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    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: Volume 99, Issue 2

    233-476
    February 2010
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How do sucker-footed bats hold on, and why do they roost head-up?

DANIEL K. RISKIN,  PAUL A. RACEY, 
  • Pages: 233-240
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Do alternate escape tactics provide a means of compensation for impaired performance ability?

KIMBERLY A. MILLER,  KELLY M. HARE,  NICOLA J. NELSON, 
  • Pages: 241-249
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Nesting in a thermally challenging environment: nest-site selection in a rock-dwelling gecko, Oedura lesueurii (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)

DAVID A. PIKE,  JONATHAN K. WEBB,  RICHARD SHINE, 
  • Pages: 250-259
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Effects of contrasting demographic histories on selection at major histocompatibility complex loci in two sympatric species of tuco-tucos (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)

ANA PAULA CUTRERA,  EILEEN A. LACEY,  MATÍAS S. MORA,  ENRIQUE P. LESSA, 
  • Pages: 260-277
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Paedomorphosis in two small species of toothed whales (Odontoceti): how and why?

ANDERS GALATIUS, 
  • Pages: 278-295
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Analysis of the mitochondrial genome of Schistocerca gregaria gregaria (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

SILVIO ERLER,  HANS-JÖRG FERENZ,  ROBIN F. A. MORITZ,  HANS-HINRICH KAATZ, 
  • Pages: 296-305
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Population structure in the barn swallow, Hirundo rustica: a comparison between neutral DNA markers and quantitative traits

ANNA W. SANTURE,  JOHN G. EWEN,  DELPHINE SICARD,  DEREK A. ROFF,  ANDERS P. MØLLER, 
  • Pages: 306-314
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Genetic variation in the stygobitic shrimp Creaseria morleyi (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), evidence of bottlenecks and re-invasions in the Yucatan Peninsula

ALEJANDRO BOTELLO,  FERNANDO ALVAREZ, 
  • Pages: 315-325
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Potential for parthenogenesis of virgin females in a bisexual population of the geographically parthenogenetic mayfly Ephoron shigae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera, Polymitarcyidae)

KAZUKI SEKINÉ,  KOJI TOJO, 
  • Pages: 326-334
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Automictic parthenogenesis of a geographically parthenogenetic mayfly, Ephoron shigae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera, Polymitarcyidae)

KAZUKI SEKINÉ,  KOJI TOJO, 
  • Pages: 335-343
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Androdioecy in Kryptolebias killifish and the evolution of self-fertilizing hermaphroditism

WILSON J. E. M. COSTA,  SERGIO M. Q. LIMA,  RENATA BARTOLETTE, 
  • Pages: 344-349
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Variation in multiple paternity and sperm utilization patterns in natural populations of a simultaneous hermaphrodite land snail

SANDRA KUPFERNAGEL,  HANS-PETER RUSTERHOLZ,  BRUNO BAUR, 
  • Pages: 350-361
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Sperm-limited fecundity and polyandry-induced mortality in female nematodes Caenorhabditis remanei

S. ANAID DIAZ,  DANIEL T. HAYDON,  JAN LINDSTRÖM, 
  • Pages: 362-369
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Goings-on inside a worm: functional hypotheses derived from sexual conflict thinking

DITA B. VIZOSO,  GUNDE RIEGER,  LUKAS SCHÄRER, 
  • Pages: 370-383
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Individual quality and carotenoid-based plumage ornaments in male red bishops (Euplectes orix): plumage is not all that counts

ALICE U. EDLER,  THOMAS W. P. FRIEDL, 
  • Pages: 384-397
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Female mating preferences and male coloration covary with water transparency in a Lake Victoria cichlid fish

MARTINE E. MAAN,  OLE SEEHAUSEN,  JACQUES J. M. VAN ALPHEN, 
  • Pages: 398-406
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Speciation and evolution of eco-climatic ranges in the intertropical African dung beetle genus, Diastellopalpus van Lansberge

ADRIAN L. V. DAVIS,  CLARKE H. SCHOLTZ, 
  • Pages: 407-423
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Multilocus phylogeography of the flightless darkling beetle Nyctoporis carinata (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the California Floristic Province: deciphering an evolutionary mosaic

MAXI POLIHRONAKIS,  MICHAEL S. CATERINO, 
  • Pages: 424-444
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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Discordant mitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles: implications for speciation and conservation

JOHN J. WIENS,  CAITLIN A. KUCZYNSKI,  PATRICK R. STEPHENS, 
  • Pages: 445-461
  • First Published: 18 January 2010
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An integrative approach to examining a homology question: shell structures in soft-shell turtles

MASSIMO DELFINO,  TORSTEN M. SCHEYER,  UWE FRITZ,  MARCELO R. SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, 
  • Pages: 462-476
  • First Published: 18 January 2010