Bacteria already killed by a host's immune response make it harder to handle those still alive. The same phenomenon might also help in tuning the immune response and decreasing the costs of the pathogen.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741105

#Pathogens #Bacteria #Immunity #EEB

Antonson et al. show that cowbirds’ neck muscles are unusually fatigue-resistant, suggesting muscular innovation for exaggerated begging as a key driver for how brood parasites outcompete hosts.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740830

#Cowbirds #MuscularInnovation #EEB

McKenzie et al. applied a novel pipeline to automate floral color phenotyping from community science photographs, supporting anecdotal evidence that Monarda fistulosa is deeper purple in western vs. eastern North America.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739413

#iNaturalist #CommunityScience #EEB

“One must suffer to be beautiful,” says an old adage. Bateman and Larsson find that the same held true for pachycephalosaurs, who traded feeding performance for a cranial dome.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740811

#Dinosaurs #LateCretaceous #EEB

Which traits matter for linking individuals to ecology? Rota et al. reveal that behavior and physiology often outpace form in predicting ecological responses from individual performance to community and ecosystem levels.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740828

#Ecology #Variability #EEB

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Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis by Santos et al.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740812

#NoisePollution #COVID19 #EEB

Do chameleons evolve to match their habitats? Petford et al. reveal morphological convergence in Bradypodion lineages, suggesting habitat, not ancestry, drives morphology.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/739749

#Morphology #Ecomorphs #EEB

Can carbon economy explain leaf dynamic seasonality? Tan et al. tested the ‘carbon benefit’ hypothesis in a tropical seasonal rain forest and their results did not support the hypothesis.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740829

#CarbonEconomy #LeafDynamics #EEB