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2003

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Cytotypes of Andropogon gerardii Vitman (Poaceae): Fertility and Reproduction of Aneuploids, Guillermo A. Norrmann and Kathleen H. Keeler

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Single-Cell Protein Profiling of Wastewater Enterobacterial Communities Predicts Disinfection Efficiency, Gomathinayagam Ponniah, Han Chen, Ronda Michielutti, Nancy Salonen, and Paul H. Blum

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Eight Gram-negative bacteria are 10,000 times more sensitive to cationic detergents than to anionic detergents, Soumitra Rajagopal, Nicole Eis, and Kenneth Nickerson

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The Proliferation Gene Expression Signature is a Quantitative Integrator of Oncogenic Events that Predicts Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Andreas Rosenwald, George Wright, Adrian Wiestner, Wing Chan, Joseph Connors, Elias Campo, Randy Gascoyne, Thomas Grogan, Konrad Muller-Hermelink, Erlend B. Smeland, Michael Chiorazzi, Jena M. Giltnane, Elaine M. Hurt, Hong Zhao, Lauren Averett, Sarah Henrickson, Liming Yang, John Powell, Wyndham H. Wilson, Elaine S. Jaffe, Richard Simon, Richard D. Klausner, Emilio Montserrat, Francesc Bosch, Timothy Greiner, Dennis D. Weisenburger, Warren G. Sanger, Bhavana J. Dave, James C. Lynch, Julie Vose, James O. Armitage, Richard I. Fisher, Thomas P. Miller, Michael LeBlanc, German Ott, Stein Kvaloy, Harald Holte, Jan Delabie, and Louis M. Staudt

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Size-Abundance Relationships in an Amazonian Bird Community: Implications for the Energetic Equivalence Rule, Sabrina E. Russo, Scott K. Robinson, and John Terborgh

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Quorum Sensing in Candida albicans: Probing Farnesol’s Mode of Action with 40 Natural and Synthetic Farnesol Analogs, Roman Shchepin, Jacob M. Hornby, Erin Burger, Timothy Niessen, Patrick H. Dussault, and Kenneth Nickerson

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Body Mass of Late Quaternary Mammals (Data Set), Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S.K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Kansas State University, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell

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An Analysis of the Secondary Structure of the Mitochondrial Large Subunit rRNA Gene (16S) in Spiders and Its Implications for Phylogenetic Reconstruction, Stacey DeWitt Smith and Jason E. Bond

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A Bt Transgene Reduces Herbivory and Enhances Fecundity in Wild Sunflowers, A. A. Snow, Diana Pilson, L. H. Rieseberg, M. J. Paulsen, N. Pleskac, M. R. Reagon, D. E. Wolf, and S. M. Selbo

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Natural Selection on Protein Polymorphism in the Rodent Genus Peromyscus: Evidence from Interlocus Contrasts, Jay F. Storz and Michael W. Nachman

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Indirect evidence of density-dependent population regulation in Aponomma hydrosauri (Acari: Ixodidae), an ectoparasite of reptiles, Andrew J. Tyre, C. Michael Bull, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and Neil Chilton

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IMPROVING PRECISION AND REDUCING BIAS IN BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS: ESTIMATING FALSE-NEGATIVE ERROR RATES, Andrew J. Tyre, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Scott A. Field, Darren Niejalke, Kirsten Parris, and Hugh P. Possingham

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Putative subunits of the maize origin of replication recognition complex ZmORC1±ZmORC5, Xiaohong Witmer, Raul Alvarez-Venegas, Phillip San-Miguel, Olga Danilevskaya, and Zoya Avramova

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Large-Scale Cultivation of Acidophilic Hyperthermophiles for Recovery of Secreted Proteins, Penny Worthington, Paul H. Blum, Francisco Perez-Pomares, and Tom Elthon

