Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 19, issue 6, 2008

Predation risk of whole-clutch filial cannibalism in a tropical skink with maternal care pp. 1069-1074

Wen-San Huang

Male elimination in the honeybee pp. 1075-1079

Katie E. Wharton, Fred C. Dyer and Thomas Getty

Seasonal plasticity in male mating preferences in sailfin mollies pp. 1080-1086

Katja U. Heubel and Ingo Schlupp

Receiver identity modifies begging intensity independent of need in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) pups pp. 1087-1094

Matthew B.V. Bell

Flight distance and population trends in European breeding birds pp. 1095-1102

Anders Pape Møller

Density-dependent mating tactic expression is linked to stress hormone in Woodhouse's toad pp. 1103-1110

Christopher J. Leary, Apryl M. Garcia and Rosemary Knapp

Is there a cost to larval begging in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides? pp. 1111-1115

Per T. Smiseth and Hannah J. Parker

Female preferences for long tails constrained by species recognition in short-tailed red bishops pp. 1116-1121

Sarah R. Pryke and Staffan Andersson

Relative size influences gender role in the freshwater hermaphroditic snail, Helisoma trivolvis pp. 1122-1127

Cynthia G. Norton, Angela F. Johnson and Rebecca L. Mueller

Mate choice and courtship signal differentiation promotes speciation in an Amazonian frog pp. 1128-1135

Mónica A. Guerra and Santiago R. Ron

Task partitioning increases reproductive output in a cooperative bird pp. 1136-1142

Amanda R. Ridley and Nichola J. Raihani

Effects of competition and food availability on travel time in scatter-hoarding gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) pp. 1143-1149

Lucy J. Hopewell, Lisa A. Leaver and Stephen E.G. Lea

Female reproductive synchrony predicts skewed paternity across primates pp. 1150-1158

Julia Ostner, Charles L. Nunn and Oliver Schülke

Sperm investment in male meadow voles is affected by the condition of the nearby male conspecifics pp. 1159-1164

Ashlee A. Vaughn, Javier delBarco-Trillo and Michael H. Ferkin

Females of carotenoid-supplemented males are more faithful and produce higher quality offspring pp. 1165-1172

Fabrice Helfenstein, Sylvain Losdat, Verena Saladin and Heinz Richner

Dual function of seminal substances for mate guarding in a ground beetle pp. 1173-1178

Yasuoki Takami, Masataka Sasabe, Nobuaki Nagata and Teiji Sota

A mechanism for cryptic female choice in chinook salmon pp. 1179-1185

Patrice Rosengrave, Neil J. Gemmell, Victoria Metcalf, Katherine McBride and Robert Montgomerie

Costs of group size: lower developmental and reproductive rates in larger groups of leaf monkeys pp. 1186-1191

Carola Borries, Eileen Larney, Amy Lu, Kerry Ossi and Andreas Koenig

Male chickadees match neighbors interactively at dawn: support for the social dynamics hypothesis pp. 1192-1199

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

Correlates of the occurrence of inbreeding in a wild bird population pp. 1200-1207

Marta Szulkin and Ben C. Sheldon

The roles of ecological factors and sexual selection in the evolution of white wing patches in ducks pp. 1208-1216

Gergely Hegyi, László Zsolt Garamszegi and Marcel Eens

Genetic and plastic components of divergent male intersexual behavior in Misty lake/stream stickleback pp. 1217-1224

Matthieu Delcourt, Katja Räsänen and Andrew P. Hendry

Fleas, parental care, and transgenerational effects on tick load in the great tit pp. 1225-1234

Katharina Gallizzi, Ophélie Alloitteau, Estelle Harrang and Heinz Richner

Multiple proximate and ultimate causes of natal dispersal in white-tailed deer pp. 1235-1242

Eric S. Long, Duane R. Diefenbach, Christopher S. Rosenberry and Bret D. Wallingford

Sex allocation and parental quality in tree swallows pp. 1243-1249

Kira E. Delmore, Oddmund Kleven, Terje Laskemoen, Susan A. Crowe, Jan T. Lifjeld and Raleigh J. Robertson

