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Guillermo Garcia-costoya

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Visible implant elastomer (VIE) success in early larval stages of a tropical amphibian species

2020

AbstractAnimals are often difficult to distinguish at an individual level, but being able to identify individuals can be crucial in ecological or behavioral studies. In response to this challenge, biologists have developed a range of marking (tattoos, brands, toe-clips) and tagging (PIT, VIA, VIE) methods to identify individuals and cohorts. Animals with complex life cycles are notoriously hard to mark because of the distortion or loss of the tag across metamorphosis. In frogs, few studies have attempted larval tagging and none have been conducted on a tropical species. Here, we present the first successful account of VIE tagging in early larval stages (Gosner stage 25) of the dyeing poison…

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Realistic genetic architecture enables organismal adaptation as predicted under the folk definition of inclusive fitness

2021

A fundamental task of evolutionary biology is to explain the pervasive impression of organismal design in nature, including traits benefiting kin. Inclusive fitness is considered by many to be a crucial piece in this puzzle, despite ongoing discussion about its scope and limitations. Here, we use individual-based simulations to study what quantity (if any) individual organisms become adapted to maximize when genetic architectures are more or less suitable for the presumed main driver of biological adaptation, namely cumulative multi-locus evolution. As an expository device, we focus on a hypothetical situation called Charlesworth's paradox, in which altruism is seemingly predicted to evolve…

0106 biological sciences0301 basic medicineCognitive scienceNatural selectionModels GeneticScope (project management)media_common.quotation_subjectInclusive fitnessBiologyAltruismBiological Evolution010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesAltruismGenetic architectureTask (project management)03 medical and health sciencesPhenotype030104 developmental biologyGenetic FitnessSelection GeneticAdaptationEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsSelection (genetic algorithm)media_commonJournal of Evolutionary Biology
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Original data for article: Visible Implant Elastomer (VIE) success in early larval stages of a tropical amphibian species

2020

Animals are often difficult to distinguish at an individual level, but being able to identify individuals can be crucial in ecological or behavioral studies. In response to this challenge, biologists have developed a range of marking (tattoos, brands, toe-clips) and tagging (PIT, VIA, VIE) methods to identify individuals and cohorts. Animals with complex life cycles are notoriously hard to mark because of the distortion or loss of the tag across metamorphosis. In frogs, few studies have attempted larval tagging and none have been conducted on a tropical species. Here, we present the first successful account of VIE tagging in early larval stages (Gosner stage 25) of the dyeing poison frog (D…

amphibiansanimal tagging
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