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Nature
January 2025
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Understanding the causes of past atmospheric methane (CH) variability is important for characterizing the relationship between CH, global climate and terrestrial biogeochemical cycling. Ice core records of atmospheric CH contain rapid variations linked to abrupt climate changes of the last glacial period known as Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events and Heinrich events (HE). The drivers of these CH variations remain unknown but can be constrained with ice core measurements of the stable isotopic composition of atmospheric CH, which is sensitive to the strength of different isotopically distinguishable emission categories (microbial, pyrogenic and geologic).
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January 2025
Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Modern African ungulates navigate seasonal variation in resource availability through diet-switching (primarily mixed-feeders) and/or migrating (primarily grass grazers). These ecological generalisations are well-documented today, but the extent to which they apply to the non-analog ecosystems of the Pleistocene are unclear. Drawing from serially-sampled stable isotope measurements from 18 Kenyan large herbivore species from the Last Glacial Period (LGP), we evaluate how diet, diet-switching, and migration compare to observations from present-day settings.
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December 2024
State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Non-Timber Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Zhengzhou, 450003, China.
Studying the evolutionary history of plants in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau region provides a theoretical basis for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources. In this study, we analyzed five chloroplast gene fragments to examine the genetic diversity and phylogeography of Prunus mira in 577 individuals from 32 populations. The results indicated that P.
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December 2024
Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Background: Underground research laboratories (URLs) provide a window on the deep biosphere and enable investigation of potential microbial impacts on nuclear waste, CO and H stored in the subsurface. We carried out the first multi-year study of groundwater microbiomes sampled from defined intervals between 140 and 400 m below the surface of the Horonobe and Mizunami URLs, Japan.
Results: We reconstructed draft genomes for > 90% of all organisms detected over a four year period.
Mol Ecol
January 2025
Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
In the marine realm, unidirectional ocean currents often lead to high migration rates of marine organisms and, therefore, inhibit the formation of their latitudinal genetic structure. In contrast, cryptic latitudinal structures associated with local adaptation may frequently exist in widespread species generally exposed to a strong environmental heterogeneity. However, our understanding of the evolvability of locally adapted populations in open marine environments still needs to be completed.
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