American Society of Naturalists

Junnosuke Horita, Yoh Iwasa, and Yuuya Tachiki (Dec 2020)

Positive feedback loop between competition and hormone synthesis induces the alternative life-history tactics

Louis Paul Decena-Segarra, Lilijana Bizjak-Mali, Aleš Kladnik, Stanley K. Sessions, and Sean M. Rovito (Nov 2020)

Miniature salamanders have reduced genome sizes compared to larger species

Nobuaki Mizumoto, Paul M. Bardunias, and Stephen C. Pratt (Nov 2020)

Study of termite building detangled the complex relationship between individual behavior and collective patterns

Maria Moiron, Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy, Céline Teplitsky, Sandra Bouwhuis, and Anne Charmantier (Nov 2020)

Breeding timing is influenced by indirect partner effects and assortative mating for migratory phenotype of pair members

Masaki Hoso and Ichiro K. Shimatani (Dec 2020)

Mark-recapture study reveals how much fitness advantage is conferred by snail autotomy against snake predation

Jessica F. Stephenson, Martin Stevens, Jolyon Troscianko, and Jukka Jokela (Nov 2020)

Male guppy ornaments indicate parasite resistance before infection, but males may ‘fake’ quality with dynamic traits!

Ryan Chisholm and Tak Fung (Nov 2020)

Modeling indicates that Janzen-Connell effects maintain little diversity in the presence of intrinsic fitness variation

Sarah A. Signor (Nov 2020)

Drosophila evolves to exploit novel resources through genetic accommodation

Jacob George Holland and Guy Bloch (Nov 2020)

Social complexity evolution is not ladderlike as assumed: quantifying individual social traits provides better direction

Yifan Pei, Wolfgang Forstmeier, Daiping Wang, Katrin Martin, Joanna Rutkowska, and Bart Kempenaers (Nov 2020)

High rates of infertility and embryo mortality in zebra finches are puzzling but partly explained by sexual antagonism