| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Immune function across generations: integrating mechanism and evolutionary process in maternal antibody transmission. Jennifer L Grindstaff, Edmund D Brodie, 3rd, and Ellen D Ketterson Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2309–2319. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2485.PMCID: PMC1691520 Cryptic speciation on the high seas; global phylogenetics of the copepod family Eucalanidae. Erica Goetze Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2321–2331. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2505.PMCID: PMC1691510 Evolution of the olfactory code in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. Marcus C Stensmyr, Teun Dekker, and Bill S Hansson Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2333–2340. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2512.PMCID: PMC1691514 Natural image statistics mediate brightness 'filling in'. Steven C Dakin and Peter J Bex Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2341–2348. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2528.PMCID: PMC1691518 A simple visual system without neurons in jellyfish larvae. Karin Nordström, Rita Wallén, Jamie Seymour, and Dan Nilsson Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2349–2354. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2504.PMCID: PMC1691513 Month of birth predicted reproductive success and fitness in pre-modern Canadian women. Virpi Lummaa and Marc Tremblay Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2355–2361. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2507.PMCID: PMC1691517 Give unto others: genetically unrelated cotton-top tamarin monkeys preferentially give food to those who altruistically give food back. Marc D Hauser, M Keith Chen, Frances Chen, and Emmeline Chuang Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2363–2370. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2509.PMCID: PMC1691522 Reducing a cost of traumatic insemination: female bedbugs evolve a unique organ. Klaus Reinhardt, Richard Naylor, and Michael T Siva-Jothy Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2371–2375. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2515.PMCID: PMC1691512 Costly traumatic insemination and a female counter-adaptation in bed bugs. Edward H Morrow and Göran Arnqvist Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2377–2381. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2514.PMCID: PMC1691516 Slow pace of life in tropical sedentary birds: a common-garden experiment on four stonechat populations from different latitudes. Martin Wikelski, Laura Spinney, Wendy Schelsky, Alexander Scheuerlein, and Eberhard Gwinner Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2383–2388. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2500.PMCID: PMC1691521 Multiple male traits interact: attractive bower decorations facilitate attractive behavioural displays in satin bowerbirds. Gail L Patricelli, J Albert C Uy, and Gerald Borgia Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2389–2395. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2530.PMCID: PMC1691511 Climate variation and regional gradients in population dynamics of two hole-nesting passerines. Bernt-Erik Saether, Steinar Engen, Anders Pape Møller, Erik Matthysen, Frank Adriaensen, Wolfgang Fiedler, Agu Leivits, Marcel M Lambrechts, Marcel E Visser, Tycho Anker-Nilssen, Christiaan Both, André A Dhondt, Robin H McCleery, John McMeeking, Jamie Potti, Ole Wiggo Røstad, and David Thomson Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2397–2404. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2499.PMCID: PMC1691515 Antimicrobial egg cleaning by the fringed darter (Perciformes: Percidae: Etheostoma crossopterum): implications of a novel component of parental care in fishes. Jason H Knouft, Lawrence M Page, and Michael J Plewa Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2405–2411. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2501.PMCID: PMC1691519 Species difference in adaptive use of public information in sticklebacks. Isabelle Coolen, Yfke van Bergen, Rachel L Day, and Kevin N Laland Proc Biol Sci. 2003 November 22; 270(1531): 2413–2419. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2525.PMCID: PMC1691509 |