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Generalist specialist trade off during thermal acclimation
(2015)
The shape of performance curves and their plasticity define how individuals and populations respond to environmental variability. In theory, maximum performance decreases with an increase in performance breadth. However, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sexual reproduction with variablemating systems can resist asexuality in a rock–paper–scissors dynamics
(The Royal Society, 2015)
While sex can be advantageous for a lineage in the long term, we still lack an explanation for its maintenance with the twofold cost per generation. Here we model an infinite diploid population where two autosomal loci ...
Competition and cooperationina synchronous bushcricket chorus
(The Royal Society, 2014)
Synchronous signalling within choruses of the same species either emerges from cooperation or competition. In our study on the katydid Mecopoda elongata, we aim to identify mechanisms driving evolution towards synchrony. ...
High atmospheric temperatures and ‘ambient incubation’ drive embryonic development and lead to earlier hatching in a passerine bird
(The Royal Society, 2016)
Tropical and subtropical species typically experience relatively high atmospheric temperatures during reproduction, and are subject to climate-related challenges that are largely unexplored, relative to more extensive work ...
Males migrate farther than females in a differential migrant: an examination of the fasting endurance hypothesis
(The Royal Society, 2014)
Patterns of migration including connectivity between breeding and non-breeding populations and intraspecific variation in the distance travelled are important to study because they can affect individual fitness and population ...
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. ...
Position dependent hearing in three species of bushcrickets
(The Royal Society, 2015)
A primary task of auditory systems is the localization of sound sources in space. Sound source localization in azimuth is usually based on temporal or intensity differences of sounds between the bilaterally arranged ears. ...
Attack risk for butterflies changes with eyespot number and size
(2016)
Butterfly eyespots are known to function in predator deflection and predator intimidation, but it is still unclear what factors cause eyespots to serve one function over the other. Both functions have been demonstrated in ...