期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2022; 289 (1989)
Understanding how non-trophic social systems respond to environmental gradients is still a challenge in animal ecology, particularly in comparing chan......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1953)
The dispersal-syndrome hypothesis posits that fruit traits are a product of selection by frugivores. Although criticized as adaptationist, recent stud......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1955)
Predation has been a major driver of the evolution of prey species, which consequently develop antipredator adaptations. However, little is known abou......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1944)
Primitive cnidarians are crucial for elucidating the early evolution of metazoan body plans and life histories in the late Neoproterozoic and Palaeozo......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1949)
The observed patterns and underlying mechanisms of elevational beta-diversity have been explored intensively, but multi-dimensional comparative studie......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1948)
Both anthropogenic impacts and historical climate change could contribute to population decline and species extinction, but their relative importance ......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1957)
Turtle eggs containing embryos are exceedingly rare in the fossil record. Here, we provide the first description and taxonomic identification, to our ......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1944)
The origin of birds from non-avian theropod dinosaurs is one of the greatest transitions in evolution. Shortly after diverging from other theropods in......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1953)
The spatial interaction of clonal organisms is an unsolved but crucial topic in evolutionary biology. We evaluated the interactions between aphid clon......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1953)
In species that are subject to brood parasitism, individuals often vary in their responses to parasitic eggs, with some rejecting the eggs while other......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1955)
A wide range of literature connects sex ratio and mating behaviours in non-human animals. However, research examining sex ratio and human mating is li......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1948)
The evolutionary history of organisms with poor dispersal abilities usually parallels geological events. Collisions of the Indian and Arabian plates w......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1947)
Understanding and predicting responses of ectothermic animals to temperature are essential for decision-making and management. The thermal performance......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1953)
Florivory (flower consumption) occurs worldwide in modern angiosperms, associated with pollen and nectar consumption. However, florivory remains unrec......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 288 (1952)
Traumatic mating is the male wounding his mate during mating using specialized anatomy. However, why males have evolved to injure their mates during m......