Volume 288(1947); March 31, 2021

Ecology

Speed and strength of an epidemic intervention

Jonathan Dushoff, Sang Woo Park

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20201556. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1556

PMCID:: PMC8059560

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Behaviour

Sociality and migration predict hybridization across birds

Gavin M. Leighton, Lucy Jingyi Lu, Eliot Holop, Jessica Dobler, Russell A. Ligon

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20201946. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1946

PMCID:: PMC8059504

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Morphology and Biomechanics

Using a biologically mimicking climbing robot to explore the performance landscape of climbing in lizards

Johanna T. Schultz, Hendrik K. Beck, Tina Haagensen, Tasmin Proost, Christofer J. Clemente

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202576. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2576

PMCID:: PMC8059955

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Behaviour

The modularity of a social group does not affect the transmission speed of a novel, socially learned behaviour, or the formation of local variants

Philippa R. Laker, William Hoppitt, Michael Weiss, Joah R. Madden

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202614. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2614

PMCID:: PMC8059538

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Global Change and Conservation

Warming indirectly increases invasion success in food webs

Arnaud Sentis, Jose M. Montoya, Miguel Lurgi

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202622. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2622

PMCID:: PMC8059653

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Comments and Invited Replies

Fisher's principle remains a plausible explanation for human sex ratio evolution. A Comment on: Zietsch et al. 2020

Jussi Lehtonen

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202632. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2632

PMCID:: PMC8059952

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Ecology

Predators, prey or temperature? Mechanisms driving niche use of a foundation plant species by specialist lizards

Kristian J. Bell, Tim S. Doherty, Don A. Driscoll

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202633. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2633

PMCID:: PMC8059954

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Comments and Invited Replies

Does the lack of heritability of human sex ratios require a rethink of sex ratio theory? No: a Comment on Zietsch et al. 2020

Steven Hecht Orzack, Ian C. W. Hardy

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202638. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2638

PMCID:: PMC8059592

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Ecology

Seasonal resource pulses and the foraging depth of a Southern Ocean top predator

Roxanne S. Beltran, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Greg A. Breed, Taiki Adachi, Akinori Takahashi, Yasuhiko Naito, Patrick W. Robinson, Walker O. Smith, Jr, Amy L. Kirkham, Jennifer M. Burns

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202817. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2817

PMCID:: PMC8059541

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Behaviour

Characteristics of urban environments and novel problem-solving performance in Eurasian red squirrels

Pizza Ka Yee Chow, Kenta Uchida, Auguste M. P. von Bayern, Itsuro Koizumi

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202832. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2832

PMCID:: PMC8059950

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Tactic-specific antimicrobial activity suggests a parental care function for accessory glands in a marine toadfish

Meghan A. Pepler, Hindra, Jessica S. Miller, Marie A. Elliot, Sigal Balshine

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202873. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2873

PMCID:: PMC8059540

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Ecology

Evidence for an Allee effect in a declining fur seal population

Rebecca Nagel, Claire Stainfield, Cameron Fox-Clarke, Camille Toscani, Jaume Forcada, Joseph I. Hoffman

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202882. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2882

PMCID:: PMC8059559

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Global Change and Conservation

Testing the multiple stressor hypothesis: chlorothalonil exposure alters transmission potential of a bumblebee pathogen but not individual host health

Austin C. Calhoun, Audrey E. Harrod, Toby A. Bassingthwaite, Ben M. Sadd

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202922. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2922

PMCID:: PMC8059969

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Whole-organism responses to constant temperatures do not predict responses to variable temperatures in the ecosystem engineer Mytilus trossulus

Katie E. Marshall, Kathryn M. Anderson, Norah E. M. Brown, James K. Dytnerski, Kelsey L. Flynn, Joey R. Bernhardt, Cassandra A. Konecny, Helen Gurney-Smith, Christopher D. G. Harley

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20202968. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2968

PMCID:: PMC8059513

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Behaviour

Sex ratio and the evolution of aggression in fruit flies

Eleanor Bath, Danielle Edmunds, Jessica Norman, Charlotte Atkins, Lucy Harper, Wayne G. Rostant, Tracey Chapman, Stuart Wigby, Jennifer C. Perry

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20203053. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3053

PMCID:: PMC8059548

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Ecology

Microbial community composition interacts with local abiotic conditions to drive colonization resistance in human gut microbiome samples

Michael Baumgartner, Katia R. Pfrunder-Cardozo, Alex R. Hall

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20203106. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3106

PMCID:: PMC8059542

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Species-area and network-area relationships in host–helminth interactions

Tad A. Dallas, Pedro Jordano

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20203143. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3143

PMCID:: PMC8059662

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Behaviour

Specialized spatial cognition is associated with reduced cognitive senescence in a food-caching bird

