Biological Reviews

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Capturing wild animal welfare: a physiological perspective	345
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Common mechanisms of physiological and pathological rupture events in biology: novel insights into mammalian ovulation and beyond	173
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Evaluation of physiological stress in free‐ranging bears: current knowledge and future directions	142
Avian colouration in a polluted world: a meta‐analysis	131
Avian adjustments to cold and non‐shivering thermogenesis: whats, wheres and hows	123
Diversity of ‘simple’ multicellular eukaryotes: 45 independent cases and six types of multicellularity	112
Meta‐analyses reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis	111
Comparative gut microbiome research through the lens of ecology: theoretical considerations and best practices	110
Species diversity and interspecific information flow	109
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	107
In search of animal normativity: a framework for studying social norms in non‐human animals	97
Scavenging with invasive species	95
A general framework for modelling trade‐offs in adaptive behaviour	95
Phosphorylation‐mediated signalling in flowering: prospects and retrospects of phosphoproteomics in crops	92
Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition	86
A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology	82
Does the potential strength of sexual selection differ between mating systems with and without defensive behaviours? A meta‐analysis	81
Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene	81
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Heterotrophy in marine animal forests in an era of climate change	77
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The language of light: a review of bioluminescence in deep‐sea decapod shrimps	76
Dissecting calvarial bones and sutures at single‐cell resolution	74
Surviving global change: a review of the impacts of drought and dewatering on freshwater mussels	73
Practical applications of soil microbiota to improve ecosystem restoration: current knowledge and future directions	73
A meta‐analysis on alternative mating tactics: when the main and the alternative yield similar reproductive success	71
Egg coverings in insects: ecological adaptation to abiotic and biotic selective pressures	70
Mate assessment based on physical characteristics: a review and reflection	70
Non‐verbal effecting – animal research sheds light on human emotion communication	69
Shedding light on biodiversity: reviewing existing knowledge and exploring hypothesised impacts of agrophotovoltaics	69
Testosterone mediates life‐history trade‐offs in female mammals	68
Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination	68
Social pressure drives “conversational rules” in great apes	66
Monsters reveal patterns: bifurcated annelids and their implications for the study of development and evolution	65
Feather function and the evolution of birds	63
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	63
Corrigendum to ‘A review of predation as a limiting factor for bird populations in mesopredator‐rich landscapes: a case study of the UK’, published in Biological Reviews 93, p	62
The persistence and evolutionary consequences of vestigial behaviours	62
Moments of weaknesses – exploiting vulnerabilities between germination and encystment in the Phytomyxea	62
Patterns of variation in fleshy diaspore size and abundance from Late Triassic–Oligocene	59
The moulting arthropod: a complete genetic toolkit review	59
Integrating microbiome science and evolutionary medicine into animal health and conservation	58
The challenging biogeography of the Juan Fernández Islands and Coast Range of central Chile explained by new models of East Pacific tectonics	58
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Beringia as a high‐latitude engine of avian speciation	55
Antipredator defences in motion: animals reduce predation risks by concealing or misleading motion signals	55
Lessons from the deep: mechanisms behind diversification of eukaryotic protein complexes	53
The rise of hyperabundant native generalists threatens both humans and nature	52
The impact of environmental and social factors on learning abilities: a meta‐analysis	52
Facing the facts: adaptive trade‐offs along body size ranges determine mammalian craniofacial scaling	51
Hydrodynamics in early animal evolution	51
Male alternative reproductive tactics and sperm competition: a meta‐analysis	51
Prey specificity of predatory venoms	51
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	50
Sophistication in a seemingly simple creature: a review of wild holothurian nutrition in marine ecosystems	50
Trade‐offs in carbon‐degrading enzyme activities limit long‐term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition	50
Exploring the causes and consequences of cooperative behaviour in wild animal populations using a social network approach	49
Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late‐Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere	49
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	48
Systematic review of avian hatching failure and implications for conservation	48
Trade‐off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions	47
Evolution of parasites in the Anthropocene: new pressures, new adaptive directions	47
The integrative biology of genetic dominance	47
Hybridization in the Anthropocene – how pollution and climate change disrupt mate selection in freshwater fish	47
Unlocking the multifaceted molecular functions and diverse disease implications of lactylation	46
The behavioural ecology of marine cleaning mutualisms	45
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels	44
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis	44
How plants affect amphibian populations	43
A method for assessing sustainability, with beef production as an example	43

Odorant‐binding proteins of mammals	42
Extreme weather events threaten biodiversity and functions of river ecosystems: evidence from a meta‐analysis	42
A pan‐metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape	41
Archaeocytes in sponges: simple cells of complicated fate	41
Sex roles and sex ratios in animals	41
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	40
