supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32170504,31970422,and 31672305)to Guangzhan Fang;the grant from the Biodiversity Survey,Monitoring and Assessment Project of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China(No.2019HB2096001006)to Baowei Zhang.
Environmental noise has a significant negative impact on acoustic communication in most situations,as it influences the production,transmis-sion,and reception of acoustic signals.However,how animals respond to conspec...
This work was carried out in compliance with the current laws of China and was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32071511,31301878,and 31300339)。
We used Takydromus septentrionalis,a sexually size-monomorphic lacertid lizard,as a model system to test the hypothesis that sexual size monomorphism may evolve in lizards where reproductive performance is maximized a...
Work was funded by the NSF(DEB 0953716);the UI Department of Animal Biology Odum Kendeigh Fund,and the UI School of Integrative Biology Harley and Francis Clark Fund.M.E.St.John was supported by an NIH SEPA Award(R25 OD020203)to B.Hug and R.CE.L.D.Mitchem,J Knox,and Z.Osterholz helped olleet fish.
Reinforcement can occur when maladaptive hybridization in sympatry favors the evolution of con-specific preferences and target traits that promote behav ioral isolation(BI).In many systems,enhanced BI is due to increa...
Phenotypic plasticity is often an adaptation of organisms to cope with temporally or spatially heter- ogenous landscapes. Like other adaptations, one would predict that different species, populations, or sexes might t...