Sexual Dimorphism

Recent Papers

Sex-Specific Among-Individual Covariation in Locomotor Activity and Resting Metabolic Rate in Drosophila melanogaster

Mathieu Videlier, Howard D. Rundle, and Vincent Careau

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Videlier.html

Macroevolutionary Origin and Adaptive Function of a Polymorphic Female Signal Involved in Sexual Conflict

Beatriz Willink, M. Catherine Duryea, and Erik I. Svensson

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

Interspecific Covariation in Courtship Displays, Iridescent Plumage, Solar Orientation, and Their Interactions in Hummingbirds

Richard K. Simpson and Kevin J. McGraw

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

Evolution of the Two Sexes under Internal Fertilization and Alternative Evolutionary Pathways

Jussi Lehtonen and Geoff A. Parker

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

Open Access

Sexually Antagonistic Variation and the Evolution of Dimorphic Sexual Systems

Colin Olito and Tim Connallon

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

Evolutionary Consequences of Sex-Specific Selection in Variable Environments: Four Simple Models Reveal Diverse Evolutionary Outcomes

Tim Connallon, Shefali Sharma, and Colin Olito

A Comparative Study of the Role of Sex-Specific Condition Dependence in the Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Traits

Patrick T. Rohner and Wolf U. Blanckenhorn

Female-Biased Sex Ratios Increase Colony Survival and Reproductive Output in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus

James L. L. Lichtenstein, Ambika Kamath, Sarah Bengston, Leticia Avilés, and Jonathan N. Pruitt

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

Sex-Dependent Expression and Fitness Consequences of Sunlight-Derived Color Phenotypes

Juan A. Fargallo, Félix Martínez, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, David Serrano, and Guillermo Blanco

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

Morphology

Recent Papers

Gliding Dragons and Flying Squirrels: Diversifying versus Stabilizing Selection on Morphology following the Evolution of an Innovation

Terry J. Ord, Joan Garcia-Porta, Marina Querejeta, and David C. Collar

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Ord.html

Transitions between the Terrestrial and Epiphytic Habit Drove the Evolution of Seed-Aerodynamic Traits in Orchids

Xu-Li Fan, Guillaume Chomicki, Kai Hao, Qiang Liu, Ying-Ze Xiong, Susanne S. Renner, Jiang-Yun Gao, and Shuang-Quan Huang

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Fan.html

Wasp Waist and Flight: Convergent Evolution in Wasps Reveals a Link between Wings and Body Shapes

Adrien Perrard

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Perrard.html

Head Shape Modulates Diversification of a Classic Cichlid Pharyngeal Jaw Innovation

Edward D. Burress, Milton Tan, and Peter C. Wainwright

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

What Determines the Distinct Morphology of Species with a Particular Ecology? The Roles of Many-to-One Mapping and Trade-Offs in the Evolution of Frog Ecomorphology and Performance

Daniel S. Moen

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

Natural History Note

Morphological Polymorphism Associated with Alternative Reproductive Tactics in a Plethodontid Salamander

Todd W. Pierson, Jennifer Deitloff, Stanley K. Sessions, Kenneth H. Kozak, and Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

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

Speciation Rate Is Independent of the Rate of Evolution of Morphological Size, Shape, and Absolute Morphological Specialization in a Large Clade of Birds
Nicholas M. A. Crouch and Robert E. Ricklefs
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprCrouch.html

Branch Thinning and the Large-Scale, Self-Similar Structure of Trees
Lars Hellström, Linus Carlsson, Daniel S. Falster, Mark Westoby, and Åke Brännström
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyHellstroem.html

Morph-Specific Patterns of Reproductive Senescence: Connections to Discrete Reproductive Strategies
Andrea S. Grunst, Melissa L. Grunst, Vince A. Formica, Marisa L. Korody, Adam M. Betuel, Margarida Barcelo-Serra, Sarah Ford, Rusty A. Gonser, and Elaina M. Tuttle
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneGrunst.html

Leaf Form Evolution in Viburnum Parallels Variation within Individual Plants
Elizabeth L. Spriggs, Samuel B. Schmerler, Erika J. Edwards, and Michael J. Donoghue

Sex-Specific Heterogeneity in Fixed Morphological Traits Influences Individual Fitness in a Monogamous Bird Population
Floriane Plard, Susanne Schindler, Raphaël Arlettaz, and Michael Schaub
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanPlard.html

