Ecology

Urbanisation and habitat loss favour thermophilic and monogynous ant species

1. Basile Finand
2. Thibaud Monnin
3. Céline Bocquet
4. Angélique Bultelle
5. Pierre Fédérici
6. Léa Darmedru
7. Solène Gouffault
8. Joséphine Ledamoisel
9. Nicolas Loeuille

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Central carbon metabolism switching in lytic versus temperate coral reef viral communities

1. Jacob Kelman
2. Meena Khan
3. Chibundu Umunna
4. Russell Brainard
5. Grace Donohue
6. Rob Edwards
7. Natalie A Falta
8. Emma George
9. Eleanor Gorham
10. Juris Grasis
11. Kevin Green
12. Andreas Haas
13. Kimberly Halsey
14. Eric Hester
15. Summer Jacob
16. Aydin Loid Karatas
17. Yan Wei Lim
18. Mark Little
19. Stuart Sandin
20. Jessie Segnitz
21. Maya Serota
22. Natalia Shahwan
23. Giselle Simmons
24. Jennifer E Smith
25. Isha Tripathi
26. Linda Wegley Kelly
27. Lauren Woodward
28. Nickie Yang
29. Charles Young
30. Brian Zgliczynski
31. Forest Rohwer
32. Ben Knowles

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  eLife Assessment

  The worldwide decline in the health of coral reefs is well documented, and overgrowth by microbial consortia can be a contributing factor. Kelman and colleagues used metagenomic analysis to interrogate potential changes in phage-associated genes predicted to be involved in central carbon metabolism. The study addresses the hypothesis that metabolic genes associated with carbon metabolism that are encoded by viruses reflect the health of the corals. The study contributes a valuable perspective on the potential role of phages in coral health, although limitations of the data and analyses offer an exploratory examination rather than a definitive result. Overall, the evidence supporting the major findings is incomplete, in part because the conceptual model relies on qualitative assumptions rather than empirical data.

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Prey attracting but not avoiding predators suggests an asymmetric investment in the predation sequence

1. Nicolas Ferry
2. Christian Fiderer
3. Anne Peters
4. Axel Ballmann
5. Marco Heurich

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Benefit Transfer Loops Turn Cheating into a Scaffold for Microbial Diversity

1. Jiqi Shao
2. Yinxiang Li
3. Shaohua Gu
4. Xiaoyi Zhang
5. Shaopeng Wang
6. Xueming Liu
7. Zhiyuan Li

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  eLife Assessment

  This manuscript provides a valuable perspective on microbial community diversity and how this is shaped by the presence of cheaters. The evidence provided is solid, and the methods used to assess the research question are convincing. However, a major weakness is the general framing (or lack of embedding in recent literature), reducing the usefulness of the paper for a broad audience.

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Disentangling different sources of variation in functional responses: between-individual variability, measurement error and inherent stochasticity of the prey-predator interaction process

1. Charlotte Baey
2. Sylvain Billiard
3. Maud Delattre

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Camera trap monitoring of unmarked animals: a map of the relationships between population size estimators

1. Clément Calenge

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Using a sequential sampling algorithm to apply the niche-neutral model to species occurrence patterns

1. Nadiah P. Kristensen
2. Yong Chee Keita Sin
3. Hyee Shynn Lim
4. Frank E. Rheindt
5. Ryan A. Chisholm

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