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Nathaniel J. Dominy
Researcher at Dartmouth College
Publications - 130
Citations - 7728
Nathaniel J. Dominy is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Trichromacy. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 121 publications receiving 6808 citations. Previous affiliations of Nathaniel J. Dominy include University of California, Santa Cruz & University of Hong Kong.
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Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation.
George H. Perry,Nathaniel J. Dominy,Katrina G. Claw,Arthur Lee,Heike Fiegler,Richard Redon,John C. Werner,Fernando A. Villanea,Joanna L. Mountain,Rajeev Misra,Nigel P. Carter,Charles Lee,Anne C. Stone +12 more
TL;DR: It is found that copy number of the salivary amylase gene (AMY1) is correlated positively with salivaries protein level and that individuals from populations with high-starch diets have, on average, more AMY1 copies than those with traditionally low-st starch diets.
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Ecological importance of trichromatic vision to primates
TL;DR: Four trichromatic primate species in Kibale Forest, Uganda, eat leaves that are colour discriminated only by red–greenness, a colour axis correlated with high protein levels and low toughness, which implicate leaf consumption, a critical food resource when fruit is scarce, as having unique value in maintaining trichromeacy in catarrhines.
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Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties
Yusuke Onoda,Mark Westoby,Peter B. Adler,Amy M. F. Choong,Fiona J. Clissold,Johannes H. C. Cornelissen,Sandra Díaz,Nathaniel J. Dominy,Alison A. Elgart,Lucas Enrico,Paul V. A. Fine,Jerome J. Howard,Adel Jalili,Kaoru Kitajima,Hiroko Kurokawa,Clare McArthur,Peter W. Lucas,Lars Markesteijn,Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy,Lourens Poorter,Lora A. Richards,Louis S. Santiago,Enio E. Sosinski,Sunshine A. Van Bael,David I. Warton,Ian J. Wright,S. Joseph Wright,Nayuta Yamashita +27 more
TL;DR: It is discovered that toughness per density contributed a surprisingly large fraction to variation in mechanical resistance, larger than the fractions contributed by lamina thickness and tissue density, and was associated with long leaf lifespan especially in forest understory.
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Mechanical Defences to Herbivory
TL;DR: The effectiveness of toughness in preventing herbivory is indisputable, but largely indirect due to confusion over a false equivalence between nutritional ‘fibre content’ and toughness.
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Mechanical Properties of Plant Underground Storage Organs and Implications for Dietary Models of Early Hominins
TL;DR: The mechanical properties of USOs from 98 plant species from across sub-Saharan Africa found that rhizomes were the most resistant to deformation and fracture, followed by tubers, corms, and bulbs, and the results support assumptions that roasting lessens the work of mastication, and, by inference, the cost of digestion.