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Special Feature: The other 1%: Showcasing science and scientists from the Global South and indigenous communities

The other 1%: Showcasing science and scientists from the Global South and indigenous communities. Guest edited by Sarah Brosnan, Stephanie Meirmans, Maurine Neiman, Guadalupe Peralta and Shalene Singh-Shepherd.

Felid distributions in the Southern Yungas: enhancing species distribution models with field data

Griet An Erica Cuyckens; Pablo Gaston Perovic; Marcelo F. Tognelli; L. R. Malizia
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20252575. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2575

Behaviour

Limits to behavioural plasticity in tropical paper wasps

Emily F. Bell; Christopher D. R. Wyatt; Daisy Taylor; Andrew N. Radford; Seirian Sumner
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260252. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0252

Us against them: oxytocin response to competition in a small-scale human society

Charlotte C. C. Debras; Abigail E. Colby; Jordan S. Martin; Valerie Baettig; Dominik Jud; Arnulfo Cari Ista; Lorgio Canchi Tayo; Benjamin Trumble; Camila Scaff; Adrian V. Jaeggi
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260242. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0242

Heat stress disrupts maternal care through independent effects on mothers and eggs

Alice Roux; Elfie Perdereau; Irene Villalta; Joël Meunier
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260026. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0026

Biological applications

Do distinct subpopulations signify modes of behaviour in a noisy single cell?

James Holehouse
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260134. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0134

Ecology

Predator cue detection in Daphnia involves ionotropic receptors IR25a and IR93a

Annette Graeve; Joshua Huster; Julia Mayweg; Ronja Fiedler; Jana Plaßmann; Deria Görl; Alina Keilmann; Simon Alev; Petra Wahle; Linda C. Weiss
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20253283. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.3283

Evolution

Heritable transgenerational fitness variation correlates with copper resistance in the clonal duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza

Alexandra Chávez; Martin Schäfer; Iris Finkemeier; Shuqing Xu; Meret Huber
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20253304. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.3304

Geographic divergence in population genomics and shell morphology reveal history of glacial refugia in a coastal dogwhelk

Emily K. Longman; Joaquin C. B. Nunez; Eric Sanford; Melissa H. Pespeni
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20253148. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.3148

Dispersal evolution in a population infected with a male-killing endosymbiont

Franziska A. Brenninger; Simon H. Martin; Hanna Kokko
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260004. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0004

Repeated evolutionary turnover of vertebrate skeletal muscle myosins

Christina M. Harvey; Eric R. Schuppe; Michael S. Brainard; Matthew J. Fuxjager; James B. Pease
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260254. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0254

The ray-finned fish blackbox: unprecedented morphological diversity and the interplay between brain and endocast

Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa; Stephanie E. Pierce
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20253277. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.3277

Inbreeding depression in morphological and growth traits of wild barn owls (Tyto alba)

Anna Hewett; Eléonore Lavanchy; Alexandros Topaloudis; Tristan Cumer; Anne-Lyse Ducrest; Céline Simon; Bettina Almasi; Alexandre Roulin; Jérôme Goudet
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20252708. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2708

Morphology and biomechanics

Mechanisms and control of a novel vocalization: the singing mouse song is a whistle that depends on air sac inflation

Samantha Khouri Smith; Jonas Håkansson; Paul W. Frazel; Michael Long; Coen P. H. Elemans; Steven M. Phelps
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260153. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0153

Neuroscience and cognition

Factive mindreading reflects the optimal use of limited cognitive resources

Tadeg Quillien; Max Taylor-Davies
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20251852. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1852

Paleobiology

A marine stem-myriapod from the Silurian Waukesha Lagerstätte, Wisconsin, USA: terrestrial traits pre-date the transition to land

Derek E. G. Briggs; James C. Lamsdell; Joanne Kluessendorf; Donald G. Mikulic
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260131. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0131

A true Luciolinae fossil from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber provides new insights into the early evolution of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

Shuailong Yuan; Haoyu Liu; Sining Lv; Yuxia Yang
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20253316. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.3316

Development and physiology

Life-history strategy mediates the effects of multiple developmental stressors on Australian lizards

Dalton C. Leibold; Pablo Recio; Amelia Y. Peardon; Ondi L. Crino; Christopher Friesen; Daniel W. A. Noble
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2026, Vol.293, 20260243. doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0243