Virginia K. Heinen, Angela M. Pitera, Benjamin R. Sonnenberg, Lauren M. Benedict, Carrie L. Branch, Eli S. Bridge, Vladimir V. Pravosudov

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20203180. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3180

PMCID:: PMC8059976

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Review Article

Object manipulation without hands

Shoko Sugasawa, Barbara Webb, Susan D. Healy

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20203184. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3184

PMCID:: PMC8059664

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Evolution

Genetic mechanisms and correlational selection structure trait variation in a coral snake mimic

John David Curlis, Alison R. Davis Rabosky, Iris A. Holmes, Timothy J. Renney, Christian L. Cox

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210003. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0003

PMCID:: PMC8059570

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Palaeobiology

Ecological opportunity and the rise and fall of crocodylomorph evolutionary innovation

Thomas L. Stubbs, Stephanie E. Pierce, Armin Elsler, Philip S. L. Anderson, Emily J. Rayfield, Michael J. Benton

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210069. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0069

PMCID:: PMC8059953

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Evolution

Novel brain gene-expression patterns are associated with a novel predaceous behaviour in tadpoles

Cris C. Ledón-Rettig

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210079. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0079

PMCID:: PMC8059980

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Ecology

Drosophila glue protects from predation

Flora Borne, Stéphane R. Prigent, Mathieu Molet, Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210088. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0088

PMCID:: PMC8059496

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Evolution

Microarthropod contributions to fitness variation in the common moss Ceratodon purpureus

Erin E. Shortlidge, Sarah B. Carey, Adam C. Payton, Stuart F. McDaniel, Todd N. Rosenstiel, Sarah M. Eppley

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210119. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0119

PMCID:: PMC8059975

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Comparative analysis of helminth infectivity: growth in intermediate hosts increases establishment rates in the next host

Spencer Froelick, Laura Gramolini, Daniel P. Benesh

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210142. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0142

PMCID:: PMC8059535

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Palaeobiology

Ecological dynamics of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems across three mid-Phanerozoic mass extinctions from northwest China

Yuangeng Huang, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Peter D. Roopnarine, Michael J. Benton, Wan Yang, Jun Liu, Laishi Zhao, Zhenhua Li, Zhen Guo

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210148. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0148

PMCID:: PMC8059510

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Evolution

Light environment influences mating behaviours during the early stages of divergence in tropical butterflies

Alexander E. Hausmann, Chi-Yun Kuo, Marília Freire, Nicol Rueda-M, Mauricio Linares, Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Camilo Salazar, Richard M. Merrill

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210157. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0157

PMCID:: PMC8059652

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A reversal in sensory processing accompanies ongoing ecological divergence and speciation in Rhagoletis pomonella

Cheyenne Tait, Hinal Kharva, Marco Schubert, Daniel Kritsch, Andy Sombke, Jürgen Rybak, Jeffrey L. Feder, Shannon B. Olsson

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210192. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0192

PMCID:: PMC8059501

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Neuroscience and Cognition

Allometric analysis of brain cell number in Hymenoptera suggests ant brains diverge from general trends

R. Keating Godfrey, Mira Swartzlander, Wulfila Gronenberg

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210199. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0199

PMCID:: PMC8059961

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Morphology and Biomechanics

Series elasticity facilitates safe plantar flexor muscle–tendon shock absorption during perturbed human hopping

Taylor J. M. Dick, Christofer J. Clemente, Laksh K. Punith, Gregory S. Sawicki

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210201. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0201

PMCID:: PMC8059679

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Ecology

Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities

Deepa Senapathi, Jochen Fründ, Matthias Albrecht, Michael P. D. Garratt, David Kleijn, Brian J. Pickles, Simon G. Potts, Jiandong An, Georg K. S. Andersson, Svenja Bänsch, Parthiba Basu, Faye Benjamin, Antonio Diego M. Bezerra, Ritam Bhattacharya, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Brett Blaauw, Eleanor J. Blitzer, Claire A. Brittain, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, Daniel P. Cariveau, Pushan Chakraborty, Arnob Chatterjee, Soumik Chatterjee, Sarah Cusser, Bryan N. Danforth, Erika Degani, Breno M. Freitas, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Benoit Geslin, G. Arjen de Groot, Tina Harrison, Brad Howlett, Rufus Isaacs, Shalene Jha, Björn Kristian Klatt, Kristin Krewenka, Samuel Leigh, Sandra A. M. Lindström, Yael Mandelik, Megan McKerchar, Mia Park, Gideon Pisanty, Romina Rader, Menno Reemer, Maj Rundlöf, Barbara Smith, Henrik G. Smith, Patrícia Nunes Silva, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Teja Tscharntke, Sean Webber, Duncan B. Westbury, Catrin Westphal, Jennifer B. Wickens, Victoria J. Wickens, Rachael Winfree, Hong Zhang, Alexandra-Maria Klein

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210212. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0212

PMCID:: PMC8059553

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Global Change and Conservation

Loss of vocal culture and fitness costs in a critically endangered songbird

Ross Crates, Naomi Langmore, Louis Ranjard, Dejan Stojanovic, Laura Rayner, Dean Ingwersen, Robert Heinsohn

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210225. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0225

PMCID:: PMC8059949

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Ecology

The roles of T cell competition and stochastic extinction events in chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy

Gregory J. Kimmel, Frederick L. Locke, Philipp M. Altrock

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210229. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0229

Correction in:: Proc Biol Sci. February 9, 2022; 289(1968): 20212786.

