the health of the keel bone from which they originate. We sought to test the effects of a controlled, WAIR-based exercise regimen during rearing on keel bone health and muscle properties of white- and brown-feathered laying hens. The WAIR exercise regimen, which consisted of exercise twice weekly for 16 weeks did not promote increases in muscle mass or physiological cross-sectional area at 21 weeks of age (WOA) and did not provide long-term benefits on keel fracture prevalence at 40 WOA. However, the brown-feathered birds were found to have lower amounts of keel fractures at 40 WOA in comparison with the white-feathered birds. Future studies should test for training that begins before chicks become fully feathered, exercises that emphasize full excursion of the wing during downstroke and different levels of intensity, frequency and duration to optimize flight muscle architecture and promote keel bone health.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 2","pages":"241191"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11858752/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Both optical and rheological properties contribute to viscosity judgements when comparing real liquids using vision and touch.","authors":"Jeffrey Martin, Matjaž Jogan","doi":"10.1098/rsos.241170","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.241170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Does the opacity of a liquid, or the way it reflects light, affect how viscous it appears? Would the perceived viscosity change if we touch the liquid? Viscosity of a material, or how it flows, produces a rich stimulus that reflects the material's rheological properties, which can be independently inferred by touch or vision, or by combining modalities. In addition, the material's optical properties convey other cues not dependent on rheology, such as colour or transparency. How these multisensory cues form stable percepts of viscosity that drive behaviour remains unknown. To shed light on this mapping, we conducted a series of psychophysical experiments in which observers compared the thickness of real liquids. First, we show that perceptual discrimination tends to scale in proportion to stimulus viscosity. Next, we show that optical properties such as transparency and opacity, although not related to viscosity, influence visual judgments of thickness. This bias, driven by appearance, is reduced when observers combine visual and haptic information. Combining information across visual and haptic senses improves discrimination only over a limited viscosity range.</p>","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 2","pages":"241170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11858744/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biases, evolutionary mismatch and the comparative analysis of human versus artificial cognition: a comment on Macmillan-Scott and Musolesi (2024).","authors":"Pier Luigi Sacco","doi":"10.1098/rsos.241017","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsos.241017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21525,"journal":{"name":"Royal Society Open Science","volume":"12 2","pages":"241017"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11858747/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}