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Natural selection

Relaxed natural selection contributes to global obesity increase more in males than in females due to more environmental modifications in female body mass

Wenpeng You, Maciej Henneberg

Cryptic “royal” subfamilies in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies

James M. Withrow, David R. Tarpy

Aggressive bodyguards are not always the best: Preferential interaction with more aggressive ant species reduces reproductive success of plant bearing extrafloral nectaries

Bruno Gabriel Melati, Laura Carolina Leal

Transgressive phenotypes and evidence of weak postzygotic isolation in F1 hybrids between closely related capuchino seedeaters

Leonardo Campagna, Pablo Rodriguez, José Carlos Mazzulla

Associations between age at first calving and subsequent lactation performance in UK Holstein and Holstein-Friesian dairy cows

Neil T. Eastham, Amy Coates, [ ... ], Georgios Oikonomou

Genetic drift precluded adaptation of an insect seed predator to a novel host plant in a long-term selection experiment

Liisa Laukkanen, Aino Kalske, [ ... ], Pia Mutikainen

The alternative prey hypothesis revisited: Still valid for willow ptarmigan population dynamics

Jo Inge Breisjøberget, Morten Odden, [ ... ], Harry Andreassen

Avian cholera outbreaks threaten seabird species on Amsterdam Island

Audrey Jaeger, Camille Lebarbenchon, [ ... ], Henri Weimerskirch

Systematic detection of positive selection in the human-pathogen interactome and lasting effects on infectious disease susceptibility

Erik Corona, Liuyang Wang, Dennis Ko, Chirag J. Patel

Costs of cold acclimation on survival and reproductive behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

Elizabeth R. Everman, Jennifer L. Delzeit, [ ... ], Theodore J. Morgan

Hatchling survival to breeding age in Northern Pine Snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus) in the New Jersey Pine Barrens: Human effects on recruitment from 1986 to 2017

Joanna Burger, Robert T. Zappalorti, Michael Gochfeld

Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness

Yanling Zhang, Feng Fu

Phenotypic plasticity of life-history traits of a calanoid copepod in a tropical lake: Is the magnitude of thermal plasticity related to thermal variability?

Elizabeth Ortega-Mayagoitia, Osvaldo Hernández-Martínez, Jorge Ciros-Pérez

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