We reared and recorded behaviours of clonal Amazon mollies in standardized environments, with and without predation stress, from birth through week four of life, to understand how the developmental e...

Quantifying animal behavior often requires segmenting continuous actions into discrete, interpretable states, yet most automated pipelines infer actions from keypoint dynamics and are limited by keypo...

Courtship is an interactive process that serves multiple functions and often involves signals and responses from both sexes. To understand how sexual …

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Courtship is an interactive process that serves multiple functions and often involves signals and responses from both sexes. To understand how sexual …

Insects employ a variety of conspicuous traits and courtship behaviors to mediate mate choice. Visual displays are especially common in tephritid flies with patterned wings, but it has long been debat...

Insects employ a variety of conspicuous traits and courtship behaviors to mediate mate choice. Visual displays are especially common in tephritid flies with patterned wings, but it has long been debat...

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Abstract. The evolution of novel animal signals is critical to the generation of biodiversity. Here, we explore how new sexual signals become established.

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Oceans cover over 70% of the earth’s surface and house a dizzying array of organisms, including five species of the peppercorn-sized ocean-skater Halobates, which live exclusively at the ocean surface...

Group-living organisms commonly engage in collective behaviour to respond to an ever-changing environment. As animals face environmental change, establishing the mechanisms of information used to collectively behave is critical. Western honeybees (Apis ...

We tested whether two species of flies adapted to different host plants differ in the time to reproductive maturity and the number of eggs produced. Reproductive timing differed between species: haw...

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