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Figure 5. A in Defensive behaviour of a moth (Crambidae: Eoophyla sp.) that mimics jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in tropical India

Figure 5. A, Composite image showing four successive positions (1-4) occupied by a female Plexippus paykulli on a vertical wall, near a stationary Eoophyla that was displaying its hindwings. Initially (1-2) this spider fed on a captured moth, but about 2 minutes later (3-4) it approached the Eoophyla from above. B, Detail of inset from (a).

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Figure 3. A in Defensive behaviour of a moth (Crambidae: Eoophyla sp.) that mimics jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in tropical India

Figure 3. A spider' view of a Eoophyla with elevated hindwings, from the front (A), and from a more lateral position (B-C). BC, Note that, with more direct illumination (C), reflection in the "eyes" of the salticid image on the hindwing can be seen.

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Figure 2 in Defensive behaviour of a moth (Crambidae: Eoophyla sp.) that mimics jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in tropical India

Figure 2. Eoophyla before (A) and after (B) raising its hindwings to display the image of a salticid in two directions, on a vertical wall.

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Chemosensory behaviour of juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars (Acanthaster sp.), attraction to algal and coral food, and avoidance of adult conspecifics

Intraspecific and habitat-mediated responses to chemical cues play key roles in structuring populations of marine species. We investigated the behaviour of herbivorous-stage juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars (COTS: Acanthaster sp.) in flow-through choice chambers to determine if chemical cues from their habitat influence movement and their transition to becoming coral predators. Juveniles at the diet transition stage were exposed to cues from their nursery habitat (coral rubble-crustose coralline algae -CCA), live coral, and adult COTS to determine if waterborne cues influence movement. In response to CCA and coral as sole cues juveniles moved toward the cue source and when these cues were presented in combination, they exhibited a preference for coral. Juveniles moved away from adult COTS cues. Exposure to food cues (coral, CCA) in the presence of adult cues resulted in variable responses. Our results suggest a feedback mechanism whereby juvenile behaviour is mediated by adult chemical cues. Cues from the adult population may deter juveniles from the switch to corallivory. As outbreaks wane, juveniles released from competition may serve as a proximate source of outbreaks, supporting the juveniles-in-waiting hypothesis. The accumulation of juveniles within the reef infrastructure is an underappreciated potential source of COTS outbreaks that devastate coral reefs.

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Data supporting: Molecular, behavioural and morphological comparisons of sperm adaptations in a fish with alternative mating tactics

In species with alternative reproductive tactics, there is much empirical support that sneaker males have larger testes size and greater sperm numbers. However, support for higher sperm performance by sneakers is inconsistent. We used the sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus) to test whether sperm performance differed between breeding-coloured males (small testes, but large mucus-filled sperm-duct glands; builds a nest lined with a sperm-containing mucus, provides care) and sneaker-morph males (no breeding colouration, large testes, rudimentary sperm-duct glands; no nest, no care). We compared motility (proportion motile sperm), velocity and longevity of sperm, between the two morphs. Furthermore, we compared gene expression of testes, and tested if the sperm-duct gland contents affected sperm performance, and if sperm morphometrics differed between male morphs. We found a clear difference in gene expression of testes between the male morphs with 109 transcripts differentially expressed between the morphs. Notably, several mucin genes were upregulated in breeding-coloured males and two ATP-related genes were upregulated in sneaker-morph males. There was some evidence of higher sperm velocity in sneaker-morph males, but no difference in sperm motility. Presence of the sperm-duct gland contents significantly increased sperm velocity, but equally so for the two morphs. The same was true for sperm motility although the difference was not significant. The sand goby has remarkably long-lived sperm, with only small or no decline in motility and velocity over time (5 min vs. 22 hours), but again, this was equally true for both morphs. Sperm length (head, tail, total) did not differ between morphs, and did not correlate with sperm velocity for either morph. Thus, other than a clear difference in testes gene expression, we found only modest differences between the two male morphs, confirming previous findings that high sperm performance as an adaptation to sperm competition is not a primary target of evolution.

Figure 5 in Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part II: Natural history: morphology, ecology, and behaviour, with accounts of larval ecology and insights into the aphytophagous C. dicksoni (Gabriel)

Figure 5 – Obscure iridescent scales of C. amatola stat. nov. (left) and C. aridus (right).

Figure 2 – C. t in Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part II: Natural history: morphology, ecology, and behaviour, with accounts of larval ecology and insights into the aphytophagous C. dicksoni (Gabriel)

Figure 2 – C. t. thysbe aedeagus: (a) lateral view, (b) with vesica everted, (c) dorsal view.

Figure 6 – A in Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part II: Natural history: morphology, ecology, and behaviour, with accounts of larval ecology and insights into the aphytophagous C. dicksoni (Gabriel)

Figure 6 – A common posture of C. thysbe psyche male (Kotzesrus).

