Ecology

Ecology

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Latest articles

    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Central carbon metabolism switching in lytic versus temperate coral reef viral communities

    Jacob Kelman, Meena Khan ... Ben Knowles
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology

    Coordinated beak–tongue mechanics enable dexterous seed manipulation in songbirds

    Maja Mielke, Falk Mielke ... Sam Van Wassenbergh
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology

    Stage-Specific Threats Reveal the Inadequacy of Adult-Centered Conservation

    Yanfang Song, Yongle Wang ... Weiwei Zhou
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    The urban tree of life: synthesizing relationships between body size and urban affinity

    Corey T Callaghan, Diana E Bowler ... Thomas Merckx
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    Dopamine and its receptor DcDop2 are involved in the coevolution between ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ and Diaphorina citri

    Xiaoge Nian, Jiayun Li ... Songdou Zhang
    CLas hijacks the DA/DcDop2-miR-31a-AKH-JH signaling cascade to improve D. citri lipid metabolism and fecundity, while simultaneously promoting its replication.
    1. Ecology

    Scanning and active sampling behaviours emerge from conserved insect neural circuits

    Cody A Freas, Antoine Wystrach
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Ecology

    Benefit Transfer Loops Turn Cheating into a Scaffold for Microbial Diversity

    Jiqi Shao, Yinxiang Li ... Zhiyuan Li
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology

    Male chickadees with better spatial cognition sire more extra-pair young

    Carrie L Branch, Benjamin R Sonnenberg ... Vladimir V Pravosudov
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Ecology

    Moderate density of small mammalian herbivores facilitates livestock growth by improving vegetation composition in grasslands

    Zhiwei Zhong, Bingbo Ni ... Zhibin Zhang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Ecology

    The neuronal clock network in the polar key species Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)

    Lukas Hüppe, Nils Reinhard ... Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
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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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  1. Sergio Rasmann
    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  2. Meredith C Schuman
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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