Is inbreeding avoidance driving female mate choice in Verreaux's sifaka lemurs?

Females of different species might exert female mate choice for different reasons, one of them the aim of avoiding inbreeding. In this study I examine the implication of inbreeding avoidance as a mechanism driving female mate choice in Verreaux’s sifaka lemurs (Propithecus verreauxi). In fact, in this species females are dominant and appear to be able to choose certain males to mate with, while observations indicate that rank, body size, canine size and proportions of fights won are not factors influencing female mate choice. So I hypothesized that females mate choice is driven by inbreeding avoidance in Verreaux’s sifaka lemurs. Tissue and fecal samples were collected in the Kirindy Mitea National Park in western Madagascar as a source of DNA. Parentage was assigned for a sample of the population and relatedness coefficients between dams and sires were estimated and compared to those of between random female and male pairs, dams and other candidate sires within the population and within the groups were the offspring were conceived. I found that there were no significant differences in none of the comparisons which means that Verreaux’s sifaka females do not mate more with males that are more distantly related to them. I concluded that inbreeding avoidance does not appear to be the main force driving female mate choice in Verreaux’s sifaka lemurs and I addressed explanations for these findings. With this study I contribute to our knowledge of female mate choice in lemurs.

Surface Expression and Subunit Specific Control of Steady Protein Levels by the Kv7.2 Helix A-B Linker

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Ikusezintasunerantz: eremu elektromagnetikoen kontrola metamaterialen bidez

Historian zehar, greziar mitologiatik gaur egun arte , gizakiak ikusezin izatearekin amestu du. Hala ere, duela urte gutxi arte ez da benet an zientifikoki azaldu nola gauzatu amets hori . Tachi - ren lanetik [1 ] hasita , non transparentzia birtual bat lortzen den, metamaterialen mundura pasatzen da argi - izpiak nahi eran d esbideratuz eta modu honetan ikusezintasun a lortuz. Metamaterialak artifizialki sortutako mate rialak dira, laborategietan dis einatuak eta guk behar ditugun propietateez esleitu ak . Hau en bidez , ingurune baten permitibitate elektrikoa eta iragazkortasun magnetikoa , eta ondorioz handik pasatzen diren uhin elektromagnetikoak kontrolatzea lortzen da. Horrela, argiaren desbiderapen kontrolatua lortu nahi da , eta fenomeno hori deskribatzen duen formalismoari transformazioaren optik a deritzo . Honi esker, esater ako, ikusezintasun - estalki esferiko batek, modu teoriko batean nola funtzionatu ko lukeen kalkulatu eta simula daiteke. Hala ere, ikusezintasunaren zientzia k hasi besterik ez du egin eta oraindik lan handia dago egiteko arlo honen inguruan, oraindik ez b aita begi bistaz antzematen d en objektu rik iku sezin bihurtu

Dealing with the Effects of Sensor Displacement in Wearable Activity Recognition

Most wearable activity recognition systems assume a predefined sensor deployment that remains unchanged during runtime. However, this assumption does not reflect real-life conditions. During the normal use of such systems, users may place the sensors in a position different from the predefined sensor placement. Also, sensors may move from their original location to a different one, due to a loose attachment. Activity recognition systems trained on activity patterns characteristic of a given sensor deployment may likely fail due to sensor displacements. In this work, we innovatively explore the effects of sensor displacement induced by both the intentional misplacement of sensors and self-placement by the user. The effects of sensor displacement are analyzed for standard activity recognition techniques, as well as for an alternate robust sensor fusion method proposed in a previous work. While classical recognition models show little tolerance to sensor displacement, the proposed method is proven to have notable capabilities to assimilate the changes introduced in the sensor position due to self-placement and provides considerable improvements for large misplacements.