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View article: Living with urban fear: vervet monkey response to an evolutionarily new predator
Living with urban fear: vervet monkey response to an evolutionarily new predator Open
Humans have facilitated contacts between prey and predator species that have originally not co-evolved, reshuffling the prey-predator arms race. How do prey cope with an evolutionarily new predation risk? We tracked three vervet monkey tro…
View article: Suppression of sex-ratio drive in <i>Drosophila subobscura</i>
Suppression of sex-ratio drive in <i>Drosophila subobscura</i> Open
Selfish genetic elements enjoy an evolutionary advantage by enhancing their own transmission to offspring, and their genetic suppressors are favored when they re-establish fair inheritance patterns. Here, we study an X-linked sex ratio dri…
View article: Using a naturally occurring sterility gene to control invasive house mice
Using a naturally occurring sterility gene to control invasive house mice Open
View article: Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees
Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees Open
View article: Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees
Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees Open
Human communication is strikingly multi-modal, relying on vocal utterances combined with visual gestures, facial expressions and more. Recent efforts to describe multi-modal signal production in our ape relatives have shed important light …
View article: A selfish genetic element and its suppressor causes abnormalities to testes in a fly
A selfish genetic element and its suppressor causes abnormalities to testes in a fly Open
Selfish genetic elements (SGEs), specifically X-chromosome meiotic drive (XCMD), create huge conflicts within a host’s genome and can have profound effects on fertility. Suppressors are a common evolutionary response to XCMD to negate its …
View article: Relatedness modulates density‐dependent cannibalism rates in <i>Drosophila</i>
Relatedness modulates density‐dependent cannibalism rates in <i>Drosophila</i> Open
Cannibalism is taxonomically widespread and can have large impacts on individual fitness and population‐level processes. As such, identifying how cannibalism rates vary in response to ecological cues is important for predicting species evo…
View article: Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures
Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures Open
A growing body of observational and experimental data in nonhuman primates has highlighted the presence of rudimentary call combinations within the vocal communication system of monkeys. Such evidence suggests the ability to combine meanin…
View article: Polyandry blocks gene drive in a wild house mouse population
Polyandry blocks gene drive in a wild house mouse population Open
View article: Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems
Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems Open
Scientists are rapidly developing synthetic gene drive elements intended for release into natural populations. These are intended to control or eradicate disease vectors and pests, or to spread useful traits through wild populations for di…
View article: Author response for "Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems"
Author response for "Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems" Open
View article: Polyandry Blocks Gene Drive in a Wild House Mouse Population
Polyandry Blocks Gene Drive in a Wild House Mouse Population Open
Containing the 5 data files used in the manuscript: Polyandry blocks gene drive in a wild house mouse populationAndri Manser, Barbara König, Anna LindholmHere a brief description of the data columns and their me…
View article: Polyandry Blocks Gene Drive in A Wild House Mouse Population
Polyandry Blocks Gene Drive in A Wild House Mouse Population Open
Containing A. data files (.txt) and B. scripts (.R) used in the manuscript:Polyandry blocks gene drive in a wild house mouse populationAndri Manser, Barbara König, Anna LindholmA. Data files (.txt):-----------------------------------------…
View article: Controlling invasive rodents via synthetic gene drive and the role of polyandry
Controlling invasive rodents via synthetic gene drive and the role of polyandry Open
House mice are a major ecosystem pest, particularly threatening island ecosystems as a non-native invasive species. Rapid advances in synthetic biology offer new avenues to control pest species for biodiversity conservation. Recently, a sy…
View article: Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment
Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment Open
Recent work suggests that animals combine sounds in meaning-generating ways. Adding to this body of data, we demonstrate that pied babblers produce 2 variants of a stereotyped structure when recruiting group members during group travel, wi…
View article: Female nursing partner choice in a population of wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus)
Female nursing partner choice in a population of wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) Open
View article: The evolution of costly mate choice against segregation distorters
The evolution of costly mate choice against segregation distorters Open
The evolution of female preference for male genetic quality remains a controversial topic in sexual selection research. One well-known problem, known as the lek paradox, lies in understanding how variation in genetic quality is maintained …
View article: Sperm competition suppresses gene drive among experimentally evolving populations of house mice
Sperm competition suppresses gene drive among experimentally evolving populations of house mice Open
Drive genes are genetic elements that manipulate the 50% ratio of Mendelian inheritance in their own favour, allowing them to rapidly propagate through populations. The action of drive genes is often hidden, making detection and identifica…
View article: The Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Meiotic Drive
The Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Meiotic Drive Open
View article: Gene Drive and Sexual Selection in House Mice
Gene Drive and Sexual Selection in House Mice Open
At first sight, biological organisms appear as harmonious entities, armed with features exquisitely fine-tuned to its survival and reproduction. This is no accident: Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection entails that genes spre…