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    1. Ecology

    Scanning and active sampling behaviours emerge from conserved insect neural circuits

    Cody A Freas, Antoine Wystrach
    Diverse insect movement behaviours, from scans, pirouettes, and loops to sweeping oscillations, can emerge from conserved neural circuits, with forward speed balancing goal-directed travel against exploratory sampling.
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Ecology

    Genetic canalization of nutrient resorption: evidence from a widespread grass under effective salt stress

    Lele Liu, Wenyi Sheng ... Weihua Guo
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    • Compelling
    1. Ecology

    Wetness modulates the effects of grazing on net ecosystem productivity in global grasslands

    Yueqiang Wu, Le Qi ... Biao Zhu
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Life-history trade-offs explain local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Benjamin Brachi, Danièle L Filiault ... Magnus Nordborg
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    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Ecology

    Decomposition potential and population structure among active microbial communities in deep salt marsh sediments

    Joseph H Vineis, Ashley N Bulseco ... Jennifer L Bowen
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Ecology
    2. Neuroscience

    Machine learning of honey bee olfactory behavior identifies repellent odorants in free-flying bees in the field

    Joel Kowalewski, Barbara F Baer-Imhoof ... Anandasankar Ray
    Honey bee olfactory aversion can be modeled using machine learning to iteratively discover bee-selective repellents, validated in free-flying assays, that can potentially reduce contact with pesticides.
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    1. Ecology
    2. Plant Biology

    Asymmetric introgression and thermal advantage jointly drive climate-mediated lineage turnover in a mixed-ploidy reed

    Lele Liu, Wenyi Sheng ... Weihua Guo
    Climate warming can silently replace cold-adapted native lineages with warm-adapted ones through asymmetric introgression and physiological advantages, a process overlooked by species-level forecasts.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Tracking West Nile virus dynamics using viral loads from trapped mosquitoes

    Punya Alahakoon, Ian Marchinton ... James A Hay
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Ecology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the Drosophila microbiome

    Juan Bosco Gracia Alvira, Stefanie Migotti ... Christian Schlötterer
    Changes in abiotic factors, such as temperature, can affect the host fitness indirectly by modulating subspecies dynamics of key taxa, which are usually overlooked in microbiome research.
    1. Ecology

    Novel but stable endosymbionts have contrasting effects on aphid dispersal and plant feeding damage in the cereal pest Diuraphis noxia

    Xinyue Gu, Alex Gill ... Ary A Hoffmann
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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Highlights

    1. Ecology

    Insect Migration: A sense of direction

    Aleksandr Pakhomov, Dmitry Kishkinev
    1. Ecology

    Disease Transmission: Interactions between wild pigs and the spread of disease

    Mercury Shitindo
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Camouflage: Tiny particles help insects evade predators

    Lin Wang, Tak-Sing Wong

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