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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.

Animal behaviour

Research article
The role of neuropeptide F in a transition to parental care
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160158

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0158

Research article
When the birds go unheard: highway noise disrupts information transfer between bird species
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160113

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0113

Research article
Can blind persons accurately assess body size from the voice?
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160063

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0063

Research article
Alternate non-stop migration strategies of pied flycatchers to cross the Sahara desert
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20151060

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.1060

Research article
Imprinting can cause a maladaptive preference for infectious conspecifics
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160020

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0020

Community ecology

Research article
Tree diversity reduces pest damage in mature forests across Europe
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20151037

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.1037

Research article
Intra-specific variability of hindlimb length in the palmate newt: an indicator of population isolation induced by habitat fragmentation?
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160066

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0066

Opinion piece
Freshwater ecosystems and aquatic insects: a paradox in biological invasions
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20151075

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.1075

Evolutionary biology

Research article
Pollinator shifts drive petal epidermal evolution on the Macaronesian Islands bird-flowered species
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160022

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0022

Research article
Urbanization shapes the demographic history of a native rodent (the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus) in New York City
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20150983

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0983

Research article
Long-term consequences of high incubation temperature in a wild bird population
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160087

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0087

Global change biology

Research article
Reduced flight-to-light behaviour of moth populations exposed to long-term urban light pollution
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160111

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0111

Neurobiology

Palaeontology

Research article
Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160081

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0081

Research article
Ultrasonic hearing and echolocation in the earliest toothed whales
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160060

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0060

Phylogeny

Research article
Ancient mitochondrial DNA reveals convergent evolution of giant short-faced bears (Tremarctinae) in North and South America
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160062

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0062

Physiology

Research article
Stay tuned: active amplification tunes tree cricket ears to track temperature-dependent song frequency
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160016

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0016

Research article
Long-term effect of yolk carotenoid levels on testis size in a precocial bird
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160008

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0008

Research article
Metabolic strategies in wild male Barbary macaques: evidence from faecal measurement of thyroid hormone
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160168

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0168

Population ecology

Research article
Experimental demonstration of an Allee effect in microbial populations
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160070

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0070

Population genetics

Research article
Genetic variation in male-induced harm in Drosophila melanogaster
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160105

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0105

Research article
Variant at serotonin transporter gene predicts increased imitation in toddlers: relevance to the human capacity for cumulative culture
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20160106

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0106

Special feature

Biology of extinction
Estimating times of extinction in the fossil record
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20150989

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0989

Fossils in trees
Tips and nodes are complementary not competing approaches to the calibration of molecular clocks
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20150975

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0975

Biology of extinction
Clarifying misconceptions of extinction risk assessment with the IUCN Red List
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20150843

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0843

Fossils in trees
Time-calibrated models support congruency between Cretaceous continental rifting and titanosaurian evolutionary history
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20151047

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.1047

Biology of extinction
Understanding modern extinctions in marine ecosystems: the role of palaeoecological data
Published:01 April 2016Article ID:20150951

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0951