Biological Reviews

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Avian colouration in a polluted world: a meta‐analysis	372
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Hydrodynamics in early animal evolution	171
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis	168
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests	153
Capturing wild animal welfare: a physiological perspective	146
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels	121
Trade‐off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions	106
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The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet	102
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Diversity of ‘simple’ multicellular eukaryotes: 45 independent cases and six types of multicellularity	86
Evaluation of physiological stress in free‐ranging bears: current knowledge and future directions	84
In search of animal normativity: a framework for studying social norms in non‐human animals	82
A general framework for modelling trade‐offs in adaptive behaviour	80
Scavenging with invasive species	80
Phosphorylation‐mediated signalling in flowering: prospects and retrospects of phosphoproteomics in crops	75
Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition	74
How plants affect amphibian populations	74
Exploring the causes and consequences of cooperative behaviour in wild animal populations using a social network approach	73
Systematic review of avian hatching failure and implications for conservation	73
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Heterotrophy in marine animal forests in an era of climate change	72
Cloning in action: can embryo splitting, induced pluripotency and somatic cell nuclear transfer contribute to endangered species conservation?	67

Sex roles and sex ratios in animals	66
The behavioural ecology of marine cleaning mutualisms	65
The language of light: a review of bioluminescence in deep‐sea decapod shrimps	64
Regulation of the conserved 3′‐5′ exoribonuclease EXOSC10/Rrp6 during cell division, development and cancer	63
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Dissecting calvarial bones and sutures at single‐cell resolution	63
Does the potential strength of sexual selection differ between mating systems with and without defensive behaviours? A meta‐analysis	62
Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene	62
A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology	62
Social pressure drives “conversational rules” in great apes	61
Lessons from the deep: mechanisms behind diversification of eukaryotic protein complexes	59
A pan‐metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape	59
Changing our view of the Schistosoma granuloma to an ecological standpoint	56
Monsters reveal patterns: bifurcated annelids and their implications for the study of development and evolution	55
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	55
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	54
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	54
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	54
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	52
Species diversity and interspecific information flow	51
Corrigendum to ‘A review of predation as a limiting factor for bird populations in mesopredator‐rich landscapes: a case study of the UK’, published in Biological Reviews 93, p	51
The persistence and evolutionary consequences of vestigial behaviours	50
Moments of weaknesses – exploiting vulnerabilities between germination and encystment in the Phytomyxea	50
Breaking down shell strength: inferences from experimental compression and future directions enabled by3Dprinting	49
Evolutionary formation of melatonin and vitamin D in early life forms: insects take centre stage	48
Avian adjustments to cold and non‐shivering thermogenesis: whats, wheres and hows	47
Common mechanisms of physiological and pathological rupture events in biology: novel insights into mammalian ovulation and beyond	46
Eco‐genetics of desiccation resistance in Drosophila	45
Testosterone mediates life‐history trade‐offs in female mammals	44
Archaeocytes in sponges: simple cells of complicated fate	44
Comparative gut microbiome research through the lens of ecology: theoretical considerations and best practices	44
Prey specificity of predatory venoms	43
Patterns of variation in fleshy diaspore size and abundance from Late Triassic–Oligocene	43
Shedding light on biodiversity: reviewing existing knowledge and exploring hypothesised impacts of agrophotovoltaics	43
The challenging biogeography of the Juan Fernández Islands and Coast Range of central Chile explained by new models of East Pacific tectonics	42
The moulting arthropod: a complete genetic toolkit review	42
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Meta‐analyses reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis	41
Evolution of parasites in the Anthropocene: new pressures, new adaptive directions	41
The rise of hyperabundant native generalists threatens both humans and nature	41
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Beringia as a high‐latitude engine of avian speciation	41
Integrating microbiome science and evolutionary medicine into animal health and conservation	41
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	40
Antipredator defences in motion: animals reduce predation risks by concealing or misleading motion signals	40
Unveiling the resistance of native weed communities: insights for managing invasive weed species in disturbed environments	39
Male alternative reproductive tactics and sperm competition: a meta‐analysis	38
The impact of environmental and social factors on learning abilities: a meta‐analysis	38
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	36
Trade‐offs in carbon‐degrading enzyme activities limit long‐term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition	36

Extreme weather events threaten biodiversity and functions of river ecosystems: evidence from a meta‐analysis	36
Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late‐Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere	35
Demographic effects of road mortality on mammalian populations: a systematic review	35
The integrative biology of genetic dominance	35
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	35
A method for assessing sustainability, with beef production as an example	35