Note
Resemblance to the Enemy’s Eyes Underlies the Intimidating Effect of Eyespots
Karin Kjernsmo and Sami Merilaita
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctKjernsmo.html

Maladaptive Plasticity Masks the Effects of Natural Selection in the Red-Shouldered Soapberry Bug

Meredith L. Cenzer

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctCenzer.html

Predator Perspective Drives Geographic Variation in Frequency-Dependent Polymorphism
Iris A. Holmes, Maggie R. Grundler, and Alison R. Davis Rabosky

Natural History Note

Natural History Constrains the Macroevolution of Foot Morphology in European Plethodontid Salamanders

Dean C. Adams, Dana Korneisel, Morgan Young, and Annamaria Nistri

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugAdams.html

Natural History Note
A Sea Scorpion’s Strike: New Evidence of Extreme Lateral Flexibility in the Opisthosoma of Eurypterids
W. Scott Persons IV and John Acorn
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyPersons.html

How Parallel Is Parallel Evolution? A Comparative Analysis in Fishes
Krista B. Oke, Gregor Rolshausen, Caroline LeBlond, and Andrew P. Hendry
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyOke.html

Evolutionary Determinants of Morphological Polymorphism in Colonial Animals
Carl Simpson, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, and Amalia Herrera-Cubilla

Natural History Note
The Hawk-Eyed Songbird: Retinal Morphology, Eye Shape, and Visual Fields of an Aerial Insectivore
Luke P. Tyrrell and Esteban Fernández-Juricic

Clines Arc through Multivariate Morphospace
Brian K. Lohman, Daniel Berner, and Daniel I. Bolnick

Thermal Biology

Recent Papers

Stochasticity and Infectious Disease Dynamics: Density and Weather Effects on a Fungal Insect Pathogen

Colin H. Kyle, Jiawei Liu, Molly E. Gallagher, Vanja Dukic, and Greg Dwyer

Climate Warming, Resource Availability, and the Metabolic Meltdown of Ectotherms

Raymond B. Huey and Joel G. Kingsolver

Trade-Offs in Cold Resistance at the Northern Range Edge of the Common Woodland Ant Aphaenogaster picea (Formicidae)

Andrew D. Nguyen, Megan Brown, Jordan Zitnay, Sara Helms Cahan, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Amy Arnett, and Aaron M. Ellison

Antagonistic Responses of Exposure to Sublethal Temperatures: Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Coincides with a Reduction in Organismal Performance

Anthony L. Gilbert and Donald B. Miles

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

Predicting the Thermal and Allometric Dependencies of Disease Transmission via the Metabolic Theory of Ecology

Devin Kirk, Pepijn Luijckx, Andrijana Stanic, and Martin Krkošek

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayKirk.html

Upscaling Microclimatic Conditions into Body Temperature Distributions of Ectotherms
Juan G. Rubalcaba, Sidney F. Gouveia, and Miguel A. Olalla-Tárraga
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayRubalcaba.html

Two-Year Bee, or Not Two-Year Bee? How Voltinism Is Affected by Temperature and Season Length in a High-Elevation Solitary Bee
Jessica R. K. Forrest, Regan Cross, and Paul J. CaraDonna
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprForrest.html

On the Interplay among Ambient Temperature, Basal Metabolic Rate, and Body Mass

Daniel E. Naya, Hugo Naya, and Craig R. White

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctNaya.html

Extreme Insolation: Climatic Variation Shapes the Evolution of Thermal Tolerance at Multiple Scales

Kaitlin M. Baudier, Catherine L. D’Amelio, Rumaan Malhotra, Michael P. O’Connor, and Sean O’Donnell

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepBaudier.html

Temperature Drives Epidemics in a Zooplankton-Fungus Disease System: A Trait-Driven Approach Points to Transmission via Host Foraging

Marta S. Shocket, Alexander T. Strauss, Jessica L. Hite, Maja Šljivar, David J. Civitello, Meghan A. Duffy, Carla E. Cáceres, and Spencer R. Hall

