Scottish Oceans Institute Research: Recent submissions
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Investigating annual diving behaviour by Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) within the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
(2013-11-25) - Journal articleWith the exception of relatively brief periods when they reproduce and moult, hooded seals, Cystophora cristata, spend most of the year in the open ocean where they undergo feeding migrations to either recover or prepare ... -
Exploring heritage through time and space : Supporting community reflection on the highland clearances
(IEEE, 2013-10) - Conference itemOn the two hundredth anniversary of the Kildonan clearances, when people were forcibly removed from their homes, the Timespan Heritage centre has created a program of community centred work aimed at challenging pre conceptions ... -
Female rose bitterling prefer MHC-dissimilar males : experimental evidence
(2012-07-18) - Journal articleThe role of genetic benefits in female mate choice remains a controversial aspect of sexual selection theory. In contrast to “good allele” models of sexual selection, “compatible allele” models of mate choice predict that ... -
Maximum likelihood estimation of mark-recapture-recovery models in the presence of continuous covariates
(2013) - Journal articleWe consider mark-recapture-recovery (MRR) data of animals where the model parameters are a function of individual time-varying continuous covariates. For such covariates, the covariate value is unobserved if the corresponding ... -
Time is of the essence for ParaHox homeobox gene clustering.
(2013-06) - Journal itemParaHox genes, and their evolutionary sisters the Hox genes, are integral to patterning the anterior-posterior axis of most animals. Like the Hox genes, ParaHox genes can be clustered and exhibit the phenomenon of colinearity ...