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In our upcoming SI: The Integrative Biology of the Heart we will consider plasticity and flexibility of the heart in response to activity & changing environmental conditions, including developmental, ecological & evolutionary perspectives.
https://bit.ly/3rW74Vr
In her JEB100 ECR Spotlight, Danielle Blumstein discusses her research journey beginning with fishes before moving to cactus mice, why collecting long-term data is critical when studying responses to climate change & how her hobbies change with the seasons.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb246936/335760
Some parasite infected sticklebacks fight back with internal scaring to prevent the parasite from taking hold and the scaring also makes the fish stiffer, helping them to beat a hastier retreat from predators
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb247041/336507
Read the full research at https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb246684/336506
Hot, dry deserts make life tough. So what happens when the animals living there can’t find water? Danielle Blumstein & Matthew MacManes find that female & male cactus mice have different strategies for saving water when the tap runs dry.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb246924/335759
Read the full research here:
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb246386/335758
In his JEB100 ECRS, palaeontologist Nicolas Séon tells us how he enjoyed the multidisciplinary nature of his PhD, including animal physiology, isotope geochemistry & modelling, & how he is looking forward to his postdoc, studying the trophic ecology of the Ross seal
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb246991/335700
In his JEB100 Review, Angel Caputi outlines how weakly electric fishes organize fixed-action patterns to emit electric fields, which are used to carry signals marking species, s*x and location, and to convey social messages
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb246060/335699
Issue 22 has closed and issue 23 is open.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/226/22
The front cover by Shane Gross shows a bottlenose dolphin foraging in the sand.
As if dolphins weren't cool enough already, Tim Hüttner & co have discovered that the animals can feel electric fields, which could help them to locate fish in the seabed & navigate the globe
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246907/334724
Read the full research here: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb245845/334721
Andrea Murillo reports on Willot & co's recent Proc. R. Soc. B. paper showing that autophagy protects flies from heat, allowing them to handle higher temperatures without losing coordination
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/JEB245037/335696
After three years of contributing to Outside JEB Andrea is stepping down. We wish her all the best for the future.
Giulia Rossi reports on Aaskov & co's recent Proc. R. Soc. B paper, showing that, contrary to expectation, striped catfish do not shunt blood away from the gill to retain oxygen when in hypoxic water
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/JEB245038/335697
This is Giulia's last Outside JEB article after two years as a member of team and we wish her all the best for the future
In their Review, Eric Riddell & co discuss mechanistic niche models & their use in predicting climate vulnerability and species range dynamics. They also review the observations & experiments used to set parameters for these models.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb245543/334656
In his JEB100 ECR Spotlight Adrien Arias discusses his research journey from alligators to rats, how alligators can offer new insights into locomotion & his desire to travel the world and study every animal species.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246994/335477
Early-career researchers, don't miss this fantastic opportunity to sign up for the 10 funded places available to attend this Workshop organised by Eleanor Caves, Sonke Johnsen & Lorian Schweikert at Buxted Park, UK 10-13 June 2024
Deadline for application: 1 December 2023
https://www.biologists.com/workshops/june-2024/
No one likes being bullied & it turns out that the brains of male cichlids that are vulnerable to bullying rewire. Specific regions of the brain that process sensory information & decision making are activated differently in confident & bullied males
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246996/335428
Read the full research here: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246322/335430
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at JEB? Find out in our new Editorial how the Editors and in house teams steer your manuscripts through peer review and publication, and how the News & Views team add value to your research by promoting it to journalists and the public
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb246916/335691
As part of our JEB100 celebrations, we have funded two new travel grants to help junior faculty:
Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants https://www.biologists.com/grants/kickstart-travel-grants/
and ECR Visiting Fellowships https://www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-visiting-fellowships/
Deadline for applications: 1 Dec 2023
Noise pollution affects us all, even animals living underwater. Luckily for zebrafish, Lau and Vasconcelos show that they might still be able to hear louder noises if their main hearing endorgan gets damaged.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246804/334739
Read the full research here:
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb245992/334737
Following our JEB100 article about JEB's history, Kathryn Knight revisits ground breaking papers and some Nobel Prize inspiring gems in our new Perspective: A snapshot of 100 years of discovery.
