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Animal evolution

Structural and evolutionary constraints shape adaptive landscapes of immune-related genes across mammalian phylogeny

Zhengtian Li, Mubbashar Hassan, Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Adnan Ashraf, Akhtar Rasool Asif, Iram Qadeer, Abid Hussain Shahzad, Shaista Abbas, Muhammad Sajid, Abdul Mateen, Irfan Ahmed, Jamal Muhammad, Sayyed Aun Muhammad, Farid S. Ataya

published 07 Nov 2025

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Spatial-temporal characteristics and influence factors of high-quality development of animal husbandry industry in China

Tiantian Su, Cuixia Li

published 04 Feb 2025

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Aesthetic preference for artificially selected color variant affects mate choice copying behavior in female Poecilia latipinna

Ronald David MacLaren

published 28 Mar 2024

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Global patterns of plumage color evolution in island-living passeriform birds

Madison D. Oud, Sean M. Mahoney, Claudie Pageau, Marcio Argollo de Menezes, Nathan Smith, James V. Briskie, Matthew W. Reudink

published 15 Dec 2023

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Effects of polyploidization and their evolutionary implications are revealed by heritable polyploidy in the haplodiploid wasp Nasonia vitripennis

Kelley Leung, Louis van de Zande, Leo W. Beukeboom

published 02 Nov 2023

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Overcoming the phantoms of the past: Influence of predatory stimuli on the antipredator behavior of island pitvipers

João Miguel Alves-Nunes, Adriano Fellone, Ivan Sazima, Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques

published 24 Oct 2023

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Impact of dominance rank specification in dyadic interaction models

Alexander Mielke

published 20 Jul 2023

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Spatial localization ability of planarians identified through a light maze paradigm

Renzhi Qian, Yuan Yan, Yu Pei, Yixuan Zhang, Yuanwei Chi, Yuxuan Chen, Kun Hao, Zhen Xu, Guang Yang, Zilun Shao, Yuhao Wang, Xinran Li, Chenxu Lu, Xuan Zhang, Kehan Chen, Wenqiang Zhang, Baoqing Wang, Zhengxin Ying, Kaiyuan Huang

published 19 Jul 2023

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Evaluation of the appearance of osteochondrosis lesions by two radiographic examinations in sport horses aged from 12 to 36 months

Raphaël Van Cauter, Didier Serteyn, Jean-Philippe Lejeune, Alycia Rousset, Isabelle Caudron

published 23 May 2023

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Extra-pair paternity drives plumage colour elaboration in male passerines

Emma Thibault, Sean M. Mahoney, James V. Briskie, Mateen Shaikh, Matthew W. Reudink

published 22 Aug 2022

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Problems with using comparative analyses of avian brain size to test hypotheses of cognitive evolution

Rebecca Hooper, Becky Brett, Alex Thornton

published 22 Jul 2022

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Game modelling and stability strategy research on distributed leadership pattern: A tripartite evolutionary game perspective

Ledi Lyu, Zeguang Cui, Haomin Zhang

published 20 Jul 2022

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The effects of social rank and payoff structure on the evolution of group hunting

Julie C. Jarvey, Payam Aminpour, Clifford Bohm

published 10 Jun 2022

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