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Biology Letters

Vol. 15, No. 7, (July 2019) The above issue is now available online at:
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Animal behaviour

Research articles: Modality-specific impairment of learning by a neonicotinoid pesticide

Felicity Muth  , Jacob S. Francis and Anne S. Leonard

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Research articles: Obligately silent males sire more offspring than singers in a rapidly evolving cricket population

Justa L. Heinen-Kay  , Ellen M. Urquhart and Marlene Zuk

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Research articles: Mimicry-dependent lateralization in the visual inspection of foreign eggs by American robins

Hannah M. Scharf  , Katharine Stenstrom, Miri Dainson, Thomas J. Benson, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic and Mark E. Hauber

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Research articles: Re-analysis of data reveals no evidence for neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques

Jonathan Redshaw

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Research articles: The loud scratch: a newly identified gesture of Sumatran orangutan mothers in the wild

Marlen Fröhlich  , Kevin Lee, Tatang Mitra Setia, Caroline Schuppli and Carel P. van Schaik

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Research articles: Feeding in murky waters: acclimatization and landmarks improve foraging efficiency of zebrafish (Danio rerio) in turbid waters

M. A. Sekhar, Richa Singh, Anuradha Bhat  and Manjari Jain

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Research articles: Multi-network-based diffusion analysis reveals vertical cultural transmission of sponge tool use within dolphin matrilines

Sonja Wild  , Simon J. Allen  , Michael Krützen  , Stephanie L. King  , Livia Gerber  and William J. E. Hoppitt

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Research articles: Microbial metabolites elicit distinct olfactory and gustatory preferences in bumblebees

Robert N. Schaeffer  , Caitlin C. Rering, Isabelle Maalouf, John J. Beck and Rachel L. Vannette

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Research articles: Termites manipulate moisture content of wood to maximize foraging resources

Sebastian Oberst  , Michael Lenz, Joseph C. S. Lai and Theodore A. Evans

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Research articles: Radio-tracking reveals how wind and temperature influence the pace of daytime insect migration

Samantha M. Knight  , Grace M. Pitman, D. T. Tyler Flockhart  and D. Ryan Norris

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Research articles: Context learning before birth: evidence from the chick embryo

Massimo Turatto  , Andrea Dissegna  and Cinzia Chiandetti

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Biomechanics

Research articles: How smooth is a dolphin? The ridged skin of odontocetes

Dylan K. Wainwright  , Frank E. Fish, Sam Ingersoll, Terrie M. Williams, Judy St Leger, Alexander J. Smits  and George V. Lauder

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Research articles: A novel accessory respiratory muscle in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Jonathan R. Codd  , Kayleigh A. R. Rose, Peter G. Tickle, William I. Sellers  , Robert J. Brocklehurst  , Ruth M. Elsey and CrossleyDane A.II

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Community ecology

Research articles: When resistance is futile, tolerate instead: silicon promotes plant compensatory growth when attacked by above- and belowground herbivores

Scott N. Johnson  , Olivia L. Reynolds, Geoff M. Gurr, Jessica L. Esveld, Ben D. Moore, Gavin J. Tory and Andrew N. Gherlenda

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Research articles: Depth and vertical hydrodynamics constrain the size structure of a lowland streambed community

Ignacio Peralta-Maraver  , Anne L. Robertson  and Daniel M. Perkins

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Research articles: Short-term climate-induced change in French plant communities

Gabrielle Martin  , Vincent Devictor, Eric Motard, Nathalie Machon and Emmanuelle Porcher

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Research articles: Seed dispersal by dispersing juvenile animals: a source of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes

Juan P. González-Varo  , Sarah Díaz-García, Juan M. Arroyo and Pedro Jordano

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Evolutionary biology

Research articles: Generalist birds outperform specialist sunbirds as pollinators of an African Aloe

Carolina Diller  , Miguel Castañeda-Zárate  and Steven D. Johnson

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Research articles: Empidine dance flies pollinate the woodland geranium as effectively as bees

Vincent Lefebvre  , Christophe Daugeron, Claire Villemant and Colin Fontaine

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Research articles: At the invasion front, male cane toads (Rhinella marina) have smaller testes

Christopher R. Friesen  and Richard Shine

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Comment: Do the Maasai perceive weak walkers to be stronger and more attractive than strong walkers? A re-analysis of Fink et al. (2019)

Patrick K. Durkee

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Invited reply: Reply to Durkee: ‘Do the Maasai perceive weak walkers to be stronger and more attractive than strong walkers? A re-analysis of Fink et al. (2019)’

Bernhard Fink  , Marina L. Butovskaya  and Todd K. Shackelford

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Research articles: Tail loss and telomeres: consequences of large-scale tissue regeneration in a terrestrial ectotherm

L. J. Fitzpatrick  , M. Olsson  , L. M. Parsley, A. Pauliny, G. M. While and E. Wapstra

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Evolutionary developmental biology

Opinion piece: The origin of platelets enabled the evolution of eutherian placentation

John F. Martin  and Günter P. Wagner

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Marine biology

Research articles: High pCO2 promotes coral primary production

T. Biscéré  , M. Zampighi, A. Lorrain, S. Jurriaans  , A. Foggo, F. Houlbrèque and R. Rodolfo-Metalpa

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Research articles: Artificial light at night causes reproductive failure in clownfish

Emily K. Fobert  , Karen Burke da Silva and Stephen E. Swearer

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Research articles: Tidal drift removes the need for area-restricted search in foraging Atlantic puffins

Ashley Bennison  , John L. Quinn, Alison Debney and Mark Jessopp

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Neurobiology

Research articles: An optogenetic analogue of second-order reinforcement in Drosophila

Christian König, Afshin Khalili, Thomas Niewalda, Shiqiang Gao  and Bertram Gerber

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Palaeontology

Research articles: Which morphological characters are influential in a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis? Examples from the earliest osteichthyans

Benedict King

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Research articles: First cycad seedling foliage from the fossil record and inferences for the Cenozoic evolution of cycads

Boglárka Erdei  , Mario Coiro  , Ian Miller, Kirk R. Johnson  , M. Patrick Griffith and Vickie Murphy

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Physiology

Research articles: Individual variation in phenotypic plasticity of the stress axis

Sarah Guindre-Parker  , Andrew G. Mcadam  , Freya van Kesteren  , Rupert Palme  , Rudy Boonstra, Stan Boutin  , Jeffrey E. Lane  and Ben Dantzer

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Population ecology

Research articles: Colour polymorphism influences species' range and extinction risk

Yuma Takahashi  and Suzuki Noriyuki

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Special feature

Ecological resilience: Long-term fire resilience of the Ericaceous Belt, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

Graciela Gil-Romera  , Carole Adolf  , Blas M. Benito  , Lucas Bittner  , Maria U. Johansson, David A. Grady, Henry F. Lamb  , Bruk Lemma  , Mekbib Fekadu  , Bruno Glaser  , Betelhem Mekonnen  , Miguel Sevilla-Callejo  , Michael Zech  , Wolfgang Zech and Georg Miehe

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