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  • Index Measuring Land Use Intensity—A Gradient‐Based Approach 
    Erikstad, Lars; Simensen, Trond; Bakkestuen, Vegar; Halvorsen, Rune (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    To monitor the changes in the landscape, and to relate these to ecological processes, we need robust and reproducible methods for quantifying the changes in landscape patterns. The main aim of this study is to present, ...
  • Individual heterogeneity and early life conditions shape growth in a freshwater top predator 
    Nater, Chloé Rebecca; Rustadbakken, Atle; Ergon, Torbjørn; Langangen, Øystein; Moe, S. Jannicke; Vindenes, Yngvild; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn; Aass, Per (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Body size can have profound impacts on survival, movement, and reproductive schedules shaping individual fitness, making growth a central process in ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Realized growth is the result of a ...
  • Influence of Interspecific Interference Competition on the Genetic Structure of Calopteryx splendens Populations 
    Viitaniemi, Heidi M.; Leder, Erica Helen; Suhonen, Jukka (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Understanding the effects of interspecific competition on genetic diversity will deepen our knowledge on species evolution. In the case of Calopteryx splendens and C. virgo, sympatric damselfly species, interspecific ...
  • The inheritance of a Mesozoic landscape in western Scandinavia 
    Fredin, Ola; Viola, Giulio; Zwingmann, Horst; Sørlie, Ronald; Brönner, Marco; Lie, Jan-Erik; Grandal, Else Margrethe; Müller, Axel Bernd; Margreth, Annina; Vogt, Christoph; Knies, Jochen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    In-situ weathered bedrock, saprolite, is locally found in Scandinavia, where it is commonly thought to represent pre-Pleistocene weathering possibly associated with landscape formation. The age of weathering, however, ...
  • Innate and adaptive immune proteins in the preen gland secretions of male house sparrows 
    Carneiro, Diana; Czirják, Gábor Árpád; Rowe, Melissah (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Recent studies have demonstrated that preen oil acts to reduce or eliminate feather‐associated bacteria. The mechanisms underlying this antibacterial activity, however, are incompletely understood. In addition to the ...
  • Innovative bayesian and parsimony phylogeny of dung beetles (coleoptera, scarabaeidae, scarabaeinae) enhanced by ontology-based partitioning of morphological characters 
    Tarasov, Sergey; Genier, François (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    Scarabaeine dung beetles are the dominant dung feeding group of insects and are widely used as model organisms in conservation, ecology and developmental biology. Due to the conflicts among 13 recently published phylogenies ...
  • Insights into bear evolution from a Pleistocene polar bear genome 
    Lan, Tianying; Leppälä, Kalle; Tomlin, Crystal; Talbot, Sandra L; Sage, George K.; Farley, Sean; Shideler, Richard T.; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Albert, Victor A; Salojärvi, Jarkko; Mailund, Thomas; Drautz-Moses, Daniela I.; Herrera-Estrella, Luis; Lindqvist, Charlotte (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) has become a symbol of the threat to biodiversity from climate change. Understanding polar bear evolutionary history may provide insights into apex carnivore responses and prospects during ...
  • Integrating subsurface and outcrop data of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Agardhfjellet Formation in central Spitsbergen 
    Koevoets, Maayke Jacqueline; Hammer, Øyvind; Olaussen, Snorre; Senger, Kim; Smelror, Morten (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The Longyearbyen CO2 storage project drilling and coring campaign in central Spitsbergen provided new insights on the shale-dominated Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Agardhfjellet Formation, which is the onshore ...
  • Integrative taxonomy and systematics of Allodia Winnertz (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) 
    Magnussen, Trude (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
    This thesis focuses on the fungus gnat genus Allodia in the dipteran family Mycetophilidae. Allodia has historically gone through several systematic changes, with additions and exclusions of taxa, and the diversity and ...
  • Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species, Nephroma orvoi, in the N. parile species complex (lichenized Ascomycota) 
    Timdal, Einar; Westberg, Martin; Haugan, Reidar; Hofton, Tom Hellik; Holien, Håkon; Speed, James David Mervyn; Tønsberg, Tor; Bendiksby, Mika (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Our knowledge of the diversity and distribution of many groups of lichens remains poor due to unclear species boundaries and challenging species identification. We have studied the medium sized to large foliose lichen ...
  • Integrative taxonomy reveals overlooked cryptic diversity in the conifer feeding Batrachedra pinicolella (Zeller, 1839) (Lepidoptera, Batrachedridae) 
    Aarvik, Leif; Huemer, Peter; Berggren, Kai; Lee, Kyung Min; Mutanen, Marko (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    During efforts to generate DNA barcodes for all European Lepidoptera, Batrachedra pinicolella (Zeller, 1839) was found to comprise two genetically distinct clusters. Morphological investigation and results from two nuclear ...
