Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving …

Chromosomal inversions are an important form of structural variation that can affect
recombination, chromosome structure and fitness. However, because inversions can be …

How locally adapted ecotypes are established and maintained within a species is a long-
standing question in evolutionary biology. Using forest and prairie ecotypes of deer mice …

Neuroscientists have long studied species with convenient biological features to discover
how behavior emerges from conserved molecular, neural, and circuit level processes. With …

Mammals display diverse reproductive strategies, however, the ultimate and proximate
mechanisms that underlie this diversity and its composite traits remain poorly understood …

Cell types with specialized functions fundamentally regulate animal behaviour, and yet the
genetic mechanisms that underlie the emergence of novel cell types and their …

Vocalization is a widespread social behavior in vertebrates that can affect fitness in the wild.
Although many vocal behaviors are highly conserved, heritable features of specific …

Arboreal locomotion allows access to above-ground resources and might have fostered the
diversification of mammals. Nevertheless, simple morphological measurements that …

Environmental conditions exert strong selection on animal behavior. We tested the
hypothesis that the altered behavior of hosts due to parasitic manipulation is also subject to …

Many animals produce long-distance acoustic signals to mediate a variety of social
interactions, and the efficacy of transmission depends in part on environmental attenuation …