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Get checked abstract Alexander D.M. Wilson and Jean-Guy J. Godin

Boldness and behavioral syndromes in the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 10, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 231-237; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp018 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jeremy R. Kendal, Luke Rendell, Thomas W. Pike, and Kevin N. Laland

Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 238-244; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp016 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Geoffrey M. While, Tobias Uller, and Erik Wapstra

Family conflict and the evolution of sociality in reptiles
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 245-250; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp015 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Virgil Fievet, Pauline Le Guigo, Julianne Casquet, Denis Poinsot, and Yannick Outreman

Living with the dead: when the body count rises, prey stick around
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 251-257; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp014 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Emile van Lieshout and Mark Adrian Elgar

Armament under direct sexual selection does not exhibit positive allometry in an earwig
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 258-264; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Linda L. Bischoff, Barbara Tschirren, and Heinz Richner

Long-term effects of early parasite exposure on song duration and singing strategy in great tits
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 30, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 265-270; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jonathan K. Webb, Robert M. Pringle, and Richard Shine

Intraguild predation, thermoregulation, and microhabitat selection by snakes
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 16, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 271-277; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bob B. M. Wong and Miranda McCarthy

Prudent male mate choice under perceived sperm competition risk in the eastern mosquito fish
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 278-282; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract François J. Verheggen, Eric Haubruge, Consuelo M. De Moraes, and Mark C. Mescher

Social enviroment influences aphid production of alarm pheromone
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 283-288; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elina Immonen, Anneli Hoikkala, Anahita J.N. Kazem, and Michael G. Ritchie

When are vomiting males attractive? Sexual selection on condition-dependent nuptial feeding in Drosophila subobscura
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 4, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 289-295; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tom Bentley, Tristan T. Hull, Ian C.W. Hardy, and Marlène Goubault

The elusive paradox: owner–intruder roles, strategies, and outcomes in parasitoid contests
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 296-304; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nancy Ockendon, Simon C. Griffith, and Terry Burke

Extrapair paternity in an insular population of house sparrows after the experimental introduction of individuals from the mainland
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 5, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 305-312; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Matt J. Michel and Melinda M. Adams

Differential effects of structural complexity on predator foraging behavior
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on February 4, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 313-317; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Theodore Stankowich

When predators become prey: flight decisions in jumping spiders
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 30, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 318-327; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michelle J. Solensky and Karen S. Oberhauser

Sperm precedence in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 30, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 328-334; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mårten B. Hjernquist, Katherine A. Thuman Hjernquist, Jukka T. Forsman, and Lars Gustafsson

Sex allocation in response to local resource competition over breeding territories
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 30, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 335-339; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shintaro Nomakuchi, Peter J. Park, and Michael A. Bell

Correlation between exploration activity and use of social information in three-spined sticklebacks
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on January 30, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 340-345; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract P. Andreas Svensson, Christophe Pélabon, Jonathan D. Blount, Elisabet Forsgren, Bjørn Bjerkeng, and Trond Amundsen

Temporal variability in a multicomponent trait: nuptial coloration of female two-spotted gobies
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 13, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 346-353; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn154 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sofia Caesar and Anders Forsman

Do polyandrous pygmy grasshopper females obtain fitness benefits for their offspring?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 13, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 354-361; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn153 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Carlos Cabido, Pedro Galán, Pilar López, and José Martín

Conspicuousness-dependent antipredatory behavior may counteract coloration differences in Iberian rock lizards
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 8, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 362-370; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn152 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Iñaki Rodriguez-Prieto, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, José Martín, and Yohana Regis

Antipredator behavior in blackbirds: habituation complements risk allocation
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 13, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 371-377; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn151 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Aniek B.F. Ivens, David R. Nash, Michael Poulsen, and Jacobus J. Boomsma

Caste-specific symbiont policing by workers of Acromyrmex fungus-growing ants
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 26, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 378-384; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn150 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Graziella Iossa, Carl D. Soulsbury, Philip J. Baker, Keith J. Edwards, and Stephen Harris

Behavioral changes associated with a population density decline in the facultatively social red fox
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 3, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 385-395; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn149 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract A. Rashed, M.I. Khan, J.W. Dawson, J.E. Yack, and T.N. Sherratt

Do hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) sound like the Hymenoptera they morphologically resemble?
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 27, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 396-402; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn148 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract John J. Pexton, Jetske G. de Boer, George E. Heimpel, Louise E.M. Vet, James B. Whitfield, and Paul J. Ode

Competition and brood reduction: testing alternative models of clutch-size evolution in parasitoids
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on December 4, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 403-409; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn147 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sheila M. Reynolds, Mary C. Christman, J. Albert C. Uy, Gail L. Patricelli, Michael J. Braun, and Gerald Borgia

Lekking satin bowerbird males aggregate with relatives to mitigate aggression
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 20, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 410-415; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn146 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Guillaume Rieucau and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Group size effect caused by food competition in nutmeg mannikins (Lonchura punctulata)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 20, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 421-425; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn144 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lesley A. Smith, Piran C.L. White, Glenn Marion, and Michael R. Hutchings

Livestock grazing behavior and inter- versus intraspecific disease risk via the fecal–oral route
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 26, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 426-432; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn143 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anders P. Møller, Javier Balbontín, José Javier Cuervo, Ignacio G. Hermosell, and F. de Lope

Individual differences in protandry, sexual selection, and fitness
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 20, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 433-440; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn142 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Finlay G. Smith, Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine, and Anthony C. Little

Interactions between masculinity–femininity and apparent health in face preferences
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 14, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 441-445; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn141 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract András Kosztolányi, Innes C. Cuthill, and Tamás Székely

Negotiation between parents over care: reversible compensation during incubation
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 14, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 446-452; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn140 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Karen L. Wiebe and Bart Kempenaers

The social and genetic mating system in flickers linked to partially reversed sex roles
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 453-458; doi:10.1093/beheco/arn138 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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