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    Sex differences in the prediction of the effectiveness of paroxetine for patients with major depressive disorder identified using a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis for early response [Corrigendum]

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    Tomita T, Norio YF, Sato Y, et al. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2014;10:599–606.On page 599, there is an error in the author list "Yasui-Furukori Norio" should read "Norio Yasui-Furukori".Read the original articl

    Is the relationship between body size and trophic niche position time-invariant in a predatory fish? First stable isotope evidence.

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    Characterizing relationships between individual body size and trophic niche position is essential for understanding how population and food-web dynamics are mediated by size-dependent trophic interactions. However, whether (and how) intraspecific size-trophic relationships (i.e., trophic ontogeny pattern at the population level) vary with time remains poorly understood. Using archival specimens of a freshwater predatory fish Gymnogobius isaza (Tanaka 1916) from Lake Biwa, Japan, we assembled a long-term (>40 years) time-series of the size-dependence of trophic niche position by examining nitrogen stable isotope ratios (delta(15)N) of the fish specimens. The size-dependence of trophic niche position was defined as the slope of the relationship between delta(15)N and log body size. Our analyses showed that the slope was significantly positive in about 60% of years and null in other years, changing through time. This is the first quantitative (i.e., stable isotope) evidence of long-term variability in the size-trophic relationship in a predatory fish. This finding had implications for the fish trophic dynamics, despite that about 60% of the yearly values were not statistically different from the long-term average. We proposed hypotheses for the underlying mechanism of the time-varying size-trophic relationship

    進化学と生態学から環境問題へ(環境物理学-先端境界領域の創出へ向けて-,京都大学基礎物理学研究所 研究会報告書(YITP-W-06-02))

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    この論文は国立情報学研究所の電子図書館事業により電子化されました。研究会報
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