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Targeted Disruption of the α-Amylase Gene in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, Penny Worthington, Viet Hoang, Francisco Perez-Pomares, and Paul H. Blum

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The Endocrine Regulation of Wing Polymorphism in Insects: State of the Art, Recent Surprises, and Future Directions, Anthony J. Zera

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Life-History Evolution and the Microevolution of Intermediary Metabolism: Activities of Lipid-Metabolizing Enzymes in Life-History Morphs of a Wing-Dimorphic Cricket, Anthony J. Zera and Zhangwu Zhao

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Morph-dependent fatty acid oxidation in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Implications for the trade-off between dispersal and reproduction, Anthony J. Zera and Zhangwu Zhao

2002

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Re-test of Rhinocyllus conicus host specificity, and the prediction of ecological risk in biological control, Amy E. Arnett and Svata M. Louda

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Stability of mRNA in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, Elisabetta Bini, Vidula Dikshit, Kristi Dirksen, Melissa Drozda, and Paul H. Blum

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Brief Communications: Rapid and Costly Ageing in Wild Male Flies, Russell Bonduriansky and Chad Brassil

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Food Pulses Increase Longevity and Induce Cyclical Egg Production in Mediterranean Fruit Flies, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Lawrence G. Harshman, X. Liu, Hans-Georg Müller, Linda Partridge, and Jane-Ling Wang

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A Mortality Cost of Virginity at Older Ages in Female Mediterranean Fruit Flies, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Lawrence G. Harshman, Ying Zhang, Hans-Georg Müller, Linda Partridge, and Jane-Ling Wang

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Life History Response of Mediterranean Fruit Flies to Dietary Restriction, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Lawrence G. Harshman, Ying Zhang, Hans-Georg Müller, Linda Partridge, and Jane-Ling Wang

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Conformational strictness required for maximum activity and stability of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A as revealed by crystallographic study of three Phe120 mutants at 1.4 Å resolution, Eri Chatani, Rikimaru Hayashi, Hideaki Moriyama, and Tatzuo Ueki

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Active formation of mixed-species grouse leks: a role for predation in lek evolution?, Robert M. Gibson

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Active Formation of Mixed-Species Grouse Leks: A Role for Predation in Lek Evolution?, Robert M. Gibson, Andrea S. Aspbury, and Leonard L. McDaniel

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‘Neuroecologists’ are Not Made of Straw, Robert Hampton, Susan Healy, Sara Shettleworth, and Alan C. Kamil

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Morphometric Analysis of Nonadult Characters of Common Species of American Gordiids (Nematomorpha: Gordioidea), Ben Hanelt and John J. Janovy Jr.

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Relating the unique sensory system of amblypygids to the ecology and behavior of Phrynus parvulus from Costa Rica (Arachnida, Amblypygi), Eileen Hebets

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Concurrent Infections and the Community Ecology of Helminth Parasites, John J. Janovy Jr.

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Clone Size of Andropogon gerardii Vitman (Big Bluestem) at Konza Prairie, Kansas, Kathleen H. Keeler, Charles F. Williams, and Linda S. Vescio

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How Many Black-tailed Prairie Dogs Were There? A Dialogue Demonstrates Both the Process of Science and the Role of Science in Environmental Issues, Svata M. Louda

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Unexpected Ecological Effects of Distributing the Exotic Weevil, Larinus planus (F.), for the Biological Control of Canada Thistle, Svata M. Louda and Charles W. O'Brien

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SPECIES RICHNESS, LATITUDE, AND SCALE-SENSITIVITY, S. Kathleen Lyons and Michael R. Willig

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Convergent Demographic Effects of Insect Attack on Related Thistles in Coastal vs. Continental Dunes, John L. Maron, Julie K. Combs, and Svata M. Louda

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Compensation for Herbivory in Wild Sunflower: Response to Simulated Damage by the Head-Clipping Weevil, Diana Pilson and Karin L. Decker

