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The significance of social interactions in synchronized swarming flight in a termite. 白蚁同步群飞中社会互动的意义

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0423

Nobuaki Mizumoto, Tomonari Nozaki

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Uropygial secretion changes mouth colouration in starling nestlings. 尿囊分泌物会改变椋鸟雏鸟的口腔颜色。

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0535

Antonio José García-Núñez, Juan José Soler, Ester Martínez-Renau, Gustavo Tomás

{"title":"Uropygial secretion changes mouth colouration in starling nestlings.","authors":"Antonio José García-Núñez, Juan José Soler, Ester Martínez-Renau, Gustavo Tomás","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0535","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0535","url":null,"abstract":"Cosmetic colourations of animals have been mainly studied in scenarios of sexual selection, while there has been no assessment of the partial contribution of cosmetics to the final colouration of begging-related traits. In birds, the uropygial gland is functional soon after hatching, and we experimentally investigated the effects of uropygial secretion on mouth-flange colouration in spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) nestlings. Nestlings' flange colouration was measured with a spectrophotometer before and after being either cleaned of, or painted with, its own uropygial secretion. After cleaning, flanges were brighter, more UV and less yellow-red coloured (chroma). Instead, painting the mouth flanges of nestlings with their own uropygial secretion did not modify any of the considered colour components. Our findings therefore show that the uropygial secretion of nestlings alters their beak colouration and open the possibility for future research to investigate the role of uropygial secretion in reinforcing the signalling role of begging-related traits involved in parent-offspring communication.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":"20 11","pages":"20240535"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11576111/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142674489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Constant companions: wild zebra finch pairs display extreme spatial cohesion. 不变的伙伴：野生斑马雀对显示出极强的空间凝聚力。

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0519

Chris Tyson, Hugo Loning, Simon C Griffith, Marc Naguib

{"title":"Constant companions: wild zebra finch pairs display extreme spatial cohesion.","authors":"Chris Tyson, Hugo Loning, Simon C Griffith, Marc Naguib","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0519","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0519","url":null,"abstract":"Many animals maintain long-term monogamous partnerships, but the extent to which partners associate varies substantially and has implications for the scope of cooperation between pair members. Zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanosis) are monogamously paired for life and maintain continuous partnerships, raising questions as to if and how they maintain pair cohesion despite being non-territorial and having only short-range acoustic signals. While zebra finches are the best-studied songbird in captivity, their social and spatial behaviour in the wild is poorly understood. Determining pair cohesion in songbirds to date has almost exclusively been studied at specific locations where pairs would be expected to meet, such as nesting or feeding sites, without quantifying broader movements. Here, we used solar-powered automated tracking to simultaneously monitor the movements of radio-tagged zebra finch pairs during periods of breeding activity. We reveal extremely high spatial cohesion with pairs using nearly identical home ranges and maintaining close spatial proximity across large areas. This characterization of extremely high spatio-temporal coordination of zebra finch pairs provides important insights into the operation and benefits of monogamous relationships in highly mobile taxa, such as birds.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":"20 11","pages":"20240519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11557227/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142614131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs. 电离辐射对切尔诺贝利树蛙的年龄、端粒长度和皮质酮水平的影响微乎其微。

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0287

Pablo Burraco, Caitlin Gabor, Amanda Bryant, Vanessa Gardette, Thierry Lengagne, Jean Marc Bonzom, Germán Orizaola

{"title":"Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs.","authors":"Pablo Burraco, Caitlin Gabor, Amanda Bryant, Vanessa Gardette, Thierry Lengagne, Jean Marc Bonzom, Germán Orizaola","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0287","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0287","url":null,"abstract":"The accident that occurred at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (Ukraine, 1986) contaminated a large extension of territory after the deposition of radioactive material. It is still under debate whether the chronic exposure to the radiation levels currently present in the area has long-term effects on organisms, such as decreases in longevity. Here, we investigate whether current levels of radiation in Chornobyl negatively impact the age of the Eastern tree frog Hyla orientalis. We also explore whether radiation induces changes in an ageing marker, telomere length or the stress hormone corticosterone. We found no effect of total individual absorbed radiation (including both external and internal exposure) on frog age (n = 197 individuals sampled in 3 consecutive years). We also did not find any relationship between individual absorbed radiation and telomere length, nor between individual absorbed radiation and corticosterone levels. Our results suggest that radiation levels currently experienced by Chornobyl tree frogs may not be high enough to cause severe chronic damage to semi-aquatic vertebrates such as this species. This is the first study addressing age and stress hormones in Chornobyl wildlife, and thus future research will confirm if these results can be extended to other taxa.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":"20 11","pages":"20240287"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11537762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Fisheries-induced life-history changes recover in experimentally harvested fish populations. 渔业引起的生活史变化在实验捕捞的鱼类种群中得到恢复。

