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Migration cues and timing in leatherback sea turtles Monogamy when there is potential for polygyny: tests of multiple Scott A. Sherrill-Mix, Michael C. James, and Ransom A. Myers hypotheses in a group-living fish 231 Marian Y. L. Wong, Philip L. Munday, Peter M. Buston, and Geoffrey P. Jones Ecology 353 Deceptive color signaling in the night: a nocturnal predator attracts prey with visual lures Can experienced birds select for Mu¨llerian mimicry? NUMBER 2 Chih-Yuan Chuang, En-Cheng Yang, and I-Min Tso Eira Ihalainen, Leena Lindstro¨m, Johanna Mappes, and Sari Puolakkainen VOLUME 19 NUMBER 2 MARCH/APRIL 2008 237 362 What best explains vigilance in elk: characteristics of prey, predators, or Ultraviolet reflectance of plumage for parent–offspring communication in www.beheco.oxfordjournals.org the environment? the great tit (Parus major) Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/beheco/issue/19/2 by guest on 29 September 2021 Stewart Liley and Scott Creel Marion Tanner and Heinz Richner MARCH/APRIL 2008 245 369 Foraging in honeybees—when does it pay to dance? Colorful male guppies do not provide females with fecundity benefits Madeleine Beekman and Jie Bin Lew Andrea Pilastro, Clelia Gasparini, Chiara Boschetto, and Jonathan P. Evans 255 374 Survival benefits and divergence of predator-induced behavior between Split sex ratios in the social Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis pumpkinseed sunfish ecomorphs Joe¨l Meunier, Stuart A. West, and Michel Chapuisat Beren W. Robinson, Andrew J. Januszkiewicz, and Jens C. Koblitz 382 263 Winter male plumage coloration correlates with breeding status in a Worker policing in the German wasp Vespula germanica cooperative breeding species Wim Bonckaert, Kristel Vuerinckx, Johan Billen, Rob L. Hammond, Laurent Keller, Elena Solı´s, Jesu´s M. Avile´s, Carlos De La Cruz, Juliana Valencia, and and Tom Wenseleers Gabriele Sorci 272 391 Parent-absent begging: evidence for sibling honesty and cooperation in Egg rejection behavior in a population exposed to parasitism: Village the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) Weavers on Hispaniola Elena Bulmer, Patricia Celis, and Diego Gil Alexander Cruz, John W. Prather, James W. Wiley, and Pablo F. Weaver 279 398 Male insemination decisions and sperm quality influence paternity in the Male barn swallows use different resource allocation rules to produce golden orb–weaving spider ornamental tail feathers Theresa M. Jones and Mark A. Elgar Alberto Mun˜oz, Jose´ Miguel Aparicio, and Rau´l Bonal 285 404 Parasite levels in blue-black grassquits correlate with male displays but not Ultraviolet plumage does not signal social status in free-living blue tits; an female mate preference experimental test Thais M. Aguilar, Rafael Maia, Eduardo S.A. Santos, and Regina H. Macedo Oscar Vedder, Peter Korsten, Michael J. L. Magrath, and Jan Komdeur 292 410 Sexual conflict over breeding substrate causes female expulsion and Strong but variable associations between social dominance and clutch sex offspring loss in a cichlid fish ratio in a colonial corvid Martine E. Maan and Michael Taborsky H.M. Salomons, C. Dijkstra, and S. Verhulst 302 417 Mating system, sexual dimorphism, and the opportunity for sexual Better to be bimodal: the interaction of color and odor on learning and selection in a territorial ungulate memory Ce´cile Vanpe´, Petter Kjellander, Maxime Galan, Jean-Franc¸ois Cosson, Ste´phane Emma C. Siddall and Nicola M. Marples Aulagnier, Olof Liberg, and A. J. Mark Hewison 425 309 Paternity costs from polyandry compensated by increased fecundity in the Social constraints limit dispersal and settlement decisions in a group-living hide beetle bird species Kathryn B. McNamara, Rachael L. Brown, Mark A. Elgar, and There´sa M. Jones Michael Griesser, Magdalena Nystrand, So¨nke Eggers, and Jan Ekman 433 317 Food resources, chemical signaling, and nest mate recognition in the ant Low light reflectance may explain the attraction of birds to defoliated trees Formica aquilonia Elina Ma¨ntyla¨, Tero Klemola, Pa¨ivi Sirkia¨, and Toni Laaksonen Jouni Sorvari, Pascal Theodora, Stefano Turillazzi, Harri Hakkarainen, and 325 Liselotte Sundstro¨m 441 Male morph predicts investment in larval immune function in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus REVIEW Sheena C. Cotter, Maxine Beveridge, and Leigh W. Simmons 331 Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis Brian R. Smith and Daniel T. Blumstein Optimal group positioning after a predator attack: the influence of speed, 448 sex, and satiation within mobile whirligig swarms William L. Romey and Emily Galbraith FORUM 338 Testing the sexy son hypothesis—a research framework for empirical

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