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The Natural History of Reproduction in Solanum and Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in a Subtropical Moist Forest, Stacey DeWitt Smith and Sandra Knapp

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Ecogeographic surveys as tools for analyzing potential reproductive isolating mechanisms: An example using Solanum juglandifolium Dunal, S. ochranthum Dunal, S. lycopersicoides Dunal, and S. sitiens I. M. Johnston, Stacey DeWitt Smith and Iris Edith Peralta

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Effects of herbivory on the reproductive effort of 4 prairie perennials, Erica Spotswood, Kate L. Bradley, and Johannes M. H. Knops

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Contrasting Patterns of Divergence in Quantitative Traits and Neutral DNA Markers: Analysis of Clinal Variation, Jay F. Storz

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Testing for Genetic Evidence of Population Expansion and Contraction: An Empirical Analysis of Microsatellite DNA Variation Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Model, Jay F. Storz and Mark Beaumont

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Genetic Evidence for Long-Term Population Decline in a Savannah Dwelling Primate: Inferences from a Hierarchical Bayesian Model, Jay F. Storz, Mark A. Beaumont, and Susan C. Alberts

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Genetic Effective Size of a Wild Primate Population: Influence of Current and Historical Demography, Jay F. Storz, Uma Ramakrishnan, and Susan C. Alberts

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Optimization Strategies for Captive Breeding, Brigitte Tenhumberg

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Molecular phylogeny of Subtribe Artemisiinae (Asteraceae), including Artemisia and its allied and segregate genera, Linda E. Watson, Paul E. Bates, Timonthy M. Evans, Matthew M. Unwin, and James R. Estes

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The pgp1 Mutant Locus of Arabidopsis Encodes a Phosphatidylglycerolphosphate Synthase with Impaired Activity, Changcheng Xu, Heiko Härtel, Hajime Wada, Miki Hagio, Bin Yu, Chris Eakin, and Christoph Benning

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SVMTriP: A Method to Predict Antigenic Epitopes Using Support Vector Machine to Integrate Tri-Peptide Similarity and Propensity, Bo Yao, Lin Zhang, Shide Liang, and Chi Zhang

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Arabidopsis disrupted in SQD2 encoding sulfolipid synthase is impaired in phosphate-limited growth, Bin Yu, Changcheng Xu, and Christoph Benning

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Review of Dispersal. Based on a conference held in Roscoff, France, 23 April–1 May 1999., Anthony J. Zera

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Purification and Characterization of Hemolymph Juvenile Hormone Esterase from the Cricket, Gryllus assimilis, Anthony J. Zera, Travis Sanger, Jeremiah Hanes, and Lawrence G. Harshman

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Differential lipid biosynthesis underlies a tradeoff between reproduction and fl ight capability in a wing-polymorphic cricket, Zhangwu Zhao and Anthony J. Zera

2001

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Mean Time to Extinction of a Metapopulation with an Allee Effect, Chad Brassil

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Female Sensitivity to Diet and Irradiation Treatments Underlies Sex-Mortality Differentials in the Mediterranean Fruit Fly, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Hans-Georg Müller, Jane-Ling Wang, Brad Love, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Linda Partridge

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Extension of Life-Span by Loss of CHICO, a Drosophila Insulin Receptor Substrate Protein, David Clancy, David Gems, Lawrence G. Harshman, Sean Oldham, Hugo Stocker, Ernest Hafen, Sally Leevers, and Linda Partridge

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Molecular Characterization of Cephalothorax, the Tribolium Ortholog of Sex Combs Reduced, Carmelle D. Curtis, Jennifer A. Brisson, Mark A. DeCamillis, Teresa D. Shippy, Susan J. Brown, and Robin E. Denell

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Variation in Response to Artificial Selection for Light Sensitivity in Guppies (Poecilia reticulate), John A. Endler, Alexandra Basolo, Stan Glowacki, and Julianne Zerr