  • Interspecific gene flow shaped the evolution of the genus Canis. 
    Gopalakrishnan, S.; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Ramos-Madrigal, J.; Niemann, J.; Castruita, J.A.S.; Vieira, S.G.; Carøe, C.; Montero, M.M.; Kuderna, L.; Serres, A.; Gonzales, V.M.; Liu, H-H; Wang, G-D.; Marques-Bonett, T.; Mirarab, S.; Fernandes, C.; Gaubert, P.; Koepfli, K-P.; Budd, J.; Rueness, E.K.; Heide-Jørgensen, M.P.; Petersen, B.; Sicheritz-Ponten, T.; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Hansen, A.J.; Gilbert, M.T.P. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The evolutionary history of the wolf-like canids of the genus Canis has been heavily debated, especially regarding the number of distinct species and their relationships at the population and species level [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...
  • Introgression between highly divergent fungal sister species 
    Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn; Lü, Dabao Sun; Peris, David; Ravinet, Mark; Skrede, Inger (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract To understand how species evolve and adapt to changing environments, it is important to study gene flow and introgression due to their influence on speciation and radiation events. Here, we apply a novel ...
  • Invader at the edge — Genomic origins and physiological differences of round gobies across a steep urban salinity gradient 
    Green, Leon; Faust, Ellika; Hinchcliffe, James; Brijs, Jeroen; Holmes, Andrew; Englund Örn, Felix; Svensson, Ola; Roques, Jonathan A. C.; Leder, Erica Helen; Sandblom, Erik; Kvarnemo, Charlotta (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Species invasions are a global problem of increasing concern, especially in highly connected aquatic environments. Despite this, salinity conditions can pose physiological barriers to their spread, and understanding them ...
  • The invertebrate fauna of anthropogenic soils in the High-Arctic settlement of Barentsburg, Svalbard 
    Coulson, Stephen James; Fjellberg, Arne; Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J.; Lebedeva, Natalia V.; Melekhina, Elena N.; Solhøy, Torstein; Erséus, Christer; Maraldo, Kristine; Miko, Ladislav; Schatz, Heinrich; Schmelz, Rüdiger M; Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen; Stur, Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The terrestrial environment of the High Arctic consists of a mosaic of habitat types. In addition to the natural habitat diversity, various human-influenced types may occur. For the resident invertebrate fauna, these ...
  • Is telomere length associated with mate choice in a songbird with a high rate of extrapair paternity? 
    Johnsen, Arild; Pauliny, Angela; Lifjeld, Jan Terje; Blomqvist, Donald (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Telomere length is related to aging in many eukaryotes and the rate of telomere attrition has been suggested to reflect individual genetic quality. Telomere length could thus have implications for mate choice. We investigated ...
  • Is the hyoid a constraint on innovation? A study in convergence driving feeding in fish-shaped marine tetrapods 
    Delsett, Lene Liebe; Pyenson, Nicholas; Miedema, Feiko; Hammer, Øyvind (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract The hyoid apparatus is essential for underwater feeding in marine tetrapods, but it is unclear whether this complex has evolved as convergently as other traits, such as dentition or locomotion. Here we compare the ...
  • ITS as an environmental DNA barcode for fungi: an in silico approach reveals potential PCR biases 
    Bellemain, Eva; Carlsen, Tor; Brochmann, Christian; Coissac, Eric; Taberlet, Pierre; Kauserud, Håvard (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
    Background During the last 15 years the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of nuclear DNA has been used as a target for analyzing fungal diversity in environmental samples, and has recently been selected as ...
  • Kartlegging av NiN naturtyper i målestokk 1:5000 rundt flux-tårnet og på Hansbunuten, Finse (Vestland) 
    Bryn, Anders; Horvath, Peter (Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2020)
    Denne rapporten beskriver kortfattet hvordan to naturtypekart ved Finse ble lagd. Resultatene er lagt fram i form av kart og tabeller, samt tekst som beskriver naturtypenes økologi. Arealdekkende naturtypekart etter NiN ...
  • Karyon: a computational framework for the diagnosis of hybrids, aneuploids, and other nonstandard architectures in genome assemblies 
    Naranjo Ortiz, Miguel Angel; Molina, Manu; Fuentes, Diego; Mixão, Verónica; Gabaldón, Toni (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Recent technological developments have made genome sequencing and assembly highly accessible and widely used. However, the presence in sequenced organisms of certain genomic features such as high heterozygosity, polyploidy, ...