Figure 12 in Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part II: Natural history: morphology, ecology, and behaviour, with accounts of larval ecology and insights into the aphytophagous C. dicksoni (Gabriel)

Figure 12 – Silken refuge of C. perseus larva.

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Supplementary material - Comparison of electrified vertical trash racks – electric field and effects on species-specific fish behaviours

Videos_Rack_Interactions - Compiled videos consisting of all individual rack interactions observed for the tested configurations. Among the exploratory setups, only increasing voltages for chub with PW = 1 ms, f = 10Hz were included.      Data.xlsm- Excel document containing the following sheets: <ul> <li>Fish - Length, Height and catch date of the tested Eel, Brown Trout and Chub</li> <li>Experiments - Summary table which configuration and species was tested on which date. </li> <li>Setups - Overview of the tested setups and naming convention used in the paper (C1- C7) compared to the convention used in the dataset (R12 - R28) </li> <li>Results - Results of the experiments. Each experiment consists of three lines (three fish). For each fish, the tested configuration, lengt and height, catch date as well as reaction to the bar rack ( bypass without rack contact, bypass with rack contact, refusal and rack passage) are detailed. </li> <li>Results (Filtered) - Sheet results without formatting and without invalid experiments. </li> <li>TIme to reaction - Additional evaluation how much time fish spent in the experiment on average after the starting compartment was opened until a firsts interaction with the rack or bypass passage was observed.  </li> </ul>

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Data: Another Simple Test for the Presence of Multidomain Behaviour During Palaeointensity Experiments

SD_thresh_Out.csv - Data generated from simulations of IZZI protocol palaeointensity experiments.  The simulations were run with single domain type behaviour.  Naming conventions for parameters are similar to those found on the Standard Paleointensity Definitions website (https://earthref.org/PmagPy/SPD/home.html). MD_thresh_Out.csv - Data generated from simulations of IZZI protocol palaeointensity experiments.  The simulations were run with multi-domain type behaviour.  Naming conventions for parameters are similar to those found on the Standard Palaeointensity Definitions website (https://earthref.org/PmagPy/SPD/home.html). AraiPlot_XY_HighMD.txt - The X and Y co-ordinate points for a simulated Arai plot with a high degree of non-ideal behaviour. parameter_noise_data.csv - Zig-Zag parameters calculated for a single Arai Plot with varying amounts of noise added.  The noise is sampled from a gaussian distribution with variances taken from <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GC004046">https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GC004046</a>.  The parameters broad_noise_TRM/NRM and narrow_noise_TRM/NRM give the noise applied to the x and y points,  broad and narrow denote the type of unblocking behaviour. The x and y points for the original Arai plot are given in x/y_noise_free.  The zig-zag statistics for the original Arai plot are given by parameters {statistic}_orig.  The suffix is then changed to denote whether the statistic was calculated with broad or narrow blocking noise applied.  The additional suffix _norm indicates that the value has been normalised by {statistic}_orig.  zigzag_delta.csv - Contains zig-zag statistics calculated for a straigth Arai plot, which is then incrementally given a zig-zag by displacing points perpendicularly to the oringal Arai plot.  X and Y points are given along with the amount of displacement (delta) and the zig-zag statistics. CurvatureData.csv - Contains zig-zag statistics calculated for an increasingly curved Arai plot with no zig-zag present.  The Arai plot points, zig-zag statistics and the curvature are included. ExperimentalData.csv - Selected statistics for experimental data where the expected field is known.  Includes the accuracy, natural log of the accuray (Acc), basic selection statistics and zig-zag selection statistics.

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Mouse CA1 Calcium Imaging and Behavioural Dataset in 3x3 Geometric Morph Paradigm

The following dataset was collected by Dr. J. Quinn Lee, Dr. Alexandra T. Keinath, and Erica Cianfarano in the laboratory of Dr. Mark P. Brandon. All methods and details are described in the original research article reporting these data published in Neuron: Lee, Keinath, Cianfarano, and Brandon (2025) Identifying representational structure in CA1 to benchmark theoretical models of cognitive mapping. Any use of the following dataset must cite the original publication in Neuron. The code base to reproduce all analyses and figures can be found at: <a href="https://github.com/jquinnlee/georepca1">https://github.com/jquinnlee/georepca1</a> The dataset (Python joblib files or MATLAB .mat files in the zipped "data" folder) are given names of animal IDs from the original study that can be downloaded from Zenodo and contain the following fields in each file: SFPs: spatial footprints (also known as ROI) for every registered cell, centered over each cell. Shape - Dimx, dimy, number of SFPs (ROIs), number of days. If cell is not registered it will be nan along dimx and dimy for a given day. blocked: location of blocked (occluded) partitions in 3x3 design of environment. Location of partitions are shown in paper, but are organized in the following way – [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8]]. If no partitions are blocked, value is -1. centroids: centroid of spatial footprint. Shape – number of cells, x-y location, number of days. envs: environment shape identified with string name maps: three types of maps generated from the dataset. “sampling” is the occupancy of animal in each spatial bin, shape – xbins, ybins, number of days. “smoothed” is the event rate map smoothed with 2.5 cm gaussian kernel, shape – xbins, ybins, number of cells, number of days. “unsmoothed” is the same event rate map data without smoothing. position: x-y position data for all days. List shape number of days, with shape on each day indicating x-y position in first dimension, and number of temporal bins / frames in second dimension. trace: rise-extracted calcium traces, where “1” indicates a significant event. See paper for details on processing pipeline. If cell is not registered on given day, will appear as nan the same shape. Precomputed results can also be downloaded in the zipped "results" folder to avoid recomputing main results from scratch using the Github code base linked above.

