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January 2003, Volume 14, Issue 1
- 40-47 Do bacterial infections cause reduced ejaculate quality? A meta-analysis of antibiotic treatment of male infertility
by Philip A. Skau & Ivar Folstad - 48-53 Experimental analysis of territory size in a population of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta
by Eldridge S. Adams - 54-62 Live and let die: why fighter males of the ant Cardiocondyla kill each other but tolerate their winged rivals
by Carl Anderson & Sylvia Cremer & Ju¨rgen Heinze - 63-67 Tests of the mate-guarding hypothesis for social monogamy: male snapping shrimp prefer to associate with high-value females
by Lauren M. Mathews - 68-73 Male ornamentation, timing of breeding, and cost of polygyny in the collared flycatcher
by Anna Qvarnstro¨m & Ben C. Sheldon & Tomas Pa¨rt & Lars Gustafsson - 74-79 Analysis of multiple aspects of a repeated signal: power and rate of rapping during shell fights in hermit crabs
by Mark Briffa & Robert W. Elwood & Jon M. Russ - 80-88 Arms races between social parasites and their hosts: geographic patterns of manipulation and resistance
by Susanne Foitzik & Birgit Fischer & Ju¨rgen Heinze - 89-96 Prolonged mate guarding and sperm competition in the weevil Diaprepes abbreviatus (L.)
by Ally R. Harari & Peter J. Landolt & Charles W. O'Brien & H. Jane Brockmann - 97-102 Do energetic demands constrain incubation scheduling in a biparental species?
by Will Cresswell & S. Holt & J. M. Reid & D. P. Whitfield & R. J. Mellanby - 103-108 Glow-worm larvae bioluminescence (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) operates as an aposematic signal upon toads (Bufo bufo)
by Raphae¨l De Cock & Erik Matthysen - 109-115 The ideal free distribution when the resource is variable
by Hiroshi Hakoyama - 116-126 The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters
by Eric Alden Smith & Rebecca Bliege Bird & Douglas W. Bird - 127-134 Evolution of fighting behavior under asymmetric competition: an experimental test with juvenile salmonids
by Kyle A. Young - 135-140 Female preference for male courtship flashes in Photinus ignitus fireflies
by Christopher K. Cratsley & Sara M. Lewis - 141-149 Consistent mixing of near and distant resources in foraging bouts by the solitary mason bee Osmia lignaria
by Neal M. Williams & Vincent J. Tepedino
November 2002, Volume 13, Issue 6
- 725-727 Great tits (Parus major) reduce body mass in response to wing area reduction: a field experiment
by Joan Carles Senar & Jordi Domènech & Francesc Uribe - 728-736 Structural coloration and sexual selection in the barn swallow Hirundo rustica
by Claire Perrier & Florentino de Lope & Anders P. Møller & Paola Ninni - 737-741 Individual color variation and male quality in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca): a role of ultraviolet reflectance
by Heli Siitari & Esa Huhta - 742-749 Phenotypic selection and function of reproductive behavior in the subsocial bug Elasmucha putoni (Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae)
by Shin-ichi Kudo - 750-756 Male tactics and reproductive success in the harem polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata
by Gerald Heckel & Otto von Helversen - 757-765 Bees in two-armed bandit situations: foraging choices and possible decision mechanisms
by Tamar Keasar & Ella Rashkovich & Dan Cohen & Avi Shmida - 766-775 Effects of feeding time constraints on body mass regulation and energy expenditure in wintering dunlin (Calidris alpina)
by John P. Kelly & Wesley W. Weathers - 776-781 Self-organized asymmetries in ant foraging: a functional response to food type and colony needs
by Stéphane Portha & Jean-Louis Deneubourg & Claire Detrain - 782-785 Feeding experience and relative size modify the begging strategies of nestlings
by Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés & Jesús Martín Zúñiga & Tomás Redondo - 786-790 Kin clustering in barnacle geese: familiarity or phenotype matching?