Odorant‐binding proteins of mammals	34
Sophistication in a seemingly simple creature: a review of wild holothurian nutrition in marine ecosystems	34
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	33
Feather function and the evolution of birds	33
Surviving global change: a review of the impacts of drought and dewatering on freshwater mussels	32
Hybridization in the Anthropocene – how pollution and climate change disrupt mate selection in freshwater fish	32
Practical applications of soil microbiota to improve ecosystem restoration: current knowledge and future directions	32
A meta‐analysis on alternative mating tactics: when the main and the alternative yield similar reproductive success	32
Facing the facts: adaptive trade‐offs along body size ranges determine mammalian craniofacial scaling	32
Egg coverings in insects: ecological adaptation to abiotic and biotic selective pressures	31
Mate assessment based on physical characteristics: a review and reflection	31
Unlocking the multifaceted molecular functions and diverse disease implications of lactylation	30
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Evolutionary time and species diversity in aquatic ecosystems worldwide	30
Non‐verbal effecting – animal research sheds light on human emotion communication	30
Ecological integrity of tropical secondary forests: concepts and indicators	30
A multifaceted framework to establish the presence of meaning in non‐human communication	29
What do we know about growth of vessel elements of secondary xylem in woody plants?	29
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the impacts of nitrogen deposition on producer–consumer interactions	28
Developmental traits and life strategy of redlichiid trilobites	28
Ashmole's hypothesis and the latitudinal gradient in clutch size	28
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A generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution	28
Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline	28
The effects of ionizing radiation on domestic dogs: a review of the atomic bomb testing era	28
Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	27
Macroevolution of the plant–hummingbird pollination system	27
Functional specialisation and coordination of myonuclei	27
The ecology of sleep in non‐avian reptiles	27
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	26
The global genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera reveals the structure of cryptic speciation in plankton	26
Plant periderm as a continuum in structural organisation: a tracheophyte‐wide survey and hypotheses on evolution	26
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study	26
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	26
Ecological responses of squamate reptiles to nocturnal warming	25
Quantitative meta‐analysis reveals no association between mercury contamination and body condition in birds	25
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The Galápagos Islands: biogeographic patterns and geology	24
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Sensing for survival: specialised regulatory mechanisms of Type III secretion systems in Gram‐negative pathogens	23
Interspecific interactions disrupted by roads	23
Towards a unified approach in managing resistance to vaccines, drugs, and pesticides	23
Social learning in non‐grouping animals	23
Mechanosensing by Piezo1 and its implications for physiology and various pathologies	23
The thermal environment as a moderator of social evolution	23
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	23
Ecological interactions in glacier environments: a review of studies on a model Alpine glacier	22
Epigenetic responses of trees to environmental stress in the context of climate change	22
The origin of great ape gestural forms	22
Small non‐coding satellite RNAs – the ‘game changers’ at the virus–host plant interaction?	22
Behavioural differences and similarities between dog breeds: proposing an ecologically valid approach for canine behavioural research	21
Biological clocks as age estimation markers in animals: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	21
How life became colourful: colour vision, aposematism, sexual selection, flowers, and fruits	21
Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa	20
Five decades of misunderstanding in the socialHymenoptera: a review and meta‐analysis ofMichener's paradox	20
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?	20
Understanding host utilization by mosquitoes: determinants, challenges and future directions	20
Impacts of volcanic eruptions and early recovery in freshwater environments and organisms	20
The biomechanics of pollen release: new perspectives on the evolution of wind pollination in angiosperms	20
Large mammals and trees in eastern monsoonal China: anthropogenic losses since the Late Pleistocene and restoration prospects in the Anthropocene	20
Neutrophil microRNAs	19
Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development	19
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Conformity in mate choice, the overlooked social component of animal and human culture	18
Fungal endophytes can modulate plant invasion	18
Four errors and a fallacy: pitfalls for the unwary in comparative brain analyses	17
Feedback loops drive ecological succession: towards a unified conceptual framework	17
The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis	17
The fossil record of freshwater Gastropoda – a global review	17

Tactics of evasion: strategies used by signallers to deter eavesdropping enemies from exploiting communication systems	17
The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods	17
The global regulatory logic of organ regeneration: circuitry lessons from skin and its appendages	17
Successional theories	17
The energetic costs of sub‐lethal helminth parasites in mammals: a meta‐analysis	17
Circadian orchestration of host and gut microbiota in infection	16
Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms: the case of fungal coexistence	16
The ecology of electricity and electroreception	16
The relationship between the secondary vascular system and the lymphatic vascular system in fish	16
Form and function of anguilliform swimming	16
Interactions between stoneworts (Charales) and waterbirds	16
Testicular heat stress, a historical perspective and two postulates for why male germ cells are heat sensitive	16
