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Volume 9; Issue 1

Biology Letters

Volume 9; Issue 1

1

Experimental evolution of multicellularity using microbial pseudo-organisms

Queller, D. C., Strassmann, J. E.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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2

Competition and the origins of novelty: experimental evolution of niche-width expansion in a virus

Bono, L. M., Gensel, C. L., Pfennig, D. W., Burch, C. L.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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3

Chimpanzees predict that a competitor's preference will match their own

Schmelz, M., Call, J., Tomasello, M.

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Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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4

Monsters are people too

Levy, J., Foulsham, T., Kingstone, A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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5

Spider silk reduces insect herbivory

Rypstra, A. L., Buddle, C. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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6

Leaf morphology shift is not linked to climate change

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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7

Women can judge sexual unfaithfulness from unfamiliar men's faces

Rhodes, G., Morley, G., Simmons, L. W.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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8

Ecological niche structure and rangewide abundance patterns of species

Martinez-Meyer, E., Diaz-Porras, D., Peterson, A. T., Yanez-Arenas, C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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9

The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania

Nesbitt, S. J., Barrett, P. M., Werning, S., Sidor, C. A., Charig, A. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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10

Underwater acrobatics by the world's largest predator: 360 rolling manoeuvres by lunge-feeding blue whales

Goldbogen, J. A., Calambokidis, J., Friedlaender, A. S., Francis, J., DeRuiter, S. L., Stimpert, A. K., Falcone, E., Southall, B. L.

Journal:

Biology Letters

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2012

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english

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11

Dominance is not always an honest signal of male quality, but females may be able to detect the dishonesty

Polkki, M., Kortet, R., Hedrick, A., Rantala, M. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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12

Ecological change in the lower Omo Valley around 2.8 Ma

Bibi, F., Souron, A., Bocherens, H., Uno, K., Boisserie, J.-R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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13

Parturition date for a given female is highly repeatable within five roe deer populations

Plard, F., Gaillard, J.-M., Bonenfant, C., Hewison, A. J. M., Delorme, D., Cargnelutti, B., Kjellander, P., Nilsen, E. B., Coulson, T.

Journal:

Biology Letters

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2012

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english

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14

Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe?

Suarez-Rodriguez, M., Lopez-Rull, I., Macias Garcia, C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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15

Adaptive evolution of vertebrate-type cryptochrome in the ancestors of Hymenoptera

Wang, B., Xiao, J.-H., Bian, S.-N., Gu, H.-F., Huang, D.-W.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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16

Unravelling the determinants of insular body size shifts

McClain, C. R., Durst, P. A. P., Boyer, A. G., Francis, C. D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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17

Behavioural plasticity of social trematodes depends upon social context

Kamiya, T., Poulin, R.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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18

Accelerometry predicts daily energy expenditure in a bird with high activity levels

Elliott, K. H., Le Vaillant, M., Kato, A., Speakman, J. R., Ropert-Coudert, Y.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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19

Colour misbinding during motion rivalry

Maloney, R. T., Lam, S. K., Clifford, C. W. G.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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20

Mutation accumulation and fitness in mutator subpopulations of Escherichia coli

Maharjan, R. P., Liu, B., Li, Y., Reeves, P. R., Wang, L., Ferenci, T.

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Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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21

Low major histocompatibility complex diversity in the Tasmanian devil predates European settlement and may explain susceptibility to disease epidemics

Morris, K., Austin, J. J., Belov, K.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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22

First evidence for functional vomeronasal 2 receptor genes in primates

Hohenbrink, P., Mundy, N. I., Zimmermann, E., Radespiel, U.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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23

Marine trophic diversity in an anadromous fish is linked to its life-history variation in fresh water

Johnson, S. P., Schindler, D. E.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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24

Homosexual behaviour increases male attractiveness to females

Bierbach, D., Jung, C. T., Hornung, S., Streit, B., Plath, M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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25

House finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) balance investment in behavioural and immunological defences against pathogens

Zylberberg, M., Klasing, K. C., Hahn, T. P.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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26

Nestling erythrocyte resistance to oxidative stress predicts fledging success but not local recruitment in a wild bird

Losdat, S., Helfenstein, F., Blount, J. D., Marri, V., Maronde, L., Richner, H.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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27

Forest refugia in Western and Central Africa as 'museums' of Mesozoic biodiversity

Murienne, J., Benavides, L. R., Prendini, L., Hormiga, G., Giribet, G.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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28

