| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier. Christiaan Both, Aleksandr V Artemyev, Bert Blaauw, Richard J Cowie, Aarnoud J Dekhuijzen, Tapio Eeva, Anders Enemar, Lars Gustafsson, Elena V Ivankina, Antero Järvinen, Neil B Metcalfe, N Erik I Nyholm, Jaime Potti, Pierre-Alain Ravussin, Juan Jose Sanz, Bengt Silverin, Fred M Slater, Leonid V Sokolov, János Török, Wolfgang Winkel, Jonathan Wright, Herwig Zang, and Marcel E Visser Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1657–1662. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2770.PMCID: PMC1691776 Concordant evolution of plumage colour, feather microstructure and a melanocortin receptor gene between mainland and island populations of a fairy-wren. S M Doucet, M D Shawkey, M K Rathburn, H L Mays, Jr, and R Montgomerie Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1663–1670. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2779.PMCID: PMC1691780 Early Cambrian sipunculan worms from southwest China. Di-Ying Huang, Jun-Yuan Chen, Jean Vannier, and J I Saiz Salinas Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1671–1676. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2774.PMCID: PMC1691784 Repeated evolution of limblessness and digging heads in worm lizards revealed by DNA from old bones. Maureen Kearney and Bryan L. Stuart Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1677–1683. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2771.PMCID: PMC1691774 Structure of the species--energy relationship. Aletta Bonn, David Storch, and Kevin J Gaston Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1685–1691. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2745.PMCID: PMC1691779 Neocortex size predicts deception rate in primates. Richard W Byrne and Nadia Corp Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1693–1699. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2780.PMCID: PMC1691785 Genome size and extinction risk in vertebrates. Alexander E Vinogradov Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1701–1705. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2776.PMCID: PMC1691778 Residency effects in animal contests. Darrell J Kemp and Christer Wiklund Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1707–1711. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2775.PMCID: PMC1691783 Dynamical mechanisms for skeletal pattern formation in the vertebrate limb. H. G. E. Hentschel, Tilmann Glimm, James A. Glazier, and Stuart A. Newman Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1713–1722. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2772.PMCID: PMC1691788 Facultative adjustment of mammalian sex ratios in support of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis: evidence for a mechanism. Elissa Z. Cameron Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1723–1728. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2773.PMCID: PMC1691777 The phylogeography of salmonid proliferative kidney disease in Europe and North America. Matthew Henderson and Beth Okamura Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1729–1736. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2677.PMCID: PMC1691782 Endosperm triploidy has a selective advantage during ongoing parental conflict by imprinting. J. A. Stewart-Cox, N. F. Britton, and M. Mogie Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1737–1743. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2783.PMCID: PMC1691787 Host location in flow by larvae of the symbiotic barnacle Trevathana dentata using odour-gated rheotaxis. Zohar Pasternak, Bernd Blasius, Yair Achituv, and Avigdor Abelson Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1745–1750. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2765.PMCID: PMC1691775 Multiple infection with Wolbachia inducing different reproductive manipulations in the butterfly Eurema hecabe. Masato Hiroki, Yohsuke Tagami, Kazuki Miura, and Yoshiomi Kato Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1751–1755. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2769.PMCID: PMC1691781 Different algal symbionts explain the vertical distribution of dominant reef corals in the eastern Pacific. R Iglesias-Prieto, V H Beltrán, T C LaJeunesse, H Reyes-Bonilla, and P E Thomé Proc Biol Sci. 2004 August 22; 271(1549): 1757–1763. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2757.PMCID: PMC1691786 |