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Supplementary material S8: Mite jolting behaviour percentages observed in the full collection of individuals.

Pie charts demonstrating the percentage of mite individuals observed jolting (left chart) and their longest jolting time durations (right chart). Percentages have been rounded to the nearest 10.

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Code for "The significant role of post-pairing male behaviour on the evolution of male preferences and female traits"

This project page archives Mathematica code to replicate the analyses and figures of "The significant role of post-pairing male behaviour on the evolution of male preferences and female traits" by Nan Lyu, D. Justin Yeh, Huw Lloyd, and Yue-Hua Sun appearing in Communications Biology. All figures from the manuscript (and its supplement) can be obtained by running the code.

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Data repository for "Lockdown impact on age-specific contact patterns and behaviours, France, April 2020"

Aggregated contact matrices associated with the publication "Lockdown impact on age-specific contact patterns and behaviours, France, April 2020" .

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Data from: Courtship behaviour, nesting microhabitat and assortative mating in sympatric stickleback species-pairs

The maintenance of reproductive isolation in the face of gene-flow is a particularly contentious topic, but differences in reproductive behaviour may provide the key to explaining this phenomenon. However, we do not yet fully understand how behaviour contributes to maintaining species boundaries. How important are behavioural differences during reproduction? To what extent does assortative mating maintain reproductive isolation in recently diverged populations and how important are 'magic traits'? Assortative mating can arise as a by-product of accumulated differences between divergent populations as well as an adaptive response to contact between those populations, but this is often overlooked. Here we address these questions using recently described species-pairs of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), from two separate locations and a phenotypically intermediate allopatric population on the island of North Uist, Scottish Western Isles. We identified stark differences in the preferred nesting substrate, and courtship behaviour of species-pair males. We showed that all males selectively court females of their own ecotype and all females prefer males of the same ecotype, regardless of whether they are from species-pairs or allopatric populations. We also showed that mate choice does not appear to be driven by body-size differences (a potential 'magic trait'). By explicitly comparing the strength of these mating preferences between species-pairs and single-ecotype locations we were able to show that present levels of assortative mating due to direct mate choice are likely a by-product of other adaptations between ecotypes, and not subject to obvious selection in species-pairs. Our results suggest that ecological divergence in mating characteristics, particularly nesting microhabitat may be more important than direct mate choice in maintaining reproductive isolation in stickleback species-pairs.

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Phototaxic Behaviour of Flies with and without an ectoparasitic mite

First, we demonstrated that flies are less likely to be infected by mites when exposed in light environments than dark environments using micro-arena experiments. In baseline conditions (mite-free environments), unmated female flies and mated female flies spent significantly more time in the dark side of the phototaxis chambers. Males did not show significant negative or positive phototaxis. Contrarily, when exposed to mites, neither unmated or mated females displayed significant phototaxis. Flies became less negatively phototaxic when threatened with mites, suggesting phototaxis is a mechanism of behavioural immunity.

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Dataset for "Ancient whale rhodopsin reconstructs dim-light vision over a major evolutionary transition: Implications for ancestral diving behaviour"

Dataset files include: - Alignment of rhodopsin (Rh1) sequences formatted for PAML - Corresponding species tree in Newick format for PAML - Ancestral Rh1 amino acid sequences (for Cetacean and Whippomorpha nodes) estimated with PAML (random sites, clade, and amino acid models), Datamonkey, and ProtASR

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Data for the article entitled "ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CORRELATES, AND ENERGETIC CONSEQUENCES OF FITNESS MAXIMISATION ON DIFFERENT MIGRATORY BEHAVIOURS IN A LONG-LIVED SCAVENGER"

Data used in the statistical analyses of the article entitled "ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CORRELATES, AND ENERGETIC CONSEQUENCES OF FITNESS MAXIMISATION ON DIFFERENT MIGRATORY BEHAVIOURS IN A LONG-LIVED SCAVENGER"