Seismic signal dominance in the multimodal courtship display of the wolf spider Schizocosa stridulans Stratton 1991 pp. 1250-1257

Eileen A. Hebets

Risk effects in elk: sex-specific responses in grazing and browsing due to predation risk from wolves pp. 1258-1266

David Christianson and Scott Creel

Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches pp. 1267-1281

Marie-Jeanne Holveck, Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro, Robert F. Lachlan, Carel ten Cate and Katharina Riebel

Effects of autotomy and regeneration on detection and capture of prey in a generalist predator pp. 1282-1288

Kerri M. Wrinn and George W. Uetz

Red colobus monkeys display alternative behavioral responses to the costs of scramble competition pp. 1289-1296

Tamaini V. Snaith and Colin A. Chapman

Seasonal effects on offspring reproductive traits through maternal oviposition behavior pp. 1297-1304

Christine W. Miller

Flight distance and blood parasites in birds pp. 1305-1313

Anders Pape Møller

Alternative strategies of space use and response to resource change in a wintering migrant songbird pp. 1314-1325

David R. Brown and Thomas W. Sherry

Courtship attention in sagebrush lizards varies with male identity and female reproductive state pp. 1326-1332

Mayté Ruiz, Erica Davis and Emília P. Martins

Beware of bats, beware of birds: the auditory responses of eared moths to bat and bird predation pp. 1333-1342

David S. Jacobs, John M. Ratcliffe and James H. Fullard

Females affect sperm swimming performance: a field experiment with barn swallows Hirundo rustica pp. 1343-1350

A. P. Møller, T. A. Mousseau and G. Rudolfsen

Trade-off between migration and reproduction: does a high workload affect body condition and reproductive state? pp. 1351-1360

Carola A. Schmidt-Wellenburg, G. Henk Visser, Brigitte Biebach, Kaspar Delhey, Martina Oltrogge, Andrea Wittenzellner, Herbert Biebach and Bart Kempenaers

What is the magnitude of the group-size effect on vigilance? pp. 1361-1368

Guy Beauchamp

Volume 19, issue 5, 2008

Programmed versus stimulus-driven antiparasitic grooming in a desert rodent pp. 929-935

Hadas Hawlena, Dikla Bashary, Zvika Abramsky, Irina S. Khokhlova and Boris R. Krasnov

Trapline foraging by bumble bees: V. Effects of experience and priority on competitive performance pp. 936-948

Kazuharu Ohashi, Alison Leslie and James D. Thomson

Effects of experimentally increased costs of activity during reproduction on parental investment and self-maintenance in tropical house wrens pp. 949-959

B. Irene Tieleman, Thomas H. Dijkstra, Kirk C. Klasing, G. Henk Visser and Joseph B. Williams

Love will tear you apart: different components of female choice exert contrasting selection pressures on male field crickets pp. 960-966

Nathan W. Bailey

Availability of nonpigmentary antioxidant affects red coloration in gulls pp. 967-973

Cristóbal Pérez, Marta Lores and Alberto Velando

Evolutionarily costly courtship displays in a wolf spider: a test of viability indicator theory pp. 974-979

Chad D. Hoefler, Matthew H. Persons and Ann L. Rypstra

Larval amphibians learn to match antipredator response intensity to temporal patterns of risk pp. 980-983

Maud C.O. Ferrari, François Messier and Douglas P. Chivers

Sector fidelity--an advantageous foraging behavior resulting from a heuristic search strategy pp. 984-989

Eva Maria Buchkremer and Klaus Reinhold

Why be diurnal? Shifts in activity time enable young cane toads to evade cannibalistic conspecifics pp. 990-997

Lígia Pizzatto, Travis Child and Richard Shine

Context-dependent mate choice in relation to social composition in green swordtails Xiphophorus helleri pp. 998-1005

Nick J. Royle, Jan Lindström and Neil B. Metcalfe

The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel pp. 1006-1011

Melissa A. Hillegass, Jane M. Waterman and James D. Roth

Being conspicuous and defended: selective benefits for the individual pp. 1012-1017

