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Comprehensive thermal performance curves for yellow dung fly life history traits and the temperature-size-rule by Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Berger, David, Rohner, Patrick T., Schäfer, Martin A., Akashi, Hiroshi, Walters, Richard J.

“…Ambient temperature strongly determines the behaviour, physiology, and life history of all organisms. The technical assessment of organismal thermal niches in…”
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Comparative reproductive dormancy differentiation in European black scavenger flies (Diptera: Sepsidae) by Zeender, Valérian, Roy, Jeannine, Wegmann, Alexandra, Schäfer, Martin A., Gourgoulianni, Natalia, Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Rohner, Patrick T.

“…Seasonality is a key environmental factor that regularly promotes life history adaptation. Insects invading cold–temperate climates need to overwinter in a…”
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SEXUAL SELECTION ACCOUNTS FOR THE GEOGRAPHIC REVERSAL OF SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN THE DUNG FLY, SEPSIS PUNCTUM (DIPTERA: SEPSIDAE) by Puniamoorthy, Nalini, Schäfer, Martin A., Blanckenhorn, Wolf U.

“…Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) varies widely across and within species. The differential equilibrium model of SSD explains dimorphism as the evolutionary outcome…”
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Stage- and sex-specific heat tolerance in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria by Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Gautier, Roland, Nick, Marcel, Puniamoorthy, Nalini, Schäfer, Martin A.

“…Thermal tolerance varies at all hierarchical levels of biological organization: among species, populations, individuals, and even within individuals. Age- or…”
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developmental plasticity and functional significance of an additional sperm storage compartment in female yellow dung flies by Schäfer, Martin A, Berger, David, Jochmann, Ralf, Blanckenhorn, Wolf U, Bussière, Luc F, Fox, Charles

“…The mechanistic basis for and adaptive significance of variation in female sperm storage organs are important for a range of questions concerning sexual…”
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Temporal niche partitioning of Swiss black scavenger flies in relation to season and substrate age (Diptera, Sepsidae) by Rohner, Patrick T., Haenni, Jean-Paul, Giesen, Athene, Busso, Juan Pablo, Schäfer, Martin A., Püchel-Wieling, Frank, Blanckenhorn, Wolf U.

“…Understanding why and how multiple species manage to coexist represents a primary goal of ecological and evolutionary research. This is of particular relevance…”
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Effective Ligand Design: Zinc Complexes with Guanidine Hydroquinoline Ligands for Fast Lactide Polymerization and Chemical Recycling by Hermann, Alina, Becker, Tabea, Schäfer, Martin A., Hoffmann, Alexander, Herres‐Pawlis, Sonja

“…In this study, the synthesis of two new guanidine hydroquinoline ligands served as basis for six new zinc guanidine complexes. Two of these complexes showed…”
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Determinants of Paternity Success in the Spider Pholcus Phalangioides (Pholcidae: Araneae): The Role of Male and Female Mating Behaviour by Martin A. Schäfer, Uhl, Gabriele

“…In double mating experiments, we examined whether and to what extent various male and female behavioural traits influence the course of mating and…”
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Sequential mate encounters: female but not male body size influences female remating behavior by Schäfer, Martin A., Uhl, Gabriele

“…Whether and how individuals choose sequentially among mates is an important but largely neglected aspect in sexual selection studies. Here, we explore female…”
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Effective Ligand Design: Zinc Complexes with Guanidine Hydroquinoline Ligands for Fast Lactide Polymerization and Chemical Recycling by Hermann, Alina, Becker, Tabea, Schäfer, Martin A., Hoffmann, Alexander, Herres‐Pawlis, Sonja

“…Invited for this month′s cover is the group of Sonja Herres‐Pawlis at RWTH Aachen University. The image shows how the zinc guanidine complexes help a circular…”
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Geographic clines in wing morphology relate to colonization history in New World but not Old World populations of yellow dung flies by Schäfer, Martin A., Berger, David, Rohner, Patrick T., Kjaersgaard, Anders, Bauerfeind, Stephanie S., Guillaume, Frédéric, Fox, Charles W., Blanckenhorn, Wolf U.

“…Geographic clines offer insights about putative targets and agents of natural selection as well as tempo and mode of adaptation. However, demographic processes…”
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Does thermal plasticity align with local adaptation? An interspecific comparison of wing morphology in sepsid flies by Rohner, Patrick T., Roy, Jeannine, Schäfer, Martin A., Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Berger, David

“…Although genetic and plastic responses are sometimes considered as unrelated processes, their phenotypic effects may often align because genetic adaptation is…”
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Temperature-dependent melanism and phenoloxidase activity in the dimorphic sepsid fly Sepsis thoracica by Gourgoulianni, Natalia, Schäfer, Martin A., Kapun, Martin, Busso, Juan Pablo, Blanckenhorn, Wolf U.

“…Climate is changing towards both higher average temperatures and more frequent and severe heat waves. Whereas numerous studies have investigated temperature…”
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Replicated latitudinal clines in reproductive traits of European and North American yellow dung flies by Bauerfeind, Stephanie S., Schäfer, Martin A., Berger, David, Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Fox, Charles W.

“…Geographic variation in phenotypic traits is commonly correlated with spatial variation in the environment, e.g. seasonality and mean temperature, providing…”
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Critical weight mediates sex‐specific body size plasticity and sexual dimorphism in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria (Diptera: Scathophagidae) by Rohner, Patrick T., Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Schäfer, Martin A.

“…Ultimate factors driving insect body size are rather well understood, while—apart from a few model species—the underlying physiological and developmental…”
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Sexual size dimorphism is associated with reproductive life history trait differentiation in coexisting sepsid flies by Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Baur, Julian, Busso, Juan Pablo, Giesen, Athene, Gourgoulianni, Natalia, van Koppenhagen, Nicola, Roy, Jeannine, Schäfer, Martin A., Wegmann, Alexandra, Rohner, Patrick T.

“…Organismal life histories evolve as syndromes, resulting in correlated evolutionary differentiation of key traits that ultimately aid in discerning species…”
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Comparative effects of the parasiticide ivermectin on survival and reproduction of adult sepsid flies by Conforti, Sheena, Dietrich, Jana, Kuhn, Thierry, Koppenhagen, Nicola van, Baur, Julian, Rohner, Patrick T., Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Schäfer, Martin A.

“…Ivermectin is a veterinary pharmaceutical widely applied against parasites of livestock. Being effective against pests, it is also known to have lethal and…”
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Heritable responses to combined effects of heat stress and ivermectin in the yellow dung fly by González-Tokman, Daniel, Bauerfeind, Stephanie S., Schäfer, Martin A., Walters, Richard J., Berger, David, Blanckenhorn, Wolf U.

“…In current times of global change, several sources of stress such as contaminants and high temperatures may act synergistically. The extent to which organisms…”
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Growth rate mediates hidden developmental plasticity of female yellow dung fly reproductive morphology in response to environmental stressors by Walters, Richard J., Berger, David, Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Bussière, Luc F., Rohner, Patrick T., Jochmann, Ralf, Thüler, Karin, Schäfer, Martin A.

“…Understanding how environmental variation influences even cryptic traits is important to clarify the roles of selection and developmental constraints in past…”
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Intraspecific mating system evolution and its effect on complex male secondary sexual traits: Does male–male competition increase selection on size or shape? by Baur, Julian, Roy, Jeannine, Schäfer, Martin A., Puniamoorthy, Nalini, Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Rohner, Patrick T.

“…Sexual selection is generally held responsible for the exceptional diversity in secondary sexual traits in animals. Mating system evolution is therefore…”
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