Stephanie Wendt, Kim S Strunk ... Tomer J Czaczkes
Relative value perception, a basic tenant of Behavioural Economics, is demonstrated in an insect, and further shown to be driven by cognitive processes and induced by private and social information.
Even moderate winds cause auks to abort landing attempts at nest-sites, and as a result, wind characteristics may affect where these, and other seabirds, choose to breed.
Meike Anika Hahn, Christoph Effertz ... Eric von Elert
A fish-derived bile salt was shown to act as interspecific infochemical, inducing the widespread predator avoidance behavior diel vertical migration at picomolar concentrations in freshwater zooplankton of the genus Daphnia.
To protect their food and themselves against detrimental mould fungi, the eggs of a wasp species synthesize and emit remarkable amounts of gaseous nitrogen oxides that are highly effective antimicrobials.
Samuel Frederick Mock Hart, Jose Mario Bello Pineda ... Wenying Shou
Whereas partner-serving phenotype is intuitively quantified as benefit release rate, molecular genetics revealed an example where this thinking fails, motivating a more general metric.
David William Kikuchi, Anna Dornhaus ... Thomas N Sherratt
In richer, more even communities, foragers form broad categories among their food resources that can select for convergence among signals, including mimetic resemblances.
