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Riddell uncovers that salamanders from different elevations achieve similar plastic responses through distinct molecular mechanisms, offering new insight into how populations may respond (or fail to respond) to environmental change.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741059
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Effects of Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles on Behaviors and Reproduction in a Common Songbird by Delaitre et al.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741159
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Bacteria already killed by a host's immune response make it harder to handle those still alive. The same phenomenon might also help in tuning the immune response and decreasing the costs of the pathogen.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741105
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Antonson et al. show that cowbirds’ neck muscles are unusually fatigue-resistant, suggesting muscular innovation for exaggerated begging as a key driver for how brood parasites outcompete hosts.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740830
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McKenzie et al. applied a novel pipeline to automate floral color phenotyping from community science photographs, supporting anecdotal evidence that Monarda fistulosa is deeper purple in western vs. eastern North America.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739413
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“One must suffer to be beautiful,” says an old adage. Bateman and Larsson find that the same held true for pachycephalosaurs, who traded feeding performance for a cranial dome.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740811
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Which traits matter for linking individuals to ecology? Rota et al. reveal that behavior and physiology often outpace form in predicting ecological responses from individual performance to community and ecosystem levels.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740828
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Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis by Santos et al.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740812
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Do chameleons evolve to match their habitats? Petford et al. reveal morphological convergence in Bradypodion lineages, suggesting habitat, not ancestry, drives morphology.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/739749
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Can carbon economy explain leaf dynamic seasonality? Tan et al. tested the ‘carbon benefit’ hypothesis in a tropical seasonal rain forest and their results did not support the hypothesis.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740829
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Adaptive decline occurs when a predator over-exploits its prey, resulting in predator population decline. M’Gonigle et al. show that landscapes that comprise more patches exhibit less adaptive decline.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740827
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Are seminal fluid proteins a male tool to manipulate females against their interests? Or do females have a say as well? Michalak et al. argue that if females can detect seminal fluids, using it as information can benefit both sexes.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740809
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Are There Ecological Consequences of Urban Adaptation? A Test of Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Terrestrial Isopod (Oniscus asellus) by Yilmaz et al.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739747
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Disturbance Interacts with Dispersal and Niche Breadth to Shape Scale-Dependent Diversity Change in Metacommunities by Hajian-Forooshani and Chase
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739955
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Why do invasive species wreak such havoc? Gefen et al. suggest it is a feature, not a bug: ecosystem disruption, even when not directly beneficial, facilitates the invasive species’ success.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740876
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Wilson Rankin et al. report the first quantification of nest material kleptoparasitism in a group of native Hawaiian birds of ecological and conservation interest and find strong support for the height overlap hypothesis.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740144
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Murray et al. show that the fast-slow continuum of life history variation emerges as a contour of highest fitness in the face of catastrophic demographic disturbances, which rivals some classic hypotheses.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739750
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Yu et al. propose a measure for stochastic game dynamic: the likelihood ratio of the probability density of phenotypic frequency under selection versus neutral conditions.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739954
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Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740125
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Caro et al. investigate cognition and metacognition in wild great tit parents deciding which chick to feed. They found that parents change their minds frequently, and the decision time varies with decision complexity and urgency.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738498
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The manifold hypothesis posits that many high-dimensional datasets actually lie near a low-dimensional manifold. Boyko and Rabosky consider phylogenetic comparative methods, which typically assume a flat, euclidean, morphospace.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740145
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Rallings et al. explore the relationship between body size and sources of mortality among mammals. Their theoretical framework shows how size influences sensitivity to starvation, aging, and more, offering insights into the existence of megafauna. Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731331
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