Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth

SC Davidson, F Cagnacci, P Newman… - Nature Ecology & …, 2025 - nature.com
Rapid growth in bio-logging—the use of animal-borne electronic tags to document the
movements, behaviour, physiology and environments of wildlife—offers opportunities to …

A fast, reproducible, high-throughput variant calling workflow for population genomics

CD Mirchandani, AJ Shultz… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The increasing availability of genomic resequencing data sets and high-quality reference
genomes across the tree of life present exciting opportunities for comparative population …

Learning shapes the development of migratory behavior

EO Aikens, E Nourani, W Fiedler… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
How animals refine migratory behavior over their lifetime (ie, the ontogeny of migration) is an
enduring question with important implications for predicting the adaptive capacity of …

Paternal transmission of migration knowledge in a long-distance bird migrant

P Byholm, M Beal, N Isaksson, U Lötberg… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
While advances in biologging have revealed many spectacular animal migrations, it remains
poorly understood how young animals learn to migrate. Even in social species, it is unclear …

Origin stories: how does learned migratory behaviour arise in populations?

J Fugate, C Wallace, EO Aikens, B Jesmer… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Although decades of research have deepened our understanding of the proximate triggers
and ultimate drivers of migrations for a range of taxa, how populations establish migrations …

The genomic history and global migration of a windborne pest

QL Hu, JC Zhuo, GQ Fang, JB Lu, YX Ye, DT Li… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Many insect pests, including the brown planthopper (BPH), undergo windborne migration
that is challenging to observe and track. It remains controversial about their migration …

Adaptive evolution to the natural and anthropogenic environment in a global invasive crop pest, the cotton bollworm

M Jin, HL North, Y Peng, H Liu, B Liu, R Pan, Y Zhou… - The Innovation, 2023 - cell.com
The cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, is set to become the most economically
devastating crop pest in the world, threatening food security and biosafety as its range …

Arctic introgression and chromatin regulation facilitated rapid Qinghai-Tibet Plateau colonization by an avian predator

L Hu, J Long, Y Lin, Z Gu, H Su, X Dong, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), possesses a climate as cold as that of the Arctic,
and also presents uniquely low oxygen concentrations and intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation …

Phylogenomic insights into the polyphyletic nature of Altai falcons within eastern sakers (Falco cherrug) and the origins of gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus)

L Zinevich, M Prommer, L Laczkó, D Rozhkova… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Altai falcon from Central Asia always attracted the attention of humans. Long
considered a totemic bird in its native area, modern falconers still much appreciated this …

Birds use individually consistent temperature cues to time their migration departure

RJ Burnside, D Salliss, NJ Collar… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
A fundamental issue in migration biology is how birds decide when to start their journey,
given that arriving too early or too late in a variable environment reduces individual fitness …