A membership society whose goal is to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences.
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Andrés E. Quiñones, Arnon Lotem, Olof Leimar, and Redouan Bshary (Apr 2020)
Reinforcement learning theory unveils the cognitive mechanisms cleaner fish use to deal with their social environment
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Tim Burton, Njal Rollinson, Simon McKelvey, David C. Stewart, John D. Armstrong, and Neil B. Metcalfe (Apr 2020)
Maternal growth trajectory influences offspring growth & survival independently of variation in initial offspring size
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Pei-Chi Ho, Chun-Wei Chang, Fuh-Kwo Shiah, Pei-Ling Wang, Chih-hao Hsieh, and Ken H. Andersen (Apr 2020)
Our field observations and model extend the light-nutrient theory determining plankton C:N with body size dependency
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Inon Scharf (Apr 2020)
The spatial distribution of large and small predators living in clusters is not random but depends on various factors
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Lara Meade, Sam Finnegan, Ridhima Kad, Kevin Fowler, and Andrew Pomiankowski (Apr 2020)
Males with meiotic drive have enlarged testes to maintain high fertility despite the destruction of half their sperm
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Jiang Jiang, Karen C. Abbott, Mara Baudena, Maarten B. Eppinga, James A. Umbanhowar, and James Bever (Apr 2020)
Pathogens and mutualists as joint drivers of host species coexistence and turnover
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Ian S. Pearse, Jessica M. Aguilar, and Sharon Y. Strauss (Apr 2020)
Mustards live in drought; having trait plasticity keeps their fitness high
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Anna L. Hargreaves, Rachel M. Germain, Megan Bontrager, Joshua Persi, and Amy L. Angert (March 2020)
Global synthesis finds species interactions strongly affect fitness, but only broadly drive local adaptation in tropics
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Ryan D. Briscoe Runquist, Amanda J. Gorton, Jeremy B. Yoder, Nicholas J. Deacon, Jake J. Grossman, Shan Kothari, Marta P. Lyons, Seema N. Sheth, Peter Tiffin, and David A. Moeller (March 2020)
Metasynthesis reveals context dependent local adaptation to abiotic and biotic factors but bias in experimental design
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Philip Erm and Ben L. Phillips (March 2020)
Invasion waves can turn from pushed to pulled due to selection for low-density adapted individuals on invasion fronts