Behavioral Ecology

Recent Papers

State-Dependent Decision-Making by Predators and Its Consequences for Mimicry

Thomas G. Aubier and Thomas N. Sherratt

Spite and the Geometry of Negative Relatedness

Philip G. Madgwick

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Madgwick.html

Host Plant Choice Determined by Reproductive Interference between Closely Related Butterflies

Naota Ohsaki, Masaaki Ohata, Yoshibumi Sato, and Mark D. Rausher

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Ohsaki.html

Relative Brain Size Is Predicted by the Intensity of Intrasexual Competition in Frogs

Chun Lan Mai (麦春兰), Wen Bo Liao (廖文波), Stefan Lüpold, and Alexander Kotrschal

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Mai.html

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Metabolic Rate Interacts with Resource Availability to Determine Individual Variation in Microhabitat Use in the Wild

Sonya K. Auer, Ronald D. Bassar, Daniel Turek, Graeme J. Anderson, Simon McKelvey, John D. Armstrong, Keith H. Nislow, Helen K. Downie, Thomas A. J. Morgan, Darryl McLennan, and Neil B. Metcalfe

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What Do Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Have in Common? The Organism in the Middle

Ellen D. Ketterson

The Ecology of Individual Differences Empirically Applied to Space-Use and Movement Tactics

Quinn M. R. Webber, Michel P. Laforge, Maegwin Bonar, Alec L. Robitaille, Christopher Hart, Sana Zabihi-Seissan, and Eric Vander Wal

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Webber.html

Maternal Investment, Ecological Lifestyle, and Brain Evolution in Sharks and Rays

Christopher G. Mull, Kara E. Yopak, and Nicholas K. Dulvy

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Mull.html

Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts

Juan Gabriel Martínez, Mercedes Molina-Morales, Marta Precioso, and Jesús Miguel Avilés

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Martinez.html

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Reinforcement Learning Theory Reveals the Cognitive Requirements for Solving the Cleaner Fish Market Task

Andrés E. Quiñones, Olof Leimar, Arnon Lotem, and Redouan Bshary

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Quinones.html

Safety Cues Can Give Prey More Valuable Information Than Danger Cues

Barney Luttbeg, Maud C. O. Ferrari, Daniel T. Blumstein, and Douglas P. Chivers

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Luttbeg.html

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Early Sibling Conflict May Ultimately Benefit the Family

Alyssa Laney Smith, Daniel Z. Atwater, and Ragan M. Callaway

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Smith.html

Within-Individual Canalization Contributes to Age-Related Increases in Trait Repeatability: A Longitudinal Experiment in Red Knots

Eva M. A. Kok, Joseph B. Burant, Anne Dekinga, Petra Manche, Darren Saintonge, Theunis Piersma, and Kimberley J. Mathot

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Kok.html

Individual Variation in the Social Plasticity of Water Dragons

Kasha Strickland and Céline H. Frère

Assessing Behavioral Associations in a Hybrid Zone through Social Network Analysis: Complex Assortative Behaviors Structure Associations in a Hybrid Quail Population

David M. Zonana, Jennifer M. Gee, Eli S. Bridge, Michael D. Breed, and Daniel F. Doak

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneZonana.html

Space Use and Leadership Modify Dilution Effects on Optimal Vigilance under Food-Safety Trade-Offs

Rémi Patin, Daniel Fortin, Cédric Sueur, and Simon Chamaillé-Jammes

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanPatin.html

Behavioral Evolution

Recent Papers

Open Access

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

Andrew D. Clark, Dominik Deffner, Kevin Laland, John Odling-Smee, and John Endler

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Clark.html

Open Access

The Evolutionary Origin of Associative Learning

Anselmo C. Pontes, Robert B. Mobley, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, and Fred C. Dyer

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Pontes.html

The Evolution of Indiscriminate Altruism in a Cooperatively Breeding Mammal

Chris Duncan, David Gaynor, Tim Clutton-Brock, and Mark Dyble

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneDuncan.html

Gene-Culture Coinheritance of a Behavioral Trait

Elliot G. Aguilar and Erol Akçay

Should I Change or Should I Go? Phenotypic Plasticity and Matching Habitat Choice in the Adaptation to Environmental Heterogeneity

Pim Edelaar, Roger Jovani, and Ivan Gomez-Mestre

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctEdelaar.html

Synthesis

Comparative Analyses of Phenotypic Trait Covariation within and among Populations

Kathryn S. Peiman and Beren W. Robinson

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctPeiman.html

Genetic Correlations among Developmental and Contextual Behavioral Plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster

Julia B. Saltz, Seana Lymer, Jessica Gabrielian, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulySaltz.html

Fitness Consequences of Boldness in Juvenile and Adult Largemouth Bass

Nicholas G. Ballew, Gary G. Mittelbach, and Kim T. Scribner

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprBallew.html