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    1. Ecology

    Insect Migration: A sense of direction

    Aleksandr Pakhomov, Dmitry Kishkinev
    Migratory moths use both magnetic and visual cues for navigation when travelling long distances in the dark.
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    1. Ecology
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Rift Valley fever virus dynamics in a transhumant cattle system in The Gambia

    Essa Jarra, Divine Ekwem ... Daniel T Haydon
    Endemic Rift Valley fever virus circulation in The Gambia is driven by seasonal cattle movements and eco-region differences, highlighting livestock mobility as a key target for effective control strategies.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Kinematics and morphological correlates of descent strategies in arboreal mammals suggest early upright postures in euprimates

    Severine LD Toussaint, Dionisios Youlatos, John A Nyakatura
    Vertical locomotion in arboreal mammals is shaped by a complex interplay of body mass, limb proportions, grasping abilities, and head mass, and primates use distinct upright postures during descents.
    1. Ecology

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

    Xiaoge Nian, Jiayun Li ... Songdou Zhang
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    1. Ecology

    Female moths incorporate plant acoustic emissions into their oviposition decision-making process

    Rya Seltzer, Guy Zer Eshel ... Yossi Yovel
    Acoustic ecology introduces an additional dimension in plant-insect communication, revealing that female moths use ultrasonic emissions from dehydrated plants to guide oviposition decisions.
    1. Ecology

    The urban tree of life: quantifying relationships between body size and urban tolerance for more than 30,000 plant and animal species

    Corey T Callaghan, Diana E Bowler ... Thomas Merckx
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    1. Ecology

    Exogenous myristate fuels the growth of symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi but disrupts their carbon-phosphorus exchange with host plants

    Hanwen Chen, Tian Xiong ... Yutao Wang
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    1. Ecology

    Range geography and temperature variability explain cross-continental convergence in range and phenology shifts in a model insect taxon

    Catherine Sirois-Delisle, Susan CC Gordon, Jeremy Kerr
    Across continents, half of odonate species shifted both ranges and phenologies in response to climate warming, with southern species and those experiencing less temperature variability shifting ranges more strongly.
    1. Ecology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Evidence of social learning across symbolic cultural barriers in sperm whales

    Antonio Leitao, Maxime Lucas ... Giovanni Petri
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Dark matter of an orchid: metagenome of the microbiome associated with the rhizosphere of Dactylorhiza traunsteineri

    Gabriel A Vignolle, Leopold Zehetner ... Julien Charest
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