Unveiling the resistance of native weed communities: insights for managing invasive weed species in disturbed environments	40
Global impacts of exotic eucalypt plantations on wildlife	39
Evolutionary formation of melatonin and vitamin D in early life forms: insects take centre stage	38
Cloning in action: can embryo splitting, induced pluripotency and somatic cell nuclear transfer contribute to endangered species conservation?	38
The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet	38
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	37
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	37
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	36
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	35
Demographic effects of road mortality on mammalian populations: a systematic review	35
Conformity in mate choice, the overlooked social component of animal and human culture	35
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Fungal endophytes can modulate plant invasion	34
Impacts of volcanic eruptions and early recovery in freshwater environments and organisms	34
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Trans‐generational immune priming is not mediated by the sex of the parent primed: a meta‐analysis of invertebrate data	33
The ecology of sleep in non‐avian reptiles	33
A multifaceted framework to establish the presence of meaning in non‐human communication	32
Insect immunity in the Anthropocene	32
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Diatom triacylglycerol metabolism: from carbon fixation to lipid droplet degradation	32
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	31
Designing causal mediation analyses to quantify intermediary processes in ecology	31
Plant periderm as a continuum in structural organisation: a tracheophyte‐wide survey and hypotheses on evolution	30
The energetic costs of sub‐lethal helminth parasites in mammals: a meta‐analysis	30
The global genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera reveals the structure of cryptic speciation in plankton	30
Optimism and pessimism: a concept for behavioural ecology	30
The relationship between the secondary vascular system and the lymphatic vascular system in fish	29
Interactions between stoneworts (Charales) and waterbirds	28
Habitat requirements of deadwood‐dependent invertebrates that occupy tree hollows	28
Form and function of anguilliform swimming	28
The fossil record of freshwater Gastropoda – a global review	27
The global regulatory logic of organ regeneration: circuitry lessons from skin and its appendages	27
The effects of ionizing radiation on domestic dogs: a review of the atomic bomb testing era	27
Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms: the case of fungal coexistence	27
Social learning in non‐grouping animals	27
Developmental traits and life strategy of redlichiid trilobites	27
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Social life results in social stress protection: a novel concept to explain individual life‐history patterns in social insects	25
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	25
Animals in flow – towards the scientific study of intrinsic reward in animals	25
The complex role of microbial metabolic activity in fossilization	25
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?	24
Analysis of the genetic loci of pigment pattern evolution in vertebrates	24
Towards a unified approach in managing resistance to vaccines, drugs, and pesticides	24
Epigenetic responses of trees to environmental stress in the context of climate change	24
The origin of great ape gestural forms	23
How life became colourful: colour vision, aposematism, sexual selection, flowers, and fruits	23
Small non‐coding satellite RNAs – the ‘game changers’ at the virus–host plant interaction?	23
Testicular heat stress, a historical perspective and two postulates for why male germ cells are heat sensitive	23
Behavioural differences and similarities between dog breeds: proposing an ecologically valid approach for canine behavioural research	23
The thermal environment as a moderator of social evolution	22
Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline	22
Large mammals and trees in eastern monsoonal China: anthropogenic losses since the Late Pleistocene and restoration prospects in the Anthropocene	22
Quantitative meta‐analysis reveals no association between mercury contamination and body condition in birds	22
Exotic asphyxiation: interactions between invasive species and hypoxia	21
Functional specialisation and coordination of myonuclei	21
Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development	21
Programmed ageing: decline of stem cell renewal, immunosenescence, and Alzheimer's disease	21
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?	20
Critical thermal limits in ants and their implications under climate change	20
Multi‐generational fitness legacies of natural immigration: theoretical and empirical perspectives and opportunities	20
Neutrophil microRNAs	20
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs	19
What do we know about growth of vessel elements of secondary xylem in woody plants?	19
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	19
Circadian orchestration of host and gut microbiota in infection	19
The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis	19
Four errors and a fallacy: pitfalls for the unwary in comparative brain analyses	19
Interspecific interactions disrupted by roads	18

A generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution	18
Biological clocks as age estimation markers in animals: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	18
Ecological integrity of tropical secondary forests: concepts and indicators	18
Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on tropical montane forests: an appraisal of the evidence	17
The ecology of electricity and electroreception	17
The evolution, ecology, and conservation of hummingbirds and their interactions with flowering plants	17
Feedback loops drive ecological succession: towards a unified conceptual framework	17
Ecological responses of squamate reptiles to nocturnal warming	17
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the impacts of nitrogen deposition on producer–consumer interactions	17
The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods	17
The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution	17
