Issues

Summary: Connecting with our study organisms and conducting organism-centered research is important to scientific discovery, conservation, and the communication and perception of science.

Summary: We consider the complexity of factors that influence the time of the first postnatal ecdysis in snakes, emphasizing the role of phenotypic plasticity and the influence of the physical environment.

Highlighted Article: Analysis across 65 bee taxa in three continents indicates that body size is a major determinant of the acceleration amplitude but not the oscillation frequency of non-flight thoracic vibrations.

Summary: Delivery of deuterated water coupled with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy as a tool for tracing lipid synthesis in an edible insect, the black soldier fly.

Summary: The effect of temperature on individual feeding rate can emerge from the indirect effects on colony composition in modular animals and phytoplankton food quality.

Highlighted Article: Jumping spiders discriminate biological from random motion using only one eye pair: a model of how the contribution of different eye specializations may produce emergent and more complex visual abilities is proposed.

Summary: Mitochondrial metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster is affected by phenotypic plasticity and mechanistically linked to the oxidation of specific substrates at high temperatures.

Highlighted Article: In an ant which exhibits polymorphism in both sexes, juvenile hormone treatment does not affect queen and worker development but leads to increased body size in males.

Summary: Honey bee workers appear to have a sensitive period during development where exposure to queen pheromones is critical for physiology and subsequent behaviour of mature adults.

Summary: When faced with clutter in a phantom echo setup with no spatial release, echolocating bats solve a landing task by performing auditory stream segregation, but show no acoustic adjustments to clutter.

Summary: An integration of reproductive investment and thermophysiological data to estimate reproductive costs in a semelparous lizard, offering insights into the life-history mechanisms of fast-living lizards.

Summary: The heat tolerance of the Arctic collembolan Megaphorura arctica is greatly reduced when acclimated to a combination of high temperatures and mild dehydration stress dependent on acclimation duration.

Summary: Atlantic hagfish create U-shaped burrows in gelatin using an internal concertina mechanism.

Summary: Risk-taking behavior in female, but not male, zebrafish is regulated by the brain serotonergic system.