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Ecology and evolution seminars
Royal Society Publishing
This series features a selection of seminars covering outstanding contributions to the fields of ecology and evolution based on articles published in the Royal Society journals Proceedings B, Philosophical Transactions B, Biology Letters, Interface and Royal Society Open Science. Each talk is associated with a recent paper or theme issue, selected by the journal's editors as being particularly innovative or having had significant recent impact.
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Rebuilding the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise population: successful release from an ex situ conservation programme
Jiansong Qiu, Institute of Hydrobiology
Arms race of physical defences: hooked trichomes of *Macaranga* ant-plants kill lycaenid caterpillars, but one specialist has a counter-defence
Ritabrata Chowdhury, University of Cambridge
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Old but attuned: The ability to decode babies’ cries does not decline with age
Siloé Corvin, University of Clermont Auvergne
A Holocene bat colony collapse highlights the importance of hot caves in the Caribbean
J Angel Soto-Centeno, American Museum of Natural History
First-sight recognition of touched objects shows that chicks can solve Molyneux’s problem
Elisabetta Versace, Queen Mary University of London
Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system
H. Luke Anderson, Tulane University
Published seminars
New insights on sea turtle behaviour during the ‘lost years’
Katrina Phillips, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eric Warrant, Lund University
Eric Warrant, Lund University
River dolphin cochlea has not evolved convergently
Mariana Viglino, Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología
Recognition of predator cues hinders social communication
Gloriana Chaverri, Universidad de Costa Rica
Spider Venom Potency Exhibits Phylogenetic Prey Specificity but Does Not Trade-off With Body Size or Silk Use in Prey Capture
Keith Lyons, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
Hosts eject conspecific parasitic eggs according to the egg size in a passerine
Alaïs Liénard, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Transient cognitive impacts of oxygen deprivation caused by catch-and-release angling
Henrik Flink, Linnaeus University
Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods
Jessica Thomas Thorpe, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Roberto Feuda, University of Leicester
Roberto Feuda, University of Leicester
A novel carnivorous diet reduces brain telomere length
Alexander Shephard, Indiana University
Genetic variation in age-dependent attractiveness in a fish with a mixed mating system
Katie McGhee, Sewanee: The University of the South