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This section considers studies in the areas of evolutionary behaviour and ecology including sexual conflict and selection.
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Diet composition (yeast:carbohydrate ratio) is an important determinant of growth, development, and reproduction. Recent studies have shown that decreased yeast intake elicits numerous transcriptomic changes a...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:194
Published on: 17 August 2017
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Theory predicts that colour polymorphism may be favored by variation in the visual context under which signals are perceived. The context encompasses all environmental determinants of light availability and pr...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:191
Published on: 14 August 2017
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The performance and fitness of social societies mainly depends on the efficiency of interactions between reproductive individuals and helpers. Helpers need to react to the group’s requirements and to adjust th...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:173
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Predation is ubiquitous in nature. One form of predation is cannibalism, which is affected by many factors such as size structure and resource density. However, cannibalism may also be influenced by abiotic fa...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:167
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Quantifying morphological diversity across taxa can provide valuable insight into evolutionary processes, yet its complexities can make it difficult to identify appropriate units for evaluation. One of the cha...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:165
Published on: 10 July 2017
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Adaptive plasticity is essential for many species to cope with environmental heterogeneity. In particular, developmental plasticity allows organisms with complex life cycles to adaptively adjust the timing of ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:164
Published on: 7 July 2017
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Evidence for the transmission of non-genetic information from father to offspring is rapidly accumulating. While the impact of chemical and physical factors such as toxins or diet on the fitness of the parents...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:157
Published on: 3 July 2017
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The herbivore lifestyle leads to encounters with plant toxins and requires mechanisms to overcome suboptimal nutrient availability in plant tissues. Although the evolution of bacterial endosymbiosis alleviated...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:153
Published on: 27 June 2017
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Most birds exhibit bi-parental care with both sexes providing food for their young. Nestling signal food needs through begging. However, for some species, males rarely visit the nest, so have limited opportuni...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:144
Published on: 19 June 2017
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On-going global climate change poses a serious threat for natural populations unless they are able to evolutionarily adapt to changing environmental conditions (e.g. increasing average temperatures, occurrence...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:140
Published on: 15 June 2017
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The combination of model-based comparative techniques, disparity analyses and ecomorphological correlations constitutes a powerful method to gain insight into the evolutionary mechanisms that shape morphologic...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:109
Published on: 4 May 2017
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The ability to form a cellular memory and use it for cellular decision-making could help bacteria to cope with recurrent stress conditions. We analyzed whether bacteria would form a cellular memory specificall...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:73
Published on: 9 March 2017
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The evolution of reproductive isolation between herbivorous insect populations is often initiated by shifts to novel host-plants, a process that underlies some of the best examples of ecological speciation. Ho...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:72
Published on: 9 March 2017
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Comparative studies suggest that sperm competition exerts stabilizing selection towards an optimal sperm design – e.g., the relative size and covariation of different sperm sections or a quantitative measure o...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:66
Published on: 4 March 2017
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Developmental plasticity is thought to have profound macro-evolutionary effects, for example, by increasing the probability of establishment in new environments and subsequent divergence into independently evo...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:59
Published on: 27 February 2017
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Phenotypic changes in response to environmental influences can persist from one generation into the next. In many systems parental parasite experience influences offspring immune responses, known as transgener...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:44
Published on: 7 February 2017
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Males and females often have opposing strategies for increasing fitness. Males that out-compete others will acquire more mating opportunities and thus have higher lifetime reproductive success. Females that ma...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:41
Published on: 6 February 2017
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Both natural and sexual selection may drive the evolution of plumage colouration in birds. This can lead to great variation in plumage not only across species, but also between sexes within species. Australasi...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:35
Published on: 26 January 2017
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Many diurnal animals exhibit a mid-day ‘siesta’, generally thought to be an adaptive response aimed at minimizing exposure to heat on warm days, suggesting that in regions with cooler climates mid-day siestas ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:32
Published on: 23 January 2017
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Quantifying the conspicuousness of objects against particular backgrounds is key to understanding the evolution and adaptive value of animal coloration, and in designing effective camouflage. Quantifying detec...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:7
Published on: 6 January 2017
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