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  • Using a 50 year time series of photos of cuckoo finch eggs and those of its host, prinia, the authors document that cuckoo eggs evolve towards prinia eggs, but progressive evolution of prinia eggs away from cuckoo eggs results in no detectible increase in mimetic fidelity.

    • Tanmay Dixit
    • Jess Lund
    • Claire N. Spottiswoode
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 7, P: 1978-1982

  • Many species learn through social transmission, which can alter co-evolutionary selection pressures. Experiments involving artificial prey and social networks show that wild birds can learn about unpalatable food by watching others, which helps explain the persistence of costly prey defences despite influxes of naïve juvenile predators.

    • Liisa Hämäläinen
    • William Hoppitt
    • Rose Thorogood
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-11

  • Maternal diet affects DNA methylation in the developing offspring, leading to phenotypic changes. Here, Dominguez-Salas et al. exploit seasonal variation in the diet of Gambian women to show that maternal methyl donor nutrient status around the time of conception predicts methylation levels at metastable epialleles in infants.

    • Paula Dominguez-Salas
    • Sophie E. Moore
    • Branwen J. Hennig
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-7

  • Infectious and chronic diseases display seasonal patterns, yet seasonal changes in physiology are rarely thought to affect human health. Here the authors show seasonal variation in all major blood cells and in gene and protein expression in diverse tissues, suggesting a mechanism for seasonal disease proneness and physiology.

    • Xaquin Castro Dopico
    • Marina Evangelou
    • John A. Todd
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 6, P: 1-13

  • It remains unclear why iron deficiency can protect from malaria infection. Here the authors show that iron-deficient microcytic erythrocytes are less efficiently infected by Plasmodium falciparumparasites and that iron supplementation increases the proportion of young erythrocytes more susceptible to infection.

    • Martha A. Clark
    • Morgan M. Goheen
    • Carla Cerami
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-11

  • Rachel Freathy and colleagues report results of a large-scale genome-wide association study of birth weight. They identify four loci newly associated with this trait and find overlap between birth weight–associated loci and those influencing adult height and metabolism.

    • Momoko Horikoshi
    • Hanieh Yaghootkar
    • Rachel M Freathy
    Research
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 45, P: 76-82