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ECR Spotlight – Lohitashwa Garikipati
ABSTRACTECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental...
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Posted: October 13, 2025, 12:00 am
Many-to-one mapping in Mantodea: camouflage strategy and phylogeny drive strike variation in prey capture with raptorial forelegs
ABSTRACTThe evolution of camouflage has led to many examples of organisms mimicking their environment to remain undetected or unseen. Camouflage likely results in strong selective pressures to resemble the environment as it increases Darwinian fit...
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Posted: October 13, 2025, 12:00 am
Extraordinary creatures: poison frogs
In the rainforests of Central and South America, lives a group of frogs famed for being used on the hunting darts of the indigenous people of the area. From the miniscule Ranitomeya species, which are the size of a human thumbnail, to the incredib...
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Posted: October 13, 2025, 12:00 am
ECR Spotlight – Tim Jakobi
ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology...
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Posted: October 13, 2025, 12:00 am
From nociception in aneural animals to human suffering: toward a comparative biology of pain
ABSTRACTPain is a core feature of human life, but systematic comparisons of this biological trait across taxa have been rare. A broadly accepted definition based on human experience emphasizes dual features of pain: a sensory (discriminative) comp...
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Posted: October 13, 2025, 12:00 am
Energy costs and benefits of locomotion and feeding in site-attached damselfish
ABSTRACTEnergetic cost–benefit balance provides valuable information on the environmental tolerances and distributions of animals. In aquatic environments, flow is a fundamental factor owing to its effects on locomotion and foraging. Energetic tra...
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Metabolic effects of dietary exposure to polystyrene microplastic and nanoplastic in fruit flies
ABSTRACTUnderstanding how anthropogenic change impacts metabolic physiology is crucial for predicting species survival and ecosystem dynamics. Microplastics are ubiquitous in both aquatic and terrestrial environments and can disrupt organismal phy...
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Posted: October 13, 2025, 12:00 am
How honeybees perceive and traverse apertures
ABSTRACTThe ability to fly through openings in vegetation allows insects such as bees to access otherwise unreachable food sources. The specific visual strategies employed by flying insects during aperture negotiation tasks remain unknown. In this...
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