by Henk P. van der Jeugd & Ineke T. van der Veen & Kjell Larsson - 791-799 Sexual selection and condition dependence of courtship display in three species of horned dung beetles
by Janne S. Kotiaho - 800-807 Genetic analysis of the mating system and opportunity for sexual selection in northern water snakes (Nerodia sipedon)
by Melanie R. Prosser & Patrick J. Weatherhead & H. Lisle Gibbs & Gregory P. Brown - 808-815 Male reproductive success and sexual selection in northern water snakes determined by microsatellite DNA analysis
by Patrick J. Weatherhead & Melanie R. Prosser & H. Lisle Gibbs & Gregory P. Brown - 816-820 Stage-specific manipulation of a mosquito's host-seeking behavior by the malaria parasite Plasmodium gallinaceum
by Jacob C. Koella & Linda Rieu & Richard E. L. Paul - 821-826 The evolution of imperfect mimicry
by Thomas N. Sherratt - 827-831 Inhibition of optimal behavior by social transmission in the guppy depends on shoaling
by Lucy Bates & Jackie Chappell - 832-837 Congruence between the sexes in preexisting receiver responses
by Alexandra L. Basolo - 838-843 Model parents: is full compensation for reduced partner nest attendance compatible with stable biparental care?
by Katherine M. Jones & Graeme D. Ruxton & Pat Monaghan - 844-850 Habitat structure and alarm call dialects in Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni)
by Bianca S. Perla & C. N. Slobodchikoff
September 2002, Volume 13, Issue 5
- 583-590 Evolution of group size in the dolphins and porpoises: interspecific consistency of intraspecific patterns
by Lorenz Gygax - 591-597 Paternal care as a conditional strategy: distinct reproductive tactics associated with elaboration of plumage ornamentation in the house finch
by Alexander V. Badyaev & Geoffrey E. Hill - 598-606 Death comes suddenly to the unprepared: singing crickets, call fragmentation, and parasitoid flies
by Pie Müller & Daniel Robert - 607-614 Reduced reproductive effort in male field crickets infested with parasitoid fly larvae
by Gita R. Kolluru & Marlene Zuk & Mark A. Chappell - 615-621 Sexual selection in the wolf spider Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata: female preference for drum duration and pulse rate
by Silja Parri & Rauno V. Alatalo & Janne S. Kotiaho & Johanna Mappes & Ana Rivero - 622-631 Carotenoid status signaling in captive and wild red-collared widowbirds: independent effects of badge size and color
by Sarah R. Pryke & Staffan Andersson & Michael J. Lawes & Steven E. Piper - 632-636 A life-history perspective on strategic mating effort in male scorpionflies
by Leif Engqvist & Klaus Peter Sauer - 637-642 Female begging in European robins: do neighbors eavesdrop for extrapair copulations?
by Joe A. Tobias & Nathalie Seddon - 643-652 Male bimaturism and reproductive success in Sumatran orang-utans
by Sri Suci Utami & Benoit Goossens & Michael W. Bruford & Jan R. de Ruiter & Jan A.R.A.M. van Hooff - 653-656 Adaptive biases in offspring sex ratios established before birth in a marsupial, the common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula
by Christopher N. Johnson & Euan G. Ritchie - 657-663 Isolation from mammalian predators differentially affects two congeners
by Daniel T. Blumstein & Janice C. Daniel - 664-669 Conditional strategies in territorial defense: do Carolina wrens play tit-for-tat?
by Jeremy Hyman - 670-675 Increased cuckoldry as a cost of breeding late for male house wrens (Troglodytes aedon)
by L. Scott Johnson & Bonnie G. Hicks & Brian S. Masters - 676-681 Resource attractiveness of the male beaugregory damselfish and his decision to court or defend
by Nick Santangelo & M. Itzkowitz & Martin Richter & Michael P. Haley - 682-689 Nonlocal male mountain white-crowned sparrows have lower paternity and higher parasite loads than males singing local dialect
by Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton & Elizabeth P. Derryberry & Thomas P. Hahn - 690-695 Siblicide and life-history evolution in parasitoids
by John J. Pexton & Peter J. Mayhew - 696-704 Daily body mass regulation in dominance-structured coal tit (Parus ater) flocks in response to variable food access: a laboratory study
by Vicente Polo & Luis Miguel Bautista - 705-712 A state-based model of sperm allocation in a group-breeding salamander
by W. Edwin Harris & Jeffrey R. Lucas - 713-721 Biparental care in house sparrows: negotiation or sealed bid?
