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Stiirtz AG, Wiirzburg, Germany. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999 Contents of Volume 45 1999 No. | pp published 14 Janua No published No published No published No published Adams ES, Balas MT Worker discr imina- tion among queens in newly fi yunde c. oionie1es OF f ttnhee ffiirree to 330 Agrawal AA, Dubin- duc responses | to he rbivory in the Neotrop1 cal a nt-plant assocls between Azk ants and Ceci opia trees: response of ants H to potential inducing cues 47 rP Hunt Andersen R — Hewison AJM Sseiqul D, Mart Anderson DJ I ougheed LW Ceb allos , Wingfield IC \yasse M, Engels W, Liibke G, Taghizadeh M,. Hiraldo f [, Francke W: Mating expenditures re- associated competitive duced via female sex pheromone m odula- tries On [ora ging roup str ucture tion in the primitively eusocial halictine distribution in Ande bee. Lasioglossi un (Evylae is) mal (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) 95 Balas M1 dams ES brood. Banschbach VS > Herbers JM .I7 Bart J, Earnst SI Relative importance of male and territory quality in oo nigan (Lagop success of male rock ptar1 mutus) 384 Bee MA, Perrill SA Owen PC e assessment In simt lated territorial en counters between pai aiden fro gs (Rai ice O| p clamit n} s) “| FF strategy ol Beissinger SR Siegel RB (Reptilia Bergeron J-M Berteaux D Berteaux D, Bety J, Rengifo E, Bergero -M: Multiple paternity in me -adow voles (Microtus penns\ lvanicus) investigating the role of the female 283 Béety J Berteaux D erguson MM McLi Bloch G, Hefetz A: Regulation of repro- ield J, Shreeves G, Sur nner S: Group size, duction by dominant workers in bum- queuing and helping decisions in faculta blebee (Bombus terrestris) queenright tively eusocial hovei wasps 378 colonies 125 FFEi} she r DO: Offspri ng sex ratio variation in Boness DJ — Goldsworthy SD the bridled nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea Boomsma JJ — Pedersen JS fraenat 4} ] Borgioli C, Marchetti GM, Scapini f I tzpa itrick JW Quinn JS prefer Variation in zonal recovery in four I leischer RC Goldswor thy SD Talitrus saltator populations from differ- Fondrk MK Dreller ¢ ent lacie a comparison of orienta- I rancke W Ayasse M tion in the field and in an experimental Fi S. Moritz RFA Evolution arena 79 1e polyandry in the honeybee Apis Brodie III ED > Sadow ski JA Lb. 209 Buhrman SC Seeley TD Gaillard J-M Hewison AJM Carranza J - Mateos¢ Gamble HR Klein SI Cassill DL, Tschinkel WR: Task selection Goldsworthy SD. Boness DJ Fleischer L: Slagsvold T by workers of the fire ant Sok nopsis R¢ M: ite cl loice among sympatric [ur Li isey A Maza HM de ia invicta 301 seals: female preference for conphenoty- I inne il JDC Hewison AJM Ceballos O — Donazar JA pic males 253 Li sugheed LW, Anderson DJ: Parent blue- Cowlishaw G: Ecological and social deter- Gordon ea Mehdiabadi NJ: Encountet footed b« obies suppress siblicidal bel minants of spacing behaviour in desert rate and task allocatic yn in harvester vior of offspring 11 baboon groups 67 ants 370 Liibke G \yasse M Gotthard K. Nylin S, Wiklund C: Mating Dale S > Slagsvold system evolution in response to search McLaughlin RL, Ferguson MM. Noakes Dejean A » Djieto-Lordon ¢ costs in the speckled wood butterfly, DLG \daptive peaks and alternative Delibes M - Donazar JA Pararge aegeria 424 foraging tactics in brook charr: e\ idence IV of