Volume 8; Issue 4

Main
Biology Letters
Volume 8; Issue 4

Biology Letters

Volume 8; Issue 4

1

Niche-based mechanisms operating within extreme habitats: a case study of subterranean amphipod communities

Fiser, C., Blejec, A., Trontelj, P.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 432 KB

english, 2012

2

The long and the short of avian W chromosomes: no evidence for gradual W shortening

Rutkowska, J., Lagisz, M., Nakagawa, S.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 230 KB

english, 2012

3

Estimating maximum bite performance in Tyrannosaurus rex using multi-body dynamics

Bates, K. T., Falkingham, P. L.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 434 KB

english, 2012

4

Functional diversity of bitter taste receptor TAS2R16 in primates

Imai, H., Suzuki, N., Ishimaru, Y., Sakurai, T., Yin, L., Pan, W., Abe, K., Misaka, T., Hirai, H.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 310 KB

english, 2012

5

Ontogenetic niche shifts in dinosaurs influenced size, diversity and extinction in terrestrial vertebrates

Codron, D., Carbone, C., Muller, D. W. H., Clauss, M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 505 KB

english, 2012

6

Cross-hemisphere migration of a 25 g songbird

Bairlein, F., Norris, D. R., Nagel, R., Bulte, M., Voigt, C. C., Fox, J. W., Hussell, D. J. T., Schmaljohann, H.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 280 KB

english, 2012

7

Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence

Grabowska-Zhang, A. M., Sheldon, B. C., Hinde, C. A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 159 KB

english, 2012

8

Mind the gap: genetic distance increases with habitat gap size in Florida scrub jays

Coulon, A., Fitzpatrick, J. W., Bowman, R., Lovette, I. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 270 KB

english, 2012

9

Ambient noise increases missed detections in nestling birds

Leonard, M. L., Horn, A. G.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 172 KB

english, 2012

10

Remote copulation: male adaptation to female cannibalism

Li, D., Oh, J., Kralj-Fiser, S., Kuntner, M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 332 KB

english, 2012

11

Biology, not environment, drives major patterns in maximum tetrapod body size through time

Sookias, R. B., Benson, R. B. J., Butler, R. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 272 KB

english, 2012

12

Habitat stability affects dispersal and the ability to track climate change

Hof, C., Brandle, M., Dehling, D. M., Munguia, M., Brandl, R., Araujo, M. B., Rahbek, C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 242 KB

english, 2012

13

Reassessment of genome size in turtle and crocodile based on chromosome measurement by flow karyotyping: close similarity to chicken

Kasai, F., O'Brien, P. C. M., Ferguson-Smith, M. A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 417 KB

english, 2012

14

Primate communication in the pure ultrasound

Ramsier, M. A., Cunningham, A. J., Moritz, G. L., Finneran, J. J., Williams, C. V., Ong, P. S., Gursky-Doyen, S. L., Dominy, N. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 548 KB

english, 2012

15

Impact of Quaternary climatic changes and interspecific competition on the demographic history of a highly mobile generalist carnivore, the coyote

Koblmuller, S., Wayne, R. K., Leonard, J. A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 304 KB

english, 2012

16

Care for kin: within-group relatedness and allomaternal care are positively correlated and conserved throughout the mammalian phylogeny

Briga, M., Pen, I., Wright, J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 138 KB

english, 2012

17

Tikiguania and the antiquity of squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes)

Hutchinson, M. N., Skinner, A., Lee, M. S. Y.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 321 KB

english, 2012

18

An invasive species reverses the roles in a host-parasite relationship between bitterling fish and unionid mussels

Reichard, M., Vrtilek, M., Douda, K., Smith, C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 205 KB

english, 2012

19

Cryptic asymmetry: unreliable signals mask asymmetric performance of crayfish weapons

Angilletta, M. J., Wilson, R. S.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 292 KB

english, 2012

20

Early evidence for complex social structure in Proboscidea from a late Miocene trackway site in the United Arab Emirates

Bibi, F., Kraatz, B., Craig, N., Beech, M., Schuster, M., Hill, A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 689 KB

english, 2012

21

Low dose ionizing radiation produces too few reactive oxygen species to directly affect antioxidant concentrations in cells

Smith, J. T., Willey, N. J., Hancock, J. T.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 244 KB

english, 2012

22

You get what you pay for: reward-specific trade-offs among direct and ant-mediated defences in plants

Koricheva, J., Romero, G. Q.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 196 KB

english, 2012

23

Habitat associations of species show consistent but weak responses to climate

Suggitt, A. J., Stefanescu, C., Paramo, F., Oliver, T., Anderson, B. J., Hill, J. K., Roy, D. B., Brereton, T., Thomas, C. D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 149 KB

english, 2012

24

King penguin population on Macquarie Island recovers ancient DNA diversity after heavy exploitation in historic times

Heupink, T. H., van den Hoff, J., Lambert, D. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 301 KB

english, 2012

25

Soil-mediated indirect impacts of an invasive predator on plant growth

Wardle, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Fukami, T., Bonner, K. I.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 173 KB

english, 2012

26

Ranavirus: past, present and future

Lesbarreres, D., Balseiro, A., Brunner, J., Chinchar, V. G., Duffus, A., Kerby, J., Miller, D. L., Robert, J., Schock, D. M., Waltzek, T., Gray, M. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 91 KB

english, 2012

27

Trans-oceanic host dispersal explains high seabird tick diversity on Cape Verde islands

