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  2. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of nervous systems requires an understanding of their architecture and development across diverse taxa. The spiralians encompass diverse body plans and organ systems, an...

    Authors: Néva P Meyer, Allan Carrillo-Baltodano, Richard E Moore and Elaine C Seaver

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:15

    Content type: Research

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  3. RNA interference (RNAi) of trait-specific genes permits the manipulation of specific phenotypic traits (“phenotypic engineering”) and thus represents a powerful tool to test trait function in evolutionary stud...

    Authors: Roberto Arbore, Kiyono Sekii, Christian Beisel, Peter Ladurner, Eugene Berezikov and Lukas Schärer

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:14

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  4. The ‘scaly-foot gastropod’ (Chrysomallon squamiferum Chen et al., 2015) from deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems of the Indian Ocean is an active mobile gastropod occurring in locally high densities, and it is ...

    Authors: Chong Chen, Jonathan T. Copley, Katrin Linse, Alex D. Rogers and Julia D. Sigwart

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:13

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  5. The wider availability of non-destructive and high-resolution methods, such as micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), has prompted its use in anatomical and morphometric studies. Yet, because of the actual scan...

    Authors: Monique Nouailhetas Simon and Gabriel Marroig

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:12

    Content type: Methodology

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  8. Elucidating the relationship between habitat characteristics and population parameters is critical for effective conservation. Habitat suitability index (HSI) models are often used in wildlife management and c...

    Authors: Bianca Unglaub, Sebastian Steinfartz, Axel Drechsler and Benedikt R Schmidt

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:9

    Content type: Research

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  9. An important goal for understanding how animals have evolved is to reconstruct the ancestral features and evolution of the nervous system. Many inferences about nervous system evolution are weak because of spa...

    Authors: Eduardo E Zattara and Alexandra E Bely

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:8

    Content type: Research

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  11. The Antarctic Ocean hosts a rich and diverse fauna despite inhospitable temperatures close to freezing, which require specialist adaptations to sustain animal activity and various underlying body functions. Wh...

    Authors: Michael Oellermann, Bernhard Lieb, Hans-O Pörtner, Jayson M Semmens and Felix C Mark

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:6

    Content type: Research

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  12. Species of the order Primates are highly gregarious with most species living in permanent heterosexual social groups. According to theory in socioecology maximum social group size is limited by rates of intra-...

    Authors: Peng-Fei Fan, Thad Q Bartlett, Han-Lan Fei, Chang-Yong Ma and Wen Zhang

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:5

    Content type: Research

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  13. Individuals of the same age can differ substantially in the degree to which they have accumulated tissue damage, akin to bodily wear and tear, from past experiences. This accumulated tissue damage reflects the...

    Authors: Michaela Hau, Mark F Haussmann, Timothy J Greives, Christa Matlack, David Costantini, Michael Quetting, James S Adelman, Ana Catarina Miranda and Jesko Partecke

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:4

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  14. Spiders are important arthropod predators in many terrestrial ecosystems, and molecular tools have boosted our ability to investigate this taxon, which can be difficult to study with conventional methods. None...

    Authors: Daniela Sint, Isabella Thurner, Ruediger Kaufmann and Michael Traugott

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:3

    Content type: Methodology

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  15. In most species, acoustical cues are crucial for mother-offspring recognition. Studies of a few species of ungulates showed that potential for individual recognition may differ between nasal and oral contact c...

    Authors: Olga V Sibiryakova, Ilya A Volodin, Vera A Matrosova, Elena V Volodina, Andrés J Garcia, Laureano Gallego and Tomás Landete-Castillejos

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2015 12:2

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  17. Calanus finmarchicus, a highly abundant copepod that is an important primary consumer in North Atlantic ecosystems, has a flexible life history in which copepods in the last juvenile developmental stage (fifth co...

