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Highly contrasted responses of Mediterranean octocorals to climate change along a depth gradient
(2015)
Climate change has a strong impact on marine ecosystems, including temperate species. Analysing the diversity of thermotolerance levels within species along with their genetic structure enables a better understanding of ...
Eye spots in Lepidoptera attract attention in humans
(The Royal Society, 2015)
Many prey species exhibit defensive traits to decrease their chances of predation. Conspicuous eye-spots, concentric rings of contrasting colours, are one type of defensive trait that some species exhibit to deter predators. ...
Pre-zygotic isolation in the macroalgal genusFucus from four contact zones spanning 100–10 000 years
(2015)
Hybrid zones provide an ideal natural experiment to study the selective forces driving evolution of reproductive barriers and speciation. If hybrid offspring are less fit than the parental species, pre-zygotic isolating ...
The contribution of seed dispersers to tree species diversity in tropical rainforests
(2015)
Tropical rainforests are known for their extreme biodiversity, posing a challenging problem in tropical ecology. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain the diversity of tree species, yet our understanding of this ...
Isotopic evidence for residential mobility of farming communities during the transition to agriculture in Britain
(2016)
Development of agriculture is often assumed to be accompanied by a decline in residential mobility, and sedentism is frequently proposed to provide the basis for economic intensification, population growth and increasing ...
Polygyny without wealth
(The Royal Society, 2015)
The occurrence of polygynous marriage in hunter–gatherer societies, which do not accumulate wealth, remains largely unexplored since resource availability is dependent on male hunting capacity and limited by the lack of ...
A pheromone outweighs temperature in influencing migration of sea lamprey
(2015)
Organisms continuously acquire and process information from surrounding cues. While some cues complement one another in delivering more reliable information, others may provide conflicting information. How organisms extract ...
Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles
(2015)
The regressive evolution of eyes has long intrigued biologists yet the genetic underpinnings remain opaque. A system of discrete aquifers in arid Australia provides a powerful comparative means to explore trait regression ...
A highly infective plant-associated bacterium influences reproductive rates in pea aphids
(2016)
Pea aphids, A cyrthosiphon pisum, have the potential to increase reproduction as a defence against pathogens, though how frequently this occurs or how infection with live pathogens influences this response is not well ...
Proximate causes of the red face of the bald uakari monkey
(2015)
In social species, such as primates, facial appearances transmit a variety of social signals. Although it is suggested that the intense red colour of the face of the bald uakari monkey might be an indicator of health, this ...