by P. L. Schwagmeyer & Douglas W. Mock & Geoffrey A. Parker
July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 4
- 439-442 Individual variation in risk taking: the effect of a predatory threat on fighting behavior in Nannacara anomala
by Olle Brick & Sven Jakobsson - 443-449 Experimental manipulation of maternal effort produces differential effects in sons and daughters: implications for adaptive sex ratios in the blue-footed booby
by Alberto Velando - 450-455 Monandry and polyandry as alternative lifestyles in a butterfly
by Nina Wedell & Christer Wiklund & Penny A. Cook - 456-461 Butterfly contests and flight physiology: why do older males fight harder?
by Darrell J. Kemp - 462-466 Winning and losing: causes for variability in outcome of fights in male Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus)
by Daniel Renison & Dee Boersma & Mónica B. Martella - 467-471 Previous agonistic experience determines both foraging behavior and territoriality in the limpet Lottia gigantea (Sowerby)
by Alan L. Shanks - 472-480 Mate sampling by female barking treefrogs (Hyla gratiosa)
by Christopher G. Murphy & H. Carl Gerhardt - 481-486 Hair-trigger autotomy in porcelain crabs is a highly effective escape strategy
by Kerstin Wasson & Bruce E. Lyon & Matthew Knope - 487-496 Facultative development of courtship and communication in juvenile male cowbirds (Molothrus ater)
by David J. White & Andrew P. King & Meredith J. West - 497-502 Measuring the benefit of habitat selection
by Zvika Abramsky & Michael L. Rosenzweig & Aziz Subach - 503-510 Egg sex ratio and paternal traits: using within-individual comparisons
by Kate R. Oddie & Constanze Reim - 511-518 Male traits under cryptic female choice in the spotted cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
by Douglas W. Tallamy & Bradford E. Powell & Julie A. McClafferty - 519-525 The evolution of soldier reproduction in social thrips
by Thomas W. Chapman & Brenda D. Kranz & Kristi-Lee Bejah & David C. Morris & Michael P. Schwarz & Bernard J. Crespi - 526-530 A test of the risk allocation hypothesis: tadpole responses to temporal change in predation risk
by Josh Van Buskirk & Corsin Müller & Andreas Portmann & Martin Surbeck - 531-542 Reproduction in foundress associations of the social wasp, Polistes carolina: conventions, competition, and skew
by Perttu Seppä & David C. Queller & Joan E. Strassmann - 543-550 Sources of variation in breeding-ground fidelity of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)
by Paul F. Doherty & James D. Nichols & John Tautin & James F. Voelzer & Graham W. Smith & Douglas S. Benning & V. Ray Bentley & John K. Bidwell & Karen S. Bollinger & Arthur R. Brazda & Elizabeth K. Buelna & James R. Goldsberry & Rodney J. King & Fred H. Roetker & John W. Solberg & Philip P. Thorpe & James S. Wortham - 551-560 Size-dependent predation by snakes: selective foraging or differential prey vulnerability?
by Sharon J. Downes - 561-570 Maintenance of androdioecy in the freshwater shrimp Eulimnadia texana: sexual encounter rates and outcrossing success
by Vicky G. Hollenbeck & Stephen C. Weeks & William R. Gould & Naida Zucker - 571-574 Efficiency as a foraging currency in animals attaining a gain below the energetic ceiling
by Bart A. Nolet - 575-579 Impaired flight ability--a cost of reproduction in female blue tits
by Cecilia Kullberg & David C. Houston & Neil B. Metcalfe - 580-581 On hotshots and lotteries: are the best males on larger leks better than expected?
by Peter A. Bednekoff
May 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3
- 291-300 The evolution of parental and alloparental effort in cooperatively breeding groups: when should helpers pay to stay?
