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Katrina M. Schrode and Mark A. Bee Sensory systems function most efficiently when processing natural stimuli, such as vocalizations, and it is though [...]

Anoop Karunakaran and Sumana Annagiri Decisions regarding spatial and temporal choices pertaining to a wide range of activities like mating, feeding [...]

Craig A. Radford, Shahriman Ghazali, Andrew G. Jeffs, and John C. Montgomery Fish sounds are an important biological component of the underwater soun [...]

Holger Beckmann, Lars Hering, Miriam J. Henze, Almut Kelber, Paul A. Stevenson, and Georg Mayer Onychophorans typically possess a pair of simple eyes [...]

Megan E. Meuti, Mary Stone, Tomoko Ikeno, and David L. Denlinger The short day lengths of late summer are used to program the overwintering adult dia [...]

Michael A. Garland, Jonathon H. Stillman, and Lars Tomanek The porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes lives under rocks and in mussel beds in the mid- [...]

Christian Bech Christensen, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, and Peter Teglberg Madsen In the transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial lifestyle, vert [...]

Melissa L. Wynn, Christofer Clemente, Ami Fadhillah Amir Abdul Nasir, and Robbie S. Wilson Movement speed is fundamental to all animal behaviour, yet [...]

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[...] from strong gene and environment interactions. Such interactions could be mediated by epigenetic mechanisms, defined as chromatin and DNA modifications that alter gene expression without changing [...]

[...] on placental function and the risk of diseases later in life, with a specific focus on epigenetic mechanisms and sexual dimorphism. Explaining the sex-specific causal variables and how males versus [...]

[...] Michael Daniel and Trygve O. Tollefsbol Epigenetic mechanisms play a pivotal role in the expression of genes and can be influenced by both the quality [...]

[...] these associations are just beginning to be uncovered. Recent evidence suggests that epigenetic mechanisms are responsive to adverse environments and could be involved in the development of chronic [...]

Warren W. Burggren Epigenetic studies of both intragenerational and transgenerational epigenetic phenotypic modifications have proliferated in the la [...]

Ulrich R. Ernst, Matthias B. Van Hiel, Geert Depuydt, Bart Boerjan, Arnold De Loof, and Liliane Schoofs Insects are one of the most successful classe [...]

Sen Liu, Keping Sun, Tinglei Jiang, and Jiang Feng When facing the challenges of environmental change, such as habitat fragmentation, organisms have [...]

Dustin J. Marshall Traditionally, it has been assumed that sperm are a vehicle for genes and nothing more. As such, the only source of variance in of [...]

[...] roles are discussed here. But what are the mechanisms that regulate deposition of epigenetic modifications? Until recently, limited direct evidence indicated that signalling molecules are able to [...]

[...] affect behaviour. Furthermore, several studies are reviewed, demonstrating that acquired epigenetic modifications can be inherited and cause trans-generational behaviour changes. In conclusion, [...]

[...] their phenotype to adapt to various environmental stresses. Recent studies show that epigenetic modifications could mediate environmentally induced phenotypic variation, and this epigenetic variance [...]

[...] to their physical and social environment. Because of the inherent flexibility of epigenetic regulation, a variety of biological phenomena can be traced back to evolutionary adaptations of few [...]

[...] for epigenome-wide association study in linking environmental exposure to differential epigenetic regulation and to disease status while controlling for individual genetic make-up. It can be expected [...]

[...] the interest of the polyphenism field. Accumulating evidence points towards a role for epigenetic regulation in locust phase polyphenism. This is corroborated in the economically important locust [...]