The mechanisms connecting environmental conditions to plasticity in biological aging trajectories are fundamental to understanding individual variation in functional traits and life history. Recent findings suggest that telomere biology is especially dynamic during early life stages and has long‐term consequences for subsequent reproduction and survival. However, our current understanding is mostly derived from studies investi...

Conservation of thermally sensitive species depends on monitoring organismal and population‐level responses to environmental change in real time. Epigenetic processes are increasingly recognized as key integrators of environmental conditions into developmentally plastic responses, and attendant epigenomic data sets hold potential for revealing cryptic phenotypes relevant to conservation efforts. Here, we demonstrate the utilit...

Marine phytoplankton play a central role in global biogeochemical cycling, carbon export, and the overall functioning of marine ecosystems. While chlorophyll a (Chl a ) is widely used as a proxy for phytoplankton biomass, identifying the proportion of Chl a attributable to different phytoplankton groups remains a major challenge in oceanography, especially for the picophytoplankton groups that often represent the majority of p...

The objectives of this study were to characterize relationships between water and paddlefish Polyodon spathula dentary Sr:Ca, δ 18 O and stable hydrogen isotope ratio ( δ D ) to determine the accuracy with which individual P. spathula could be assigned to their collection locations using dentary‐edge Sr:Ca, δ D and δ 18 O . A laboratory experiment was also conducted to determine whether dentary Sr:Ca in age 0 year P. spathula...