The claims-making behavior of ethnopolitical communities spans three primary forms—electoral party politics, social movement protest behavior, and violent rebellion. In this study we posit that the three forms constitute a scale of increasingly contentious activity; where politically feasible, communities that give rise to the most intense forms of political behavior will also tend to be engage...

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Chaitali Khan is the first author on ‘The initiator caspase Dronc plays a non-apoptotic role in promoting DNA damage signalling in D. melanogaster’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Chaitali ...

After their queen has left with a swarm, orphaned larvae exhibiting rebel traits emerge in honeybee colonies. As adults, these orphans have reduced food glands to feed the colony's larvae and more developed ovaries to selfishly reproduce their own offspring.