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BMC Ecology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in environmental, behavioral and population ecology of plants, animals, and microbes.
BMC Ecology (ISSN 1472-6785) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Zoological Record and Google Scholar.
BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :12
Birds attack salamander models with or without a stripe on their back with a frequency that depends on how common each type is, suggesting that predation may maintain variation in prey color and patterning.
BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :7
Harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, show age-dependent changes in task allocation that is linked to differential expression of the period gene, suggesting that behavioural development is under circadian clock control, similar to other social insects.
BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :5
Models of plant-herbivore interactions need to consider the effects of plant toxins on limiting grazing, rather than just the traditional rate-limiting mechanical factors such as bite size and rate.
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Tracking the global dispersal of a cosmopolitan insect pest, the peach potato aphid. John T Margaritopoulos, Louise Kasprowicz, Gaynor L Malloch, Brian Fenton BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :13 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Frequency-dependent selection by wild birds promotes polymorphism in model salamanders Benjamin M Fitzpatrick, Kim Shook, Reuben Izally BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :12 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Within-host competitive exclusion among species of the anther smut pathogen Alexander Gold, Tatiana Giraud, Michael E Hood BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :11 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Predation and fragmentation portrayed in the statistical structure of prey time Series Ditte K Hendrichsen, Chris J Topping, Mads C Forchhammer BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :10 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Resource heterogeneity and foraging behaviour of cattle across spatial scales Santiago A Utsumi, Carlos A Cangiano, Julio R Galli, Mary B McEachern, Montague W Demment, Emilio A Laca BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :9 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Do pseudo-absence selection strategies influence species distribution models and their predictions? An information-theoretic approach based on simulated data Mary S Wisz, Antoine Guisan BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :8 (24 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Expression patterns of a circadian clock gene are associated with age-related polyethism in harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis Krista K Ingram, Scott Krummey, Michelle LeRoux BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :7 (17 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Burrow characteristics of the co-existing sibling species Mus booduga and Mus terricolor and the genetic basis of adaptation to hypoxic/hypercapnic stress Sunita Singh, Nge Cheong, Gopeshwar Narayan, T Sharma BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :6 (9 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Troublesome toxins: time to re-think plant-herbivore interactions in vertebrate ecology Robert K Swihart, Donald L DeAngelis, Zhilan Feng, John P Bryant BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :5 (24 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Diversity and abundance of photosynthetic sponges in temperate Western Australia Marie-Louise Lemloh, Jane Fromont, Franz Br BMC Ecology 2009, 9 :4 (5 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Sequencing and de novo analysis of a coral larval transcriptome using 454 GS-Flx Eli Meyer, Galina V Aglyamova, Shi Wang, Jade Buchanan-Carter, David Abrego, John K Colbourne, Bette L Willis, Mikhail V Matz BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :219 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Shifting suitability for malaria vectors across Africa with warming climates A. Townsend Peterson BMC Infectious Diseases 2009, 9 :59 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A suite of recombinant luminescent bacterial strains for the quantification of bioavailable heavy metals and toxicity testing Angela Ivask, Taisia Rolova, Anne Kahru BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9 :41 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Timing major conflict between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in species relationships of Polygonia butterflies (Nymphalidae: Nymphalini) Niklas Wahlberg, Elisabet Weingartner, Andrew D. Warren, Soren Nylin BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :92 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Bacterial feeding induces changes in immune-related gene expression and has trans-generational impacts in the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni) Dalial Freitak, David G Heckel, Heiko Vogel Frontiers in Zoology 2009, 6 :7 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Endemicity response timelines for Plasmodium falciparum elimination David L Smith, Simon I Hay Malaria Journal 2009, 8 :87 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Geographic distribution of suitable hosts explains the evolution of specialized gentes in the European cuckoo Cuculus canorus Juan J Soler, Manuel Martin Vivaldi, Anders P Moller BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :88 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Communities of gastrointestinal helminths of fish in historically connected habitats: habitat fragmentation effect in a carnivorous catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco from seven lakes in flood plain of the Yangtze River, China Wen X Li, Pin Nie, Gui T Wang, Wei J Yao Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2 :22 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Mitochondrial phylogeography of baboons (Papio spp.) - Indication for introgressive hybridization? Dietmar Zinner, Linn F Groeneveld, Christina Keller, Christian Roos BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :83 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Hunting strategies used in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil R Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2009, 5 :12 (22 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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