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0319

Stephan N van Dijk, Daniel E Sadler, Phillip C Watts, Silva Uusi-Heikkilä

{"title":"Fisheries-induced life-history changes recover in experimentally harvested fish populations.","authors":"Stephan N van Dijk, Daniel E Sadler, Phillip C Watts, Silva Uusi-Heikkilä","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0319","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0319","url":null,"abstract":"Overfishing is one of the greatest threats to fish populations. Size-selective harvesting favours faster juvenile growth, younger maturation, small adult body size and low reproductive output. Such changes might be slow to recover and ultimately threaten population fitness and survival. To study the recovery potential of exploited experimental populations, we compared life-history traits in three differently size-selected experimental lines (large-selected, small-selected and random-selected) after five generations of harvesting and 10 subsequent generations of recovery (i.e. cessation of harvesting). We show that after a recovery period twice as long as the harvesting period, the differences in adult body size among the selection lines have eroded. While there was still a significant body size difference among the selection lines, this did not translate to differences in reproductive success. Although size-selective harvesting causes phenotypic changes in exploited fish populations, we show that such changes are reversible if the recovery period is long enough.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":"20 11","pages":"20240319"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11539050/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Does greater variation reside in the larger sex? 是否性别越大，差异越大？

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0404

Lewis G Halsey, David Giofrè, David C Geary

{"title":"Does greater variation reside in the larger sex?","authors":"Lewis G Halsey, David Giofrè, David C Geary","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0404","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0404","url":null,"abstract":"The question of whether males or females are the more variable sex is long-standing, and yet to be fully answered. We investigate the relationships between body mass and variation across species using a phylogenetically informed analysis of the body mass of 337 species representing six mammalian orders. Within each order, we found that the larger sex is typically the more variable sex, whether male or female, and the variation-size relationship is arguably often close to unity. Thus, size may be the main or even sole driver of variability in at least some orders. Deviations from the expected 1 : 1 relationship emerged, however, in regressions of male : female mass variance against male : female mean mass, for Chiroptera and Rodentia, which both presented hyperallometric relationships suggesting that drivers over and above size influence differences in variation between the sexes. In Chiroptera, most species have larger females. The y-intercept value for Artiodactyla and Primates were significantly greater than 0 suggesting greater male variation in species where the sexes are of commensurable size. Historic belief of exclusively greater male variability may have resulted from a focus on species with intense male-male competition and, thus, larger male body sizes. Our results suggest that it is often size, not sex per se, that influences within-sex variability, although additional sex-specific factors might be present in at least some orders.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":"20 11","pages":"20240404"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11597398/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142725803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Predation affects the evolution of sex-specific longevity. 捕食影响性别特异性寿命的进化

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0451

Tanya M Pennell, Masako Katsuki, C Ruth Archer, Manmohan D Sharma, Kensuke Okada, David J Hosken

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Pulsed artificial light at night alters moth flight behaviour. 夜间脉冲人工光改变飞蛾的飞行行为

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0403

Madeleine Fabusova, Kevin J Gaston, Jolyon Troscianko

{"title":"Pulsed artificial light at night alters moth flight behaviour.","authors":"Madeleine Fabusova, Kevin J Gaston, Jolyon Troscianko","doi":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0403","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rsbl.2024.0403","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle headlights create pulsed artificial light at night (pALAN) that is unpredictable, intense and extends into previously dark areas. Nocturnal insects often have remarkable low-light vision, but their slow pupillary light responses may leave them vulnerable to pALAN, which has important ecological consequences. To test this, we exposed nocturnal moths-important pollinators and prey-to four pALAN treatments. These comprised 'cool' and 'warm' lights, either emitted from phosphor-coated light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or RGB (red-green-blue) LEDs, matched in colour (CCT) and intensity to human vision. We assessed the initial behavioural response, likely crucial to the survival of an organism, of 428 wild-caught moths comprising 64 species. We found that exposure to a cool phosphor-coated LED light pulse increased instances of erratic flight and flight-to-light that are likely detrimental as they increase the risks of impact with a vehicle, predation or excess energy expenditure. Our findings suggest that pALAN can cause a wide range of behavioural responses in nocturnal moths, but that the most harmful effects could be minimized by reversing the current shift towards high CCT (cool) phosphor-coated LED car headlights. Lower CCT or RGB alternatives are likely to provide benefits for road safety while reducing ecological harm.","PeriodicalId":9005,"journal":{"name":"Biology Letters","volume":"20 11","pages":"20240403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11557245/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142614081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Metabolic complementation between cells drives the evolution of tissues and organs. 细胞间的代谢互补推动了组织和器官的进化。

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0490

Mihaela Pavlicev, J DiFrisco, Alan C Love, Günter P Wagner

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A feminine advantage in the domain of harm: a review and path forward. 伤害领域的女性优势：回顾与展望。

IF 2.8 2区生物学

Biology Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0381

Maja Graso, Tania Reynolds

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