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Detectability of a poison frog and its Batesian mimic depends on body posture and viewing angle by McEwen, Brendan L, Yeager, Justin, Kinley, Isaac, Anderson, Hannah M, Barnett, James B

“…Abstract Aposematic signals warn predators that prey should be avoided due to dangerous secondary defences. However, as warning signals do not always produce…”
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Size‐dependent colouration balances conspicuous aposematism and camouflage by Barnett, James B., Yeager, Justin, McEwen, Brendan L., Kinley, Isaac, Anderson, Hannah M., Guevara, Jennifer

“…Colour is an important component of many different defensive strategies, but signal efficacy and detectability will also depend on the size of the coloured…”
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Top-down effects of intraspeciflic predator behavioral variation by Lichtenstein, James L. L., McEwen, Brendan L., Primavera, Skylar D., Lenihan, Thomas, Wood, Zoe M., Carson, Walter P., Costa-Pereira, Raul

“…Among-individual variation in predator traits is ubiquitous in nature. However, variation among populations in this trait variation has been seldom considered…”
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Correction: Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance by Anderson, Hannah M, Little, Alexander G, Fisher, David N, McEwen, Brendan L, Culbert, Brett M, Balshine, Sigal, Pruitt, Jonathan N

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Imperfect transparency and camouflage in glass frogs by Barnett, James B., Michalis, Constantine, Anderson, Hannah M., McEwen, Brendan L., Yeager, Justin, Pruitt, Jonathan N., Scott-Samuel, Nicholas E., Cuthill, Innes C.

“…Camouflage patterns prevent detection and/or recognition by matching the background, disrupting edges, or mimicking particular background features. In variable…”
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Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance by Anderson, Hannah M, Little, Alexander G, Fisher, David N, McEwen, Brendan L, Culbert, Brett M, Balshine, Sigal, Pruitt, Jonathan N

“…Intra-group social stability is important for the long-term productivity and health of social organisms. We evaluated the effect of group size on group…”
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Selection for Collective Aggressiveness Favors Social Susceptibility in Social Spiders by Pruitt, Jonathan N., Wright, Colin M., Lichtenstein, James L.L., Chism, Gregory T., McEwen, Brendan L., Kamath, Ambika, Pinter-Wollman, Noa

“…Particularly socially influential individuals are present in many groups [1–8], but it is unclear whether their emergence is determined by their social…”
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Collective aggressiveness limits colony persistence in high‐ but not low‐elevation sites at Amazonian social spiders by Lichtenstein, James L. L., Fisher, David N., McEwen, Brendan L., Nondorf, Daniel T., Calvache, Esteban, Schmitz, Clara, Elässer, Jana, Pruitt, Jonathan N.

“…Identifying the traits that foster group survival in contrasting environments is important for understanding local adaptation in social systems. Here, we…”
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Predictors of colony extinction vary by habitat type in social spiders by McEwen, Brendan L., Lichtenstein, James L. L., Fisher, David N., Wright, Colin M., Chism, Greg T., Pinter-Wollman, Noa, Pruitt, Jonathan N.

“…Many animal societies are susceptible to mass mortality events and collapse. Elucidating how environmental pressures determine patterns of collapse is…”
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Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in queen olfactory responsiveness and boldness by Wright, Colin M, McEwen, Brendan L, Fisher, David N, Lichtenstein, James L L, Antoun, Angelle, Tibbetts, Elizabeth A, Pruitt, Jonathan N

“…Abstract Nest parasites attempt to shift the cost of rearing young from themselves to others. Despite strong selection to avoid this exploitation, there is…”
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Experimental evidence of frequency-dependent selection on group behaviour by Pruitt, Jonathan N., McEwen, Brendan L., Cassidy, Steven T., Najm, Gabriella M., Pinter-Wollman, Noa

“…Evolutionary ecologists often seek to identify the mechanisms maintaining intraspecific variation. In social animals, whole groups can exhibit between-group…”
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Episodic correlations in behavioural lateralization differ between a poison frog and its mimic by Anderson, Hannah M., Fisher, David N., McEwen, Brendan L., Yeager, Justin, Pruitt, Jonathan N., Barnett, James B.

“…Sensory and behavioural lateralization is thought to increase neural efficiency and facilitate coordinated behaviour across much of the animal kingdom…”
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Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance by Anderson, Hannah M, Little, Alexander G, Fisher, David N, McEwen, Brendan L, Culbert, Brett M, Balshine, Sigal, Pruitt, Jonathan N

“…Intra-group social stability is important for the long-term productivity and health of social organisms. We evaluated the effect of group size on group…”
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