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Taeniopygia guttata

June 4, 2013

Looking after your partner

‘Sentinel’ behavior (whereby an individual animal assumes a prominent position to scan for predators, whilst others engage in another activity) is an effective strategy amongst species with stable social groups utilizing cooperative and polygynous breeding systems. This study, however, provides strong evidence for such behavior amongst bonded pairs of zebra finches, demonstrating that socially monogamous animals also benefit from sentinel behavior.

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June 4, 2013

What is the “normal” fetal heart rate?

39 citations

2,183 downloads

24,438 views

Stephanie Pildner von Steinburg, Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Christian Lederer, Stefani Grunow, Sven Schiermeier, Wolfgang Hatzmann, Karl-Theodor M. Schneider, Martin Daumer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.82 PubMed 23761161

June 25, 2013

Phylogenetic diversity of plants alters the effect of species richness on invertebrate herbivory

12 citations

712 downloads

4,264 views

Russell Dinnage

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.93 PubMed 23825795

June 11, 2013

Major histocompatibility complex class I evolution in songbirds: universal primers, rapid evolution and base compositional shifts in exon 3

26 citations

892 downloads

3,931 views

Miguel Alcaide, Mark Liu, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.86 PubMed 23781408

June 11, 2013

Molecular modeling and pharmacophore elucidation study of the Classical Swine Fever virus helicase as a promising pharmacological target

7 citations

924 downloads

3,658 views

Dimitrios Vlachakis, Sophia Kossida

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.85 PubMed 23781407

June 4, 2013

Looking after your partner: sentinel behaviour in a socially monogamous bird

20 citations

674 downloads

3,222 views

Mark C. Mainwaring, Simon C. Griffith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.83 PubMed 23761856

June 25, 2013

Non-pneumococcal mitis-group streptococci confound detection of pneumococcal capsular serotype-specific loci in upper respiratory tract

62 citations

699 downloads

3,046 views

Maria da Gloria Carvalho, Fabiana C. Pimenta, Iaci Moura, Alexis Roundtree, Robert E. Gertz, Zhongya Li, Geofrey Jagero, Godfrey Bigogo, Muthoni Junghae, Laura Conklin, Daniel R. Feikin, Robert F. Breiman, Cynthia G. Whitney, Bernard W. Beall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.97 PubMed 23825797

June 25, 2013

PTree: pattern-based, stochastic search for maximum parsimony phylogenies

3 citations

804 downloads

2,951 views

Ivan Gregor, Lars Steinbrück, Alice C. McHardy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.89 PubMed 23825794

June 18, 2013

Qualitative community stability determines parasite establishment and richness in estuarine marshes

3 citations

531 downloads