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprShocket-A.html

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Thermal Niche Partitioning

Daniel J. Smith and Priyanga Amarasekare

Temperature-Dependent Growth and Fission Rate Plasticity Drive Seasonal and Geographic Changes in Body Size in a Clonal Sea Anemone

Will H. Ryan

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebRyan.html

Temperature-Dependent Species Interactions Shape Priority Effects and the Persistence of Unequal Competitors

Tess Nahanni Grainger, Adam Ivan Rego, and Benjamin Gilbert

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebGrainger.html

Toward a Periodic Table of Niches, or Exploring the Lizard Niche Hypervolume

Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Nicolás Pelegrin, Daniel B. Fitzgerald, and Kirk O. Winemiller

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovPianka.html

Note

Warming-Induced Changes to Body Size Stabilize Consumer-Resource Dynamics

Matthew M. Osmond, Matthew A. Barbour, Joey R. Bernhardt, Matthew W. Pennell, Jennifer M. Sunday, and Mary I. O’Connor

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneOsmond.html

Why Have Multiple Plastic Responses? Interactions between Color Change and Heat Avoidance Behavior in Battus philenor Larvae

Matthew E. Nielsen and Daniel R. Papaj

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneNielsen.html

Evolution of Thermal Reaction Norms in Seasonally Varying Environments

Priyanga Amarasekare and Christopher Johnson

Foraging

Recent Papers 

Sex-Specific Among-Individual Covariation in Locomotor Activity and Resting Metabolic Rate in Drosophila melanogaster

Mathieu Videlier, Howard D. Rundle, and Vincent Careau

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Videlier.html

Natural History Note

Destruction of Spiderwebs and Rescue of Ensnared Nestmates by a Granivorous Desert Ant (Veromessor pergandei)

Christina L. Kwapich and Bert Hölldobler

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

Rapid Divergence of Predator Functional Traits Affects Prey Composition in Aquatic Communities

Dominik W. Schmid, Matthew D. McGee, Rebecca J. Best, Ole Seehausen, and Blake Matthews

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarSchmid.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

Natural History Note
Atypical Flowers Can Be as Profitable as Typical Hummingbird Flowers
Nickolas M. Waser, Paul J. CaraDonna, and Mary V. Price
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovWaser.html

Ontogeny and Consistent Individual Differences Mediate Trophic Interactions
Denon Start
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepStart.html

Assessing Feeding Preferences of a Consumer Guild: Partitioning Variation Among versus Within Species
O. Kennedy Rhoades, Rebecca J. Best, and John J. Stachowicz

Adaptive Foraging of Pollinators Can Promote Pollination of a Rare Plant Species
Gita Benadi and Robert J. Gegear
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBenadi.html

Temporal Variation in Predation Risk May Explain Daily Rhythms of Foraging Behavior in an Orb-Weaving Spider
J. Colton Watts, Thomas C. Jones, Ashley Herrig, Madeleine Miller, and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanWatts.html

Seasonal Food Scarcity Prompts Long-Distance Foraging by a Wild Social Bee
Nathaniel S. Pope and Shalene Jha
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanPope.html

Natural History Note

Ants at Plant Wounds: A Little-Known Trophic Interaction with Evolutionary Implications for Ant-Plant Interactions
Michael Staab, Felix Fornoff, Alexandra-Maria Klein, and Nico Blüthgen

A Breath of Fresh Air in Foraging Theory: The Importance of Wind for Food Size Selection in a Central-Place Forager
Andrea Marina Alma, Alejandro G. Farji-Brener, and Luciana Elizalde

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepAlma.html

Kleptoparasitism and Scavenging Can Stabilize Ecosystem Dynamics
Stefano Focardi, Massimo Materassi, Giacomo Innocenti, and Duccio Berzi

A Neutral Model for the Evolution of Diet Breadth
Matthew L. Forister and Stephen H. Jenkins

Open Access, Natural History Note
Bees without Flowers: Before Peak Bloom, Diverse Native Bees Find Insect-Produced Honeydew Sugars

Joan M. Meiners, Terry L. Griswold, David J. Harris, and S. K. Morgan Ernest

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugMeiners.html

Open Access
Decreasing Stoichiometric Resource Quality Drives Compensatory Feeding across Trophic Levels in Tropical Litter Invertebrate Communities

