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Université de Fribourg

The structural colors of photonic glasses

Schertel, Lukas ; Siedentop, Lukas ; Meijer, Janne-Mieke ; Keim, Peter ; Aegerter, Christof M. ; Aubry, Geoffroy J. ; Maret, Georg

In: Advanced Optical Materials, 2019, p. 1900442

The color of materials usually originates from a combination of wavelength‐dependent absorption and scattering. Controlling the color without the use of absorbing dyes is of practical interest, not only because of undesired bleaching properties of dyes but also regarding minimization of environmental and health issues. Color control without dyes can be achieved by tuning the material's...

Université de Fribourg

How clonal are clones? A quest for loss of heterozygosity during asexual reproduction in Daphnia magna

Dukić, Marinela ; Berner, Daniel ; Haag, Christoph R. ; Ebert, Dieter

In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2019, vol. 32, no. 6, p. 619–628

Due to the lack of recombination, asexual organisms are predicted to accumulate mutations and show high levels of within‐individual allelic divergence (heterozygosity); however, empirical evidence for this prediction is largely missing. Instead, evidence of genome homogenization during asexual reproduction is accumulating. Ameiotic crossover recombination is a mechanism that could lead to...

Université de Fribourg

The effects of mutualistic ants on aphid life history traits

Flatt, Thomas ; Weisser, Wolfgang W.

In: Ecology, 2000, vol. 81, no. 12, p. 3522-3529

The relationship between homopterans and ants is generally thought to be mutualistic, as both partners seem to benefit from an association. In aphids, previous studies have shown that ant tending improves the survival and reproduction of aphid colonies, mainly by protection of aphids from enemy attack. However, the effects of ant tending on the fitness of individual aphids have rarely been...