Ecology

Population size estimation when multiple samples carrying the risk of misidentification are taken within the same capture occasion from the same individual

1. Remi Fraysse
2. Remi Choquet
3. Roger Pradel

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Seasonal variation in insect assemblages at flowers of Balanites aegyptiaca, an ecologically and socially important tree species in the Ferlo region of Senegal’s Great Green Wall corridor

1. Natalia Medina-Serrano
2. Anne-Geneviève Bagnères
3. Mouhamadou Moustapha Ndiaye
4. Valentin Vrecko
5. Doyle McKey
6. Martine Hossaert-McKey

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data

1. Sadie J. Ryan
2. Paul J. Huxley
3. Catherine A. Lippi
4. Samraat Pawar
5. Lauren Cator
6. Samuel S.C. Rund
7. Leah R. Johnson

Reviewed by GigaScience

Are all waterholes equal from a lion’s view? Exploring the role of prey abundance and catchability in waterhole visitation patterns in a savannah ecosystem

1. Romain Dejeante
2. Andrew J. Loveridge
3. David W. Macdonald
4. Daphine Madhlamoto
5. Simon Chamaillé-Jammes
6. Marion Valeix

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Climate warming and urbanization may expand dengue transmission risk in California

1. Lisa I. Couper
2. Terrell J Sipin
3. Samantha Sambado
4. Zoe Rennie
5. Kyle M. Shanebeck
6. Kelsey P. Lyberger
7. Philip P.A. Collender
8. Van Ngo
9. Justin V. Remais
10. Andrew J. MacDonald

Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, PREreview

Cardenolide toxin diversity impacts monarch butterfly growth and sequestration

1. Anurag A Agrawal
2. Amy P Hastings
3. Paola Rubiano-Buitrago

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This important study investigates how structurally diverse cardenolide toxins in tropical milkweed, especially mixtures containing nitrogen- and sulfur-containing variants, influence monarch caterpillar feeding, growth, and toxin sequestration. The experiments provide solid evidence that chemical diversity within a single group of plant toxins can have combined effects on even highly specialized herbivores that differ from the effects of each toxin alone. However, as the mixture design does not fully separate true diversity effects from the influence of the N,S-cardenolides themselves and the ecological basis for the chosen natural ratios remains weakly justified. As a result, the broader conclusions would require more fully justified concentration regimes, mixture treatments that exclude N,S-cardenolides, and tests on living plants and non-adapted herbivores to firmly support the proposed coevolutionary interpretation.

Reviewed by eLife

Spatial signature of resource distribution is mediated by consumer body size and habitat preference

1. Chelsea J. Little
2. Pierre Etienne Banville
3. Adam T. Ford
4. Rachel M. Germain

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Rift Valley fever virus dynamics in a transhumant cattle system in The Gambia

1. Essa Jarra
2. Divine Ekwem
3. Sarah Cleaveland
4. Daniel T Haydon

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This modelling study tests several hypotheses describing how seasonality and migration drive the epidemiology of Rift Valley Fever Virus among transhumant cattle in The Gambia. The work is methodologically solid, and the findings offer valuable insights into how the movement of cattle in and out of the Gambia River and Sahel ecoregions could lead to source-sink transmission dynamics among cattle subpopulations, sustaining endemic transmission.

Reviewed by eLife

The urban tree of life: quantifying relationships between body size and urban tolerance for more than 30,000 plant and animal species

1. Corey T Callaghan
2. Diana E Bowler
3. Vaughn Shirey
4. Brittany M Mason
5. Laura H Antão
6. Ingmar Staude
7. John H Wilshire
8. Thomas Merckx

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This study provides an important assessment of how body size influences the occurrence of macro-organisms in urban areas across the globe. Size in most plants, but only some animal families, was positively associated with urban tolerance. The data set is impressive, but the evidence for broad-scale conclusions is incomplete due to methodological issues that need to be resolved.

Reviewed by eLife

RETRACTED: Exogenous myristate fuels the growth of symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi but disrupts their carbon-phosphorus exchange with host plants

1. Hanwen Chen
2. Tian Xiong
3. Baoxing Guan
4. Jiaqi Huang
5. Danrui Zhao
6. Yao Chen
7. Haoran Liang
8. Yingwei Li
9. Jingwen Wu
10. Shaoping Ye
11. Ting Li
12. Wensheng Shu
13. Jin-tian Li
14. Yutao Wang

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This study provides important evidence that myristate, a fatty acid commonly present in soil environments, is taken up by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi during symbiosis with a plant host. The evidence presented is solid, with multiple experimental approaches including stable isotope tracing, transcriptional analysis, and physiological measurements across different plant species and phosphorus conditions. However, the main claims are only partially supported.

Reviewed by eLife