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Cover: An Australian brush-turkey male pictured at his mound. Males build these moist mountains of decomposing plant matter, where females lay their eggs if the internal temperature is suitable for embryonic development. Despite being incubated among compost, these eggs rarely become infected. D’Alba et al. (pp. 1116−1121) investigated the mechanisms that prevent egg infection and showed that the eggshell surface stops bacteria from attaching and lowers opportunities for growth and penetration. This study provides insight into how organisms prevent bacterial growth and potentially microbial infection without the use of chemicals, suggesting a new method for prevention of fouling on surfaces. Photo credit: Liliana D’Alba.Close Modal - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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In the field: an interview with Martha Muñoz

Martha Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, investigating the evolutionary biology of anole lizards and lungless salamanders. In our new Conversation, she talks about her fieldwork in Indonesia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and the Appalachian Mountains, including a death-defying dash to the top of a mountain through an approaching hurricane.
Call for new preLighters
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preLights is the preprint highlighting community supported by The Company of Biologists. At the heart of preLights are our preLighters: early-career researchers who select and write about interesting new preprints for the research community. We are currently looking for new preLighters to join our team. Find out more and apply here.
Graham Scott in conversation with Big Biology

Graham Scott talks to Big Biology about the oxygen cascade in mice living on mountaintops, extreme environments for such small organisms. In this JEB-sponsored episode, they discuss the concept of symmorphosis and the evolution of the oxygen cascade.
Trap-jaw ants coordinate tendon and exoskeleton for perfect mandible arc
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Trap-jaw ants run the risk of tearing themselves apart when they fire off their mandibles, but Greg Sutton & co have discovered that the ants simultaneously push and pull the mandibles using energy stored in a head tendon and their exoskeleton to drive the jaws in a perfect arc.
Hearing without a tympanic ear
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In their Review, Grace Capshaw, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard and Catherine Carr explore the mechanisms of hearing in extant atympanate vertebrates and the implications for the early evolution of tympanate hearing.