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- Exploding plug prevents mating: honeybee
- Chemical plug prevents mating: butterfly
- Lunar cycle triggers reproduction: Pacific palolo worm
- Suspending reproduction conserves energy: insects
- Altering host's reproductive system improves viability: Wolbachia bacteria
- Eating leaves to control reproduction: chimpanzees
- Foods reduce or enhance fertility: woolly spider monkey
- Sex of offspring controlled: mantled howler monkey
- Eating bark to induce labor: elephant
- Embryos go into dormancy: red kangaroo
- Burning stimulates flowering: grass trees
- Investing resources increases competitive success: trees
- Surviving low nutrient, low light conditions: peatland plants
- Growth rate aids fire resistance: camel's foot tree
- Environment tailors growth: organisms
- Selective strategies aid competitive success: mangrove forests
- Water aids pollination: eelgrass
- Seeds float to the best conditions: red mangrove
- Flowers accommodate short growing season: alpine snowbell
- Tail used for reproductive advantage: damselfly
- Periodic emergence synchronized: cicadas
- Cyclical emergence optimizes reproduction: mayfly
- Relationships essential to pollination: Brazil nut tree
- Sensitive antennae detect sex pheromones: Indian luna moth
- Antennae used to detect pheromones, find mates: moths
- Nest kept warm: mallee fowl
- Minerals conserved during moult: crustaceans
- Stigmas ensure pollination: angiosperms
- Biopolymer stops shell growth: oyster
- Mutant gene flattens leaves: snapdragon
- Compounds control 'weeds': fine-leaf fescue
- Moth larvae manipulate host plant physiology: leaf-miner moth
- Muscles self-repair: human
- DNA self-repairs after exposure to ionizing radiation: Bdelloidea
- Cells undertake calcification in freshwater: common pond snail
- Smoke detection induces seed germination: Grand Rapids lettuce
- Plant fragments prevent infections: blue tit chicks
