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Get checked abstract Renée C. Firman and Leigh W. Simmons

Polyandry, sperm competition, and reproductive success in mice
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 7, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 695-702; doi:10.1093/beheco/arm158 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Romain Piault, Julien Gasparini, Pierre Bize, Mariane Paulet, Kevin J. McGraw, and Alexandre Roulin

Experimental support for the makeup hypothesis in nestling tawny owls (Strix aluco)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 703-709; doi:10.1093/beheco/arm152 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Katherine L. Barry, Gregory I. Holwell, and Marie E. Herberstein

Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 11, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 710-715; doi:10.1093/beheco/arm156 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Andrey Mukhin, Nikita Chernetsov, and Dmitry Kishkinev

Acoustic information as a distant cue for habitat recognition by nocturnally migrating passerines during landfall
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 11, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 716-723; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn025 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jorge Contreras-Garduño, Bruno A. Buzatto, Martín A. Serrano-Meneses, Karla Nájera-Cordero, and Alejandro Córdoba-Aguilar

The size of the red wing spot of the American rubyspot as a heightened condition-dependent ornament
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 7, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 724-732; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn026 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Monica Gagliano

On the spot: the absence of predators reveals eyespot plasticity in a marine fish
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 7, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 733-739; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gerald Borgia

Experimental blocking of UV reflectance does not influence use of off-body display elements by satin bowerbirds
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 740-746; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Steven J. Cooke, Scott G. Hinch, Glenn T. Crossin, David A. Patterson, Karl K. English, Michael C. Healey, J. Steve Macdonald, J. Mark Shrimpton, Jeffrey L. Young, Andrea Lister, Glen Van Der Kraak, and A. P. Farrell

Physiological correlates of coastal arrival and river entry timing in late summer Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 6, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 747-758; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kenneth A. Schmidt, Eunice Lee, Richard S. Ostfeld, and Kathryn Sieving

Eastern chipmunks increase their perception of predation risk in response to titmouse alarm calls
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 8, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 759-763; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kristen E. Lucia, Brian Keane, Loren D. Hayes, Y. Kirk Lin, Robert L. Schaefer, and Nancy G. Solomon

Philopatry in prairie voles: an evaluation of the habitat saturation hypothesis
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 7, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 774-783; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sampath S. Seneviratne and Ian L. Jones

Mechanosensory function for facial ornamentation in the whiskered auklet, a crevice-dwelling seabird
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 7, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 784-790; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract D. H. Brunton, B. Evans, T. Cope, and W. Ji

A test of the dear enemy hypothesis in female New Zealand bellbirds (Anthornis melanura): female neighbors as threats
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 7, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 791-798; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract André Walter, Mark A. Elgar, Peter Bliss, and Robin F. A. Moritz

Wrap attack activates web-decorating behavior in Argiope spiders
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 11, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 799-804; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn030 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract O. T. Lewis, M. Martin, and T. J. Czaczkes

Effects of trail gradient on leaf tissue transport and load size selection in leaf-cutter ants
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 805-809; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn032 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Susan N. Gershman

Sex-specific differences in immunological costs of multiple mating in Gryllus vocalis field crickets
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 11, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 810-815; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract K. A. Stiver, J. L. Fitzpatrick, J. K. Desjardins, B. D. Neff, J. S. Quinn, and S. Balshine

The role of genetic relatedness among social mates in a cooperative breeder
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 28, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 816-823; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lauren P. Fitzsimmons, Jennifer R. Foote, Laurene M. Ratcliffe, and Daniel J. Mennill

Eavesdropping and communication networks revealed through playback and an acoustic location system
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 4, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 824-829; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Susana I. Peluc, T. Scott Sillett, John T. Rotenberry, and Cameron K. Ghalambor

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in an island songbird exposed to a novel predation risk
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 4, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 830-835; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn033 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sarah E. Overington, Frédérique Dubois, and Louis Lefebvre

Food unpredictability drives both generalism and social foraging: a game theoretical model
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 836-841; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christos C. Ioannou, Graeme D. Ruxton, and Jens Krause

Search rate, attack probability, and the relationship between prey density and prey encounter rate
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 4, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 842-846; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pablo Vergara and Juan A. Fargallo

Sex, melanic coloration, and sibling competition during the postfledging dependence period
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 847-853; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Martin Edvardsson, John Hunt, Patricia J. Moore, and Allen J. Moore

Female agreement over male attractiveness is not affected by cost of mating with experienced males
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 3, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 854-859; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn047 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Punzalan, F. Helen Rodd, and Locke Rowe

Contemporary sexual selection on sexually dimorphic traits in the ambush bug Phymata americana
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 860-870; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Caitlin R. Gabor and Andrea S. Aspbury

Non-repeatable mate choice by male sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 6, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 871-878; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn043 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Betsy A. Bancroft, Nick J. Baker, Catherine L. Searle, Tiffany S. Garcia, and Andrew R. Blaustein

Larval amphibians seek warm temperatures and do not avoid harmful UVB radiation
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 21, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 879-886; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Eben Goodale and Sarath W. Kotagama

Response to conspecific and heterospecific alarm calls in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lankan rainforest
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 25, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 887-894; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Daniel A. Van Dyk and Christopher S. Evans

Opponent assessment in lizards: examining the effect of aggressive and submissive signals
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 895-901; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anthony C. Little, Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine, and David R. Feinberg

Symmetry and sexual dimorphism in human faces: interrelated preferences suggest both signal quality
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 14, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 902-908; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn049 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lesley J. Morrell and William L. Romey

Optimal individual positions within animal groups
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 909-919; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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Matthew D. Shawkey, Karl L. Kosciuch, Mark Liu, Frank C. Rohwer, Elizabeth R. Loos, Jennifer M. Wang, and Steven R. Beissinger

Do birds differentially distribute antimicrobial proteins within clutches of eggs?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on March 6, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2008 19: 920-927; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn019 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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