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    Metabolic potentials of archaeal lineages resolved from metagenomes of deep Costa Rica sediments

    1. Biddle JF, Lipp JS, Lever MA, Lloyd KG, Sørensen KB, Anderson R, et al. Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006;103:3846–51. 2. Schippers A, Neretin LN, Kallmeyer J, Ferdelman TG, Cragg BA, Parkes RJ, et al. Prokaryotic cells of the deep sub-seafloor biosphere identified as living bacteria. […] More

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    Genetic variation and evolutionary history of a mycorrhizal fungus regulate the currency of exchange in symbiosis with the food security crop cassava

    Patterns of R. irregularis transcriptome variation are congruent with patterns of R. irregularis genome variation Phylogenetically diverse R. irregularis isolates significantly differed in their ability to colonize cassava roots, with colonization ranging from 21.7% of the root length colonized by SAMP7 to 72.9% by DAOM197198-CZ (Fig. 1c, Data S1). Colonization was significantly associated with the phylogeny of […] More

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    Non-market forces significantly affect oil prices

    Proxies for supply and demand accurately account for oil prices in 138 of 313 quarters from January 1938 to March 2018. In the other 184 quarters, reduced accuracy creates nine regimes when oil prices deviate from the level implied by supply and demand. Of these nine regimes, two are associated with policy interventions to suppress […] More

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    Evolution of an inferior competitor increases resistance to biological invasion

    1. Derry, A. M. et al. Conservation through the lens of (mal)adaptation: concepts and meta‐analysis. Evol. Appl. 12, 1287–1304 (2019). 2. Bell, G. Evolutionary rescue. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 48, 605–627 (2017). Article Google Scholar 3. Bell, G. & Gonzalez, A. Adaptation and evolutionary rescue in metapopulations experiencing environmental deterioration. Science 332, 1327–1330 (2011). […] More

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    Reply to: Indiscriminate data aggregation in ecological meta-analysis underestimates impacts of invasive species

    1. Anton, A. et al. Global ecological impacts of marine exotic species. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 3, 787–800 (2019). 2. Thomsen, M. S. Indiscriminate data aggregation in ecological meta-analysis underestimates impacts of invasive species. Nat. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1117-6 (2020). 3. Koricheva, J., Gurevitch, J. & Mengersen, K. (eds) Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution (Princeton […] More

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    Double-stranded DNA virioplankton dynamics and reproductive strategies in the oligotrophic open ocean water column

    1. Wigington CH, Sonderegger DL, Brussaard CPD, Buchan A, Finke JF, Fuhrman J, et al. Re-examining the relationship between virus and microbial cell abundances in the global oceans. Nat Microbiol. 2016;1:15024. Google Scholar 2. Karl DM, Church MJ. Microbial oceanography and the Hawaii Ocean Time-series programme. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2014;12:1–15. Google Scholar 3. Wilson WH, […] More

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    Systematic selection between age and household structure for models aimed at emerging epidemic predictions

    Aspects common to all models All models share the same stochastic, time-since-infection transmission process8,58: each infected individual makes infectious contacts at a rate described by a function βω(τ), where the total infectivity β depends on the ages of the infector and the other contacted person, as well as on the environment (i.e., within or outside […] More

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    Evolutionary games with environmental feedbacks

    Eco-evolutionary games First we describe a general framework for modeling eco-evolutionary feedbacks, and then we analyze linear two-strategy eco-evolutionary games. We characterize the range of possible dynamical behaviors in these systems, and we apply this analysis to several case studies drawn from a range of disciplines. Eco-evolutionary games occur when evolutionary game dynamics are environmentally […] More