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Cover: Coral reef ecosystems are of great economic value, but they are threatened by global climate change. Most evidence indicates that elevated temperature is the cause of mass bleaching events. On the Great Barrier Reef, such events could bleach 45% of corals to some degree. Turbinaria reniformis is a symbiotic hermatypic coral that is present on reefs in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. Béraud et al. (pp. 2665−2674) studied the link between the nitrogen status of the coral holobiont and temperature stress. They found that small nitrogen addition maintains high levels of photosynthetic and photoprotective pigments in the symbionts and allows for maximal rates of photosynthesis. Photo credit: E. Béraud, CSM.Close Modal - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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Sleep deprivation attenuates endotoxin-induced cytokine gene expression independent of day length and circulating cortisol in male Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)
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In the field: an interview with Martha Muñoz
Martha Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, investigating the evolutionary biology of anole lizards and lungless salamanders. In our new Conversation, she talks about her fieldwork in Indonesia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and the Appalachian Mountains, including a death-defying dash to the top of a mountain through an approaching hurricane.
Graham Scott in conversation with Big Biology
Graham Scott talks to Big Biology about the oxygen cascade in mice living on mountaintops, extreme environments for such small organisms. In this JEB-sponsored episode, they discuss the concept of symmorphosis and the evolution of the oxygen cascade.
Trap-jaw ants coordinate tendon and exoskeleton for perfect mandible arc
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Trap-jaw ants run the risk of tearing themselves apart when they fire off their mandibles, but Greg Sutton & co have discovered that the ants simultaneously push and pull the mandibles using energy stored in a head tendon and their exoskeleton to drive the jaws in a perfect arc.
Hearing without a tympanic ear
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In their Review, Grace Capshaw, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard and Catherine Carr explore the mechanisms of hearing in extant atympanate vertebrates and the implications for the early evolution of tympanate hearing.
