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1. Lipocalins for milk and pheromone transport
   Lipocalins are proteins that bind to and transport small hydrophobic molecules such as lipids and steroids, and have been associated with biological processes such as milk production, pheromone transport and immune responses.

2. Mimicry in fungi
   Insects pollinating flowers are a familiar sight. But what happens when the "flower" is actually a fungus? Still "pollination", but now it is fungal spores. Read on to learn more about the fungi that mimic flowers...

3. Tetrodotoxin
   Not many foods served in a restaurant can kill you, but pufferfish is the exception. Tetrodotoxin, the toxin responsible for such culinary fatalities, reveals a fascinating story of convergent evolution...

4. Olfaction: insights into convergence
   Although olfaction is very widespread, there is abundant evidence for repeated convergence of key features, strongly suggesting that there really is an optimal solution to detecting smells.

5. Loss of olfactory capacity in primates and cetaceans
   It is widely thought that reduced olfactory capacity in apes is linked to the development of acute vision, especially trichromacy.

6. Silk production and use in arthropods
   Remarkably, fossil silk is known, especially from amber of Cretaceous age. Material includes both silk with trapped insects, possibly from an orb-web, and strands with the characteristic viscid droplets that are the key in trapping prey.

7. Biological uses of silk: from webs to ballooning
   What material is so versatile that it can be used for capturing prey, building nests, communication and even cleaning? The answer: that most remarkable of biomaterials - silk.

8. Ants: insights into convergence
   Trap-jaws, silk and agriculture – just a few examples of convergence in the arguably most successful group of insects, the ants…