by Hanna Kokko & Rufus A. Johnstone & J. Wright - 301-311 Predation and the evolution of prey behavior: an experiment with tree hole mosquitoes
by Steven A. Juliano & Marc E. Gravel - 312-320 Subspecies recognition in the house mouse: a study of two populations from the border of a hybrid zone
by Carole Smadja & Guila Ganem - 321-327 A game theoretical approach to conspecific brood parasitism
by M. Broom & G. D. Ruxton - 328-336 Dispersal strategies in Tasmanian native hens (Gallinula mortierii)
by Anne W. Goldizen & David A. Putland & Kelly A. Robertson - 337-343 Protandry models and their application to salmon
by Yolanda E. Morbey - 344-352 Female calls in lek-mating birds: indirect mate choice, female competition for mates, or direct mate choice?
by Stein Are Sæther - 353-358 The costs of copulating in the dung fly Sepsis cynipsea
by Wolf U. Blanckenhorn & David J. Hosken & Oliver Y. Martin & Constanze Reim & Yvonne Teuschl & Paul I. Ward - 359-365 The costs of avoiding matings in the dung fly Sepsis cynipsea
by Claudia Mühlhäuser & Wolf U. Blanckenhorn - 366-374 Sexual selection for structure building by courting male fiddler crabs: an experimental study of behavioral mechanisms
by John H. Christy & Patricia R. Y. Backwell & Seiji Goshima & Thomas Kreuter - 375-380 Female greater wax moths reduce sexual display behavior in relation to the potential risk of predation by echolocating bats
by Gareth Jones & Anna Barabas & Wendy Elliott & Stuart Parsons - 381-385 Use of California bay foliage by wood rats for possible fumigation of nest-borne ectoparasites
by Richard B. Hemmes & Arlene Alvarado & Benjamin L. Hart - 386-392 Fitness costs and benefits of antipredator behavior mediated by chemotactile cues in the wolf spider Pardosa milvina (Araneae: Lycosidae)
by Matthew H. Persons & Sean E. Walker & Ann L. Rypstra - 393-400 Food sharing: a model of manipulation by harassment
by Jeffrey R. Stevens & David W. Stephens - 401-407 Differential effects of a parasite on ornamental structures based on melanins and carotenoids
by Patrick S. Fitze & Heinz Richner - 408-418 Reproductive skew, costs, and benefits of cooperative breeding in female wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus)
by Gabriele Gerlach & Susann Bartmann - 419-426 Body size and sex allocation in simultaneously hermaphroditic animals
by Lisa Angeloni & Jack W. Bradbury & Eric L. Charnov - 427-438 Temporal partitioning and aggression among foragers: modeling the effects of stochasticity and individual state
by Shane A. Richards
March 2002, Volume 13, Issue 2
- 149-153 Female preference function related to precedence effect in an amphibian anuran (Alytes cisternasii): tests with non-overlapping calls
by Jaime Bosch & Rafael Márquez - 154-159 Specialized predation on plataspid heteropterans in a coccinellid beetle: adaptive behavior and responses of prey attended or not by ants
by A. Dejean & J. Orivel & M. Gibernau - 160-162 Colony defense in Damaraland mole-rats, Cryptomys damarensis
by Rosie Cooney - 163-168 The spatial habitat structure of host populations explains the pattern of rejection behavior in hosts and parasitic adaptations in cuckoos
by Eivin Røskaft & Arne Moksnes & Bård G. Stokke & Csaba Moskát & Marcel Honza - 169-174 Immune response of male barn swallows in relation to parental effort, corticosterone plasma levels, and sexual ornamentation
by Nicola Saino & Michele Incagli & Roberta Martinelli & Anders Pape Møller - 175-181 Population differences in female resource abundance, adult sex ratio, and male mating success in Dendrobates pumilio
by Heike Pröhl - 182-187 The influence of habitat on travel speed, intermittent locomotion, and vigilance in a diurnal rodent
by Rodrigo A. Vásquez & Luis A. Ebensperger & Francisco Bozinovic - 188-192 Does paternity or paternal investment determine the level of paternal care and does female choice explain egg stealing in the fifteen-spined stickleback?