Christina G. Halpin, John Skelhorn and Candy Rowe

Sperm investment in relation to weapon size in a male trimorphic insect? pp. 1018-1024

Clint D. Kelly

Male and female golden whistlers respond differently to static and dynamic signals of male intruders pp. 1025-1033

Wouter F. D. van Dongen and Raoul A. Mulder

The ecology of vocal signaling: male spacing and communication distance of different song traits in nightingales pp. 1034-1040

Marc Naguib, Rouven Schmidt, Philipp Sprau, Tobias Roth, Cornelia Flörcke and Valentin Amrhein

Heterospecific eavesdropping in a nonsocial species pp. 1041-1046

Amanda J. Lea, June P. Barrera, Lauren M. Tom and Daniel T. Blumstein

Helping as a signal: does removal of potential audiences alter helper behavior in the bell miner? pp. 1047-1055

Paul G. McDonald, Anahita J.N. Kazem, Michael F. Clarke and Jonathan Wright

Predator-induced reductions in nest visitation rates are modified by forest cover and food availability pp. 1056-1062

Sönke Eggers, Michael Griesser and Jan Ekman

Cleaner fish cause predators to reduce aggression toward bystanders at cleaning stations pp. 1063-1067

Karen L. Cheney, Redouan Bshary and Alexandra S. Grutter

Volume 19, issue 4, 2008

Polyandry, sperm competition, and reproductive success in mice pp. 695-702

Renée C. Firman and Leigh W. Simmons

Experimental support for the makeup hypothesis in nestling tawny owls (Strix aluco) pp. 703-709

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

Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity pp. 710-715

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

Acoustic information as a distant cue for habitat recognition by nocturnally migrating passerines during landfall pp. 716-723

Andrey Mukhin, Nikita Chernetsov and Dmitry Kishkinev

The size of the red wing spot of the American rubyspot as a heightened condition-dependent ornament pp. 724-732

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

On the spot: the absence of predators reveals eyespot plasticity in a marine fish pp. 733-739

Monica Gagliano

Experimental blocking of UV reflectance does not influence use of off-body display elements by satin bowerbirds pp. 740-746

Gerald Borgia

Physiological correlates of coastal arrival and river entry timing in late summer Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) pp. 747-758

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

Eastern chipmunks increase their perception of predation risk in response to titmouse alarm calls pp. 759-763

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

Size and heterozygosity influence partner selection in the Formosan subterranean termite pp. 764-773

Claudia Husseneder and Dawn M. Simms

Philopatry in prairie voles: an evaluation of the habitat saturation hypothesis pp. 774-783

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

Mechanosensory function for facial ornamentation in the whiskered auklet, a crevice-dwelling seabird pp. 784-790

Sampath S. Seneviratne and Ian L. Jones

A test of the dear enemy hypothesis in female New Zealand bellbirds (Anthornis melanura): female neighbors as threats pp. 791-798

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

Wrap attack activates web-decorating behavior in Argiope spiders pp. 799-804

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

Effects of trail gradient on leaf tissue transport and load size selection in leaf-cutter ants pp. 805-809

O. T. Lewis, M. Martin and T. J. Czaczkes

Sex-specific differences in immunological costs of multiple mating in Gryllus vocalis field crickets pp. 810-815

Susan N. Gershman

The role of genetic relatedness among social mates in a cooperative breeder pp. 816-823

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

Eavesdropping and communication networks revealed through playback and an acoustic location system pp. 824-829

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

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in an island songbird exposed to a novel predation risk pp. 830-835

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

Food unpredictability drives both generalism and social foraging: a game theoretical model pp. 836-841

Sarah E. Overington, Frédérique Dubois and Louis Lefebvre

Search rate, attack probability, and the relationship between prey density and prey encounter rate pp. 842-846

Christos C. Ioannou, Graeme D. Ruxton and Jens Krause

Sex, melanic coloration, and sibling competition during the postfledging dependence period pp. 847-853

