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  1. The jointed appendage is a key novelty in arthropod evolution and arthropod legs are known to vary enormously in relation to function. Among centipedes, the ultimate legs always are distinctly different from l...

    Authors: Andy Sombke and Carsten H. G. Müller

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:17

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  2. We tested the hypothesis that deep-sea fishes have poorly mineralized bone relative to shallower-dwelling species using data from a single family that spans a large depth range. The family Liparidae (snailfish...

    Authors: M. E. Gerringer, A. S. Dias, A. A. von Hagel, J. W. Orr, A. P. Summers and S. Farina

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:16

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  3. Anhydrobiosis can be described as an adaptation to lack of water that enables some organisms, including tardigrades, to survive extreme conditions, even some that do not exist on Earth. The cellular mechanisms...

    Authors: Daria Wojciechowska, Andonis Karachitos, Milena Roszkowska, Wiktor Rzeźniczak, Robert Sobkowiak, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Jakub Z. Kosicki and Hanna Kmita

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:15

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  4. Understanding the impacts of past and contemporary climate change on biodiversity is critical for effective conservation. Amphibians have weak dispersal abilities, putting them at risk of habitat fragmentation...

    Authors: Zhenhua Luo, Xiaoyi Wang, Shaofa Yang, Xinlan Cheng, Yang Liu and Junhua Hu

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:14

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  5. Worker reproduction has an important influence on the social cohesion and efficiency of social insect colonies, but its role in the success of invasive ants has been neglected. We used observations of 233 capt...

    Authors: Pauline Lenancker, Heike Feldhaar, Anja Holzinger, Melinda Greenfield, Angela Strain, Peter Yeeles, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Wee Tek Tay and Lori Lach

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:13

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  7. The theory of delayed life history effects assumes that phenotype of adult individual results from environmental conditions experienced at birth and as juvenile. In seasonal environments, being born late in th...

    Authors: Anna S. Przybylska-Piech, Michał S. Wojciechowski and Małgorzata Jefimow

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:11

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  8. The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is the principal vector of medically-important infectious viruses that cause severe illness such as dengue fever, yellow fever and Zika. The transmission potential of mos...

    Authors: Jiayue Yan, Roumaissa Kibech and Chris M. Stone

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:10

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  9. Meligethes are pollen-beetles associated with flowers of Rosaceae as larvae. This genus currently consists of 63 known species in two subgenera, Meligethes and Odonthogethes, predominantly occurring in the easter...

    Authors: Meike Liu, Min Huang, Andrew Richard Cline, Emiliano Mancini, Andrea Scaramuzzi, Simone Paradisi, Paolo Audisio, Davide Badano and Simone Sabatelli

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:9

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  10. The connection between testosterone and territoriality in free-living songbirds has been well studied in a reproductive context, but less so outside the breeding season. To assess the effects of seasonal andro...

    Authors: Camila P. Villavicencio, Harriet Windley, Pietro B. D’Amelio, Manfred Gahr, Wolfgang Goymann and René Quispe

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:8

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  12. Nesting in large aggregations provides several important advantages for colonially breeding birds. However, it also imposes certain costs, associated with facilitated pathogen transmission and social stress. T...

    Authors: Maciej Kamiński, Tomasz Janiszewski, Piotr Indykiewicz, Jacek J. Nowakowski, Jarosław Kowalski, Beata Dulisz and Piotr Minias

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:7

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  13. Invasive species bring a serious effect on local biodiversity, ecosystems, and even human health and safety. Although the genetic signatures of historical range expansions have been explored in an array of spe...

    Authors: Yi Chen, Lei Zhao, Huajing Teng, Chengmin Shi, Quansheng Liu, Jianxu Zhang and Yaohua Zhang

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:6

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  14. Captive facilities such as zoos are uniquely instrumental in conservation efforts. To fulfill their potential as bastions for conservation, zoos must preserve captive populations as appropriate proxies for the...

    Authors: Leila Siciliano-Martina, Jessica E. Light and A. Michelle Lawing

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:4

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  15. Why a variety of social animals emit foraging-associated calls during group foraging remains an open question. These vocalizations may be used to recruit conspecifics to food patches (i.e. food advertisement h...

    Authors: Dongge Guo, Jianan Ding, Heng Liu, Lin Zhou, Jiang Feng, Bo Luo and Ying Liu

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:3

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  17. Condition indices (CIs) are used in ecological studies as a way of measuring an individual animal’s health and fitness. Noninvasive CIs are estimations of a relative score of fat content or rely on a ratio of ...

    Authors: Guy Sion, Maggie J. Watson and Amos Bouskila

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2021 18:1

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  18. The Chinese monal (Lophophorus lhuysii) is an endangered bird species, with a wild population restricted to the mountains in southwest China, and only one known captive population in the world. We investigated th...

