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New articles are published weekly in the latest journal issue, at the top of their section of the Table of Contents. The latest issue closes at the end of the month.

Meeting reports

Meeting reports
Drought-induced forest decline: causes, scope and implications
Published:14 December 2011Page(s): 689-691

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1059

Meeting reports
Using phylogenies in conservation: new perspectives
Published:30 November 2011Page(s): 692-694

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1024

Meeting reports
International Society for Wildlife Endocrinology: the future of endocrine measures for reproductive science, animal welfare and conservation biology
Published:04 January 2012Page(s): 695-697

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1181

Meeting reports
Radar aeroecology: exploring the movements of aerial fauna through radio-wave remote sensing
Published:23 May 2012Page(s): 698-701

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0384

Animal behaviour

Animal behaviour
The structure of a bottlenose dolphin society is coupled to a unique foraging cooperation with artisanal fishermen
Published:02 May 2012Page(s): 702-705

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0174

Animal behaviour
Multiple mating in the traumatically inseminating Warehouse pirate bug, Xylocoris flavipes: effects on fecundity and longevity
Published:09 May 2012Page(s): 706-709

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0091

Animal behaviour
Flight responses by a migratory soaring raptor to changing meteorological conditions
Published:16 May 2012Page(s): 710-713

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0359

Animal behaviour
Biological invasions and the acoustic niche: the effect of bullfrog calls on the acoustic signals of white-banded tree frogs
Published:06 June 2012Page(s): 714-716

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0412

Animal behaviour
Deceptive vibratory communication: pupae of a beetle exploit the freeze response of larvae to protect themselves
Published:06 June 2012Page(s): 717-720

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0386

Animal behaviour
Live-bearing manta ray: how the embryo acquires oxygen without placenta and umbilical cord
Published:06 June 2012Page(s): 721-724

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0288

Animal behaviour
Infants prefer the faces of strangers or mothers to morphed faces: an uncanny valley between social novelty and familiarity
Published:13 June 2012Page(s): 725-728

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0346

Animal behaviour
It pays to cheat: tactical deception in a cephalopod social signalling system
Published:04 July 2012Page(s): 729-732

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0435

Animal behaviour
Emasculation: gloves-off strategy enhances eunuch spider endurance
Published:13 June 2012Page(s): 733-735

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0285

Animal behaviour
Songbirds learn songs least degraded by environmental transmission
Published:20 June 2012Page(s): 736-739

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0446

Animal behaviour
Effects of early visual experience on the background preference in juvenile cuttlefish Sepia pharaonis
Published:11 July 2012Page(s): 740-743

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0398

Animal behaviour
The sound of arousal in music is context-dependent
Published:13 June 2012Page(s): 744-747

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0374

Animal behaviour
Raiders from the sky: slavemaker founding queens select for aggressive host colonies
Published:18 July 2012Page(s): 748-750

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0499

Animal behaviour
Song in the cold is ‘hot’: memory of and preference for sexual signals perceived under thermal challenge
Published:18 July 2012Page(s): 751-753

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0481

Animal behaviour
The energetic cost of mating in a promiscuous cephalopod
Published:18 July 2012Page(s): 754-756

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0556

Animal behaviour
Food transfers in capuchin monkeys: an experiment on partner choice
Published:25 July 2012Page(s): 757-759

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0534

Biomechanics

Biomechanics
Massive, solidified bone in the wing of a volant courting bird
Published:13 June 2012Page(s): 760-763

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0382

Community ecology

Community ecology
Street lighting changes the composition of invertebrate communities
Published:23 May 2012Page(s): 764-767

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0216

Community ecology
Diversity–disturbance relationships: frequency and intensity interact
Published:23 May 2012Page(s): 768-771

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0282

Conservation biology

Conservation biology
Wildlife-friendly farming benefits rare birds, bees and plants
Published:06 June 2012Page(s): 772-775

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0367

Conservation biology
Table scraps: inter-trophic food provisioning by pumas
Published:13 June 2012Page(s): 776-779

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0423

Conservation biology
More and more generalists: two decades of changes in the European avifauna
Published:18 July 2012Page(s): 780-782

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0496

Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology
More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs
Published:16 May 2012Page(s): 783-786