Pablo Vergara and Juan A. Fargallo

Female agreement over male attractiveness is not affected by cost of mating with experienced males pp. 854-859

Martin Edvardsson, John Hunt, Patricia J. Moore and Allen J. Moore

Contemporary sexual selection on sexually dimorphic traits in the ambush bug Phymata americana pp. 860-870

David Punzalan, F. Helen Rodd and Locke Rowe

Non-repeatable mate choice by male sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex pp. 871-878

Caitlin R. Gabor and Andrea S. Aspbury

Larval amphibians seek warm temperatures and do not avoid harmful UVB radiation pp. 879-886

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

Response to conspecific and heterospecific alarm calls in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lankan rainforest pp. 887-894

Eben Goodale and Sarath W. Kotagama

Opponent assessment in lizards: examining the effect of aggressive and submissive signals pp. 895-901

Daniel A. Van Dyk and Christopher S. Evans

Symmetry and sexual dimorphism in human faces: interrelated preferences suggest both signal quality pp. 902-908

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

Optimal individual positions within animal groups pp. 909-919

Lesley J. Morrell and William L. Romey

Do birds differentially distribute antimicrobial proteins within clutches of eggs? pp. 920-927

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

Volume 19, issue 3, 2008

Female mating preferences for male morphological traits used in species and mate recognition in the Mexican sailfin mollies, Poecilia velifera and Poecilia petenensis pp. 463-474

Heather L. Kozak, Lauren A. Cirino and Margaret B. Ptacek

When foraging and fear meet: using foraging hierarchies to inform assessments of landscapes of fear pp. 475-482

Kate R. Searle, Chris J. Stokes and Iain J. Gordon

Individual variation in male mating preferences for female coloration in a polymorphic cichlid fish pp. 483-488

Michele E.R. Pierotti, Mairi E. Knight, Simone Immler, Nicola J. Barson, George F. Turner and Ole Seehausen

Parent--offspring communication in the western sandpiper pp. 489-501

Matthew Johnson, Susanne Aref and Jeffrey R. Walters

Does ambient noise affect growth and begging call structure in nestling birds? pp. 502-507

Marty L. Leonard and Andrew G. Horn

The effects of delayed plumage maturation on aggression and survival in male red-backed fairy-wrens pp. 508-516

Jordan Karubian, T. Scott Sillett and Michael S. Webster

Plumage color and reproduction in the red-backed fairy-wren: Why be a dull breeder? pp. 517-524

Michael S. Webster, Claire W. Varian and Jordan Karubian

Conspicuousness, not eye mimicry, makes "eyespots" effective antipredator signals pp. 525-531

Martin Stevens, Chloe J. Hardman and Claire L. Stubbins

Grouping increases visual detection risk by specialist parasitoids pp. 532-538

Candace Low

Competitor density cues for habitat quality facilitating habitat selection and investment decisions pp. 539-545

Jukka T. Forsman, Mårten B. Hjernquist, Jenni Taipale and Lars Gustafsson

Thanatosis as an adaptive male mating strategy in the nuptial gift--giving spider Pisaura mirabilis pp. 546-551

Line Spinner Hansen, Sofia Fernandez Gonzales, Søren Toft and Trine Bilde

Oviposition behavior partitions aquatic landscapes along predation and nutrient gradients pp. 552-557

C.A. Binckley and W.J. Resetarits

Helper contributions to antiparasite behavior in the cooperatively breeding bell miner pp. 558-566

María L. Pacheco, Paul G. McDonald, Jonathan Wright, Anahita J.N. Kazem and Michael F. Clarke

Influence of the social context on division of labor in ant foundress associations pp. 567-574

Raphaël Jeanson and Jennifer H. Fewell

Delayed rejection in a leaf-cutting ant after foraging on plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus pp. 575-582

Hubert Herz, Bert Hölldobler and Flavio Roces

The role of avoidance learning in an aggressive mimicry system pp. 583-588

Karen L. Cheney

A growth cost of experimentally induced conspicuous coloration in first-year collared lizard males pp. 589-593

