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Effect of Body Configuration on Perturbation Resistance Across Arboreal Lizard Species

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Volume 345, Issue 2, Page 127-136, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Animals that inhabit high‐risk habitats often exhibit morphological and behavioral adaptations to contend with environmental challenges. In arboreal (tree‐based) habitats, such adaptations can include corrective behaviors, such as modification of body‐limb angles, to avoid dislodgement by perturbations.
Victor David Munteanu, Trevor Brewington, Savannah Swisher, Amanda Kellerhals, Richard W. Blob   +4 more
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Osteology of the Feeding Apparatus of Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis (Aves: Phoenicopteridae)

Journal of Morphology, Volume 287, Issue 3, March 2026.
1. The skull features a broad, dorsoventrally flattened frontal region articulating with an elongated upper jaw that is complemented by the mandible's downward bend along its proximal half. 2. The low mechanical advantage in the mandible is attributed to the reduced and shallow insertion areas of the adductor muscles, which are positioned close to the ...
Oscar Aldana Ardila, Caio J. Carlos
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Potential Drivers of Successful Biocontrol: A Perspective on Parasitoids

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 53, Issue 1, March 2026.
Parasitoids are central to classical biological control, yet predicting their long‐term effectiveness post release remains challenging. In Aotearoa New Zealand, three Microctonus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) species have been used against pest weevils, but key aspects of their biology remain poorly understood.
Meeran Hussain, Elahe Parvizi, Mark R. McNeill, Ang McGaughran   +3 more
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Changing food availability and its effect on the heritability of offspring size in woodland passerine birds

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 3, Page 497-508, March 2026.
Vatka et al. investigated how changing food abundance affects evolutionary potential of offsprings' body size traits in two woodland passerines. Food availability increased over the 25‐year‐long study period, accompanied by increases in body mass.
Emma Vatka, Markku Orell, Seppo Rytkönen, Juha Merilä   +3 more
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Think globally, breed locally: Limited genetic impact of management in solitary bees (Osmia bicornis and Osmia cornuta)

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 3, March 2026.
The data suggest that the release of locally reared Osmia spp. is unlikely to interfere with the genetic structure of wild conspecifics. This contrasts with bumblebees, where the use of non‐local colonies has led to genetic introgression with local conspecific populations.
Asia Piovesan, Matthias Albrecht, Florian Knaus, Peter Neumann, Alexis Beaurepaire   +4 more
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Lactose‐Derived Carbohydrates Induce Sexually Dimorphic Nutritional Programming Effects on Lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster

Aging Cell, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 2026.
Early‐life co‐consumption of galactose and glucose (hydrolyzed lactose) programs Drosophila melanogaster lifespan in a sex‐specific manner. Particularly, the co‐consumption of galactose and glucose programs extended lifespan when female flies were challenged by obesogenic diets later in life, and this is concomitant with remodeling of lipid metabolism,
Peixin Sun, Shiying Shao, Robin W. Creemers, Anna F. Bekebrede, Jing Tang, Steven Driever, Jaap Keijer, Evert M. van Schothorst   +7 more
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Immunostaining of P450c17, Aromatase and Oestrogen Receptor Alpha in Germ and Somatic Cells During Gonadal Development in Greater Rhea

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia, Volume 55, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The greater rhea (Rhea americana), the largest bird species in South America, has significant economic value due to its meat, eggs, leather, feathers and oil. However, its lack of external sexual dimorphism poses challenges for reproductive management and breeding programmes.
Marilú Cristofoli, Danielle Cristina Calado de Brito, Mayla Magalhães de Oliveira Alcobaça, Flavia Maria Pia Montenegro Donoso, Fabiana Morse Gosson Jorge, Marco Aurélio Schiavo Novaes, Moacir Franco Oliveira, Antônio Chaves de Assis Neto   +7 more
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No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Response

Ethology, Volume 132, Issue 3, Page 183-193, March 2026.
Male courtship can serve various purposes such as species recognition, mate localization, or advertisement of individual quality and physical condition. In predatory species such as spiders, courtship activity by the male might also reduce the risk of being predated on by the female.
Stefan ter Haar, Gabriele B. Uhl, Monika J. B. Eberhard   +2 more
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Wing size, wing shape and sexual dimorphism in eye-span in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae) [PDF]

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010
GAL RIBAK, MARIE L. PITTS, GERALD S. WILKINSON, JOHN G. SWALLOW   +3 more
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Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT)

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 253-267, March 2026.
Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet insect conservation is hindered by the absence of a centralised, comprehensive trait database. We propose the GRIT, a FAIR, open‐access platform uniting datasets and collaborators worldwide. GRIT will harness advanced computational tools for trait acquisition and imputation, enabling large‐scale ecological ...
Pedro Cardoso, Nathan Jay Baker, Mário Boieiro, Dries Bonte, Paulo A. V. Borges, Michael F. Braby, Vasco Branco, Dragan Chobanov, Luis Correia, Daniel T. Dalton, Mariana Damas‐Mora, Raphael K. Didham, Lynne Forster, Richard Glatz, Jacob A. Gorneau, Axel Hochkirch, Ameli Kirse, Elinor M. Lichtenberg, Nuria Macías‐Hernández, Marija Miličić, Melinda Moir, Pablo Moreno‐García, Ruth Neessen, Jorge Ari Noriega, Clint A. Penick, Kayla I. Perry, James Pryke, Carla Rego, Karl A. Roeder, Stéphanie Saussure, Vaughn Shirey, Pasi Sihvonen, Ilja Svetnik, Sergei Tarasov, Pedro Trindade, Ellen A. R. Welti, Mark Wong, Christoph Scherber   +37 more
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