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Sensory Biology of Whip Spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi), Ranier Foelix and Eileen Hebets

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Sharpening Low-Energy, Standard-Model Tests via Correlation Coefficients in Neutron β Decay, S. Gardner and Chi Zhang

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Rhinocyllus conicus: Initial Evaluation and Subsequent Ecological Impacts in North America, A. Gassmann and Svata M. Louda

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Contrasting Effects of Plant Richness and Composition on Insect Communities: A Field Experiment, Nick M. Haddad, David Tilman, John Haarstad, Mark Ritchie, and Johannes M.H. Knops

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Physid Snails as Sentinels of Freshwater Nematomorphs, Ben Hanelt, L. E. Grother, and John J. Janovy Jr.

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Secreted Euryarchaeal Microhalocins Kill Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaea, Cynthia Haseltine, TIffany Hill, Rafael Montalvo-Rodriguez, Samantha K. Kemper, Richard F. Shand, and Paul H. Blum

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Biodiversity and decomposition in experimental grassland ecosystems, Johannes M. H. Knops, David A. Wedin, and David Tilman

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Essays on Ecological Classics: Discovering an Effect of Insect Floral Herbivory on Plant Population Density and Distribution in a "Green World", Svata M. Louda

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Molecular Phylogenetics of Western North American Frogs of the Rana boylii Species Group, J. Robert Macey, Jared L. Strasburg, Jennifer A. Brisson, Vance T. Vredenburg, Mark Jennings, and Allan Larson

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Epimerite-Host Epithelium Relationships among Eugregarines Parasitizing the Damselflies Enallagma civile and Ischnura verticalis, Tamara J. Percival Cook, John J. Janovy Jr., and Richard E. Clopton

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A Synopsis of the Ferns and Fern Allies of Nebraska, with Maps of Their Distribution, Steven B. Rolfsmeier, Robert B. Kaul, and David M. Sutherland

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A Synopsis of the Ferns and Fern Allies of Nebraska, with Maps of Their Distribution, Steven B. Rolfsmeier, Robert B. Kaul, and David M. Sutherland

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A Cost of Reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster: Stress Susceptibility, Adam B. Salmon, David B. Marx, and Lawrence G. Harshman

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The Response of Gregarina niphandrodes (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Septatina) to Host Starvation in Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Adults, Jennifer E. Schawang and John J. Janovy Jr.

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Microsatellite analysis of female mating behaviour in lek-breeding sage grouse, Katy Semple, Robert K. Wayne, and Robert M. Gibson

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Feeding and survival in parasitic wasps: Sugar concentration and timing matter, Gitta Siekmann, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and Michael A. Keller

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Clinal variation in body size and sexual dimorphism in an Indian fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), Jay F. Storz, J. Balasingh, Hari Bhat, P. Thiruchenthil Nathan, D. Paramanantha Swami Doss, A. Antony Prakash, and Thomas H. Kunz

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Genetic Consequences of Polygyny and Social Structure in an Indian Fruit Bat, Cynopterus sphinx. I. Inbreeding, Outbreeding, and Population Subdivision, Jay F. Storz, Hari Bhat, and Thomas Kunz

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Genetic Consequences of Polygyny and Social Structure in an Indian Fruit Bat, Cynopterus sphinx. II. Variance in Male Mating Success and Effective Population Size, Jay F. Storz, Hari Bhat, and Thomas H. Kunz

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Disrupting evolutionary processes: The effect of habitat fragmentation on collared lizards in the Missouri Ozarks, Alan R. Templeton, Robert J. Robertson, Jennifer A. Brisson, and Jared Strasburg

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Using Cox’s Proportional Hazard Models to Implement Optimal Strategies: An Example from Behavioral Ecology, Brigitte Tenhumberg, M. A. Keller, and Hugh P. Possingham