Troy A. Baird

Sympatry affects the evolution of genetic versus cultural determination of song pp. 596-604

Helen Olofsson and Maria R. Servedio

Colony nutrition skews reproduction in a social spider pp. 605-611

Mor Salomon, David Mayntz and Yael Lubin

Predictors of resistance to brood parasitism within and among reed warbler populations pp. 612-620

Bård G. Stokke, Inge Hafstad, Geir Rudolfsen, Arne Moksnes, Anders Pape Møller, Eivin Røskaft and Manuel Soler

The effects of perceived mortality risk on habitat selection in a terrestrial salamander pp. 621-626

Alexandre M. Roberts and Eric B. Liebgold

Dusk light environment optimizes visual perception of conspecifics in a crepuscular horned beetle pp. 627-634

Marc Théry, Sylvain Pincebourde and François Feer

Aggressive responses to broadband trills are related to subsequent pairing success in nightingales pp. 635-641

Rouven Schmidt, Hansjoerg P. Kunc, Valentin Amrhein and Marc Naguib

Sexual selection in harems: male competition plays a larger role than female choice in an amphipod pp. 642-649

Vikram K. Iyengar and Bianca D. Starks

Host shifts favor vibrational signal divergence in Enchenopa binotata treehoppers pp. 650-656

Gabriel D. McNett and Reginald B. Cocroft

Fuel stores, fuel accumulation, and the decision to depart from a migration stopover site pp. 657-666

Michael Schaub, Lukas Jenni and Franz Bairlein

Experience influences shoal member preference in a species pair of sticklebacks pp. 667-676

Genevieve M. Kozak and Janette Wenrick Boughman

Foraging behavior of egg parasitoids exploiting chemical information pp. 677-689

Nina E. Fatouros, Marcel Dicke, Roland Mumm, Torsten Meiners and Monika Hilker

Time for some a priori thinking about post hoc testing pp. 690-693

Graeme D. Ruxton and Guy Beauchamp

Volume 19, issue 2, 2008

Migration cues and timing in leatherback sea turtles pp. 231-236

Scott A. Sherrill-Mix, Michael C. James and Ransom A. Myers

Deceptive color signaling in the night: a nocturnal predator attracts prey with visual lures pp. 237-244

Chih-Yuan Chuang, En-Cheng Yang and I-Min Tso

What best explains vigilance in elk: characteristics of prey, predators, or the environment? pp. 245-254

Stewart Liley and Scott Creel

Foraging in honeybees--when does it pay to dance? pp. 255-261

Madeleine Beekman and Jie Bin Lew

Survival benefits and divergence of predator-induced behavior between pumpkinseed sunfish ecomorphs pp. 263-271

Beren W. Robinson, Andrew J. Januszkiewicz and Jens C. Koblitz

Worker policing in the German wasp Vespula germanica pp. 272-278

Wim Bonckaert, Kristel Vuerinckx, Johan Billen, Rob L. Hammond, Laurent Keller and Tom Wenseleers

Parent-absent begging: evidence for sibling honesty and cooperation in the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) pp. 279-284

Elena Bulmer, Patricia Celis and Diego Gil

Male insemination decisions and sperm quality influence paternity in the golden orb--weaving spider pp. 285-291

Theresa M. Jones and Mark A. Elgar

Parasite levels in blue-black grassquits correlate with male displays but not female mate preference pp. 292-301

Thais M. Aguilar, Rafael Maia, Eduardo S.A. Santos and Regina H. Macedo

Sexual conflict over breeding substrate causes female expulsion and offspring loss in a cichlid fish pp. 302-308

Martine E. Maan and Michael Taborsky

Mating system, sexual dimorphism, and the opportunity for sexual selection in a territorial ungulate pp. 309-316

Cécile Vanpé, Petter Kjellander, Maxime Galan, Jean-François Cosson, Stéphane Aulagnier, Olof Liberg and A. J. Mark Hewison

Social constraints limit dispersal and settlement decisions in a group-living bird species pp. 317-324

