Ecology

Latest articles

1. 1. Ecology

   Vasopressin 1a receptor antagonist disrupts male-male affiliative relationships formed by triadic cohabitation in large-billed crows

   Akiko Seguchi, Ei-Ichi Izawa
2. 1. Ecology

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

   Mercury Shitindo

   Tracking wild pigs with GPS devices reveals how their social interactions could influence the spread of disease, offering new strategies for protecting agriculture, wildlife, and human health.
3. 1. Ecology
   2. Neuroscience

   Unsupervised discovery of family specific vocal usage in the Mongolian gerbil

   Ralph E Peterson, Aman Choudhri ... Dan H Sanes

   Gerbils exhibit stable, family-specific vocal dialects over weeks, suggesting vocal communication may play a key role in representing kinship in natural social groups.
4. 1. Ecology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Novel class IIb microcins show activity against Gram-negative ESKAPE and plant pathogens

   Benedikt M Mortzfeld, Shakti K Bhattarai, Vanni Bucci

   12 new class IIb microcins have been structurally identified, phylogenetically assessed, and functionally tested for their antimicrobial activity, increasing the total number of these bacteriocins to 17.
5. 1. Ecology

   Polarised moonlight guides nocturnal bull ants home

   Cody A Freas, Ajay Narenda ... Ken Cheng

   Large eyed bull ants are able to use the exceedingly dim lunar polarised light pattern in the overhead sky to navigate back to the nest at night.
6. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Defensive symbionts provide high protection against natural enemies at low cost to hosts: a meta-analysis

   Cássia Siqueira Cesar, Eduardo SA Santos, Rodrigo Cogni
7. 1. Ecology

   Integrating microscopy and transcriptomics from individual uncultured eukaryotic plankton

   Catherine Gatt, Yike Xie ... Fabio Zanini
8. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   First evidence for the evolution of host manipulation by tumors during the long-term vertical transmission of tumor cells in Hydra oligactis

   Justine Boutry, Océane Rieu ... Frédéric Thomas
9. 1. Ecology

   Genetic diversity affects ecosystem functions across trophic levels as much as species diversity, but in an opposite direction

   Laura Fargeot, Camille Poesy ... Simon Blanchet
10. 1. Ecology

    Habitat fragmentation mediates the mechanisms underlying long-term climate-driven thermophilization in birds

    Juan Liu, Morgan W Tingley ... Xingfeng Si

    Differential colonization-extinction dynamics associated with species thermal preferences provide support for dispersal limitation and microclimate buffering as primary proxies by which habitat fragmentation mediates thermophilization in birds.