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View article: Reproductive biology of Hawaiian lava crickets
Reproductive biology of Hawaiian lava crickets Open
Insects have spread across diverse ecological niches, including extreme environments requiring specialized traits for survival. However, little is understood about the reproductive traits required to facilitate persistence in such environm…
View article: Reproductive Biology of Hawaiian Lava Crickets
Reproductive Biology of Hawaiian Lava Crickets Open
View article: Integrating remote international experience and community engagement into course‐based animal behavior research
Integrating remote international experience and community engagement into course‐based animal behavior research Open
Human‐centered, active‐learning approaches can help students develop core competencies in biology and other STEM fields, including the ability to conduct research, use quantitative reasoning, communicate across disciplinary boundaries, and…
View article: College Squirrels Gone Wild? Using Sciurus Carolinensis Behavior To Assess The Ecosystem Value Of Urban Green Spaces
College Squirrels Gone Wild? Using Sciurus Carolinensis Behavior To Assess The Ecosystem Value Of Urban Green Spaces Open
Predicted rapid increases in urbanization in the face of accelerating biodiversity loss underscores the need for urban development that promotes rather than displaces native plants and animals. One approach for increasing urban biodiversit…
View article: How urbanization affects sexual communication
How urbanization affects sexual communication Open
Urbanization is rapidly altering landscapes worldwide, changing environmental conditions, and creating novel selection pressures for many organisms. Local environmental conditions affect the expression and evolution of sexual signals and m…
View article: Predation shapes behavioral lateralization: insights from an adaptive radiation of livebearing fish
Predation shapes behavioral lateralization: insights from an adaptive radiation of livebearing fish Open
Hemispheric brain lateralization can drive the expression of behavioral asymmetry, or laterality, which varies notably both within and among species. To explain these left–right behavioral asymmetries in animals, predator-mediated selectio…
View article: Sex‐specific associations between life‐history traits and a novel reproductive polymorphism in the Pacific field cricket
Sex‐specific associations between life‐history traits and a novel reproductive polymorphism in the Pacific field cricket Open
Associations between heritable polymorphisms and life‐history traits, such as development time or reproductive investment, may play an underappreciated role in maintaining polymorphic systems. This is because selection acting on a particul…
View article: Author response for "Sex‐specific associations between life‐history traits and a novel reproductive polymorphism in the Pacific field cricket"
Author response for "Sex‐specific associations between life‐history traits and a novel reproductive polymorphism in the Pacific field cricket" Open
View article: Correction to ‘Obligately silent males sire more offspring than singers in a rapidly evolving cricket population’
Correction to ‘Obligately silent males sire more offspring than singers in a rapidly evolving cricket population’ Open
In the caption for figure 1, the key in the figure correctly describes different groups, but the legend has the group identities reversed.The text currently says, 'Filled bars represent flatwings (FW); open bars represent normal-wings (NW)…
View article: Direct and indirect effects of sexual signal loss on female reproduction in the Pacific field cricket (<i>Teleogryllus oceanicus</i>)
Direct and indirect effects of sexual signal loss on female reproduction in the Pacific field cricket (<i>Teleogryllus oceanicus</i>) Open
Sexual signal evolution may present fitness consequences for the non‐signaling sex due to shared genes and altered social conditions, but this is rarely studied in natural populations. On the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, most male Teleogryllu…
View article: When Does Sexual Signal Exploitation Lead to Signal Loss?
When Does Sexual Signal Exploitation Lead to Signal Loss? Open
Evolutionary loss of traits is common over evolutionary time and occurs in diverse taxa. Sexual signals and other non-signal traits should differ in their likelihood of becoming lost because they experience different selection pressures co…
View article: Obligately silent males sire more offspring than singers in a rapidly evolving cricket population
Obligately silent males sire more offspring than singers in a rapidly evolving cricket population Open
How sexual traits are gained and lost in the wild remains an important question in evolutionary biology. Pacific field crickets ( Teleogryllus oceanicus ) in Hawaii provide an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the factors facilitati…
View article: Predation Risk Influences Evolution of Sexually Selected Traits in Bahamian Mosquitofish
Predation Risk Influences Evolution of Sexually Selected Traits in Bahamian Mosquitofish Open