From the Editor’s Desk of The American Naturalist: Communication

Recent Papers

Prey Exploits the Auditory Illusions of Eavesdropping Predators

Henry D. Legett, Claire T. Hemingway, and Ximena E. Bernal

Selection for Rhythm as a Trigger for Recursive Evolution in the Elaborate Display System of Woodpeckers

Meredith C. Miles, Eric R. Schuppe, and Matthew J. Fuxjager

Flies Exploit Predictable Perspectives and Backgrounds to Enhance Iridescent Signal Salience and Mating Success

Thomas E. White, Nina Vogel-Ghibely, and Nathan J. Butterworth

Phenotypic Diversity Arises from Secondary Signal Loss in the Elaborate Visual Displays of Toucans and Barbets

Meredith C. Miles and Matthew J. Fuxjager

Are Pheromones Key to Unlocking Cryptic Lizard Diversity?

Stephen M. Zozaya, Megan Higgie, Craig Moritz, and Conrad J. Hoskin

Condition-Dependent Begging Elicits Increased Parental Investment in a Wild Bird Population

E. Keith Bowers, Jonathan B. Jenkins, Alexander J. Mueller, Kelly D. Miller, Charles F. Thompson, and Scott K. Sakaluk

Synthesis

Animal Coloration Patterns: Linking Spatial Vision to Quantitative Analysis

Mary Caswell Stoddard and Daniel Osorio

Pheromone-Induced Accuracy of Nestmate Recognition in Carpenter Ants: Simultaneous Decrease in Type I and Type II Errors

Natacha Rossi, David Baracchi, Martin Giurfa, and Patrizia d’Ettorre

Natural History Note

Purring Crickets: The Evolution of a Novel Sexual Signal

Robin M. Tinghitella, E. Dale Broder, Gabrielle A. Gurule-Small, Claudia J. Hallagan, and Jacob D. Wilson

Synthesis

Toward Understanding the Repeated Occurrence of Associations between Melanin-Based Coloration and Multiple Phenotypes

Luis M. San-Jose and Alexandre Roulin

Effects of Offspring and Parental Inbreeding on Parent-Offspring Communication

Sarah N. Mattey, Jon Richardson, Tom Ratz, and Per T. Smiseth

Lay summary:

ASN Address

Sensory Drive, Color, and Color Vision

Trevor D. Price