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.
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.
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.
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.
At moderate densities, small mammalian herbivores can enhance livestock weight gains by suppressing toxic plants and improving both the abundance and nutritional quality of palatable forage in rangelands.
In complex life cycle taxa, the relationship between functional traits and threat status varies across developmental stages, making adult‑based threat predictions insufficient to reflect risks faced during other life stages.
Extracellular DNA degrades at markedly different rates across soils and sequences, substantially biasing estimates of prokaryotic abundance, diversity, and community composition.