Passive rafting is a powerful driver of transoceanic gene flow

Nikula, R., Spencer, H. G., Waters, J. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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29

Biodiversity technologies: tools as change agents

Snaddon, J., Petrokofsky, G., Jepson, P., Willis, K. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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30

Evolutionary rescue of a green alga kept in the dark

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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31

Ectoparasites increase swimming costs in a coral reef fish

Binning, S. A., Roche, D. G., Layton, C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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32

Genetic background affects epistatic interactions between two beneficial mutations

Wang, Y., Diaz Arenas, C., Stoebel, D. M., Cooper, T. F.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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33

Epistasis between mutations is host-dependent for an RNA virus

Lalic, J., Elena, S. F.

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Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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34

Temperature, stress and spontaneous mutation in Caenorhabditis briggsae and Caenorhabditis elegans

Matsuba, C., Ostrow, D. G., Salomon, M. P., Tolani, A., Baer, C. F.

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Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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35

Trophic indicators in fisheries: a call for re-evaluation

Hornborg, S., Belgrano, A., Bartolino, V., Valentinsson, D., Ziegler, F.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2013

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english

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36

Ecological modelling, size distributions and taphonomic size bias in dinosaur faunas: a comment on Codron et al. (2012)

Brown, C. M., Campione, N. E., Giacomini, H. C., O'Brien, L. J., Vavrek, M. J., Evans, D. C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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37

Climate change and elevational diversity capacity: do weedy species take up the slack?

Chown, S. L., le Roux, P. C., Ramaswiela, T., Kalwij, J. M., Shaw, J. D., McGeoch, M. A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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38

A low trophic position of Japanese eel larvae indicates feeding on marine snow

Miller, M. J., Chikaraishi, Y., Ogawa, N. O., Yamada, Y., Tsukamoto, K., Ohkouchi, N.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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39

Female happy wrens select songs to cooperate with their mates rather than confront intruders

Templeton, C. N., Rios-Chelen, A. A., Quiros-Guerrero, E., Mann, N. I., Slater, P. J. B.

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Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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40

Odour-based kin discrimination in the cooperatively breeding meerkat

Leclaire, S., Nielsen, J. F., Thavarajah, N. K., Manser, M., Clutton-Brock, T. H.

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Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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41

Immuno-localization of type-IV collagen in the blood-gas barrier and the epithelial-epithelial cell connections of the avian lung

Jimoh, S. A., Maina, J. N.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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42

Evolution of clonal populations approaching a fitness peak

Gordo, I., Campos, P. R. A.

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Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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43

Rat aversion to isoflurane versus carbon dioxide

Wong, D., Makowska, I. J., Weary, D. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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44

Strategic reduction of help before dispersal in a cooperative breeder

Zottl, M., Chapuis, L., Freiburghaus, M., Taborsky, M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2013

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english

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45

Wormholes record species history in space and time

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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46

Anticipatory motor patterns limit muscle stretch during landing in toads

Azizi, E., Abbott, E. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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47

North American ornithology in transition

Altshuler, D. L., Cockle, K. L., Boyle, W. A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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48

Relative contribution of free-virus and synaptic transmission to the spread of HIV-1 through target cell populations

Komarova, N. L., Anghelina, D., Voznesensky, I., Trinite, B., Levy, D. N., Wodarz, D.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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49

Ecological modelling, size distributions and taphonomic size bias in dinosaur faunas: reply to Brown et al.

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

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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50

Leaf morphology shift: new data and analysis support climate link

Guerin, G. R., Lowe, A. J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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51

Saccharide-mediated antagonistic effects of bark beetle fungal associates on larvae

Wang, B., Lu, M., Cheng, C., Salcedo, C., Sun, J.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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52

Opposite differential allocation by males and females of the same species

Limbourg, T., Mateman, A. C., Lessells, C. M.

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Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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53

The role of 'soaking' in spiteful toxin production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Inglis, R. F., Hall, A. R., Buckling, A.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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54

As it happens: current directions in experimental evolution

Bataillon, T., Joyce, P., Sniegowski, P.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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55

Model and test in a fungus of the probability that beneficial mutations survive drift

Gifford, D. R., de Visser, J. A. G. M., Wahl, L. M.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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56

Mutational effects depend on ploidy level: all else is not equal

Gerstein, A. C.

Journal:

Biology Letters

Year:

2012

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english

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