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0331

Evolutionary biology
Triploid plover female provides support for a role of the W chromosome in avian sex determination
Published:30 May 2012Page(s): 787-789

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0329

Evolutionary biology
The effect of resveratrol on longevity across species: a meta-analysis
Published:20 June 2012Page(s): 790-793

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0316

Evolutionary biology
Structured growth and genetic drift raise relatedness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
Published:04 July 2012Page(s): 794-797

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0421

Evolutionary biology
Evidence for an epigenetic role in inbreeding depression
Published:11 July 2012Page(s): 798-801

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0494

Evolutionary biology
Human punishment is motivated by inequity aversion, not a desire for reciprocity
Published:18 July 2012Page(s): 802-804

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0470

Global change biology

Global change biology
The effect of altered macroclimate on N-fixation by boreal feather mosses
Published:13 June 2012Page(s): 805-808

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0429

Marine biology

Marine biology
Ctenophore population recruits entirely through larval reproduction in the central Baltic Sea
Published:25 April 2012Page(s): 809-812

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0163

Marine biology
Bottom-up regulation of a pelagic community through spatial aggregations
Published:02 May 2012Page(s): 813-816

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0232

Marine biology
Increased oceanic microplastic debris enhances oviposition in an endemic pelagic insect
Published:09 May 2012Page(s): 817-820

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0298

Marine biology
North Sea ecosystem change from swimming crabs to seagulls
Published:04 July 2012Page(s): 821-824

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0474

Molecular evolution

Molecular evolution
Fitness conferred by replaced amino acids declines with time
Published:23 May 2012Page(s): 825-828

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0356

Molecular evolution
Molecular dating of human-to-bovid host jumps by Staphylococcus aureus reveals an association with the spread of domestication
Published:23 May 2012Page(s): 829-832

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0290

Palaeontology

Palaeontology
Testing models of dental development in the earliest bony vertebrates, Andreolepis and Lophosteus
Published:23 May 2012Page(s): 833-837

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0357

Palaeontology
Faunal isotope records reveal trophic and nutrient dynamics in twentieth century Yellowstone grasslands
Published:06 June 2012Page(s): 838-841

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0321

Palaeontology
Minimum convex hull mass estimations of complete mounted skeletons
Published:06 June 2012Page(s): 842-845

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0263

Palaeontology
Caught in the act: the first record of copulating fossil vertebrates
Published:20 June 2012Page(s): 846-848

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0361

Pathogen biology

Pathogen biology
Leptin, a tool of parasites?
Published:27 June 2012Page(s): 849-852

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0385

Phylogeny

Phylogeny
Molecular evidence for an Asian origin of monitor lizards followed by Tertiary dispersals to Africa and Australasia
Published:18 July 2012Page(s): 853-855

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0460

Physiology

Physiology
The ontogenetic origins of mirror neurons: evidence from ‘tool-use’ and ‘audiovisual’ mirror neurons
Published:09 May 2012Page(s): 856-859

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0192

Physiology
Gender- and stressor-specific microRNA expression in Tribolium castaneum
Published:23 May 2012Page(s): 860-863

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0273

Physiology
Hot or not? Thermal reactions to social contact
Published:30 May 2012Page(s): 864-867

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0338

Physiology
Cool running: locomotor performance at low body temperature in mammals
Published:06 June 2012Page(s): 868-870

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0269

Physiology
Parents lend a helping hand to their offspring in plant defence
Published:13 June 2012Page(s): 871-873

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0416

Population ecology

Population ecology
Biologically meaningful coverage indicators for eliminating malaria transmission
Published:30 May 2012Page(s): 874-877

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0352

Population ecology
Data from selective harvests underestimate temporal trends in quantitative traits
Published:02 May 2012Page(s): 878-881

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1207

Population ecology
Leaf morphology shift linked to climate change
Published:04 July 2012Page(s): 882-886

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0458

Population ecology
Spatial contagion drives colonization and recruitment of frogflies on clutches of red-eyed treefrogs
Published:25 July 2012Page(s): 887-889

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0468

Population genetics

Population genetics
Cast adrift on an island: introduced populations experience an altered balance between selection and drift
Published:20 June 2012Page(s): 890-893

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0312

Population genetics
Human maternal behaviour is associated with arginine vasopressin receptor 1A gene
Published:04 July 2012Page(s): 894-896

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0492