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    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: Volume 114, Issue 2

    249-483
    February 2015
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The not-so-Irish spurge: Euphorbia hyberna (Euphorbiaceae) and the Littletonian plant ‘steeplechase’

Gemma E. Beatty,  Jack J. Lennon,  Chris J. O'Sullivan,  Jim Provan, 
  • Pages: 249-259
  • First Published: 30 December 2014
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Ants in their plants: Pseudomyrmex ants reduce primate, parrot and squirrel predation on Macrolobium acaciifolium (Fabaceae) seeds in Amazonian Brazil

Adrian A. Barnett,  Thais Almeida,  Richelly Andrade,  Sarah Boyle,  Marcelo Gonçalves de Lima,  Ann MacLarnon,  Caroline Ross,  Welma Sousa Silva,  Wilson R. Spironello,  Beatriz Ronchi-Teles, 
  • Pages: 260-273
  • First Published: 30 December 2014

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Testing male immunocompetence in two hymenopterans with different levels of social organization: ‘live hard, die young?’

Federico Cappa,  Laura Beani,  Rita Cervo,  Christina Grozinger,  Fabio Manfredini, 
  • Pages: 274-278
  • First Published: 26 November 2014

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Consequences of genetic incompatibility on fitness and mate choice: the male point of view

Anna Chuine,  Sandrine Sauzet,  François Debias,  Emmanuel Desouhant, 
  • Pages: 279-286
  • First Published: 19 November 2014
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The specialization and structure of antagonistic and mutualistic networks of beetles on rainforest canopy trees

Carl W. Wardhaugh,  Will Edwards,  Nigel E. Stork, 
  • Pages: 287-295
  • First Published: 19 November 2014
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Searching for constraints by cross-species comparison: reaction norms for age and size at maturity in insects

Toomas Tammaru,  Helen Vellau,  Toomas Esperk,  Tiit Teder, 
  • Pages: 296-307
  • First Published: 19 November 2014
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Phylogeographical patterns in Coenosia attenuata (Diptera: Muscidae): a widespread predator of insect species associated with greenhouse crops

Sofia G. Seabra,  Patrícia G. Brás,  Joana Martins,  Renata Martins,  Nigel Wyatt,  Jalal Shirazi,  Maria Teresa Rebelo,  José Carlos Franco,  Célia Mateus,  Elisabete Figueiredo,  Octávio S. Paulo, 
  • Pages: 308-326
  • First Published: 26 November 2014
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Is allometry of sexual traits adaptive? A field test with territorial damselflies

Rafael Bello-Bedoy,  Isaac González-Santoyo,  Martín Alejandro Serrano-Meneses,  David Vrech,  Miguel Rivas,  Roberto Munguía-Steyer,  Alex Córdoba-Aguilar, 
  • Pages: 327-334
  • First Published: 09 January 2015
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Dispersal constraints and fine-scale spatial genetic structure in two earthworm species

Lise Dupont,  Ysoline Grésille,  Benoît Richard,  Thibaud Decaëns,  Jérôme Mathieu, 
  • Pages: 335-347
  • First Published: 06 January 2015
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Hybridization between genetically and morphologically divergent forms of Rhagada (Gastropoda: Camaenidae) snails at a zone of secondary contact

Zoë R. Hamilton,  Michael S. Johnson, 
  • Pages: 348-362
  • First Published: 30 December 2014
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Diversity patterns of the terrestrial snail fauna of Nyungwe Forest National Park (Rwanda), a Pleistocene refugium in the heart of Africa

Annika Boxnick,  Ann Apio,  Torsten Wronski,  Bernhard Hausdorf, 
  • Pages: 363-375
  • First Published: 19 January 2015
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Historical demography of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae): genetic evidence for population expansion and contraction during the late Pleistocene and Holocene

Jess W. Jones,  Richard J. Neves,  Eric M. Hallerman, 
  • Pages: 376-397
  • First Published: 06 January 2015

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A sad tale: has the small mussel Idas argenteus lost its symbionts?

Clara F. Rodrigues,  Sven R. Laming,  Sylvie M. Gaudron,  Graham Oliver,  Nadine Le Bris,  Sébastien Duperron, 
  • Pages: 398-405
  • First Published: 30 December 2014
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Long-term body pigmentation changes on a manta ray (Mobulidae)

Csilla Ari, 
  • Pages: 406-414
  • First Published: 24 November 2014

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Parental defence on the reef: antipredator tactics of coral-reef fishes against egg-eating seasnakes

Claire Goiran,  Richard Shine, 
  • Pages: 415-425
  • First Published: 26 November 2014

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Biogeography of the smooth snake (Coronella austriaca): origin and conservation of the northernmost population

Juan A. Galarza,  Johanna Mappes,  Janne K. Valkonen, 
  • Pages: 426-435
  • First Published: 30 December 2014

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Bateman–Trivers in the 21st Century: sexual selection in a North American pitviper

Brenna A. Levine,  Charles F. Smith,  Gordon W. Schuett,  Marlis R. Douglas,  Mark A. Davis,  Michael E. Douglas, 
  • Pages: 436-445
  • First Published: 19 November 2014
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Trade-offs between eating and moving: what happens to the locomotion of slender arboreal snakes when they eat big prey?

Tracy L. Crotty,  Bruce C. Jayne, 
  • Pages: 446-458
  • First Published: 26 November 2014
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Morphological and plumage colour variation in the Réunion grey white-eye (Aves: Zosterops borbonicus): assessing the role of selection

Josselin Cornuault,  Boris Delahaie,  Joris A. M. Bertrand,  Yann X. C. Bourgeois,  Borja Milá,  Philipp Heeb,  Christophe Thébaud, 
  • Pages: 459-473
  • First Published: 30 December 2014

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Darwin was right: inbreeding depression on male fertility in the Darwin family

Gonzalo Álvarez,  Francisco C. Ceballos,  Tim M. Berra FLS, 
  • Pages: 474-483
  • First Published: 19 November 2014