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Summary: Polar marine invertebrates are sensitive to climate change through life-history responses to warming, acidification, sea ice loss and altered productivity. The result may be a loss or replacement of polar biodiversity.

Highlighted Article: Ray spiders use airborne cues for web attacks, unveiling novel insights into the ability of web-building spiders to locate and capture prey.

Summary: Tracheal elongation in birds was found to vary between species and is not necessarily homogeneous; this significantly influences vocalization, providing new insights into the complexity of avian communication mechanisms.

Summary: The swimming kinematics of rainbow trout are largely preserved across two, 3×5 cylinder array treatments that differ in vortex periodicity and turbulent kinetic energy.

Summary: Using machine learning, we estimated energy expenditure and feeding activity of free-ranging Adélie penguins from depth data recorded with biologging devices.

Summary: Leptin has a stimulating effect on thermogenesis in Mongolian gerbils and gut mirobiota and TRPV2 may be involved in leptin-induced thermoregulation.

Summary: Altering the mechanical behaviour of surrounding muscles has limited influence on changes in skeletal muscle shape, suggesting a complex relationship between muscle bulging and activation strategies in synergists.

Summary: Exposure to nitrate pollution might increase sensitivity to climate change of amphibian larvae by impairing their coping capacity through exhibiting developmental plasticity.

Highlighted Article: The complex dynamics of human gait adaptation highlight rapid stability optimization and gradual adjustments in metabolic rate and step kinetics and kinematics, offering insights into energy-saving mechanisms.

Highlighted Article: Cuticular hydrocarbons are demonstrated to be directly responsible for promoting desiccation resistance by reducing the rate of water loss via transpiration in Drosophila melanogaster.

Editors' choice: Responses of a mayfly species to reduced oxygen levels suggest they sense decreased oxygen availability and perhaps conserve energy accordingly, even when the rate of oxygen consumption (Ṁ_O2) is not impacted.