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Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Vol. 286, No. 1911, (September 2019) The above issue is now available online at:
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Review articles

Review articles: Evolution of ageing as a tangle of trade-offs: energy versus function

Alexei A. Maklakov  and Tracey Chapman

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Review articles: Eye pupil signals information gain

Alexandre Zénon

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Evidence synthesis

The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy

Daniel C. Dunn  , Autumn-Lynn Harrison  , Corrie Curtice  , Sarah DeLand, Ben Donnelly, Ei Fujioka, Eleanor Heywood, Connie Y. Kot, Sarah Poulin, Meredith Whitten, Susanne Åkesson  , Amalia Alberini, Ward Appeltans, José Manuel Arcos, Helen Bailey, Lisa T. Ballance, Barbara Block, Hannah Blondin, Andre M. Boustany, Jorge Brenner, Paulo Catry, Daniel Cejudo, Jesse Cleary, Peter Corkeron  , Daniel P. Costa, Michael Coyne, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Tammy E. Davies, Maria P. Dias, Fanny Douvere, Francesco Ferretti, Angela Formia, David Freestone, Ari S. Friedlaender, Heidrun Frisch-Nwakanma, Christopher Barrio Froján, Kristina M. Gjerde, Lyle Glowka, Brendan J. Godley  , Jacob Gonzalez-Solis, José Pedro Granadeiro, Vikki Gunn, Yuriko Hashimoto, Lucy M. Hawkes, Graeme C. Hays  , Carolina Hazin, Jorge Jimenez, David E. Johnson, Paolo Luschi, Sara M. Maxwell, Catherine McClellan, Michelle Modest, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Alejandro Herrero Palacio, Daniel M. Palacios  , Andrea Pauly, Matt Rayner, Alan F. Rees, Erick Ross Salazar, David Secor, Ana M. M. Sequeira, Mark Spalding, Fernando Spina, Sofie Van Parijs, Bryan Wallace, Nuria Varo-Cruz, Melanie Virtue, Henri Weimerskirch, Laurie Wilson  , Bill Woodward and Patrick N. Halpin

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Evidence synthesis: Host genetic diversity limits parasite success beyond agricultural systems: a meta-analysis

Alice K. E. Ekroth  , Charlotte Rafaluk-Mohr  and Kayla C. King

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Behaviour

Research articles: Whistling shares a common tongue with speech: bioacoustics from real-time MRI of the human vocal tract

Michel Belyk  , Benjamin G. Schultz, Joao Correia, Deryk S. Beal and Sonja A. Kotz

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Research articles: Effects of neighbour location and nutrient distributions on root foraging behaviour of the common sunflower

Megan K. Ljubotina  and CahillJames F.Jr

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Research articles: A place for everything and everything in its place: spatial organization of individuals on nests of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata

Nitika Sharma  and Raghavendra Gadagkar

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Research articles: Phylogenetic and kinematic constraints on avian flight signals

K. S. Berg  , S. Delgado and A. Mata-Betancourt

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Development and physiology

Research articles: Allometry of mitochondrial efficiency is set by metabolic intensity

Boël Mélanie, Romestaing Caroline, Voituron Yann  and Roussel Damien

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Ecology

Research articles: Plant-mediated interactions between a vector and a non-vector herbivore promote the spread of a plant virus

Paul J. Chisholm, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Robert E. Clark, Saumik Basu and David W. Crowder

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Research articles: Trophic interactions drive the emergence of diel vertical migration patterns: a game-theoretic model of copepod communities

Jérôme Pinti  , Thomas Kiørboe, Uffe H. Thygesen and André W. Visser

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Research articles: Resource distribution and internal factors interact to govern movement of a freshwater snail

Carl S. Cloyed  and Anthony I. Dell

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Research articles: Antibiotics as chemical warfare across multiple taxonomic domains and trophic levels in brown food webs

Jane M. Lucas  , Evan Gora  , Annika Salzberg  and Michael Kaspari

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Evolution

Research articles: Plumage redness signals mitochondrial function in the house finch

Geoffrey E. Hill  , Wendy R. Hood, Zhiyuan Ge, Rhys Grinter, Chris Greening, James D. Johnson, Noel R. Park, Halie A. Taylor, Victoria A. Andreasen, Matthew J. Powers, Nicholas M. Justyn, Hailey A. Parry, Andreas N. Kavazis and Yufeng Zhang

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Research articles: Maternal investment, life histories and the evolution of brain structure in primates

Lauren E. Powell  , Robert A. Barton  and Sally E. Street

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Research articles: Fluctuating fortunes: genomes and habitat reconstructions reveal global climate-mediated changes in bats' genetic diversity

Balaji Chattopadhyay  , Kritika M. Garg  , Rajasri Ray  and Frank E. Rheindt

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Research articles: Ecological constraints coupled with deep-time habitat dynamics predict the latitudinal diversity gradient in reef fishes

Théo Gaboriau  , Camille Albouy, Patrice Descombes, David Mouillot, Loïc Pellissier  and Fabien Leprieur

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Research articles: Multiple models generate a geographical mosaic of resemblance in a Batesian mimicry complex

Christopher K. Akcali  , Hibraim Adán Pérez-Mendoza, David W. Kikuchi and David W. Pfennig

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Research articles: Ecological constraints associated with genome size across salamander lineages

Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky  , Arne Ø. Mooers and Dan A. Greenberg

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Genetics and genomics

Research articles: Sperm cryopreservation reduces offspring growth

David Nusbaumer, Lucas Marques da Cunha and Claus Wedekind

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Research articles: The conundrum of species delimitation: a genomic perspective on a mitogenetically super-variable butterfly

Vlad Dincă  , Kyung Min Lee  , Roger Vila  and Marko Mutanen

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Special feature

Special feature reviews: Gene drives in plants: opportunities and challenges for weed control and engineered resilience

Luke G. Barrett  , Mathieu Legros  , Nagalingam Kumaran  , Donna Glassop  , S. Raghu  and Donald M. Gardiner

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Research articles: An assessment of the immune costs associated with meiotic drive elements in Drosophila

Jenna Kay Lea and Robert L. Unckless

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