Climate change has often led to unequal shifts in the seasonal timing (phenology) of
interacting species, such as consumers and their resource, leading to phenological …

Bacterial anti-phage systems are frequently clustered in microbial genomes, forming
defense islands. This property enabled the recent discovery of multiple defense systems …

Ecology is characterized by a rapidly growing complexity and diversity of facts, aspects,
examples, and observations. What is badly needed is the development of common patterns …

On the social scale, the blind mole rat (BMR; Spalax ehrenbergi) is an extreme. It is
exceedingly solitary, territorial, and aggressive. BMRs reside underground, in self-excavated …

This book presents evidence that infection is cyclical with the seasons, and that this
phenomenon is mirrored in cycles of immune function. The book identifies the mechanisms …

Seasonal rhythms in reproduction are conserved across nature and optimize the timing of
breeding to environmental conditions favorable for offspring and parent survival. The …

Cyclic changes in population growth rate are caused by changes in survival and/or
reproductive rate. To find out whether cyclic changes in reproduction are an important part of …

Delayed density‐dependent demographic processes are thought to be the basis for multi‐
annual cyclic fluctuations in small rodent populations, but evidence for delayed density …

Reproductive traits of voles vary with the phases of the population density fluctuations. We
sought to determine whether the source of this variation resides in the individuals or in their …

Genetic assimilation emerges from selection on phenotypic plasticity. Yet, commonly used
quantitative genetics models of linear reaction norms considering intercept and slope as …