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Systems Underlying Human and Old World Monkey Communication: One, Two, or Infinite (2019)
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Using artificially synthesized stimuli, previous research has shown that cotton-top tamarin monkeys easily learn simple AB grammar sequences, but not the more complex An Bn sequences that require hierarchical structure. Humans have no trouble learnin... Read More about Systems Underlying Human and Old World Monkey Communication: One, Two, or Infinite.

Biochemical and biological validations of a faecal glucocorticoid metabolite assay in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) (2019)
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Stress is a major factor in determining success when releasing endangered species into the wild but is often overlooked. Mandrills (Mandrills sphinx) are vulnerable to extinction due to habitat loss and demand for bush meat and the pet trade. To help... Read More about Biochemical and biological validations of a faecal glucocorticoid metabolite assay in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx).

Aegean monkeys and the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration in archaeoprimatology: a reply to Urbani and Youlatos (2020)
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In their reply to our article “A new identification of the monkeys depicted in a Bronze Age wall painting from Akrotiri, Thera” [Primates 61(3), 2019], Urbani and Youlatos (Primates https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00825-2, 2020) argue for the trad... Read More about Aegean monkeys and the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration in archaeoprimatology: a reply to Urbani and Youlatos.

The Pathopharmacological Interplay between Vanadium and Iron in Parkinson’s Disease Models (2020)
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathology is characterised by distinct types of cellular defects, notably associated with oxidative damage and mitochondria dysfunction, leading to the selective loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain’s substantia nigra pa... Read More about The Pathopharmacological Interplay between Vanadium and Iron in Parkinson’s Disease Models.

Uncertainty and predictiveness modulate attention in human predictive learning (2020)
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Attention determines which cues receive processing and are learned about. Learning, however, leads to attentional biases. In the study of animal learning, in some circumstances, cues that have been previously predictive of their consequences are subs... Read More about Uncertainty and predictiveness modulate attention in human predictive learning.

Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois (2020)
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Global climate change can affect animal ecology in numerous ways, but researchers usually emphasize undesirable consequences. Temperature increases, for instance, can induce direct physiological costs and indirect effects via mismatches in resource n... Read More about Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois.

Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees (2020)
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Personality factors analogous to the Big Five observed in humans are present in the great apes. However, few studies have examined the long-term stability of great ape personality, particularly using factor-based personality instruments. Here, we ass... Read More about Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees.

Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact (2019)
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Pictorial representation is a key human behaviour. Cultures around the world have made images to convey information about living kinds, objects and ideas for at least 75,000 years, in forms as diverse as cave paintings, religious icons and emojis. Ho... Read More about Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact.

Emerging conservation initiatives for lampreys: research challenges and opportunities (2020)
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Lampreys worldwide face multiple anthropogenic stressors. Several species are ‘at-risk’ listed, yet abundance data for most remain insufficient to adequately assess conservation status. Lamprey population declines are largely due to habitat degradati... Read More about Emerging conservation initiatives for lampreys: research challenges and opportunities.

Modelling geospatial distributions of the triatomine vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi in Latin America (2020)
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Approximately 150 triatomine species are suspected to be infected with the Chagas parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, but they differ in the risk they pose to human populations. The largest risk comes from species that have a domestic life cycle and these s... Read More about Modelling geospatial distributions of the triatomine vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi in Latin America.

En route to delineating hippocampal roles in spatial learning (2019)
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The precise role played by the hippocampus in spatial learning tasks, such as the Morris Water Maze (MWM), is not fully understood. One theory is that the hippocampus is not required for ‘knowing where’ but rather is crucial in ‘getting there’. To ex... Read More about En route to delineating hippocampal roles in spatial learning.

Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change (2020)
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The late Quaternary paleorecord, within the past ∼130,000 years, can help to inform present-day management of the Earth's ecosystems and biota under climate change. Fordham et al. review when and where rapid climate transitions can be found in the pa... Read More about Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change.

Increased Threat of Urban Malaria from Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes, Africa (2019)
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Malaria continues to be a major health threat in Africa, mainly in rural areas. Recently, the urban malaria vector Anopheles stephensi invaded Djibouti and Ethiopia, potentially spreading to other areas of Africa. Urgent action is needed to prevent u... Read More about Increased Threat of Urban Malaria from Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes, Africa.

When Robots Teach: Towards a Code of Practice (2019)
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In the early days of electronic computers, the prolific writer and biochemist, Isaac Asimov (1920-1995), constructed a world in which humanoid robots were servants, doing the tasks people found menial, boring, or tedious. Asimov’s imagination was pre... Read More about When Robots Teach: Towards a Code of Practice.

Malaria Transmission, Infection, and Disease at Three Sites with Varied Transmission Intensity in Uganda: Implications for Malaria Control (2015)
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Compositional turnover and variation in Eemian pollen sequences in Europe (2019)
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The Eemian interglacial represents a natural experiment on how past vegetation with negligible human impact responded to amplified temperature changes compared to the Holocene. Here, we assemble 47 carefully selected Eemian pollen sequences from Euro... Read More about Compositional turnover and variation in Eemian pollen sequences in Europe.

Reduced mosquito survival in metal-roof houses may contribute to a decline in malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa (2019)
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In The Gambia, metal-roof houses were hotter during the day than thatched-roof houses. After 24 h, the mortality of Anopheles gambiae, the principal African malaria vector, was 38% higher in metal-roof houses than thatched ones. During the day, mosqu... Read More about Reduced mosquito survival in metal-roof houses may contribute to a decline in malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.

Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism (2020)
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Objectives: We examine how dental sexual dimorphism develops in mandrills, an extremely sexually dimorphic primate. We aimed to (a) establish the chronology of dental development (odontochronology) in male and female mandrills, (b) understand interin... Read More about Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism.

Cue duration determines response rate but not rate of acquisition of Pavlovian conditioning in mice (2020)
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The duration of a conditioned stimulus (CS) is a key determinant of Pavlovian conditioning. Rate estimation theory (RET) proposes that reinforcement rate is calculated over cumulative exposure to a cue and the reinforcement rate of a cue, relative to... Read More about Cue duration determines response rate but not rate of acquisition of Pavlovian conditioning in mice.

As clear as day: nocturnal activity differs from diurnal activity in a temporally constrained capital breeder (2019)
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Time-activity budgets are fundamental to behavioural studies, allowing examination of how individuals allocate their time, and potentially energy, and how these patterns vary spatially and temporally and in relation to habitat, individual identity, s... Read More about As clear as day: nocturnal activity differs from diurnal activity in a temporally constrained capital breeder.