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Discovery of deep-sea acoels from a chemosynthesis-based ecosystem. 从基于化学合成的生态系统中发现深海藻类。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0573

Natsumi Hookabe, Naoto Jimi, Yasuo Furushima, Yoshihiro Fujiwara

{"title":"Discovery of deep-sea acoels from a chemosynthesis-based ecosystem.","authors":"Natsumi Hookabe, Naoto Jimi, Yasuo Furushima, Yoshihiro Fujiwara","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2023.0573","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2023.0573","url":null,"abstract":"Chemosynthesis-based ecosystems such as hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps harbour various endemic species, each uniquely adapted to the extreme conditions. While some species rely on obligatory relationships with bacterial symbionts for nutrient uptake, scavengers and predators also play important roles in food web dynamics in these ecosystems. Acoels, members of the phylum Xenacoelomorpha, are simple, worm-like invertebrates found in marine environments worldwide but are scarcely understood taxa. This study presents a novel genus and species of acoel from a deep-sea hydrocarbon seep off Hatsushima, Japan, Hoftherma hatsushimaensis gen. et sp. nov. Our multi-locus phylogenetic analysis revealed that the acoels are nested within Hofsteniidae, a family previously known exclusively from shallow waters. This finding suggests that at least two independent colonization events occurred in the chemosynthesis-based environments from the phylum Xenoacoelomorpha, represented by hofsteniid acoels and Xenoturbella. Previous reports of hofsteniid species from low-oxygen and sulfide-rich environments, including intertidal habitats with decomposing leaves, in addition to H. hatsushimaensis gen. et sp. nov. from a deep-sea hydrocarbon seep, imply a common ancestral adaptation to sulfide-rich ecosystems within Hofsteniidae. Moreover, the sister relationship between solenofilomorphid acoels predominating in sulfide-rich habitats indicates common ancestral adaptation to sulfide-rich ecosystems between these two families.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11288667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141854672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is the perception of odour pleasantness shared across cultures and ecological conditions? Evidence from Amazonia, East Africa, New Guinea, Malaysia and Poland. 不同文化和生态条件下对气味愉悦度的感知是否相同？来自亚马逊、东非、新几内亚、马来西亚和波兰的证据。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0120

Piotr Sorokowski, Michał Misiak, S Craig Roberts, Marta Kowal, Marina Butovskaya, Mohd Sofian Omar-Fauzee, Tomás Huanca, Agnieszka Sorokowska

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Test of the negative feedback hypothesis of colony size sensing in social insects. 检验社会性昆虫群体规模感知的负反馈假说。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-19 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0102

T Kikuchi, Y Hayashi, Y Fujito, N Fujiwara-Tsujii, S Kawabata, K Sugawara, R Yamaoka, Kazuki Tsuji

{"title":"Test of the negative feedback hypothesis of colony size sensing in social insects.","authors":"T Kikuchi, Y Hayashi, Y Fujito, N Fujiwara-Tsujii, S Kawabata, K Sugawara, R Yamaoka, Kazuki Tsuji","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0102","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0102","url":null,"abstract":"Social insects can sense colony size-even without visual information in a dark environment. How they achieve this is yet largely unknown. We empirically tested a hypothesis on the proximate mechanism using ant colonies. In Diacamma colonies, the monogynous queen is known to increase the effort devoted to queen pheromone transmission behaviour (patrolling) as the colony grows, as if she perceives colony size. The negative feedback hypothesis assumes that, through repeated physical contact with workers, the queen monitors the physiological state (fertility) of workers and increases her patrolling effort when she encounters more fertile workers. Supporting this hypothesis, we found that the queen increased her patrolling effort in response to a higher ratio of fertile workers under the experimental condition of constant colony size. Furthermore, chemical analyses and bioassays suggested that cuticular hydrocarbons have queen pheromone activity and can mediate the observed queen-worker communication of fertility state. Such a self-organizing mechanism of sensing colony size may also operate in other social insects living in small colonies.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11285623/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141417622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diatom cell-size composition as a novel tool for quantitative estimates of the water table in peatlands. 硅藻细胞大小组成作为泥炭地地下水位定量估算的新工具。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0062

Shuangyu Xu, Bing Huang, Linghan Zeng, Zhao-Jun Bu, Xianyu Huang, Xu Chen

{"title":"Diatom cell-size composition as a novel tool for quantitative estimates of the water table in peatlands.","authors":"Shuangyu Xu, Bing Huang, Linghan Zeng, Zhao-Jun Bu, Xianyu Huang, Xu Chen","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0062","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0062","url":null,"abstract":"Diatom cell-size composition is an indicator of aquatic environmental changes but has been rarely investigated, especially in semi-terrestrial peatlands. In this study, both taxonomic composition and cell-size composition of diatoms were analysed in 41 samples from two montane peatlands, northeastern China. Redundancy analyses revealed that diatom taxonomic composition was significantly related to the depth to the water table (DWT) and Ca2+, while cell-size composition was significantly associated with DWT and Si. DWT was the most important factor and its sole effect explained 26.2% and 17.9% of the total variance in taxonomic composition and cell-size composition, respectively. Accordingly, diatom-based water-table transfer functions were developed based on taxonomic composition and cell-size composition, respectively. The maximum-likelihood (ML) model based on diatom taxonomic composition had the best performance, with a correlation coefficient value (R2) of 0.78 and the root mean squared error of prediction (RMSEP) of 6.66 cm. The ML model based on cell-size composition had similar performance, with an R2 of 0.78 and the RMSEP of 6.87 cm, suggesting that diatom cell-size composition can be a new quantitative means to track past water-table changes. This method requires further appraisal with palaeoecological data but offers a new option that deserves exploration.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11286141/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141455166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Metabolic scaling of an invasive mussel depends on temperature and chemical cues from an invasive predator. 入侵贻贝的新陈代谢规模取决于温度和来自入侵捕食者的化学线索。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0066

