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29 March 2017; volume 284, issue 1851

New articles in their final version of record are published here as soon as they are ready. The latest ones are added to the top of the relevant section.

Behaviour

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    The melanocortin system regulates body pigmentation and social behaviour in a colour polymorphic cichlid fish

    Peter D. Dijkstra, Sean M. Maguire, Rayna M. Harris, Agosto A. Rodriguez, Ross S. DeAngelis, Stephanie A. Flores, Hans A. Hofmann
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162838; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2838. Published 29 March 2017

Development and physiology

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    Linking magnetite in the abdomen of honey bees to a magnetoreceptive function

    Veronika Lambinet, Michael E. Hayden, Katharina Reigl, Surath Gomis, Gerhard Gries
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162873; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2873. Published 22 March 2017

Ecology

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    Warming magnifies predation and reduces prey coexistence in a model litter arthropod system

    Madhav P. Thakur, Tom Künne, John N. Griffin, Nico Eisenhauer
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162570; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2570. Published 29 March 2017
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    Field study suggests that sex determination in sea lamprey is directly influenced by larval growth rate

    Nicholas S. Johnson, William D. Swink, Travis O. Brenden
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20170262; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0262. Published 29 March 2017
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    Research article:

    Seasonal body size reductions with warming covary with major body size gradients in arthropod species

    Curtis R. Horne, Andrew G. Hirst, David Atkinson
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20170238; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0238. Published 29 March 2017
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    Research article:

    Exposure to dairy manure leads to greater antibiotic resistance and increased mass-specific respiration in soil microbial communities

    Carl Wepking, Bethany Avera, Brian Badgley, John E. Barrett, Josh Franklin, Katharine F. Knowlton, Partha P. Ray, Crystal Smitherman, Michael S. Strickland
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162233; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2233. Published 29 March 2017
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    Comment:

    Comment on: ‘Blood does not buy goodwill: allowing culling increases poaching of a large carnivore’

    Kim M. Pepin, Shannon L. Kay, Amy J. Davis
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20161459; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1459. Published 22 March 2017
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    Invited reply:

    Reply to comment by Pepin et al. 2017

    Guillaume Chapron, Adrian Treves
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162571; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2571. Published 22 March 2017
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    Allometric growth in reef-building corals

    Maria Dornelas, Joshua S. Madin, Andrew H. Baird, Sean R. Connolly
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20170053; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0053. Published 22 March 2017
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    Research article:

    Immanent conditions determine imminent collapses: nutrient regimes define the resilience of macroalgal communities

    Jordi Boada, Rohan Arthur, David Alonso, Jordi F. Pagès, Albert Pessarrodona, Silvia Oliva, Giulia Ceccherelli, Luigi Piazzi, Javier Romero, Teresa Alcoverro
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162814; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2814. Published 22 March 2017
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    Research article:

    Moving beyond linear food chains: trait-mediated indirect interactions in a rocky intertidal food web

    Geoffrey C. Trussell, Catherine M. Matassa, Patrick J. Ewanchuk
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162590; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2590. Published 22 March 2017
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    Metabolic rate associates with, but does not generate covariation between, behaviours in western stutter-trilling crickets, Gryllus integer

    Indrikis A. Krams, Petri T. Niemelä, Giedrius Trakimas, Ronalds Krams, Gordon M. Burghardt, Tatjana Krama, Aare Kuusik, Marika Mänd, Markus J. Rantala, Raivo Mänd, Jukka Kekäläinen, Ilkka Sirkka, Severi Luoto, Raine Kortet
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162481; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2481. Published 22 March 2017
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    Natal dispersers pay a lifetime cost to increased reproductive effort in a wild bird population

    Marion Germain, Tomas Pärt, Lars Gustafsson, Blandine Doligez
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162445; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2445. Published 22 March 2017
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    Statistical model specification and power: recommendations on the use of test-qualified pooling in analysis of experimental data

    Nick Colegrave, Graeme D. Ruxton
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20161850; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1850. Published 22 March 2017

Evolution

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    First macrobiota biomineralization was environmentally triggered

    Rachel Wood, Andrey Yu Ivantsov, Andrey Yu Zhuravlev
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20170059; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0059. Published 29 March 2017
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    The dynamic association between ovariole loss and sterility in adult honeybee workers

    Isobel Ronai, Michael H. Allsopp, Ken Tan, Shihao Dong, Xiwen Liu, Vanina Vergoz, Benjamin P. Oldroyd
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162693; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2693. Published 29 March 2017
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    Research article:

    Terrestrial reproduction as an adaptation to steep terrain in African toads

    H. Christoph Liedtke, Hendrik Müller, Julian Hafner, Johannes Penner, David J. Gower, Tomáš Mazuch, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Simon P. Loader
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162598; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2598. Published 29 March 2017
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    Perspective:

    Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?

    David A. Kennedy, Andrew F. Read
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162562; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2562. Published 29 March 2017
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    Co-evolution of cooperation and cognition: the impact of imperfect deliberation and context-sensitive intuition

    Adam Bear, Ari Kagan, David G. Rand
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162326; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2326. Published 22 March 2017
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    Evolution of male and female choice in polyandrous systems

    Mikael Puurtinen, Lutz Fromhage
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162174; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2174. Published 22 March 2017

Genetics and genomics

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    Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe

    Joana B. Pereira, Marta D. Costa, Daniel Vieira, Maria Pala, Lisa Bamford, Nourdin Harich, Lotfi Cherni, Farida Alshamali, Jiři Hatina, Sergey Rychkov, Gheorghe Stefanescu, Turi King, Antonio Torroni, Pedro Soares, Luísa Pereira, Martin B. Richards
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20161976; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1976. Published 22 March 2017

Neuroscience and cognition

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    Speed dependency in α-motoneuron activity and locomotor modules in human locomotion: indirect evidence for phylogenetically conserved spinal circuits

    Hikaru Yokoyama, Tetsuya Ogawa, Masahiro Shinya, Noritaka Kawashima, Kimitaka Nakazawa
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20170290; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0290. Published 29 March 2017

Palaeobiology

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    Broad-scale trophic shift in the pelagic North Pacific revealed by an oceanic seabird

    Peggy H. Ostrom, Anne E. Wiley, Helen F. James, Sam Rossman, William A. Walker, Elise F. Zipkin, Yoshito Chikaraishi
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162436; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2436. Published 29 March 2017
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    A new crustacean from the Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte, UK, and its significance in malacostracan evolution

    David J. Siveter, Derek E. G. Briggs, Derek J. Siveter, Mark D. Sutton, David Legg
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20170279; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0279. Published 22 March 2017
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    Joint histology in Alligator mississippiensis challenges the identification of synovial joints in fossil archosaurs and inferences of cranial kinesis

    Alida M. Bailleul, Casey M. Holliday
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20170038; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0038. Published 22 March 2017
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    Climate warming and humans played different roles in triggering Late Quaternary extinctions in east and west Eurasia

    Xinru Wan, Zhibin Zhang
    Proc. R. Soc. B 2017 284 20162438; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2438. Published 22 March 2017
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