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The Effect of Resource Aggregation at Different Scales: Optimal Foraging Behavior of Cotesia rubecula, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Michael A. Keller, Andrew J. Tyre, and Hugh P. Possingham

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Optimal patch-leaving behavior: A case study using the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Mike A. Keller, Hugh P. Possingham, and Andrew J. Tyre

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Diversity and Productivity in a Long-Term Grassland Experiment, David Tilman, Peter B. Reich, Johannes Knops, David A. Wedin, Troy Mielke, and Clarence Lehman

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Predicting Risk to Biodiversity as a Function of Aquifer Pressure in GAB Mound Springs, A. J. Tyre, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and H.P. Possingham

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Microbially Catalyzed Nitrate-Dependent Oxidation of Biogenic Solid-Phase Fe(II) Compounds, Karrie A. Weber, Flynn W. Picardal, and Eric E. Roden

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Notes and Comments: Food Web Laws or Niche Theory? Six Independent Empirical Tests, Kirk O. Winemiller, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, and Anthony Joern

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The Endocrine-Genetic Basis of Life-History Variation: The Relationship Between The Ecdysteroid Titer and Morph-Specific Reproduction in the Wing-Polymorphic Cricket Gryllus Firmus, Anthony J. Zera and Justin Bottsford

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Genetic and Diurnal Variation in the Juvenile Hormone Titer in a Wing-Polymorphic Cricket: Implications for the Evolution of Life Histories and Dispersal, Anthony J. Zera and Gretchen Cisper

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The Physiology of Life History Trade-Offs in Animals, Anthony J. Zera and Lawrence G. Harshman

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The Metabolic Basis of Life History Variation: Genetic and Phenotypic Differences in Lipid Reserves among Life History Morphs of the Wing-polymorphic Cricket, Gryllus firmus, Anthony J. Zera and A. Larsen

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Enzymological and Radiotracer Studies of lipid Metabolism in the Flight-Capable and Flightless Morphs of the Wing-Polymorphic Cricket, Gryllus firmus, Z. Zhao and Anthony J. Zera

2000

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Learning improves growth rate in grasshoppers, Reuven Dukas and Elizabeth A. Bernays

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Oxidative Stress Resistance: A Robust Correlated Response to Selection in Extended Longevity Lines of Drosophila melanogaster?, Lawrence G. Harshman and Beth A. Haberer

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Electrophysiological studies of olfaction in the whip spider Phrynus parvulus (Arachnida, Amblypygi), Eileen Hebets and Reginald F. Chapman

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Surviving the flood: plastron respiration in the non-tracheate arthropod Phrynus marginemaculatus (Amblypygi: Arachnida), Eileen Hebets and Reginald F. Chapman

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Leg ornamentation and the efficacy of courtship display in four species of wolf spider (Araneae: Lycosidae), Eileen Hebets and George W. Uetz

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Patterns of Annual Seed Production by Northern Hemisphere Trees: A Global Perspective, Walter D. Koenig and Johannes M.H. Knops

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Quantitative Image Analysis of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Replication in Macrophages Coinfected with Mycobacterium avium Complex, Qingsheng Li, Keith G. Mansfield, Andrew Lackner, and Ashley T. Haase

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Rhinocyllus conicus -- Insights to Improve Predictability and Minimize Risk of Biological Control of Weeds, Svata M. Louda

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Predicting Non-Target Ecological Effects of Biological Control Agents: Evidence from Rhinocyllus conicus, Svata M. Louda and A. E. Arnett

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"An Evolutionary No Man’s Land" and "Reply from L. G. Harshman and A. A. Hoffmann", Margarida Matos, André Levy, Henrique Teotónio, Michael R. Rose, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Ary A. Hoffmann

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PLANT QUALITY AND SPIDER PREDATION AFFECTS GRASSHOPPERS (ACRIDIDAE): FOOD-QUALITY-DEPENDENT COMPENSATORY MORTALITY, Mark A. Oedekoven and Anthony Joern