V Gjoni, G Marchessaux, D S Glazier, J S Wesner, M Bosch-Belmar, F P Mancuso, M F Tantillo, N Marsiglia, G Sarà

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Can chimpanzees conceive of mutually exclusive future possibilities? A Comment on: 'Chimpanzees prepare for alternative possible outcomes' (2023), by Engelmann et al. 黑猩猩能设想出相互排斥的未来可能性吗？评论黑猩猩为其他可能的结果做准备》（2023年），作者：Engelmann等人。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0409

Jonathan Redshaw, Thomas Suddendorf

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Glycation resistance and life-history traits: lessons from non-conventional animal models. 抗糖化性和生命史特征：从非常规动物模型中汲取的教训。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0601

Cyrielle Duval, François Criscuolo, Fabrice Bertile

{"title":"Glycation resistance and life-history traits: lessons from non-conventional animal models.","authors":"Cyrielle Duval, François Criscuolo, Fabrice Bertile","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2023.0601","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2023.0601","url":null,"abstract":"Glycation reactions play a key role in the senescence process and are involved in numerous age-related pathologies, such as diabetes complications or Alzheimer's disease. As a result, past studies on glycation have mostly focused on human and laboratory animal models for medical purposes. Very little is known about glycation and its link to senescence in wild animal species. Yet, despite feeding on high-sugar diets, several bat and bird species are long-lived and seem to escape the toxic effects of high glycaemia. The study of these models could open new avenues both for understanding the mechanisms that coevolved with glycation resistance and for treating the damaging effects of glycations in humans. Our understanding of glycaemia's correlation to proxies of animals' pace of life is emerging in few wild species; however, virtually nothing is known about their resistance to glycation, nor on the relationship between glycation, species' life-history traits and individual fitness. Our review summarizes the scarce current knowledge on the links between glycation and life-history traits in non-conventional animal models, highlighting the predominance of avian research. We also investigate some key molecular and physiological parameters involved in glycation regulation, which hold promise for future research on fitness and senescence of individuals.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11285833/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141305364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correction: 'The latest freshwater giants: a new Peltocephalus (Pleurodira: Podocnemididae) turtle from the Late Pleistocene of the Brazilian Amazon' (2024), by Ferreira et al. 更正："最新的淡水巨人：来自巴西亚马逊晚更新世的一种新的 Peltocephalus（Pleurodira: Podocnemididae）海龟"（2024 年），作者 Ferreira 等人。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0151

G S Ferreira, E R Nascimento, E A Cadena, M A Cozzuol, B M Farina, M L A F Pacheco, M A Rizzutto, M C Langer

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Social control is associated with increased reproductive skew in a wild mammal. 社会控制与野生哺乳动物生殖偏斜的增加有关。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0003

Adriana A Maldonado-Chaparro, Conner S Philson, Xinping Zhang, Daniel T Blumstein

{"title":"Social control is associated with increased reproductive skew in a wild mammal.","authors":"Adriana A Maldonado-Chaparro, Conner S Philson, Xinping Zhang, Daniel T Blumstein","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0003","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0003","url":null,"abstract":"In group-living species, reproductive variation among individuals of the same sex is widespread. By identifying the mechanisms underlying this reproductive skew, we gain fundamental insights into the evolution and maintenance of sociality. A common mechanism, social control, is typically studied by quantifying dominance, which is one of many attributes of sociality that describes how individuals exert influence on others and is an incomprehensive measure of social control as it accounts only for direct relationships. Here, we use the global reaching centrality (GRC), which quantifies the degree of hierarchy in a social network by accounting for both direct and indirect social relationships. Using a wild, free-living population of adult female yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris), we found a positive relationship between the reproductive skew index and GRC: more despotic social groups have higher reproductive skew. The GRC was stronger predictor for skew than traditional measures of social control (i.e. dominance). This allows deeper insights into the diverse ways individuals control other group members' reproduction, a core component in the evolution of sociality. Future studies of skew across taxa may profit by using more comprehensive, network-based measures of social control.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11285479/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141247435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Earliest evidence of avian primary feather moult. 鸟类初级羽毛蜕变的最早证据。

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Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0106

Xiaoli Wang, Jingmai O'Connor, Xiaoting Zheng, Yan Wang, Yosef Kiat

{"title":"Earliest evidence of avian primary feather moult.","authors":"Xiaoli Wang, Jingmai O'Connor, Xiaoting Zheng, Yan Wang, Yosef Kiat","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0106","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0106","url":null,"abstract":"Feather moulting is a crucial process in the avian life cycle, which evolved to maintain plumage functionality. However, moulting involves both energetic and functional costs. During moulting, plumage function temporarily decreases between the shedding of old feathers and the full growth of new ones. In flying taxa, a gradual and sequential replacement of flight feathers evolved to maintain aerodynamic capabilities during the moulting period. Little is known about the moult strategies of non-avian pennaraptoran dinosaurs and stem birds, before the emergence of crown lineage. Here, we report on two Early Cretaceous pygostylian birds from the Yixian Formation (125 mya), probably referable to Confuciusornithiformes, exhibiting morphological characteristics that suggest a gradual and sequential moult of wing flight feathers. Short primary feathers interpreted as immature are symmetrically present on both wings, as is typical among extant flying birds. Our survey of the enormous collection of the Tianyu Museum confirms previous findings that evidence of active moult in non-neornithine pennaraptorans is rare and likely indicates a moult cycle greater than one year. Documenting moult in Mesozoic feathered dinosaurs is critical for understanding their ecology, locomotor ability and the evolution of this important life-history process in birds.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11285806/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141490769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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