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    1. Ecology

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

    Akiko Seguchi, Ei-Ichi Izawa
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    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.
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    Insight
    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.
    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.
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    Short Report
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    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.
    1. Ecology

    Integrating microscopy and transcriptomics from individual uncultured eukaryotic plankton

    Catherine Gatt, Yike Xie ... Fabio Zanini
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    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
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    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
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    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
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    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.