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  • A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individuals.

    • Alexis D. Earl
    • Gerald G. Carter
    • Dustin R. Rubenstein
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 642, P: 381-388

  • Living in a harsh environment is linked to breeding in cooperative groups, but which is cause and which is effect? Here, a bird phylogeny is used to show that, contrary to previous assumption, cooperative breeders are more likely to colonize harsh environments.

    • Charlie K. Cornwallis
    • Carlos A. Botero
    • Ashleigh S. Griffin
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 1, P: 1-10

  • Analysis of multiple species of sponge-dwelling, snapping shrimp reveals pair-forming, communal and eusocial species, suggestive of evolution of eusociality via a ‘family-centred model’, paralleling insects and vertebrates.

    • Solomon Tin Chi Chak
    • J. Emmett Duffy
    • Dustin R. Rubenstein
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 1, P: 1-7

  • Deep learning has the potential to identify ecological relationships between environment and complex phenotypes that are difficult to quantify. Here, the authors use deep learning to analyse associations among elevation, climate and phenotype across ~2000 moth species in Taiwan.

    • Shipher Wu
    • Chun-Min Chang
    • Sheng-Feng Shen
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-9

  • Male animals are typically more elaborately ornamented than females, probably because females make more of an energetic investment in raising young. However, this generality may not apply in cooperatively breeding vertebrates, where the energetic load is similar in males and females. The socially diverse African starlings are now used to study this issue, revealing that where intrasexual competition among females may be intense, female trait elaboration is selected for.

    • Dustin R. Rubenstein
    • Irby J. Lovette
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 462, P: 786-789

  • Nearly 17% of all bird species are hosts to obligate brood parasites like the common cuckoo. Antonson et al. show that parasite species hedge their reproductive bets by outsourcing parental care to a greater variety of host species when the rearing environment for their young is more unpredictable.

    • Nicholas D. Antonson
    • Dustin R. Rubenstein
    • Carlos A. Botero
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-7

  • Understanding whether intraspecific trait variation results from local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity is crucial to predict species responses to climate change. Here the authors investigate geographically distinct burying beetle populations, showing that photoperiodism is a locally adapted, not phenotypically plastic, trait.

    • Hsiang-Yu Tsai
    • Dustin R. Rubenstein
    • Sheng-Feng Shen
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-12