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Triacylglycerides found in the males of 11 species of Drosophila form a largely overlooked, novel, sex-specific class of pheromones that act to suppress courtship behaviour.

Modern research in ecology draws upon a wide range of different techniques and can offer fresh insights on how to tackle a range of challenges facing the natural world.

One-quarter of the Chondrichthyes have an elevated risk of extinction, mainly as a result of overfishing.

Body shape and behavioural specializations found across the castes of ant species evolved together and reflect different abilities for ground behaviors.

A simple model reveals the roles of colony geometry and diffusion rate in allowing microbes to cooperate by sharing public goods.

A transport protein enables leaf beetle larvae to take up and store plant toxins and use them as part of their own defense strategy.

Two cooperative populations of yeast cells that cannot distinguish between cooperative partners and cheating intruders can still self-organize into clusters that exclude cheaters.

High-throughput sequencing has been used to analyze the microbiome of mouse corpses over a period of 48 days, and to provide an accurate estimate of the time since death.