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Does the potential strength of sexual selection differ between mating systems with and without defensive behaviours? A meta-analysis
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/brv.13078. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Darwin-Bateman paradigm predicts that females enhance their fitness by being choosy and mating with high-quality males, while males should compete to mate with as many females as possible. In many species, males enhance their fitness by defending females and/or resources used by females. That is, males directly defend access to mating opportunities. However, paternity analyses have repeatedly shown that females in most species mate polyandrously, which contradicts traditional expectations that male defensive behaviours lead to ...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 10, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Renato C Macedo-Rego Michael D Jennions Eduardo S A Santos Source Type: research

The evolution of larvae in temnospondyls and the stepwise origin of amphibian metamorphosis
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/brv.13084. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe question of what the ancient life cycle of tetrapods was like forms a key component in understanding the origin of land vertebrates. The existence of distinct larval forms, as exemplified by many lissamphibians, and their transformation into adults is an important aspect in this field. The temnospondyls, the largest clade of Palaeozoic-Mesozoic non-amniote tetrapods, covered a wide ecomorphological range from fully aquatic to terrestrial taxa. In various species, rich ontogenetic data have accumulated over the past 130 years, p...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 10, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Rainer R Schoch Florian Witzmann Source Type: research

The expression of empathy in human's closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees: current and future directions
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/brv.13080. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEmpathy is a complex, multi-dimensional capacity that facilitates the sharing and understanding of others' emotions. As our closest living relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (P. troglodytes) provide an opportunity to explore the origins of hominin social cognition, including empathy. Despite certain assumptions that bonobos and chimpanzees may differ empathically, these species appear to overlap considerably in certain socio-emotional responses related to empathy. However, few studies have systematically tested for s...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 10, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Jake S Brooker Christine E Webb Frans B M de Waal Zanna Clay Source Type: research

Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/brv.13077. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSpecies are distributed in predictable ways in geographic spaces. The three principal factors that determine geographic distributions of species are biotic interactions (B), abiotic conditions (A), and dispersal ability or mobility (M). A species is expected to be present in areas that are accessible to it and that contain suitable sets of abiotic and biotic conditions for it to persist. A species' probability of presence can be quantified as a combination of responses to B, A, and M via ecological niche modeling (ENM; also frequen...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 10, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Xiao Feng A Townsend Peterson Luis Jos é Aguirre-López Joseph R Burger Xin Chen Monica Pape ş Source Type: research

Tree post-drought recovery: scenarios, regulatory mechanisms and ways to improve
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 5. doi: 10.1111/brv.13083. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEfficient post-drought recovery of growth and assimilation enables a plant to return to its undisturbed state and functioning. Unlike annual plants, trees suffer not only from the current drought, but also from cumulative impacts of consecutive water stresses which cause adverse legacy effects on survival and performance. This review provides an integrated assessment of ecological, physiological and molecular evidence on the recovery of growth and photosynthesis in trees, with a view to informing the breeding of trees with a better ...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 6, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Ilya E Zlobin Source Type: research

Strategies of plants to overcome abiotic and biotic stresses
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Apr 1. doi: 10.1111/brv.13079. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn their environment, plants are exposed to a multitude of abiotic and biotic stresses that differ in intensity, duration and severity. As sessile organisms, they cannot escape these stresses, but instead have developed strategies to overcome them or to compensate for the consequences of stress exposure. Defence can take place at different levels and the mechanisms involved are thought to differ in efficiency across these levels. To minimise metabolic constraints and to reduce the costs of stress defence, plants prioritise first-lin...
Source: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - April 2, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Baoguo Du Robert Haensch Saleh Alfarraj Heinz Rennenberg Source Type: research