Aroma volatiles are essential for plant ecological fitness and reproduction. Plants produce
and use volatiles to attract pollinators and seed dispersers, repel herbivores and recruit their …

In vertebrates and invertebrates, morphological and functional features of gastrointestinal
(GI) tracts generally reflect food chemistry, such as content of carbohydrates, proteins, fats …

Anthocyanin accumulation is coordinated in plants by a number of conserved transcription
factors. In apple (Malus× domestica), an R2R3 MYB transcription factor has been shown to …

The anthraquinone emodin, identified in 17 plant families distributed worldwide, has
numerous biological activities, some of which exhibit a wide spectrum of ecological impacts …

Fundamental concepts about the diversity and evolution of signals have been developed
mainly in the context of sexual selection. Here, we review the functional ecology of signals in …

The dispersal of seeds away from parent plants seems to be the underlying selective force in
the evolution of fleshy fruits attractive to animals. Secondary metabolites, which are not …

Given that both sexes of most parrots learn new vocalizations throughout life and produce
them in diverse social contexts, whereas few songbird species combine all these traits, why …

A plant pathway that initiates with the formation of citramalate from pyruvate and acetyl-CoA
by citramalate synthase (CMS) is shown to contribute to the synthesis of α-ketoacids and …

The plant group Solanum section Lycopersicon (the clade containing the domesticated
tomato and its wild relatives) is ideal for integrating genomic tools and approaches into …

Frugivory (animals ingest all or part of fleshy-fruits and defecate or regurgitate seeds) and
scatter-hoarding (animals store seeds in small caches in soil) are two important vertebrate …