Malte Jochum, Andrew D. Barnes, David Ott, Birgit Lang, Bernhard Klarner, Achmad Farajallah, Stefan Scheu, and Ulrich Brose
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyJochum.html

Natural History Note
The Hawk-Eyed Songbird: Retinal Morphology, Eye Shape, and Visual Fields of an Aerial Insectivore
Luke P. Tyrrell and Esteban Fernández-Juricic

Perceptual Ranges, Information Gathering, and Foraging Success in Dynamic Landscapes
William F. Fagan, Eliezer Gurarie, Sharon Bewick, Allison Howard, Robert Stephen Cantrell, and Chris Cosner

Natural History Note
Collective Response of Leaf-Cutting Ants to the Effects of Wind on Foraging Activity
Andrea Marina Alma, Alejandro G. Farji-Brener, and Luciana Elizalde

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovAlma.html

Arboreal Folivores Limit Their Energetic Output, All the Way to Slothfulness
Jonathan N. Pauli, M. Zachariah Peery, Emily D. Fountain, and William H. Karasov

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugPauli.html

Foraging Activity Pattern Is Shaped by Water Loss Rates in a Diurnal Desert Rodent
Ofir Levy, Tamar Dayan, Warren P. Porter, and Noga Kronfeld-Schor

Population Dynamics

Recent Papers

Spatial Scales of Population Synchrony in Predator-Prey Systems

Javier Jarillo, Bernt-Erik Sæther, Steinar Engen, and Francisco Javier Cao-García

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Jarillo.html

Decreased Precipitation Predictability Negatively Affects Population Growth through Differences in Adult Survival

Guillem Masó, Arpat Ozgul, and Patrick S. Fitze

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Maso.html

Variability in Dispersal Syndromes Is a Key Driver of Metapopulation Dynamics in Experimental Microcosms

Staffan Jacob, Alexis S. Chaine, Michèle Huet, Jean Clobert, and Delphine Legrand

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Jacob.html

A Spatial Perspective on the Phenological Distribution of the Spring Woodland Caterpillar Peak

Jack D. Shutt, Malcolm D. Burgess, and Albert B. Phillimore

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

Soil Microbiomes Underlie Population Persistence of an Endangered Plant Species

Aaron S. David, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Eric S. Menges, Khum B. Thapa-Magar, Michelle E. Afkhami, and Christopher A. Searcy

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

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in the Wild: Clonal Turnover and Stability in Daphnia Populations

Christopher F. Steiner and Carly J. Nowicki

Metabolic Theory and the Temperature-Size Rule Explain the Temperature Dependence of Population Carrying Capacity

Joey R. Bernhardt, Jennifer M. Sunday, and Mary I. O’Connor

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

Collapse, Tipping Points, and Spatial Demographic Structure Arising from the Adopted Migrant Life History
Luke A. Rogers, Anne K. Salomon, Brendan Connors, and Martin Krkošek
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyRogers.html

Open Access

Coinfection Timing Drives Host Population Dynamics through Changes in Virulence

Katherine M. Marchetto and Alison G. Power

Predator Persistence through Variability of Resource Productivity in Tritrophic Systems

Floor H. Soudijn and André M. de Roos

Is Plant Fitness Proportional to Seed Set? An Experiment and a Spatial Model

Diane R. Campbell, Alison K. Brody, Mary V. Price, Nickolas M. Waser, and George Aldridge

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec17Campbell.html

Drivers of Diversification in Individual Life Courses

Raisa Hernández-Pacheco and Ulrich K. Steiner

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecHernPach.html

Assessing the Influence of Temporal Autocorrelations on the Population Dynamics of a Disturbance Specialist Plant Population in a Random Environment

Eric Alan Eager, Diana Pilson, Helen M. Alexander, and Brigitte Tenhumberg

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctEager.html

Note

Historical Biogeography and Extinction in the Hawaiian Honeycreepers

Robert E. Ricklefs

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctRicklefs.html

Eco-Evolutionary Theory and Insect Outbreaks

David J. Páez, Vanja Dukic, Jonathan Dushoff, Arietta Fleming-Davies, and Greg Dwyer

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JunePaez.html

The Size Dependence of Phytoplankton Growth Rates: A Trade-Off between Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism

Ben A. Ward, Emilio Marañón, Boris Sauterey, Jonathan Rault, and David Claessen