    Authors: Ann M Tarrant, Mark F Baumgartner, Bjørn Henrik Hansen, Dag Altin, Trond Nordtug and Anders J Olsen

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:91

    Content type: Research

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  18. Exposure to elevated seawater PCO2 limits the thermal tolerance of crustaceans but the underlying mechanisms have not been comprehensively explored. Larval stages of crustaceans are even more sensitive to environ...

    Authors: Melanie Schiffer, Lars Harms, Magnus Lucassen, Felix Christopher Mark, Hans-Otto Pörtner and Daniela Storch

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:87

    Content type: Research

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  19. Individual recognition and winner/loser effects both play important roles in animal contests, but how their influences are integrated to affect an individual’s contest decisions in combination remains unclear....

    Authors: Cheng-Yu Li, Yusan Yang, Pey-Yi Lee and Yuying Hsu

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:92

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  20. The shipworm Lyrodus pedicellatus is a wood-boring bivalve with an unusual vermiform body. Although its larvae are brooded, they retain the general appearance of a typical bivalve veliger-type larva. Here, we des...

    Authors: Andrea Wurzinger-Mayer, J Reuben Shipway, Alen Kristof, Thomas Schwaha, Simon M Cragg and Andreas Wanninger

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:90

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  21. Comparatively few data are available concerning the structure of the adult nervous system in the Ectoprocta or Bryozoa. In contrast to all other ectoprocts, the cerebral ganglion of phylactolaemates contains a...

    Authors: Anna V Weber, Andreas Wanninger and Thomas F Schwaha

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:89

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  24. Chaetognatha are a phylum of marine carnivorous animals which includes more than 130 extant species. The internal systematics of this group have been intensively debated since it was discovered in the 18th centur...

    Authors: Samah Gasmi, Gabriel Nve, Nicolas Pech, Sada Tekaya, Andr Gilles and Yvan Perez

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:84

    Content type: Research

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  26. Deep-sea alvinellid worm species endemic to hydrothermal vents, such as Alvinella and Paralvinella, are considered to be among the most thermotolerant animals known with their adaptability to toxic heavy metals, ...

    Authors: Shuichi Shigeno, Atsushi Ogura, Tsukasa Mori, Haruhiko Toyohara, Takao Yoshida, Shinji Tsuchida and Katsunori Fujikura

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:82

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  28. Urbanization can considerably impact animal ecology, evolution, and behavior. Among the new conditions that animals experience in cities is anthropogenic noise, which can limit the sound space available for an...

    Authors: Mathieu Giraudeau, Paul M Nolan, Caitlin E Black, Stevan R Earl, Masaru Hasegawa and Kevin J McGraw

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:83

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  29. Food availability is an important environmental cue for animals for deciding how much to invest in reproduction, and it ultimately affects population size. The importance of food limitation has been extensivel...

    Authors: Lise Ruffino, Pälvi Salo, Elina Koivisto, Peter B Banks and Erkki Korpimäki

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:80

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  31. Umami and sweet tastes are two important basic taste perceptions that allow animals to recognize diets with nutritious carbohydrates and proteins, respectively. Until recently, analyses of umami and sweet tast...

    Authors: Guangjian Liu, Lutz Walter, Suni Tang, Xinxin Tan, Fanglei Shi, Huijuan Pan, Christian Roos, Zhijin Liu and Ming Li

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:79

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  32. Several alpine vertebrates share a distribution pattern that extends across the South-western Palearctic but is limited to the main mountain massifs. Although they are usually regarded as cold-adapted species,...

    Authors: Antton Alberdi, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Joxerra Aihartza and Inazio Garin

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:77

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  33. The popular view on insect sociality is that of a harmonious division of labor among two morphologically distinct and functionally non-overlapping castes. But this is a highly derived state and not a prerequis...

