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No full textThis study investigated how the introduction of an apex predator, the Tasmanian devil, influenced the risk-sensitive foraging of a major prey species, the common brushtail possum. Data comes from a before-after control-impact giving-up densities foraging experiment. Please cite the published paper in Ecography (DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04635) as well as the data files on Dryad
Seedling respiration data
No full textThe data includes measurements of mass-specific respiration, tissue water content, carbon and nitrogen content of seeds and seedlings during germination and early development
Supplementary Figure 6
No full textPlots of species and generic level diversity plots for the Cenomanian-Turonian and lower Campanian within distance-from-paleoshoreline zones, plotted with number of collections and outcrop area. A. Species diversity and number of collections for the Cenomanian-Turonian; B. Species diversity and number of collections for the lower Campanian; C. Species diversity and outcrop area for the Cenomanian-Turonian; D. Species diversity and outcrop area for the lower Campanian; E. Generic diversity and number of collections for the Cenomanian-Turonian; F. Generic diversity and number of collections for the lower Campanian; G. Generic diversity and outcrop area for the Cenomanian-Turonian; H. Generic diversity and outcrop area for the lower Campanian
2 Microsatellite haplotypes
No full textThis file includes the raw microsatellite data of hosts investigated across 6 sites. Variables include an individual identification number, population of origin for each host individual, and allele lengths for 12 microsatellite loci of each individual host. Sequence data is available through Genbank
DNA alignment for the genus Leucadendron phylogeny
No full textThis alignment is the concatenation of nine markers that were used to reconstruct the phylogeny of the genus Leucadendron in the paper cited above. Those markers were amplified for 81 Leucadendron taxa collected in natural populations in the South-African fynbos, except for three external groups which were collected in the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden: Paranomus spathulatus, Mimetes cucullatus and Leucospermum erubescens. A detailed map of the alignment is given below:
Positions 1 - 618 : AS1 marker which contains an exon of 618bp.
Positions 619 - 1046 : PPR-like marker which contains an exon of 233bp and a 3'-UTR of 195bp.
Positions 1047 - 1800 : SVR7 marker which contains an exon of 652bp and a 3'-UTR of 102bp.
Positions 1801 - 2181 : CAF1-6 marker which only contains an exon of 381bp.
Positions 2182 - 2795 : the classical ITS marker.
Positions 2796 - 3591 : ATINT1 marker which contains an exon of 665bp and a 3'-UTR of 131bp.
Positions 3592 - 3868 : APO2 marker which contains only an exon of 277bp.
Positions 3869 - 4207 : APG6 marker which contains only an exon of 339bp.
Positions 3208 - 4865 : ATPHAN marker which contains only an exon of 658bp
The methodology used to design the following markers: PPR-like, CAF1-6, ATINT1, APO2, APG6 and ATPHAN is described in (Tonnabel et al. 2013). The AS1 marker was designed in (Illing et al. 2009).
Tonnabel, J., Olivieri, I., Mignot, A., Rebelo, A., Justy, F., Santoni, S., Caroli, S., Sauné, L., Bouchez, O. & Douzery, E.J.P. (2014) Developing nuclear DNA phylogenetic markers in the angiosperm genus Leucadendron (Proteaceae): a next-generation sequencing transcriptomic approach, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 70, 37-46.
Illing, N., Klak, C., Johnson, C., Brito, D., Negrao, N., Baine, F., van Kets, V., Ramchurn K.R., Seoighe, C. & Roden, L. (2009) Duplication of the Asymmetric Leaves1/Rough Sheath 2/Phantastica (ARP) gene precedes the explosive radiation of the Ruschioideae. Development genes and evolution, 219, 331-338
Data from: Allometry of animal-microbe interactions and global census of animal-associated microbes
No full textAnimals live in close association with microorganisms, mostly prokaryotes, living in or on them as commensals, mutualists, or parasites, and profoundly affecting host fitness. Most animal-microbe studies focus on microbial community structure; for this project, allometry (scaling of animal attributes with animal size) was applied to animal-microbe relationships across a range of species spanning 12 orders of magnitude in animal mass, from nematodes to whales. Microbial abundances per individual animal were gleaned from published literature and also microscopically counted in three species. Abundance of prokaryotes/individual vs. animal mass scales as a nearly linear power function (exponent = 1.07, R^2 = 0.94). Combining this power function with allometry of animal abundance indicates that macrofauna have an outsized share of animal-associated microorganisms. The total number of animal-associated prokaryotes in Earth’s land animals was calculated to be 1.3–1.4 x 10^25 cells and the total of marine animal-associated microbes was calculated to be 8.6–9.0 x 10^24 cells. Animal-associated microbes thus total 2.1–2.3 x 10^25 of the ~10^30 prokaryotes on Earth. Microbes associated with humans comprise 3.3-3.5% of Earth’s animal-associated microbes, and domestic animals harbor 14-20% of all animal-associated microbes, adding a new dimension to the scale of human impact on the biosphere. This novel allometric power function may reflect underlying mechanisms involving the transfer of energy and materials between microorganisms and their animal hosts. Microbial diversity indices of animal gut communities and gut microbial species richness for 60 mammals did not indicate significant scaling relationships with animal body mass; however, further research in this area is warranted