short-term divergent selection for Quinn JS, Woolfenden GE, Fitzpatrick mas’s langurs (Presbytis thomasi): the a sitting-and-waiting and actively search- JW, White BN: Multi-locus DNA fin- importance of infanticide risk 137 ing 386 gerprinting supports genetic monogamy Sumner S — Field J Magurran Al - Griffiths SW in Florida scrub-jays | Marchetti GM — Borgioli € Taghizadeh T — Ayasse M Marsh JA — Hasselquist D Reinhold K: Paternal investment in Poeci- Thomas F, Kayser Y, Hafner H: Nestling Mateos C, Carranza J: Effects of male limon veluchianus bushcrickets: beneficial size rank in the little egret (Egretta dominance and courtship display on effects of nuptial feeding on offspring garzetta) influences subsequent breeding female choice in the ring-necked phea- viability 293 success of offspring 466 sant 235 Rengifo E — Berteaux D Toft S — Samu F Maza HM de la, Wolff JO. Lindsey A: Rodriguez A — Donazar JA Travaini A — Donazar JA Exposure to strange adults does not Tschinkel WR — Cassill DL cause pregnancy disruption or infanti- Sadowski JA, Moore AJ, Brodie III ED: cide in the gray-tailed vole 107 The evolution of empty nuptial gifts in a Uetz GW, Smith El: Asymmetry in a visual Mehdiabadi NJ — Gordon DM dance fly, Empis snoddyi (Diptera: Em- signaling character and sexual selection Merilé J, Sheldon BC: Testis size variation pididae): bigger isn’t always better 161 in a wolf spider 87 in the greenfinch Carduelis chloris: rele- Saino N, Primmer CR, Ellegren H, Moller vance for some recent models of sexual AP: Breeding synchrony and paternity in van Buul M — Steenbeek R selection 115 the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) 211 van Hooff JARAM — Steenbeek R Moller AP - Kose M Samu F, Toft S, Kiss B: Factors influencing Vinuela J: Sibling aggression, hatching Moller AP — Saino N cannibalism in the wolf spider Pardosa asynchrony, and nestling mortality in Moore AJ — Sadowski JA agrestis (Araneae, Lycosidae) 349 the black kite (Mi/vus migrans) 33 Moritz RFA — Fuchs S Scapini F — Borgioli C Seeley TD, Buhrman SC: Group decision Weathers WW » Dickinson JL Nelson RJ — Klein SL making in swarms of honey bees 19 Weathers WW — Siegel RB Noakes DLG — McLaughlin RL Sheldon BC — Merila J White BN — Quinn JS Nylin S — Gotthard K Sherman PW — Hasselquist D Whiting MJ, Greeff JM: Use of hetero- Shreeves G — Field J specific cues by the lizard Platyvsaurus Ortius D, Heinze J: Fertility signaling in Siegel RB, Weathers WW, Beissinger SR: broadleyi for food location 420 queens of a North American ant 151 Hatching asynchrony reduces the dura- Wiklund C — Gotthard K Owen PC — Bee MA tion, not the magnitude, of peak load in Wingfield JC — Hasselquist D breeding green-rumped parrotlets (For- Wingfield JC — Hunt KE Page Jr RE — Dreller C pus passerinus) 444 Wolff JO — Maza HM de la Pedersen JS. Boomsma JJ: Positive asso- Simmons LW — Kvarnemo C Woolfenden GE — Quinn JS ciation of queen number and queen- Slagsvold T, Dale S, Lampe HM: Does mating frequency in Myrmica ants: a female aggression prevent polygyny? An challenge to the genetic-variability hy- experiment with pied flycatchers (Fice- potheses 185 dula hypoleuca) 403 Perrill SA - Bee MA Smith EI — Uetz GW Indexed in Current Contents and Piek RC - Steenbeek R Steenbeek R, Piek RC, van Buul M, van Environmental Periodicals Primmer CR - Saino N Hooff JARAM: Vigilance in wild Tho- Bibliography (EPB