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Honeybee colony integration: worker-worker interactions mediate hormonally regulated plasticity in division of labor by Z. Y. Huang and Gene E. Robinson by
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PNAS 89, 11726–11729. Group-rearing and older-worker transplants demonstrate social effects on endocrine and task development.
Specialization Does Not Predict Individual Efficiency in an Ant by Anna Dornhaus by
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Interspecific communicative and coordinated hunting between groupers and giant moray eels in the Red Sea by Redouan Bshary and others by
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Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals by Ashley J. W. Ward and others by
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PNAS 105, 6948–6953. Replica-fish experiments test social decisions; simulations assess their proposed information-processing benefits.
The evolution of cooperation by Robert Axelrod and William D. Hamilton by
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Science 211, 1390–1396. Primary repeated-game theory and computer tournament, rather than a field demonstration of every proposed reciprocity mechanism.
Primary article or author/publication record: www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/research/Axelrod%20and%20Hamilton%20EC%201981.pdf
Host sanctions and the legume-rhizobium mutualism by E. Toby Kiers and others by
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Nature 425, 78–81. Preventing nitrogen fixation tests conditional host effects on rhizobial reproduction and nodule physiology.
Primary article or author/publication record: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A4883168f-3381-4cc6-8ab3-b80cd9b6c738
Dependence of the Cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on Hydrogen Peroxide Scavenging Microbes for Growth at the Ocean's Surface by J. Jeffrey Morris and others by
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PLoS ONE 6, e16805. Seawater peroxide measurements and laboratory helper co-cultures establish condition-dependent cross-protection.
Primary article or author/publication record: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016805
Antagonistic coevolution between a bacterium and a bacteriophage by Angus Buckling and Paul B. Rainey by
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B 269, 931–936. Experimental resistance-infectivity dynamics and divergence among replicate populations.
Worker policing in the honeybee by Francis L. W. Ratnieks and P. Kirk Visscher by
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Nature 342, 796–797. Experimental discrimination against worker-laid male eggs and its genetic interpretation.
dMyc Transforms Cells into Super-Competitors by Eduardo Moreno and Konrad Basler by
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Primary article or author/publication record: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867404002624
A sex-ratio Meiotic Drive System in Drosophila simulans. I: An Autosomal Suppressor by Yun Tao and others by
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Primary article or author/publication record: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050292
Rapid hybrid speciation in Darwin's finches by Sangeet Lamichhaney and others by
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First author: Sangeet Lamichhaney. Science 359, pp. 224–228; immigrant ancestry, endogamy and the Big Bird lineage.
High male sexual investment as a driver of extinction in fossil ostracods by Maria João Fernandes Martins and others by
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First author: Maria João Fernandes Martins. Nature 556, pp. 366–369; dimorphism as a proxy and fossil extinction estimates.
Host fidelity is an effective premating barrier between sympatric races of the apple maggot fly by Jeffrey L. Feder and others by
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First author: Jeffrey L. Feder. PNAS 91, pp. 7990–7994; three mark-and-recapture studies and host-associated gene flow.
Genetic linkage of ecological specialization and reproductive isolation in pea aphids by David J. Hawthorne and others by
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First author: David J. Hawthorne. Nature 412, pp. 904–907; mapping host adaptation and habitat preference.
Genetic dissection of assortative mating behavior by Richard M. Merrill and others by
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First author: Richard M. Merrill. PLoS Biology 17, e2005902; preference QTLs, linkage to optix, and limitations of courtship assays.
Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish by Ole Seehausen and others by
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First author: Ole Seehausen. Nature 455, pp. 620–626; light gradients, visual pigments, colours and preferences.
Molecular genetics of human color vision: the genes encoding blue, green, and red pigments by Jeremy Nathans and others by
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First author: Jeremy Nathans. Science 232, pp. 193–202; cloned visual-pigment genes and sequence comparisons.
Genetic basis of differential opsin gene expression in cichlid fishes by Karen L. Carleton and others by
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First author: Karen L. Carleton. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23, pp. 840–853; crosses and cis- and trans-acting regulatory regions.
Gene therapy for red-green colour blindness in adult primates by Katherine Mancuso and others by
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First author: Katherine Mancuso. Nature 461, pp. 784–787; adult squirrel monkeys, added L opsin and colour discrimination.
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact





