Ecology

Ecology

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Latest articles

    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Passive accumulation of alkaloids in inconspicuously colored frogs refines the evolutionary paradigm of acquired chemical defenses

    Rebecca D Tarvin, Jeffrey L Coleman ... Richard Fitch
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Ecology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress

    Iva Veseli, Yiqun T Chen ... A Murat Eren
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Ecology

    Habitat fragmentation mediates the mechanisms underlying long-term climate-driven thermophilization in birds

    Juan Liu, Morgan W Tingley ... Xingfeng Si
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    1. Ecology

    Polarised Moonlight Guides Nocturnal Bull Ants Home

    Cody A Freas, Ajay Narendra ... Ken Cheng
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    1. Ecology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Colony demographics shape nest construction in ants

    Harikrishnan Rajendran, Roi Weinberger ... Ofer Feinerman
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Ecology

    Body mass and growth rates predict protein intake across animals

    Stav Talal, Jon F Harrison ... Arianne J Cease
    Protein nutritional requirements decrease predictively with mass throughout ontogeny across the animal kingdom.
    1. Ecology

    Foxtrot migration and dynamic over-wintering range of an Arctic raptor

    Ivan Pokrovsky, Teja Curk ... Martin Wikelski
    The dynamic over-wintering range of migratory birds, resulting from the newly described 'foxtrot migration' pattern, reveals potential errors in single mid-winter population assessments and highlights implications for their conservation status.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Neuropeptide Bursicon and its receptor-mediated the transition from summer-form to winter-form of Cacopsylla chinensis

    Zhixian Zhang, Jianying Li ... Songdou Zhang
    Integrated ecological and genetic methods show that Bursicon signaling pathway and miR-6012 regulate the transition from summer-form to winter-form in Cacopsylla chinensis through affecting cuticle pigment and cuticle thickness.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Expanding the toolbox: Novel class IIb microcins show activity against Gram-negative ESKAPE and plant pathogens

    Benedikt M Mortzfeld, Shakti K Bhattarai, Vanni Bucci
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Ecology

    The Neuropeptide Sulfakinin, a peripheral regulator of insect behavioral switch between mating and foraging

    Hong-Fei Li, Bao Dong ... Hong-Bo Jiang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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Highlights

    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Plant Biology: Hiding in plain smell

    Youngsung Joo, Meredith C Schuman
    1. Ecology

    Ecosystems: The diversity of decay

    Emma J Sayer, Ralf Schäfer
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The natural history of the house sparrow

    Haley E Hanson, Noreen S Mathews ... Lynn B Martin

Senior editors

  1. George H Perry
    Pennsylvania State University, United States
  2. Sergio Rasmann
    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  3. Meredith C Schuman
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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