1637-1649
Original Paper
The origin of the chemical profiles of fungal symbionts and their significance for nestmate recognition in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants
Freddie-Jeanne Richard, Michael Poulsen, Abraham Hefetz, Christine Errard and David R. Nash, et al.
1651-1663
Original Paper
Genetic reconstruction of breeding patterns in gundis (Rodentia: Ctenodactylidae)
Karen J. Nutt
1665-1674
Original Paper
Influence of body condition and weather on departures of first-year European robins, Erithacus rubecula, from an autumn migratory stopover site
Arseny Tsvey, Victor N. Bulyuk and Vlad Kosarev
1675-1683
Original Paper
Interspecific associations of Cape ground squirrels with two mongoose species: benefit or cost?
Jane M. Waterman and James D. Roth
1685-1693
Original Paper
Nestmate recognition for eggs in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)
Christian W. W. Pirk, Peter Neumann and Randall Hepburn
1695-1705
Original Paper
Sex-specific maternal effect on egg mass, laying order, and sibling competition in the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica)
Masayo Soma, Daichi S. Saito, Toshikazu Hasegawa and Kazuo Okanoya
1707-1715
Original Paper
Patch departure rules in Bumblebees: evidence of a decremental motivational mechanism
Diane Lefebvre, Jacqueline Pierre, Yannick Outreman and Jean-Sébastien Pierre
1717-1723
Original Paper
Defending young biparentally: female risk-taking with and without a male in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus pustulatus
Stephen T. Trumbo
1725-1733
Original Paper
Female tree swallows (
Tachycineta bicolor
) increase offspring heterozygosity through extrapair mating
Mary K. Stapleton, Oddmund Kleven, Jan T. Lifjeld and Raleigh J. Robertson
1735-1742
Original Paper
Food supply during prelaying period modifies the sex-dependent investment in eggs of Eurasian kestrels
Jesús Martínez-Padilla and Juan A. Fargallo
1743-1750
Original Paper
Cooperative breeding increases reproductive success in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola (Araneae, Eresidae)
Mor Salomon and Yael Lubin
1751-1758
Original Paper
Asymmetric larval competition in the parasitoid wasp
Nasonia vitripennis
: a role in sex allocation?
Edward M. Sykes, Tabitha M. Innocent, Ido Pen, David M. Shuker and Stuart A. West
1759-1764
Original Paper
Increased sperm numbers in the vas deferens of meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in response to odors of conspecific males
Javier delBarco-Trillo and Michael H. Ferkin
1765-1770
Original Paper
Benefits of kin association: related and familiar zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio) show improved growth
Gabriele Gerlach, Andrea Hodgins-Davis, Bradley MacDonald and Rebecca C. Hannah
1771-1779
Original Paper
Risk-prone hunting by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) increases during periods of high diet quality
Ian C. Gilby and Richard W. Wrangham
1781-1787
Original Paper
Inter-sexual contests in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus: females fight harder but males win more encounters
Mark Briffa and Dale Dallaway
1789-1796
Original Paper
The dynamics of social learning in an insect model, the bumblebee (
Bombus terrestris
)
Ellouise Leadbeater and Lars Chittka