Gomez-Diaz, E., Morris-Pocock, J. A., Gonzalez-Solis, J., McCoy, K. D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 245 KB

english, 2012

28

The directional flow of visual information transfer between pedestrians

Gallup, A. C., Chong, A., Couzin, I. D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 185 KB

english, 2012

29

Model analysis for plant disease dynamics co-mediated by herbivory and herbivore-borne phytopathogens

Nakazawa, T., Yamanaka, T., Urano, S.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 283 KB

english, 2012

30

When it is costly to have a caring mother: food limitation erases the benefits of parental care in earwigs

Meunier, J., Kolliker, M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 227 KB

english, 2012

31

Environment drives high phylogenetic turnover among oceanic bacterial communities

Pommier, T., Douzery, E. J. P., Mouillot, D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 328 KB

english, 2012

32

On the centrality and uniqueness of species from the network perspective

Lai, S.-M., Liu, W.-C., Jordan, F.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 201 KB

english, 2012

33

Social learning of a communicative signal in captive chimpanzees

Taglialatela, J. P., Reamer, L., Schapiro, S. J., Hopkins, W. D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 150 KB

english, 2012

34

Chicks, like children, spontaneously reorient by three-dimensional environmental geometry, not by image matching

Lee, S. A., Spelke, E. S., Vallortigara, G.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 213 KB

english, 2012

35

RNAi of the circadian clock gene period disrupts the circadian rhythm but not the circatidal rhythm in the mangrove cricket

Takekata, H., Matsuura, Y., Goto, S. G., Satoh, A., Numata, H.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 485 KB

english, 2012

36

Winter severity predicts the timing of host shifts in the mosquito Culex erraticus

Burkett-Cadena, N. D., Hassan, H. K., Eubanks, M. D., Cupp, E. W., Unnasch, T. R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 260 KB

english, 2012

37

Rollers smell the fear of nestlings

Parejo, D., Amo, L., Rodriguez, J., Aviles, J. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 161 KB

english, 2012

38

Leading edge vortex in a slow-flying passerine

Muijres, F. T., Johansson, L. C., Hedenstrom, A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 581 KB

english, 2012

39

Novel use of burrow casting as a research tool in deep-sea ecology

Seike, K., Jenkins, R. G., Watanabe, H., Nomaki, H., Sato, K.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 421 KB

english, 2012

40

It is optimal to be optimistic about survival

McNamara, J. M., Trimmer, P. C., Houston, A. I.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 215 KB

english, 2012

41

Hermit crabs perceive the extent of their virtual bodies

Sonoda, K., Asakura, A., Minoura, M., Elwood, R. W., Gunji, Y.-P.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 306 KB

english, 2012

42

A test of the oxidative damage hypothesis for discontinuous gas exchange in the locust Locusta migratoria

Matthews, P. G. D., Snelling, E. P., Seymour, R. S., White, C. R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 175 KB

english, 2012

43

Climate change experiments in temperate grasslands: synthesis and future directions

White, S. R., Carlyle, C. N., Fraser, L. H., Cahill, J. F.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 96 KB

english, 2012

44

Selective bird predation on the peppered moth: the last experiment of Michael Majerus

Cook, L. M., Grant, B. S., Saccheri, I. J., Mallet, J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 188 KB

english, 2012

45

Group size elicits specific physiological response in herbivores

Michelena, P., Pillot, M.-H., Henrion, C., Toulet, S., Boissy, A., Bon, R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 262 KB

english, 2012

46

Ant attendance reduces flight muscle and wing size in the aphid Tuberculatus quercicola

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 185 KB

english, 2012

47

Cryptic sociality in rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) detected by kinship analysis

Clark, R. W., Brown, W. S., Stechert, R., Greene, H. W.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 275 KB

english, 2012

48

Speed, pacing strategy and aerodynamic drafting in Thoroughbred horse racing

Spence, A. J., Thurman, A. S., Maher, M. J., Wilson, A. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 301 KB

english, 2012

49

Divergent host-plant use promotes reproductive isolation among cynipid gall wasp populations

Egan, S. P., Hood, G. R., Feder, J. L., Ott, J. R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 205 KB

english, 2012

50

Is more better? Polyploidy and parasite resistance

King, K. C., Seppala, O., Neiman, M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 118 KB

english, 2012

51

Parasitoids as vectors of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in aphids

Gehrer, L., Vorburger, C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 107 KB

english, 2012

52

Antifungal activity in thrips soldiers suggests a dual role for this caste

Turnbull, C., Caravan, H., Chapman, T., Nipperess, D., Dennison, S., Schwarz, M., Beattie, A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 166 KB

english, 2012

53

Working against gravity: horizontal honeybee waggle runs have greater angular scatter than vertical waggle runs

Couvillon, M. J., Phillipps, H. L. F., Schurch, R., Ratnieks, F. L. W.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 261 KB

english, 2012

54

Plant radiation history affects community assembly: evidence from the New Zealand alpine

Lee, W. G., Tanentzap, A. J., Heenan, P. B.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 136 KB

english, 2012

55

Hummingbirds have a greatly enlarged hippocampal formation

Ward, B. J., Day, L. B., Wilkening, S. R., Wylie, D. R., Saucier, D. M., Iwaniuk, A. N.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 208 KB

english, 2012