Michael Griesser, Magdalena Nystrand, Sönke Eggers and Jan Ekman

Low light reflectance may explain the attraction of birds to defoliated trees pp. 325-330

Elina Mäntylä, Tero Klemola, Päivi Sirkiä and Toni Laaksonen

Male morph predicts investment in larval immune function in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus pp. 331-337

Sheena C. Cotter, Maxine Beveridge and Leigh W. Simmons

Optimal group positioning after a predator attack: the influence of speed, sex, and satiation within mobile whirligig swarms pp. 338-343

William L. Romey and Emily Galbraith

Evolution of parental favoritism among different-aged offspring pp. 344-352

Joonghwan Jeon

Monogamy when there is potential for polygyny: tests of multiple hypotheses in a group-living fish pp. 353-361

Marian Y. L. Wong, Philip L. Munday, Peter M. Buston and Geoffrey P. Jones

Can experienced birds select for Müllerian mimicry? pp. 362-368

Eira Ihalainen, Leena Lindström, Johanna Mappes and Sari Puolakkainen

Ultraviolet reflectance of plumage for parent--offspring communication in the great tit (Parus major) pp. 369-373

Marion Tanner and Heinz Richner

Colorful male guppies do not provide females with fecundity benefits pp. 374-381

Andrea Pilastro, Clelia Gasparini, Chiara Boschetto and Jonathan P. Evans

Split sex ratios in the social Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis pp. 382-390

Joël Meunier, Stuart A. West and Michel Chapuisat

Winter male plumage coloration correlates with breeding status in a cooperative breeding species pp. 391-397

Elena Solís, Jesús M. Avilés, Carlos De La Cruz, Juliana Valencia and Gabriele Sorci

Egg rejection behavior in a population exposed to parasitism: Village Weavers on Hispaniola pp. 398-403

Alexander Cruz, John W. Prather, James W. Wiley and Pablo F. Weaver

Male barn swallows use different resource allocation rules to produce ornamental tail feathers pp. 404-409

Alberto Muñoz, José Miguel Aparicio and Raúl Bonal

Ultraviolet plumage does not signal social status in free-living blue tits; an experimental test pp. 410-416

Oscar Vedder, Peter Korsten, Michael J. L. Magrath and Jan Komdeur

Strong but variable associations between social dominance and clutch sex ratio in a colonial corvid pp. 417-424

H.M. Salomons, C. Dijkstra and S. Verhulst

Better to be bimodal: the interaction of color and odor on learning and memory pp. 425-432

Emma C. Siddall and Nicola M. Marples

Paternity costs from polyandry compensated by increased fecundity in the hide beetle pp. 433-440

Kathryn B. McNamara, Rachael L. Brown, Mark A. Elgar and Therésa M. Jones

Food resources, chemical signaling, and nest mate recognition in the ant Formica aquilonia pp. 441-447

Jouni Sorvari, Pascal Theodora, Stefano Turillazzi, Harri Hakkarainen and Liselotte Sundström

Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis pp. 448-455

Brian R. Smith and Daniel T. Blumstein

Testing the sexy son hypothesis--a research framework for empirical approaches pp. 456-461

Thomas Huk and Wolfgang Winkel

Volume 19, issue 1, 2008

Female mating biases for bright ultraviolet iridescence in the butterfly Eurema hecabe (Pieridae) pp. 1-8

Darrell J. Kemp

Age- and tactic-related paternity success in male African elephants pp. 9-15

H.B. Rasmussen, J.B.A. Okello, G. Wittemyer, H.R. Siegismund, P. Arctander, F. Vollrath and I. Douglas-Hamilton

Digit ratios, secondary sexual characters and condition in barn swallows Hirundo rustica pp. 16-21

Amélie N. Dreiss, Carlos Navarro, Florentino de Lope and Anders P. Møller

Host life-history strategies and the evolution of chick-killing by brood parasitic offspring pp. 22-34

Mark Broom, Graeme D. Ruxton and Rebecca M. Kilner

Does predator swamping promote synchronous emergence of turtle hatchlings among nests? pp. 35-40

