Population divergence in maternal investment and embryo energy use and allocation suggests adaptive responses to cool climates.

The thermal sensitivity of early life stages can play a fundamental role in constraining species distributions. For egg-laying ectotherms, cool temperatures often extend development time and exacerbate developmental energy cost. Despite these costs, egg laying is still observed at high latitudes and altitudes.

Climate Shapes the Geographic Distribution and Introgressive Spread of Color Ornamentation in Common Wall Lizards.

AbstractClimate can exert an effect on the strength of sexual selection, but empirical evidence is limited. Here, we tested whether climate predicts the geographic distribution and introgressive spread of sexually selected male color ornamentation across 114 populations of the common wall lizard, . Coloration was highly structured across the landscape and did not reflect genetic differentiation.

Cognitive biases are associated with clinical and functional variables in psychosis: A comparison across schizophrenia, early psychosis and healthy individuals.

Objective: We investigated the presence of cognitive biases in people with a recent-onset psychosis (ROP), schizophrenia and healthy adolescents and explored potential associations between these biases and psychopathology.

Methods: Three groups were studied: schizophrenia (N=63), ROP (N=43) and healthy adolescents (N=45). Cognitive biases were assessed with the Cognitive Biases Questionnaire for Psychosis (CBQ).

Improvement in cognitive biases after group psychoeducation and metacognitive training in recent-onset psychosis: A randomized crossover clinical trial.

Metacognitive training (MCT) improves cognitive biases in psychosis. We aimed to explore whether the effectiveness of the combination of psychoeducation and MCT group treatments on cognitive biases differed if the combination was started by psychoeducation or by MCT. Fourty-nine stable patients with a recent-onset psychosis were randomized to two different sequences: MCT + psychoeducation vs psychoeducation + MCT.

Sexually antagonistic selection on genetic variation underlying both male and female same-sex sexual behavior.

Background: Intralocus sexual conflict, arising from selection for different alleles at the same locus in males and females, imposes a constraint on sex-specific adaptation. Intralocus sexual conflict can be alleviated by the evolution of sex-limited genetic architectures and phenotypic expression, but pleiotropic constraints may hinder this process. Here, we explored putative intralocus sexual conflict and genetic (co)variance in a poorly understood behavior with near male-limited expression.