Incubation strategy and hatching start time affect the duration of the nestling period in precocial Arctic-breeding sandpipers [0.03%]
孵化策略和雏鸟开始破壳时间影响北极早成性滨鹬的育雏期长短
Thomas Pagnon,François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont,Anders Angerbjörn et al.
Thomas Pagnon et al.
In bird species with precocial development, i.e. chicks acquire abilities to leave the nest soon after hatching, the nestling period during which parents warm their young in the nest by brooding them is short but critical to breeding succes...
Experimental infections with a honey bee virus induce fitness costs in ant colonies [0.03%]
蜜蜂病毒的实验感染会在蚂蚁群体中产生适应性成本
Lai Ka Lo,Ashmita Baruah,Robert J Paxton et al.
Lai Ka Lo et al.
Acute bee paralysis virus (ABPV) is a key driver of honey bee colony losses that has been increasingly reported in non-bee hosts. Ants have long been hypothesized to act as viral reservoirs, but most evidence comes from field surveys and ex...
Lucy Oldham,Gareth Arnott,Mark Briffa et al.
Lucy Oldham et al.
Skill is the ability to do a challenging behaviour well. We examined how contest skill influences contest success, costs and whether skilful behaviour enhances welfare. We measured skill across three domains: accuracy, appropriateness (sele...
Light and drug effects reveal three pathways for nitric oxide modulation of the first visual synaptic relay in the lamina ganglionaris [0.03%]
光和药物作用揭示一氧化氮调制节细胞神经元轴突末端信号传递的三种机制
Hugo Alejandro Álvarez,Jorge Cebada,Carmen Grijota-Martínez et al.
Hugo Alejandro Álvarez et al.
The modulation of synaptic relay mechanisms in the visual pathway remains a significant area of investigation. Here, we explore the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the eyestalks of the Australian blue crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus, focusing ...
Kimmo Kaakinen,Olli Juhana Loukola,Eva-Maria Vaajamo et al.
Kimmo Kaakinen et al.
Pollinator decline is one of the most urgent environmental challenges of our time, and pesticide use is considered a major contributing factor. In this study, we investigated whether exposure to volatilized prallethrin, a widely used insect...
Sex differences in the enjoyment of enrichment: affective bias testing confirms female rats prefer more playful and less vigorous tickling [0.03%]
性别差异对增强项目的享受：情感偏差测试确认雌性大鼠更喜欢更具玩耍意味、而非激烈的身体刺激
Catalina Gonzalez,Alistair B Lawrence,Michael Mendl et al.
Catalina Gonzalez et al.
There is increasing interest in positive animal welfare which emphasizes that animals should experience predominantly positive mental states. Positive animal welfare raises challenging biological questions, including how we assess positive ...
Cryptic diversity does not justify weakening systematics standards. A comment on: 'Adapting practices to accelerate the scientific description of invertebrate cryptic species', (2025) by Vivien et al [0.03%]
隐种多样性并不能成为放宽分类学标准的理由
Andrew Davinack,Kirk Fitzhugh
Andrew Davinack
Vivien R, Martin P, Pawlowski J, Alther R. 2025 Adapting practices to accelerate the scientific description of invertebrate cryptic species. Biol. Lett. 21, 20250385. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0385) propose accelerating the formal description ...
Genomic evidence reveals a record-breaking range in Tubulanus lutescens (Nemertea) from shallow coasts to deep-sea seeps [0.03%]
基因组证据揭示了从浅海岸到深海渗漏的线虫动物门属Tubulanus lutescens分布记录创举
Christina Sagorny,Jörn von Döhren,Greg W Rouse et al.
Christina Sagorny et al.
Morphological and low-coverage genomic data reveal that the shallow-water Swedish ribbon worm Tubulanus lutescens is conspecific with nemerteans collected from bathyal methane seeps along the Costa Rican margin, thus spanning two ocean basi...
When cryptogenic species are also cryptic: reframing biogeographic uncertainty in the environmental DNA era [0.03%]
当隐源种也是隐藏时：环境DNA时代的生物地理不确定性再思考
Patrick K Nichols,James T Fumo,Keolohilani H Lopes Jr et al.
Patrick K Nichols et al.
Distinguishing native from non-native species is complicated by cryptogenic taxa, whose native or non-native status remains uncertain, and cryptic species, which are genetically distinct yet morphologically indistinguishable taxa. These cha...
Postmating responses depend on genome background in Drosophila melanogaster strains homoallelic for sex peptide [0.03%]
果蝇中与性肽同源等位基因株系的交配后反应取决于基因组背景
Tanya Verma,Hope Human,Ella Kozun et al.
Tanya Verma et al.
The phenotypic response of gene alleles can be influenced by environmental conditions and genome background. Although progress has been made focusing on polymorphisms at major-effect genes, our understanding of how genome background modulat...