    Authors: Hans C Kelstrup, Klaus Hartfelder, Fabio S Nascimento and Lynn M Riddiford

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:78

    Content type: Research

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  34. The carbonic anhydrase (CA; EC 4.2.1.1) superfamily is a class of ubiquitous metallo-enzymes that catalyse the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide. The α-CA family, present in all metazoan clades, is a key ...

    Authors: Nathalie Le Roy, Daniel J Jackson, Benjamin Marie, Paula Ramos-Silva and Frédéric Marin

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:75

    Content type: Review

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  35. Many species of ambystomatid salamanders are dependent upon highly variable temporary wetlands for larval development. High larval densities may prompt the expression of a distinct head morphology that may fac...

    Authors: Dale M Jefferson, Maud CO Ferrari, Alicia Mathis, Keith A Hobson, Eric R Britzke, Adam L Crane, Andrew R Blaustein and Douglas P Chivers

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:76

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  36. Since its introduction from Taiwan to Europe around 1980, Anguillicola crassus, a natural parasite of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica), has acquired the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) as a novel definitive ...

    Authors: Urszula Weclawski, Emanuel G Heitlinger, Tobias Baust, Bernhard Klar, Trevor Petney, Yu-San Han and Horst Taraschewski

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:74

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  39. Limnognathia maerski is the single species of the recently described taxon, Micrognathozoa. The most conspicuous character of this animal is the complex set of jaws, which resembles an even more intricate version...

    Authors: Nicolas Bekkouche, Reinhardt M Kristensen, Andreas Hejnol, Martin V Sørensen and Katrine Worsaae

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:71

    Content type: Research

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  40. Climate and environmental change have driven widespread changes in body size, particularly declines, across a range of taxonomic groups in recent decades. Size declines could substantially impact on the functi...

    Authors: Tom HE Mason, Marco Apollonio, Roberta Chirichella, Stephen G Willis and Philip A Stephens

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:69

    Content type: Research

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:88

  44. Freshwater fishes of the genus Esox are found throughout the Holarctic region. The northern pike (E. lucius) has a circumpolar distribution whereas the assumed sister species the Amur pike (E. reichertii) is only...

    Authors: Anna Skog, L Asbjørn Vøllestad, Nils Chr Stenseth, Alexander Kasumyan and Kjetill S Jakobsen

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:67

    Content type: Research

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  45. Many prey species around the world are suffering declines due to a variety of interacting causes such as land use change, climate change, invasive species and novel disease. Recent studies on the ecological ro...

    Authors: Benjamin L Allen, Lee R Allen, Richard M Engeman and Luke K-P Leung

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:56

    Content type: Research

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  46. When birds fly in cluttered environments, they must tailor their flight to the gaps that they traverse. We trained budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus, to fly through a vertically oriented gap of variable width,...

    Authors: Ingo Schiffner, Hong D Vo, Partha S Bhagavatula and Mandyam V Srinivasan

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:64

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  48. In previous work, the authors described a software package for the digitisation of 3D landmarks for use in geometric morphometrics. In this paper, we describe extensions to this software that allow semi-automa...

    Authors: Paul A Bromiley, Anja C Schunke, Hossein Ragheb, Neil A Thacker and Diethard Tautz

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:61

    Content type: Methodology

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  49. The success of a taxonomic group can be promoted by a key character that allows the group to interact with its environment in a different way and to potentially occupy new niches. The Pomacentridae possess a s...

    Authors: Damien Olivier, Bruno Frédérich, Milton Spanopoulos-Zarco, Eduardo F Balart and Eric Parmentier

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:63

    Content type: Research

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  50. Daphnia magna exhibits a parthenogenetic reproductive cycle linked to a moulting cycle, but regulatory mechanisms of neither moulting nor reproductive cycle are understood in daphnids. Moulting is regulated by ec...

    Authors: Eri Sumiya, Yukiko Ogino, Hitoshi Miyakawa, Chizue Hiruta, Kenji Toyota, Shinichi Miyagawa and Taisen Iguchi

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2014 11:60

    Content type: Research

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