Volume 4; Issue 6

Main
Biology Letters
Volume 4; Issue 6

Biology Letters

Volume 4; Issue 6

1

Exposure to infant scent lowers serum testosterone in father common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

Prudom, S. L., Broz, C. A., Schultz-Darken, N., Ferris, C. T., Snowdon, C., Ziegler, T. E.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 117 KB

english, 2008

2

Reproductive suppression in female cooperatively breeding cichlids

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 128 KB

english, 2008

3

Convict cichlids benefit from close proximity to another species of cichlid fish

Lehtonen, T. K.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 100 KB

english, 2008

4

Ants under crowded conditions consume more energy

Cao, T. T., Dornhaus, A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 133 KB

english, 2008

5

Why do fiddler crabs build chimneys?

Slatyer, R. A., Fok, E. S. Y., Hocking, R., Backwell, P. R. Y.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 120 KB

english, 2008

6

Circadian flight schedules in night-migrating birds caught on migration

Coppack, T., Becker, S. F., Becker, P. J. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 139 KB

english, 2008

7

Implications of multiple mating for offspring relatedness and shoaling behaviour in juvenile guppies

Evans, J. P., Kelley, J. L.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 117 KB

english, 2008

8

Optimality in a partitioned task performed by social insects

Burd, M., Howard, J. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 118 KB

english, 2008

9

Hitting the buffers: conspecific aggression undermines benefits of colonial breeding under adverse conditions

Ashbrook, K., Wanless, S., Harris, M. P., C. Hamer, K.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 109 KB

english, 2008

10

We know that the wasps 'know': cryptic successors to the queen in Ropalidia marginata

Bhadra, A., Gadagkar, R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 105 KB

english, 2008

11

Helping behaviour and regard for others in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

Barnes, J. L., Hill, T., Langer, M., Martinez, M., Santos, L. R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 97 KB

english, 2008

12

Predation increases acoustic complexity in primate alarm calls

Stephan, C., Zuberbuhler, K.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 171 KB

english, 2008

13

Learning decreases heterospecific courtship and mating in fruit flies

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 111 KB

english, 2008

14

Testing Thayer's hypothesis: can camouflage work by distraction?

Stevens, M., Graham, J., Winney, I. S., Cantor, A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 124 KB

english, 2008

15

Signaller: receiver coordination and the timing of communication in Amazonian birds

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 124 KB

english, 2008

16

Conservation and conflict between endangered desert fishes

Gumm, J. M., Snekser, J. L., Itzkowitz, M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 134 KB

english, 2008

17

Sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus: an exception to the rule of homing in anadromous fishes

Waldman, J., Grunwald, C., Wirgin, I.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 208 KB

english, 2008

18

Host manipulation as a parasite transmission strategy when manipulation is exploited by non-host predators

Seppala, O., Jokela, J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 109 KB

english, 2008

19

Differential selection according to the degree of cheating in a status signal

Nakagawa, S., Lee, J. W., Woodward, B. K., Hatchwell, B. J., Burke, T.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 113 KB

english, 2008

20

Queen number influences the timing of the sexual production in colonies of Cardiocondyla ants

Suefuji, M., Cremer, S., Oettler, J., Heinze, J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 118 KB

english, 2008

21

Genetic covariation between effectiveness and cost of defence in aphids

Vorburger, C., Gouskov, A., von Burg, S.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 104 KB

english, 2008

22

The phylogenetic affinities of Crossley's babbler (Mystacornis crossleyi): adding a new niche to the vanga radiation of Madagascar

Johansson, U. S., Bowie, R. C. K., Hackett, S. J., Schulenberg, T. S.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 114 KB

english, 2008

23

Methane emissions by alpine plant communities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Cao, G., Xu, X., Long, R., Wang, Q., Wang, C., Du, Y., Zhao, X.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 253 KB

english, 2008

24

Avian migrants adjust migration in response to environmental conditions en route

Tottrup, A. P., Thorup, K., Rainio, K., Yosef, R., Lehikoinen, E., Rahbek, C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 165 KB

english, 2008

25

Effects of naturally acidified seawater on seagrass calcareous epibionts

Martin, S., Rodolfo-Metalpa, R., Ransome, E., Rowley, S., Buia, M. C., Gattuso, J. P., Hall-Spencer, J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 194 KB

english, 2008

26

The dangers of ignoring stock complexity in fishery management: the case of the North Sea cod

Hutchinson, W. F.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 99 KB

english, 2008

27

A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown-of-thorns starfish

Vogler, C., Benzie, J., Lessios, H., Barber, P., Worheide, G.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 140 KB

english, 2008

28

Sex-linked markers and microsatellite locus duplication in the cichlid species Oreochromis tanganicae

Cnaani, A., Kocher, T. D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 149 KB

english, 2008

29

Natural beaches confer fitness benefits to nesting marine turtles

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

30

Seasonal variation in sonic muscles in the fawn cusk-eel Lepophidium profundorum

Nguyen, T. K., Lin, H., Parmentier, E., Fine, M. L.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 108 KB

english, 2008

31

Reliable coding of small, behaviourally relevant interaural intensity differences in a pair of interneurons of an insect

Stradner, J., Romer, H.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 140 KB

english, 2008

32

First fossil gravid turtle provides insight into the evolution of reproductive traits in turtles

Zelenitsky, D. K., Therrien, F., Joyce, W. G., B. Brinkman, D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 221 KB

english, 2008

33

Life history of a basal bird: morphometrics of the Early Cretaceous Confuciusornis

Chiappe, L. M., Marugan-Lobon, J., Ji, S., Zhou, Z.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 181 KB

english, 2008

34

The Early Cambrian tommotiid Micrina, a sessile bivalved stem group brachiopod

Holmer, L. E., Skovsted, C. B., Brock, G. A., Valentine, J. L., Paterson, J. R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 235 KB

english, 2008

35

Fossil quality and naming dinosaurs

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 101 KB

english, 2008

36

The first 50 Myr of dinosaur evolution: macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity

Brusatte, S. L., Benton, M. J., Ruta, M., Lloyd, G. T.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 141 KB

english, 2008

37

Human plague in the USA: the importance of regional and local climate

Ben Ari, T., Gershunov, A., Gage, K. L., Snall, T., Ettestad, P., Kausrud, K. L., Stenseth, N. C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 197 KB

english, 2008

38

Immune activation suppresses plasma testosterone level: a meta-analysis

Boonekamp, J. J., Ros, A. H. F., Verhulst, S.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 110 KB

english, 2008

39

The optical sensitivity of compound eyes: theory and experiment compared

Frederiksen, R., Warrant, E. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 145 KB

english, 2008

40

Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies

Hill, R. A., Bentley, R. A., Dunbar, R. I. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 106 KB

english, 2008

41

Temporal fluctuations of Y-chromosomal variation in Bos taurus

Svensson, E., Gotherstrom, A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 97 KB

english, 2008

42

Being abundant is not enough: a decrease in effective population size over eight generations in a Norwegian population of the seaweed, Fucus serratus

Coyer, J. A., Hoarau, G., Sjotun, K., Olsen, J. L.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 202 KB

english, 2008

43

Elevated levels of expression associated with regions of the Drosophila genome that lack crossing over

Haddrill, P. R., Waldron, F. M., Charlesworth, B.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 107 KB

english, 2008

44

Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of Charadriiformes genera: multigene evidence for the Cretaceous origin of at least 14 clades of shorebirds: Biol. Lett. 3, 205-209 (2007)

Baker, A. J., Pereira, S. L., Paton, T. A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 203 KB

english, 2008