by Sara Östlund-Nilsson - 193-200 Reproductive skew among males in a female-dominated mammalian society
by Anne L. Engh & Stephan M. Funk & Russell C. Van Horn & Kim T. Scribner & Michael W. Bruford & Scot Libants & Micaela Szykman & Laura Smale & Kay E. Holekamp - 201-208 Mating system structure and population density in a polygynous lizard, Sauromalus obesus (= ater)
by Matthew A. Kwiatkowski & Brian K. Sullivan - 209-215 High frequency of polyandry in a lek mating system
by David B. Lank & Constance M. Smith & Olivier Hanotte & Arvo Ohtonen & Simon Bailey & Terry Burke - 216-223 Prey size, prey nutrition, and food handling by shrews of different body sizes
by Leszek Rychlik & Elżbieta Jancewicz - 224-231 Waste management in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica
by Adam G. Hart & Francis L. W. Ratnieks - 232-238 An experimental approach to altering mating tactics in male horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus)
by H. Jane Brockmann - 239-247 Intracolonial patterns of reproduction in the queen-size dimorphic ant Leptothorax rugatulus
by Olav Rüppell & Jürgen Heinze & Bert Hölldobler - 248-253 Condition dependence, multiple sexual signals, and immunocompetence in peacocks
by Anders Pape Møller & Marion Petrie - 254-259 Size-dependent discrimination of mating partners in the simultaneous hermaphroditic cestode Schistocephalus solidus
by Annelis Lüscher & Claus Wedekind - 260-267 Kleptoparasitism and the distribution of unequal competitors
by Ian M. Hamilton - 268-273 Features of begging calls reveal general condition and need of food of barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) nestlings
by Roberto Sacchi & Nicola Saino & Paolo Galeotti - 274-279 Clutch size variation in the Nazca booby: a test of the egg quality hypothesis
by L. D. Clifford & D. J. Anderson - 280-290 Alternative forms of competition and predation dramatically affect habitat selection under foraging--predation-risk trade-offs
by Tamara C. Grand
January 2002, Volume 13, Issue 1
- 1-10 Phylogeny, specialization, and brood parasite--host coevolution: some possible pitfalls of parsimony
by Stephen I. Rothstein & Michael A. Patten - 11-19 Ultraviolet vision and mate choice in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
by Elizabeth J. Smith & Julian C. Partridge & Katharine N. Parsons & Elizabeth M. White & Innes C. Cuthill & Andrew T. D. Bennett - 20-27 Small pack size imposes a trade-off between hunting and pup-guarding in the painted hunting dog Lycaon pictus
by Franck Courchamp & Gregory S. A. Rasmussen - 28-31 Lack of inbreeding avoidance in the Argentine ant Linepithema humile
by Laurent Keller - 32-41 The kinds of traits involved in male--male competition: a comparison of plumage, behavior, and body size in quail
by Julie C. Hagelin - 42-51 Can information sharing explain recruitment to food from communal roosts?
by Sasha R. X. Dall - 52-58 The cost of parental care: prey hunting in a digger wasp
by Erhard Strohm - 59-64 Color patterns and species recognition in four closely related species of Lake Malawi cichlid
by Vanessa C. K. Couldridge - 65-69 The development of coordinated singing in cooperatively displaying long-tailed manakins
by Jill M. Trainer & David B. McDonald - 70-74 Flexible oviposition behavior in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata) and its implications for offspring survival
by Piedad Reguera - 75-82 Modeling spawning strategy for sex change under social control in haremic angelfishes
by Yuka Hamaguchi & Yoichi Sakai & Fugo Takasu - 83-86 Mate sampling and the sexual conflict over mating in seaweed flies
by David M. Shuker - 87-93 Reduction of maternal care: a new benefit of multiple mating?
by Shou-Hsien Li - 94-100 Asset protection in juvenile salmon: how adding biological realism changes a dynamic foraging model
by Ulrich G. Reinhardt - 101-108 Comparative manipulation of predation risk in incubating birds reveals variability in the plasticity of responses
by Cameron K. Ghalambor - 109-124 Territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) do not assess fighting ability based on size-related variation in acoustic signals
by Mark A. Bee - 125-133 Antipredator defense as a limited resource: unequal predation risk in broods of an insect with maternal care
by Reginald B. Cocroft - 134-141 Sociality in river otters: cooperative foraging or reproductive strategies?
by Gail M. Blundell & Merav Ben-David - 142-148 Delayed juvenile dispersal benefits both mother and offspring in the cooperative spider Anelosimus studiosus (Araneae: Theridiidae)
by Thomas C. Jones