    Authors: Dandan Jiang, Xin He, Marc Valitutto, Li Chen, Qin Xu, Ying Yao, Rong Hou and Hairui Wang

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:36

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  19. In small hibernators, global downregulation of the endocannabinoid system (ECS), which is involved in modulating neuronal signaling, feeding behavior, energy metabolism, and circannual rhythms, has been report...

    Authors: Christian Boyer, Laura Cussonneau, Charlotte Brun, Christiane Deval, Jean-Paul Pais de Barros, Stéphanie Chanon, Nathalie Bernoud-Hubac, Patricia Daira, Alina L. Evans, Jon M. Arnemo, Jon E. Swenson, Guillemette Gauquelin-Koch, Chantal Simon, Stéphane Blanc, Lydie Combaret, Fabrice Bertile…

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:35

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  20. The feeding apparatus of salamanders consists mainly of the cranium, mandible, teeth, hyobranchial apparatus and the muscles of the cranial region. The morphology of the feeding apparatus in turn determines th...

    Authors: Daniel Schwarz, Nicolai Konow, Laura B. Porro and Egon Heiss

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:34

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  21. Explanations for the ecological dominance of ants generally focus on the benefits of division of labour and cooperation during foraging. However, the principal innovation of ants relative to their wasp ancesto...

    Authors: Christian Peeters, Roberto A. Keller, Adam Khalife, Georg Fischer, Julian Katzke, Alexander Blanke and Evan P. Economo

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:33

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  22. Fitness is strongly related to locomotor performance, which can determine success in foraging, mating, and other critical activities. Locomotor performance on different substrates is likely to require differen...

    Authors: Rishab Pillai, Eric Nordberg, Jendrian Riedel and Lin Schwarzkopf

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:32

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  23. The initiation of desert conditions in the Tarim Basin in China since the late Miocene has led to the significant genetic structuring of local organisms. Tarim Red Deer (Cervus elaphus yarkandensis, TRD) have ada...

    Authors: Buweihailiqiemu Ababaikeri, Shamshidin Abduriyim, Yilamujiang Tohetahong, Tayerjan Mamat, Adil Ahmat and Mahmut Halik

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:31

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  24. Metamorphic climax is the crucial stage of amphibian metamorphosis responsible for the morphological and functional changes necessary for transition to a terrestrial habitat. This developmental period is sensi...

    Authors: Wei Zhu, Liming Chang, Tian Zhao, Bin Wang and Jianping Jiang

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:30

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  25. Growth trajectories should be adapted to selective factors of each species’ environment. However, major shaping forces of growth and development are unclear, especially when studying several traits at once. Bi...

    Authors: Vladimír Remeš, Beata Matysioková and Jakub Vrána

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:29

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  26. Despite the diverse morphology of the adult squamate naso-palatal complex – consisting of the nasal cavity, vomeronasal organ (VNO), choanal groove, lacrimal duct and superficial palate – little is known about...

    Authors: Paweł Kaczmarek, Katarzyna Janiszewska, Brian Metscher and Weronika Rupik

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:28

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  27. Understanding how wild species respond to novel situations with associated risk can provide valuable insights for inter-specific behavioral variation and associations with pace-of-life (POL). Rodents, a global...

    Authors: Ian Nicholas Best, Pei-Jen Lee Shaner, Hsuan-Yi Lo, Kurtis Jai-Chyi Pei and Chi-Chien Kuo

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:27

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  28. Behaviour during hibernation contributes to energy conservation in winter. Hibernating bats select roosts with respect to physiological and environmental stressors, available local microclimate and species-spe...

    Authors: Natália Martínková, Stuart J. E. Baird, Vlastislav Káňa and Jan Zima

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:26

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  29. Temperature affects many aspects of performance in poikilotherms, including how prey respond when encountering predators. Studies of anti-predator responses in fish mainly have focused on behaviour, whereas ph...

    Authors: Karl Filipsson, Eva Bergman, Larry Greenberg, Martin Österling, Johan Watz and Ann Erlandsson

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:25

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  30. Morphological novelties have been acquired through evolutionary processes and related to the adaptation of new life-history strategies with new functions of the bodyparts. Cephalopod molluscs such as octopuses...

    Authors: Ryosuke Kimbara, Mayuko Nakamura, Kohei Oguchi, Hisanori Kohtsuka and Toru Miura

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:24

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  31. Invasive species are of substantial concern because they may threaten ecosystem stability and biodiversity worldwide. Not surprisingly, studies examining the drivers of biological invasion have increased in nu...

    Authors: Austin M. Garner, Alexandra M. Pamfilie, E. J. Hamad, Rachael Kindig, Joshua T. Taylor, Colleen K. Unsworth and Peter H. Niewiarowski

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:23

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  33. The gut is the major organ for nutrient absorption and immune response in the body of animals. Although effects of fasting on the gut functions have been extensively studied in model animals (e.g. mice), littl...

