The beginning of the twenty-first century is an exciting time for biologists. Rapid advances in genomics have changed our view of the biological world and fostered new links between molecular biology, ...

Little is known about the factors causing variation in behavioural plasticity and the interplay between personality and plasticity. Habituation to predators is a special case of behavioural plasticity ...

Coefficient of variation (CV) plays an important role in statistical practice; however, its sampling distribution may not be easy to compute. In this paper, the distributional properties of the sample ...

Variation is the differences between individuals of the same species, caused by genetic and environmental factors. Surveys into variation give data that are continuous, which means to come in a range, ...

Figure 1: Faecal microbial loads vary across enterotypes. Figure 4: Quantitative microbiome alterations in Crohn’s disease. By integrating microbial cell counting into a sequencing workflow, we ...