PMCID:: PMC8059581

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Global Change and Conservation

Light pollution affects West Nile virus exposure risk across Florida

Meredith E. Kernbach, Lynn B. Martin, Thomas R. Unnasch, Richard J. Hall, Rays H. Y. Jiang, Clinton D. Francis

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210253. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0253

PMCID:: PMC8059973

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Behaviour

Evolutionary loss of a signalling colour is linked to increased response to conspecific chemicals

Cristina Romero-Diaz, Jake A. Pruett, Stephanie M. Campos, Alison G. Ossip-Drahos, J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, Cuauhcihuatl Vital-García, Diana K. Hews, Emília P. Martins

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210256. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0256

PMCID:: PMC8059972

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Review Article

Accounting for uncertainty: inhibition for neural inference in the cerebellum

Ensor Rafael Palacios, Conor Houghton, Paul Chadderton

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210276. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0276

PMCID:: PMC8059656

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Global Change and Conservation

Genome-wide markers redeem the lost identity of a heavily managed gamebird

Giovanni Forcina, Qian Tang, Emilie Cros, Monica Guerrini, Frank E. Rheindt, Filippo Barbanera

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210285. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0285

PMCID:: PMC8059960

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Comments and Invited Replies

When theory cannot explain data, the theory needs rethinking. Invited replies to: Orzack SH, Hardy ICW. 2021, and Lehtonen J. 2021

Brendan P. Zietsch, Hasse Walum, Paul Lichtenstein, Karin J. H. Verweij, Ralf Kuja-Halkola

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210304. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0304

PMCID:: PMC8160277

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Ecology

Negative resistance and resilience: biotic mechanisms underpin delayed biological recovery in stream restoration

Isabelle C. Barrett, Angus R. McIntosh, Catherine M. Febria, Helen J. Warburton

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210354. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0354

PMCID:: PMC8059965

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Evolution

Variable dosage compensation is associated with female consequences of an X-linked, male-beneficial mutation

Jack G. Rayner, Thomas J. Hitchcock, Nathan W. Bailey

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210355. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0355

PMCID:: PMC8059673

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Testing hypotheses of marsupial brain size variation using phylogenetic multiple imputations and a Bayesian comparative framework

Orlin S. Todorov, Simone P. Blomberg, Anjali Goswami, Karen Sears, Patrik Drhlík, James Peters, Vera Weisbecker

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210394. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0394

PMCID:: PMC8059968

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Palaeobiology

An asynchronous Mesozoic marine revolution: the Cenozoic intensification of predation on echinoids

Elizabeth Petsios, Roger W. Portell, Lyndsey Farrar, Shamindri Tennakoon, Tobias B. Grun, Michal Kowalewski, Carrie L. Tyler

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210400. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0400

PMCID:: PMC8059962

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Ecology

Bitter taste receptors of the common vampire bat are functional and show conserved responses to metal ions in vitro

Florian Ziegler, Maik Behrens

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210418. Published online March 31, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0418

PMCID:: PMC8059964

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Editor's Notes

Editor's Note on: Host–parasitoid evolution in a metacommunity

Proceedings B Editorial Board

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210505. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0505

Expression of Concern about:: Proc Biol Sci. 2016 May 25; 283(1831): 20160477.

PMCID:: PMC8059951

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Editor's Note on: Predator macroevolution drives trophic cascades and ecosystem functioning

Proceedings B Editorial Board

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210506. Published online March 24, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0506

PMCID:: PMC8059970

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Correction

Correction to: ‘Tropical mammal functional diversity increases with productivity but decreases with anthropogenic disturbance’

Daniel Gorczynski, Chia Hsieh, Jadelys Tonos Luciano, Jorge Ahumada, Santiago Espinosa, Steig Johnson, Francesco Rovero, Fernanda Santos, Mahandry Hugues Andrianarisoa, Johanna Hurtado Astaiza, Patrick A. Jansen, Charles Kayijamahe, Marcela Guimarães Moreira Lima, Julia Salvador, Lydia Beaudrot

Proc Biol Sci. March 31, 2021; 288(1947): 20210432. Published online March 17, 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0432