John K. Tucker, Gary L. Paukstis and Fredric J. Janzen

Risk taking by singing males pp. 41-53

A.P. Møller, J.T. Nielsen and L.Z. Garamzegi

Do male ornaments signal immunity in the common yellowthroat? pp. 54-60

Julia C. Garvin, Peter O. Dunn, Linda A. Whittingham, Douglas A. Steeber and Dennis Hasselquist

Effect of UV-reflecting markings on female mate-choice decisions in Cosmophasis umbratica, a jumping spider from Singapore pp. 61-66

Matthew L.M. Lim, Jingjing Li and Daiqin Li

Spatial relatedness and brood parasitism in a female-philopatric bird population pp. 67-73

Peter Waldeck, Malte Andersson, Mikael Kilpi and Markus Öst

Do 3-D predators attack the margins of 2-D selfish herds? pp. 74-78

W.L. Romey, A.R. Walston and P.J. Watt

Shared parental care is costly for nestlings of common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts pp. 79-86

Márk E. Hauber and Csaba Moskát

Early interactions with adults mediate the development of predator defenses in guppies pp. 87-93

Ben B. Chapman, Lesley J. Morrell, Tim G. Benton and Jens Krause

Age-related decrease in male reproductive success and song quality in Drosophila montana pp. 94-99

Anneli Hoikkala, Mari Saarikettu, Janne S. Kotiaho and Jaana O. Liimatainen

Getting rid of the cuckoo Cuculus canorus egg: why do hosts delay rejection? pp. 100-107

Anton Antonov, Bård G. Stokke, Arne Moksnes and Eivin Røskaft

Nestling begging intensity and parental effort in relation to prelaying carotenoid availability pp. 108-115

Fabrice Helfenstein, Anne Berthouly, Marion Tanner, Filiz Karadas and Heinz Richner

Can hungry nestlings be trained to reduce their begging? pp. 116-125

Uri Grodzinski, Ido Erev and Arnon Lotem

The confusion effect--from neural networks to reduced predation risk pp. 126-130

C.C. Ioannou, C.R. Tosh, L. Neville and J. Krause

Increasing vulnerability to predation increases preference for the scrounger foraging tactic pp. 131-138

Kimberley J. Mathot and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Home range size and overlap in female root voles: effects of season and density pp. 139-145

Katrine S. Hoset, Jean-François Le Galliard, Gry Gundersen and Harald Steen

Ecological factors influencing the evolution of insects' chemical defenses pp. 146-153

John Skelhorn and Graeme D. Ruxton

The discounting-by-interruptions hypothesis: model and experiment pp. 154-162

Samuel E. Henly, Allison Ostdiek, Erika Blackwell, Sarah Knutie, Aimee S. Dunlap and David W. Stephens

Density, social information, and space use in the common lizard (Lacerta vivipara) pp. 163-168

Julien Cote, Simon Boudsocq and Jean Clobert

Correlates of reproductive success in male lizards of the alpine species Iberolacerta cyreni pp. 169-176

Alfredo Salvador, José A. Díaz, José P. Veiga, Paul Bloor and Richard P. Brown

Preference polymorphism for coloration but no speciation in a population of Lake Victoria cichlids pp. 177-183

Inke van der Sluijs, Jacques J.M. van Alphen and Ole Seehausen

Identifying a causal agent of sexual selection on weaponry in an insect pp. 184-192

Clint D. Kelly

Mechanisms for aggregation in animals: rule success depends on ecological variables pp. 193-201

Lesley J. Morrell and Richard James

Preexisting behavior facilitated the loss of a sexual signal in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus pp. 202-207

Nathan W. Bailey, Janelle R. McNabb and Marlene Zuk

Are there benefits to being born asynchronously: an experimental test in a social lizard pp. 208-216

Geoffrey M. While and Erik Wapstra

The short-term regulation of foraging in harvester ants pp. 217-222

Deborah M. Gordon, Susan Holmes and Serban Nacu

Divergence of odorant signals within and between the two European subspecies of the house mouse pp. 223-230

Carole Smadja and Guila Ganem