Habitat requirements of deadwood‐dependent invertebrates that occupy tree hollows	16
Chasing footprints in time – reframing our understanding of human foot function in the context of current evidence and emerging insights	15
Exotic asphyxiation: interactions between invasive species and hypoxia	15
Insect immunity in the Anthropocene	15
Programmed ageing: decline of stem cell renewal, immunosenescence, and Alzheimer's disease	15
Trans‐generational immune priming is not mediated by the sex of the parent primed: a meta‐analysis of invertebrate data	15
Optimism and pessimism: a concept for behavioural ecology	15
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?	15
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	14
The complex role of microbial metabolic activity in fossilization	14
The biology and evolution of spider venoms	14
The evolution, ecology, and conservation of hummingbirds and their interactions with flowering plants	14
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae	13
Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals	13
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	13
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs	13
Temporal resource partitioning mitigates interspecific competition and promotes coexistence among insect parasites	13
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	13
Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on tropical montane forests: an appraisal of the evidence	12
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	12
On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea	12
The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution	12
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	12
The hidden links between animal weapons, fighting style, and their effect on contest success: a meta‐analysis	11
Chronic stress and Alzheimer's disease: the interplay between the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, genetics and microglia	11
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Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review	11
Animals in flow – towards the scientific study of intrinsic reward in animals	11
Analysis of the genetic loci of pigment pattern evolution in vertebrates	11
Monitoring the phenology of plant pathogenic fungi: why and how?	11
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Critical thermal limits in ants and their implications under climate change	11
The secretome of Verticillium dahliae in collusion with plant defence responses modulates Verticillium wilt symptoms	11
A global synthesis of predation on bivalves	11
What is cooperative breeding in mammals and birds? Removing definitional barriers for comparative research	11
Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd	11
Fluorescent nanoparticles as tools in ecology and physiology	11
Soil–plant–gall relationships: from gall development to ecological patterns	11
Social life results in social stress protection: a novel concept to explain individual life‐history patterns in social insects	11
The evolution of perennially enlarged breasts in women: a critical review and a novel hypothesis	10
Müllerian mimicry among bees and wasps: a review of current knowledge and future avenues of research	10
Bringing together but staying apart: decisive differences in animal and fungal mitochondrial inner membrane fusion	10
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A review of visualisations of protein fold networks and their relationship with sequence and function	10
Life‐history strategies in salmonids: the role of physiology and its consequences	10
Adaptive evolution of viruses infecting marine microalgae (haptophytes), from acute infections to stable coexistence	10
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Estimating counterfactuals for evaluation of ecological and conservation impact: an introduction to matching methods	10
Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land‐use change: impacts on ecosystem services	10
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Cathemerality: a key temporal niche	9
Microbiome mediation of animal life histories via metabolites and insulin‐like signalling	9
Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods	9
Consistent trade‐offs in ecosystem services between land covers with different production intensities	9
Quantifying farm sustainability through the lens of ecological theory	9
Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning – seven hypotheses	9
Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research	9
Origin and evolution of fungus farming in wood‐boringColeoptera – a palaeontological perspective	9
Recent advances in the remote sensing of insects	9
Are hippos Africa's most influential megaherbivore? A review of ecosystem engineering by the semi‐aquatic common hippopotamus	9
The ephemeral resource patch concept	9
Origin stories: how does learned migratory behaviour arise in populations?	8
The conundrum of pharyngeal teeth origin: the role of germ layers, pouches, and gill slits	8
A farewell to arms and legs: a review of limb reduction in squamates	8
Diversity and function of fluorescent molecules in marine animals	8
The singing question: re‐conceptualizing birdsong	8
Perils of ingesting harmful prey by advanced snakes	8
Is self‐awareness necessary to have a theory of mind?	8
An integrative approach to assess the impact of disturbance on native fish in lakes	8
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Understanding the joint evolution of dispersal and host specialisation using phytophagous arthropods as a model group	8
A broad‐taxa approach as an important concept in ecotoxicological studies and pollution monitoring	8
Global meta‐analysis of tree decline impacts on fauna	8
Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration	8
Evolution of the neuronal substrate for kin recognition in social Hymenoptera	8
ATP binding cassette importers in eukaryotic organisms	8
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress	7
Understanding the evolution of viviparity using intraspecific variation in reproductive mode and transitional forms of pregnancy	7
The trace metal economy of the coral holobiont: supplies, demands and exchanges	7
Broad‐scale climate variation drives the dynamics of animal populations: a global multi‐taxa analysis	7
The IDIP framework for assessing protein function and its application to the prion protein	7