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Viewing images of snakes accelerates making judgements of their colour in humans
(2014)
One of the most prevalent current psychobiological notions about human behaviour and emotion suggests that prioritization of threatening stimuli processing induces deleterious effects on task performance. In order to confirm ...
Evidence for a bimodal distribution of hybrid indices in a hybrid zone with high admixture
(The Royal Society, 2015)
The genetic structure of a hybrid zone can provide insights into the relative roles of the various factors that maintain the zone. Here, we use a multilocus approach to characterize a hybrid zone between two subspecies of ...
Effects of habitat structure and land use intensity on the genetic structure of the grasshopper species Chorthippus parallelus
(2014)
Land-use intensity (LUI) is assumed to impact the genetic structure of organisms. While effects of landscape structure on the genetics of local populations have frequently been analysed, potential effects of variation in ...
Mitigating the Goldilocks effect
(2014)
In ichnology, the Goldilocks effect describes a scenario in which a substrate must be ‘just right’ in order for tracks to form—too soft, the animal will be unable to traverse the area, and too firm, the substrate will not ...
Shrinking fish: comparisons of prehistoric and contemporary salmonids indicate decreasing size at age across millennia
(The Royal Society, 2014)
A comparison of Upper Palaeolithic and contemporary salmonid vertebrae from the Iberian Peninsula indicates that there has been a significant decrease in the mean body size for a given age among Atlantic salmon and brown ...
Enhanced antimicrobial peptide-induced activity in themollusc
(2016)
Toll receptors play an important role in the innate immunity of invertebrates. All reported Tolls have only one Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain at the C-terminal. In this study, numerous Tolls with tandem TIRs at ...
Discrete but variable structure of animal societies leads to the false perception of a social continuum
(2016)
Animal societies are typically divided into those in which reproduction within a group is monopolized by a single female versus those in which it is shared among multiple females. It remains controversial, however, whether ...
No early gender effects on energetic status and life history in a salmonid
(2015)
Throughout an organism’s early development, variations in physiology and behaviours may have long lasting consequences on individual life histories. While a large part of variation in critical life-history transitions ...
Tooth serration morphologies in the genus Machimosaurus from the Late Jurassic of Europe
(2014)
Machimosauruswas a large-bodied durophagous/chelonivorous genus of teleosaurid crocodylomorph that lived in shallow marine and brackish ecosystems during the Late Jurassic. Among teleosaurids, Machimosaurusand its sister ...
Teaching in hunter– gatherer infancy
(2016)
A debate exists as to whether teaching is part of human nature and central to understanding culture or whether it is a recent invention of Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic cultures. Some social–cultural ...