Volume 17(5); 2021 May

Palaeontology

Extreme growth plasticity in the early branching sauropodomorph Massospondylus carinatus

Kimberley E. J. Chapelle, Jennifer Botha, Jonah N. Choiniere

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20200843. Published online May 12, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0843

PMCID:: PMC8113909

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Evolutionary Biology

Adaptation at different points along antibiotic concentration gradients

Mato Lagator, Hildegard Uecker, Paul Neve

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20200913. Published online May 12, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0913

PMCID:: PMC8113895

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Physiology

Flow increases tolerance of heat and hypoxia of an aquatic insect

James I. Frakes, Jackson H. Birrell, Alisha A. Shah, H. Arthur Woods

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210004. Published online May 12, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0004

PMCID:: PMC8113891

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Evolutionary Biology

Parthenogenesis is self-destructive for scaled reptiles

Matthew Owen Moreira, Carlos Fonseca, Danny Rojas

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210006. Published online May 12, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0006

PMCID:: PMC8113917

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Palaeontology

Eggs of extinct dwarf island emus retained large size

Julian P. Hume, Christian Robertson

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210012. Published online May 26, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0012

PMCID:: PMC8150009

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Evolutionary Biology

Larval habitats impose trait-dependent limits on the direction and rate of adult evolution in dragonflies

Michael P. Moore

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210023. Published online May 19, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0023

PMCID:: PMC8131937

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Animal Behaviour

Temporal stability of chimpanzee social culture

Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210031. Published online May 26, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0031

PMCID:: PMC8150033

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Global Change Biology

Mangrove sinkholes (cenotes) of the Yucatan Peninsula, a global hotspot of carbon sequestration

M. F. Adame, N. S. Santini, O. Torres-Talamante, K. Rogers

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210037. Published online May 5, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0037

PMCID:: PMC8097219

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Impact of marine heatwaves for sea turtle nest temperatures

Graeme C. Hays, William J. Chivers, Jacques-Olivier Laloë, Charles Sheppard, Nicole Esteban

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210038. Published online May 12, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0038

PMCID:: PMC8113898

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Animal Behaviour

Moving in fast waters: the exaggerated claw gape of the New River crayfish (Cambarus chasmodactlyus) aids in locomotor performance

Zackary A. Graham

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210045. Published online May 19, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0045

PMCID:: PMC8131936

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Evolutionary Biology

Pervasive effects of Wolbachia on host activity

Michael T. J. Hague, H. Arthur Woods, Brandon S. Cooper

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210052. Published online May 5, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0052

PMCID:: PMC8097217

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Community Ecology

Food limitation and starvation independently affect predator macronutrient selection

Søren Toft, Camilla Sandager Lange, Line Kristensen

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210095. Published online May 5, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0095

PMCID:: PMC8097198

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Evolutionary Biology

‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed

Patrik Lindenfors, Andreas Wartel, Johan Lind

Biol Lett. 2021 May; 17(5): 20210158. Published online May 5, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0158

PMCID:: PMC8103230

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