Review the journal's last century in 27 key JEB papers
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246869/334722
As part of our JEB100 celebrations, we have produced a poster and article telling the story of the journal's first century, from its foundation by Lancelot Hogben, Julian Huxley and Frances Crew and its association with H. G. Wells, through nine Editors-in-Chief, to becoming the champion of the comparative community that it is today.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246868/335473
In the last of our JEB100 Conversations, Monica Daley tells us why understanding integration across systems and organizational scales is one of today's big questions and why it is important to recognize failure as an opportunity
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246878/334723
In her JEB100 ECR Spotlight, Rachel Thayer talks about how a home-made book started her fascination with animals, how the structures in the scales of butterfly wings produce color & how review articles are great for early-career researchers
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb246842/334660
Funded places are available for early-career researchers at our Workshop 'Vision 2024: Building Bridges in Visual Ecology' organised by Eleanor Caves, Sonke Johnsen & Lorian Schweikert
Deadline for application: 1 December 2023
https://www.biologists.com/workshops/june-2024/
In their Review, Rachel Thayer & Nipam Patel discuss structural colors in butterflies, how they are produced, the range of colors & their phylogenetic distribution, while also giving testable hypotheses for future studies.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb245940/334657
Being raised in the right environment can be just as important as having the right genes. Nina Cossin-Sevrin & co show that having more nestmates gives some songbirds a better chance of survival.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb246871/334697
Read the full research here:
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb245932/334698
Issue 21 has closed and issue 22 is open.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/226/21
The front cover by Theresa Culley shows a monarch butterfly resting on a goldenrod during the autumn migration. The cover accompanies Kendzel et al's paper Gravisensation and modulation of gravitactic responses by other sensory cues in the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb245451/334584
Hummingbirds can't fold their wings to manoeuvre through foliage gaps narrower than their wingspan, so how do they get through? Now it turns out that they either fly through sideways, or tuck their wings flat against their bodies to shoot through like a bullet
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb246762/334535
To read the full research go to https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb245643/334536
Millions of monarch butterflies migrate every autumn, but climate change is making this trip harder. Adam Parlin & co show that the butterflies can travel 130 hours fewer than they used to before needing to refuel.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb246789/334659
Read the full research here:
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb245296/334654
In his JEB100 ECR Spotlight, Rune Sørås tells us about his fascination with creatures that fly at night and why he would like to study bat energy consumption if he had unlimited funding
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb246841/334550
Our most read article from August is ‘Repetitive nociceptive stimulation elicits complex behavioral changes in Hirudo: evidence of arousal and motivational adaptations’ by Jessica Hoynoski & co.
Read the full research article: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/16/jeb245895/325884
In their JEB100 Centenary Commentary, Roberts, Szejner-Sigal & Lehmann discuss the current state of research into the energetics of dormancy in insects, unanswered questions & the future directions of the field.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb245782/334546
Read this month's Editors' Choice, Physiological responses to acute warming at the agitation temperature in a temperate shark by Ian Bouyoucos and colleagues from University of Manitoba
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/19/jeb246304/330809
In his JEB100 Review, Yun-Wei D**g discusses how multilevel (behaviour to molecules) biological variation in thermal responses must be paired with refined spatiotemporal analyses of habitat temperature variation to explain current intertidal species distributions and predict future patterns,
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/jeb245745/334497
. is calling for submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of the Heart
This special issue will consider the biology of the heart at all levels of organisation, across animal groups and scientific fields
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/heart
In his JEB100 ECR Spotlight, Yangfan Zhang discusses his research journey with fishes, some of his favourite JEB papers & how AI and miniaturisation will shape experimental biology in the future.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/20/jeb246843/334302
Brittney Borowiec reports on Virgin & co's recent Functional Ecology paper showing that limpets move and reorient towards mild microhabitats, avoiding the worst that their rocky habitat has to offer
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/21/JEB245031/334483
This is Brittney's final Outside JEB contribution after 6 amazing years and we wish her all the best for the future! It's been great working with you
Issue 20 has closed and issue 21 is open
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/226/20
The cover image shows a Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) with her pup Photo credit: Daniel P. Costa.
In their JEB100 Review, Daniel Costa and Arina Favilla explore how deviations from general diving patterns in marine mammals provide insight into the importance of ecological context
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/20/jeb245832/333475
In their Commentary article, Yangfan Zhang & George Lauder discuss how little we know about the energetic cost of moving as a group compared with that of solitary locomotion, given that moving in flocks, shoals and herds is ubiquitous among vertebrates
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/20/jeb245617/334300
Funded places for early-career researchers at our Workshop 'Vision 2024: Building Bridges in Visual Ecology' organised by Eleanor Caves, Sonke Johnsen & Lorian Schweikert
Apply to attend by 1 December at
https://biologists.com/workshops/june-2024/
October marks the publication of the first issue of JEB in 1923 and we've been celebrating our centenary all year - but celebrations are always better with cake.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/100
Emily Hardison reports on Korbinian Pacher & co's recent bioRxiv preprint showing that sulphur mollies and widemouth gambusia that survive in sulphur-rich hot springs in Mexico with little to no oxygen are living on the edge; they won't cope if it gets any hotter
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/19/JEB245028/330705
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