Temporal resource partitioning mitigates interspecific competition and promotes coexistence among insect parasites	17
Assembling the Pecos River fish fauna: barrier displacement on the Southern Great Plains, North America	17
Macroevolution of the plant–hummingbird pollination system	16
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	16
Ecological interactions in glacier environments: a review of studies on a model Alpine glacier	16
Soil–plant–gall relationships: from gall development to ecological patterns	16
Sensing for survival: specialised regulatory mechanisms of Type III secretion systems in Gram‐negative pathogens	16
The biology and evolution of spider venoms	16
Tactics of evasion: strategies used by signallers to deter eavesdropping enemies from exploiting communication systems	16
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	16
Evolutionary time and species diversity in aquatic ecosystems worldwide	16
Five decades of misunderstanding in the socialHymenoptera: a review and meta‐analysis ofMichener's paradox	16
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study	15
Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals	15
Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	15
On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea	15
The biomechanics of pollen release: new perspectives on the evolution of wind pollination in angiosperms	15
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	15
Mechanosensing by Piezo1 and its implications for physiology and various pathologies	15
Chasing footprints in time – reframing our understanding of human foot function in the context of current evidence and emerging insights	15
Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review	14
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	14
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae	14
Successional theories	14
A global synthesis of predation on bivalves	14
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	13
False alarms and information transmission in grouping animals	13
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The ephemeral resource patch concept	13
Global meta‐analysis of tree decline impacts on fauna	13
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Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research	13
A conceptual framework to predict social information use based on food ephemerality and individual resource requirements	12
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Adaptation in the face of internal conflict: the paradox of the organism revisited	12
Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd	12
Diversity and function of fluorescent molecules in marine animals	12
The evolution of perennially enlarged breasts in women: a critical review and a novel hypothesis	12
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Demographic and evolutionary consequences of hunting of wild birds	11
Consistent trade‐offs in ecosystem services between land covers with different production intensities	11
Improving zebrafish laboratory welfare and scientific research through understanding their natural history	11
Is self‐awareness necessary to have a theory of mind?	11
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A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)	11
Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods	11
Cathemerality: a key temporal niche	11
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Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land‐use change: impacts on ecosystem services	11
Microbes, metabolites and (synaptic) malleability, oh my! The effect of the microbiome on synaptic plasticity	11
Broad‐scale climate variation drives the dynamics of animal populations: a global multi‐taxa analysis	11
Fluorescent nanoparticles as tools in ecology and physiology	10
Understanding the joint evolution of dispersal and host specialisation using phytophagous arthropods as a model group	10
Perils of ingesting harmful prey by advanced snakes	10
Monitoring the phenology of plant pathogenic fungi: why and how?	10
Understanding the evolution of viviparity using intraspecific variation in reproductive mode and transitional forms of pregnancy	10
What is cooperative breeding in mammals and birds? Removing definitional barriers for comparative research	10
Evolution of the neuronal substrate for kin recognition in social Hymenoptera	10
An integrative approach to assess the impact of disturbance on native fish in lakes	10
The IDIP framework for assessing protein function and its application to the prion protein	10
A review of visualisations of protein fold networks and their relationship with sequence and function	10
The colonisation of Madagascar by land‐bound vertebrates	9
The environment to the rescue: can physics help predict predator–prey interactions?	9
The secretome of Verticillium dahliae in collusion with plant defence responses modulates Verticillium wilt symptoms	9
Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration	9
Turbinal bones are still one of the last frontiers of the tetrapod skull: hypotheses, challenges and perspectives	9
The hidden links between animal weapons, fighting style, and their effect on contest success: a meta‐analysis	9
Synthesis of sexual selection: a systematic map of meta‐analyses with bibliometric analysis	9
Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning – seven hypotheses	9
A systematic review of invasive non‐native freshwater bivalves	9
Life‐history strategies in salmonids: the role of physiology and its consequences	9
The conundrum of pharyngeal teeth origin: the role of germ layers, pouches, and gill slits	9
The effects of invertebrates on wood decomposition across the world	9
On the function and origin of the avian renal portal shunt and its potential significance throughout evolution	9
Animal linguistics: a primer	8
Circadian rhythms and glial cells of the central nervous system	8
Humoral immune responses to AAV gene therapy in the ocular compartment	8
TheABC‐Dof animal linguistics: are syntax and compositionality for real?	8
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions	8
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	8
The phenotypic costs of captivity	8
Carotenoid ornaments and the spandrels of physiology: a critique of theory to explain condition dependency	8