Risk-Induced Foraging Behavior in a Free-Living Small Mammal Depends on the Interactive Effects of Habitat, Refuge Availability, and Predator Type

Predators have a major influence on prey populations and broader ecosystem dynamics through both their consumptive Brush Cleaner and non-consumptive effects.Prey employ risk-induced trait responses such as shifts in habitat use or changes in foraging behavior in response to the presence of predators.Risk-induced changes in foraging depend upon both

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Analysis of plasmid genes by phylogenetic profiling and visualization of homology relationships using Blast2Network

Abstract Background Phylogenetic methods are well-established bioinformatic tools for sequence analysis, allowing to describe the non-independencies of sequences because of their common ancestor.However, the evolutionary profiles of bacterial genes are often complicated by hidden paralogy and extensive and/or (multiple) horizontal gene transfer (HG

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