American Society of Naturalists

Cynthia J. Downs, Ned A. Dochtermann, Ray Ball, Kirk C. Klasing, and Lynn B. Martin (Jan 2020)

Neutrophils increase disproportionately with body mass. An elephant’s immune system isn’t a mouse’s writ large

Guillem Masó, Arpat Ozgul, and Patrick S. Fitze (Jan 2020)

Climatic predictability: consistent small non-significant survival differences add up to important population decline

Pedro Branco, Martijn Egas, Spencer R. Hall, and Jef Huisman (Jan 2020)

Why do phytoplankton evolve large size in response to grazing? A new explanation based on selection for nutritious food

Anselmo C. Pontes, Robert B. Mobley, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, and Fred C. Dyer (Jan 2020)

Digital evolution uncovers the origin of associative learning and reflexive behaviors animal cognition artificial life

Christopher Weiss-Lehman and Allison Shaw (Jan 2020)

Spatial population structure inhibits range shifts via impacts on eco-evolutionary dynamics of dispersal and adaptation

Adam T. Bakewell, Katie E. Davis, Robert P. Freckleton, Nick J. B. Isaac, and Peter J. Mayhew (Jan 2020)

Fast-slow continuum is less pronounced in Orthoptera than in birds/mammals, instead trait covariation is reptile-like

T. Brandt Ryder, Roslyn Dakin, Ben J. Vernasco, Brian S. Evans, Brent M. Horton, and Ignacio T. Moore (Jan 2020)

Testosterone helps male birds ascend in social status, but too much is detrimental to their cooperative behavior

Eva Janoušková and Luděk Berec (Jan 2020)

We for the first time show that the fecundity-longevity trade-off is a relevant player in sterility virulence evolution

Andrew D. Clark, Dominik Deffner, Kevin Laland, John Odling-Smee, and John Endler (Jan 2020)

A meta-analysis of selection gradients shows that niche construction affects the variability and strength of selection

Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Christopher D. Heckel, Robert M. McElderry, and Susan Kalisz (Jan 2020)

Deer indirectly affect the reproductive strategy of an unpalatable forest perennial