Most animals have complex life cycles including metamorphosis or other discrete life stage
transitions, during which individuals may be particularly vulnerable to environmental …

Strong sexual selection may lead small males or males in poor condition to adopt alternative
reproductive tactics (ARTs) as a way to avoid the risk of being completely excluded from the …

The evolution of parental care is beneficial if it facilitates offspring performance traits that are
ultimately tied to offspring fitness. While this may seem self‐evident, the benefits of parental …

Goniosomatine harvestmen have strongly armed pedipalps, generally large bodies and,
commonly, very long legs (sometimes more than 20 cm), and are distributed in the Brazilian …

The large Neotropical family G onyleptidae comprises nearly 820 species divided into 16
subfamilies. The majority of publications on harvestman ecology, behaviour and scent gland …

Life-history theory suggests that offspring desertion can be an adaptive reproductive
strategy, in which parents forgo the costly care of an unprofitable current brood to save …

The existence of free-roaming dogs raises important issues in animal welfare and in public
health. A proper understanding of these animals' ecology is useful as a necessary input to …

Insect parental care is extensive and varied, but its life-history implications have never been
comparatively tested. Using original and literature data, we tested predictions about egg …

Harvestmen are a major arachnid order that has experienced a dramatic increase in
biological knowledge in the 21st century. The publication of the book Harvestmen: The …

In arthropods, most cases of morphological dimorphism within males are the result of a
conditional evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) with status-dependent tactics. In …