Editor-in-Chief for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(published by Springer, Heidelberg)
retired professor of Animal Ecology, University of Bonn
New cover image for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
We (Rebeca Rosengaus, James Traniello and Theo Bakker) just published the introduction to the Topical Collection “Sociality and Disease“ in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The coronavirus pandemic provide a timely illustration of the importance of basic and applied socioecoimmunological research from a broad phylogenetic perspective. The TC, which contains 15 papers, provides a timely focus on the bidirectional dynamics between social hosts and their pathogens in a diverse array of invertebrate and vertebrate clades.
Starting with the May issue, BES has a new cover image.
Female redfronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) permanently evict closely related females from groups. See Prox L, Fichtel C, Kappeler PM (2023) Drivers
and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 77:53.
Photo credits: Lea Prox.
the second paper in Current Zoology came out and looked at UVA-based shoaling and mate preferences of lab-bred fishes from two photic habitats. The results for both shoaling- and mate preference tests were largely similar for wild-caught and lab-bred sticklebacks, thus hinting at a genetic basis for the preference patterns.
Ecological adaptation II
Sociality and disease: behavioral perspectives in ecological and evolutionary immunology
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