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Ageing brains, metabolism and sleep
Aging and nutritional stress impacts on cellular processes
Brain and behavioural disfunction in interspecific hybrids, and their role in speciation
Butterfly banks as miniature conservation interventions
Characterising newly discovered neurotransmitter receptors
Community dynamics of soft and hard coral reefs
Convergent evolution of social regurgitation across Hymenoptera
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of early animals
Effects of light microhabitats in shaping species assemblages in tropical forest
Epigenetic mechanism of critical period-plasticity in nervous system development
Evolution of behavioural mechanisms underpinning spatial memory
Evolution of Living Storage – Genomic and Behavioural Analysis of Honeypot Ant Repletism
Extreme chromosomal instability in bivalve transmissible cancers
Fine-scale community ecology of Antarctic benthic communities
Gene family diversification in the black soldier fly
Glial cell evolution during brain expansion
Global content and functional analysis of in vivo macromolecular complexes
Heat stress vulnerability in insects during critical periods of development – understanding mechanisms to find solutions
How effective are current conservation policies at reversing insect decline?
How has the morphology of moths altered in response to anthropogenic change over the past two centuries?
Identifying and characterising novel invertebrate ion channel receptors
Lifespan impacts of metabolic division of labour
Life on the edge: local adaptation and conservation status of butterflies on the Orme
Metabolic regulation of brain development
Movement and connectivity conservation for biodiversity
Phenotypic plasticity of feeding in the leaf-footed bugs
Population genomics of invasive Helicoverpa crop pests
Predicting the Evolution of Influenza
Rare taxa in the early animals of the Ediacaran
Regulation of neuronal plasticity by metabolic reactive oxygen species
Reproductive and dispersal dynamics of early animals of the Ediacaran
Repeated adaptation to altitude in Andean butterflies
Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function
The effects of nutrition on the insect skeleton
The impacts of riparian within oil palm on insect movement and behaviour
The mechanisms underlying colour polymorphisms in trumpetfish
Towards an Integrative Understanding of Animal Weapons
Tracking global progress towards sustainable agriculture that protects biodiversity and enhances natural capital
Tracking the past to predict the future
Translational regulation via bimolecular condensates
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Charles Goodhart: A Twentieth Century Life
Hans Gadow [1855-1928]: Prussian Morphology meets Cambridge Zoology
The Bidders: a Cambridge zoological family.
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Carl Pantin - an enthusiasm for, well, everything
Dame Anne McLaren
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