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Reconciling ecogeographical rules: rainfall and temperature predict global colour variation in the largest bird radiation by Delhey, Kaspar, Dale, James, Valcu, Mihai, Kempenaers, Bart, Grether, Greg

“…Ecogeographical rules that associate climate with organismal form and function can reveal patterns of climatic adaptation. Two rules link animal coloration…”
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Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape‐scale impacts from mountain lions to mice by Suraci, Justin P., Clinchy, Michael, Zanette, Liana Y., Wilmers, Christopher C., Grether, Greg

“…Apex predators such as large carnivores can have cascading, landscape‐scale impacts across wildlife communities, which could result largely from the fear they…”
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A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection by Mikula, Peter, Valcu, Mihai, Brumm, Henrik, Bulla, Martin, Forstmeier, Wolfgang, Petrusková, Tereza, Kempenaers, Bart, Albrecht, Tomáš, Grether, Greg

“…Animals use acoustic signals for communication, implying that the properties of these signals can be under strong selection. The acoustic adaptation hypothesis…”
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Density fluctuations represent a key process maintaining personality variation in a wild passerine bird by Nicolaus, Marion, Tinbergen, Joost M, Ubels, Richard, Both, Christiaan, Dingemanse, Niels J, Grether, Greg

“…Heritable personality variation is subject to fluctuating selection in many animal taxa; a major unresolved question is why this is the case. A parsimonious…”
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It's not just what you have, but how you use it: solar‐positional and behavioural effects on hummingbird colour appearance during courtship by Simpson, Richard K., McGraw, Kevin J., Grether, Greg

“…Animals exhibit a diversity of colours that can play key roles in mating interactions. However, we presently lack an understanding of the relative importance…”
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The ecological stage maintains preference differentiation and promotes speciation by Boughman, Janette W., Servedio, Maria R., Grether, Greg

“…Influential models of speciation by sexual selection posit either a single shared preference for a universal display, expressed only when males are locally…”
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Temperature shapes the costs, benefits and geographic diversification of sexual coloration in a dragonfly by Moore, Michael P., Lis, Cassandra, Gherghel, Iulian, Martin, Ryan A., Grether, Greg

“…The environment shapes the evolution of secondary sexual traits by determining how their costs and benefits vary across the landscape. Given the thermal…”
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Evolution of mate choice and the so-called magic traits in ecological speciation by Thibert-Plante, Xavier, Gavrilets, Sergey

“…Non‐random mating provides multiple evolutionary benefits and can result in speciation. Biological organisms are characterised by a myriad of different traits,…”
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To follow or not? How animals in fusion–fission societies handle conflicting information during group decision‐making by Merkle, Jerod A, Sigaud, Marie, Fortin, Daniel, Grether, Greg

“…When group members possess differing information about the environment, they may disagree on the best movement decision. Such conflicts result in group…”
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memory‐based foraging tactic reveals an adaptive mechanism for restricted space use by Merkle, J. A, Fortin, D, Morales, J. M, Grether, Greg

“…The restricted area of space used by most mobile animals is thought to result from fitness‐rewarding decisions derived from gaining information about the…”
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Evolutionary and ecological patterns of scatter‐ and larder‐hoarding behaviours in rodents by Zhang, Yongjun, Yu, Fei, Yi, Xianfeng, Zhou, Weiwei, Liu, Rui, Holyoak, Marcel, Cao, Lin, Zhang, Mingming, Chen, Jiani, Zhang, Zhibin, Yan, Chuan, Grether, Greg

“…Scatter‐ and larder hoarding are the primary strategies of food‐hoarding animals and have important implications for plant‐animal interactions and plant…”
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Geographic mosaic of selection by avian predators on hindwing warning colour in a polymorphic aposematic moth by Rönkä, Katja, Valkonen, Janne K., Nokelainen, Ossi, Rojas, Bibiana, Gordon, Swanne, Burdfield‐Steel, Emily, Mappes, Johanna, Grether, Greg

“…Warning signals are predicted to develop signal monomorphism via positive frequency‐dependent selection (+FDS) albeit many aposematic systems exhibit signal…”
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Paternal age negatively affects sperm production of the progeny by Vuarin, Pauline, Lesobre, Loïc, Levêque, Gwènaëlle, Saint Jalme, Michel, Lacroix, Frédéric, Hingrat, Yves, Sorci, Gabriele, Grether, Greg

“…Parental age has profound consequences for offspring’s phenotype. However, whether patrilineal age affects offspring sperm production remains unknown, despite…”
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Manipulating badges of status only fools strangers by Chaine, Alexis S., Shizuka, Daizaburo, Block, Theadora A., Zhang, Lynn, Lyon, Bruce E., Grether, Greg

“…Conflict is risky, but mechanisms that allow animals to assess dominance status without aggression can reduce such costs. Two different mechanisms of…”
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Male competition fitness landscapes predict both forward and reverse speciation by Keagy, Jason, Lettieri, Liliana, Boughman, Janette W, Grether, Greg

“…Speciation is facilitated when selection generates a rugged fitness landscape such that populations occupy different peaks separated by valleys. Competition…”
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Dangerous liaisons: the predation risks of receiving social signals by Hughes, Nelika K., Kelley, Jennifer L., Banks, Peter B.

“…Individuals are at risk when communicating because conspicuous signals attract both conspecifics and eavesdropping predators. This predation cost of…”
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Temperature drives pre‐reproductive selection and shapes the biogeography of a female polymorphism by Svensson, Erik I., Willink, Beatriz, Duryea, Mary Catherine, Lancaster, Lesley T., Grether, Greg

“…Conflicts of interests between males and females over reproduction is a universal feature of sexually reproducing organisms and has driven the evolution of…”
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Deep‐time convergent evolution in animal communication presented by shared adaptations for coping with noise in lizards and other animals by Ord, Terry J., Klomp, Danielle A., Summers, Thomas C., Diesmos, Arvin, Ahmad, Norhayati, Das, Indraneil, Grether, Greg

“…Convergence in communication appears rare compared with other forms of adaptation. This is puzzling, given communication is acutely dependent on the…”
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On the context‐dependent scaling of consumer feeding rates by Barrios-O'Neill, Daniel, Kelly, Ruth, Dick, Jaimie T. A., Ricciardi, Anthony, MacIsaac, Hugh J., Emmerson, Mark C.

“…The stability of consumer–resource systems can depend on the form of feeding interactions (i.e. functional responses). Size‐based models predict interactions –…”
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Locally adapted traits maintained in the face of high gene flow by Fitzpatrick, S. W., Gerberich, J. C., Kronenberger, J. A., Angeloni, L. M., Funk, W. C.

“…Gene flow between phenotypically divergent populations can disrupt local adaptation or, alternatively, may stimulate adaptive evolution by increasing genetic…”
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