    Authors: Haijian Sun, Jiaying Wang, Yutong Xing, Yi-Hsuan Pan and Xiuguang Mao

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:21

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  34. The ground pattern underlying the nervous system of the last common ancestor in annelids was long thought to be settled, consisting of a dorsal brain, circumoesophageal connectives and a subepithelial, ladder-...

    Authors: Hannah Schmidbaur, Thomas Schwaha, Rico Franzkoch, Günter Purschke and Gerhard Steiner

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:20

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  35. Ascidians (phylum Chordata, class Ascidiacea) represent the closest living invertebrate relatives of the vertebrates and constitute an important model for studying the evolution of chordate development. The so...

    Authors: Tal Gordon, Lachan Roth, Federico Caicci, Lucia Manni and Noa Shenkar

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:19

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  39. Sirtuins (SIRTs) are master regulators of metabolism, and their expression patterns in gilthead sea bream (GSB) reveal different tissue metabolic capabilities and changes in energy status. Since little is know...

    Authors: Paula Simó-Mirabet, Erick Perera, Josep Alvar Calduch-Giner and Jaume Pérez-Sánchez

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:15

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  40. Obligate brood parasites exert strong selective pressure on target hosts. In response, hosts typically evolve anti-parasitism strategies, of which egg recognition is one of the most efficient. Generally, host ...

    Authors: Canchao Yang, Longwu Wang, Shun-Jen Cheng, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Anders Pape Møller and Wei Liang

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:14

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  41. Non-native species are often introduced in cities, where they take advantage of microclimatic conditions, resources provided by humans, and competitor/predator release to establish and proliferate. However, na...

    Authors: Dailos Hernández-Brito, Guillermo Blanco, José L. Tella and Martina Carrete

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:13

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  42. The chemosymbiotic gastropod Alviniconcha (Provannidae), first described in 1988, is one of the most emblematic hydrothermal-vent taxa described from the Central Indian Ridge and the Southwest (SW) Pacific. Symbi...

    Authors: Sven R. Laming, Stéphane Hourdez, Marie-Anne Cambon-Bonavita and Florence Pradillon

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:12

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  43. Sturgeons (Acipenseriformes) are polyploid chondrostean fish that constitute an important model species for studying development and evolution in vertebrates. To better understand the mechanisms of reproductio...

    Authors: Xiujuan Zhang, Jiabin Zhou, Linmiao Li, Wenzhong Huang, Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad, Huiming Li, Haiying Jiang and Jinping Chen

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:11

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  44. Courtship vocalizations are used by males of many species to attract and influence the behavior of potential mating partners. Our aim here was to investigate the modulation and reproductive consequences of cou...

    Authors: Doris Nicolakis, Maria Adelaide Marconi, Sarah M. Zala and Dustin J. Penn

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:10

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  45. Severe hypoxia induces a series of stress responses in mammals; however, subterranean rodents have evolved several adaptation mechanisms of energy metabolisms and O2 utilization for hypoxia. Mammalian brains show...

    Authors: Qianqian Dong, Zishi Wang, Mengwan Jiang, Hong Sun, Xuqin Wang, Yangwei Li, Yifeng Zhang, Han Cheng, Yurong Chai, Tian Shao, Luye Shi and Zhenlong Wang

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:9

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  46. Genetic and ecological factors influence morphology, and morphology is compatible with function. The morphology and bite performance of skulls of bats show a number of characteristic feeding adaptations. The g...

    Authors: Biye Shi, Yuze Wang, Lixin Gong, Yang Chang, Tong Liu, Xin Zhao, Aiqing Lin, Jiang Feng and Tinglei Jiang

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:8

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  47. Research of many mammal species tends to focus on single habitats, reducing knowledge of ecological flexibility. The Javan lutung (Trachypithecus auratus) is considered a strict forest primate, and little is know...

    Authors: Malene Friis Hansen, Ventie Angelia Nawangsari, Floris M. van Beest, Niels Martin Schmidt, Mikkel Stelvig, Torben Dabelsteen and Vincent Nijman

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:6

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  49. The astonishing variety of sounds that birds can produce has been the subject of many studies aiming to identify the underlying anatomical and physical mechanisms of sound production. An interesting feature of...

    Authors: Hannah Joy Kriesell, Céline Le Bohec, Alexander F. Cerwenka, Moritz Hertel, Jean-Patrice Robin, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Manfred Gahr, Thierry Aubin and Daniel Normen Düring

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:5

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  50. Pleuropodia are limb-derived glandular organs that transiently appear on the first abdominal segment in embryos of insects from majority of “orders”. They are missing in the genetic model Drosophila and little is...

    Authors: Barbora Konopová, Elisa Buchberger and Alastair Crisp

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2020 17:4

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