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  1. Whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) are aquatic insects living on the water surface. They are equipped with four compound eyes, an upper pair viewing above the water surface and a lower submerged pair vi...

    Authors: Chan Lin and Nicholas J Strausfeld

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2013 10:7

    Content type: Research

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  2. Many animals use information acquired from recent experiences to modify their responses to new situations. Animals’ decisions in contests also depend on their previous experience: after recent victories indivi...

    Authors: Ryan L Earley, Chung-Kai Lu, I-Han Lee, Stephanie C Wong and Yuying Hsu

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2013 10:6

    Content type: Research

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  3. Patterns of biodiversity in the subterranean realm are typically different from those encountered on the Earth’s surface. The Dinaric karst of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina is a global hotspot o...

    Authors: Helena Bilandžija, Brian Morton, Martina Podnar and Helena Ćetković

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2013 10:5

    Content type: Research

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  4. Creation and use of the scientific names of animals are ruled by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Until recently, publication of new names in a work produced with ink on paper was required fo...

    Authors: Alessandro Minelli

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2013 10:4

    Content type: Commentary

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  5. Insects have evolved a wide range of mechanisms to defend themselves and their offspring against antagonists. One of these strategies involves the utilization of antimicrobial compounds provided by symbiotic b...

    Authors: Sabrina Koehler, Jan Doubský and Martin Kaltenpoth

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2013 10:3

    Content type: Research

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  6. Many mammals have evolved highly adapted hearing associated with ecological specialisation. Of these, bats possess the widest frequency range of vocalisations and associated hearing sensitivities, with frequen...

    Authors: Kalina TJ Davies, Ibnu Maryanto and Stephen J Rossiter

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2013 10:2

    Content type: Research

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  7. Dispersal and gene flow determine connectivity among populations, and can be studied through population genetics and phylogeography. We here review the results of such a framework for free-living marine nemato...

    Authors: Sofie Derycke, Thierry Backeljau and Tom Moens

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2013 10:1

    Content type: Review

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  8. Social parasitism is an important selective pressure for social insect species. It is particularly the case for the hosts of dulotic (so called slave-making) ants, which pillage the brood of host colonies to i...

    Authors: Olivier Delattre, Rumsaïs Blatrix, Nicolas Châline, Stéphane Chameron, Anne Fédou, Chloé Leroy and Pierre Jaisson

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:38

    Content type: Research

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  9. One central concept in evolutionary ecology is that current and residual reproductive values are negatively linked by the so-called cost of reproduction. Previous studies examining the nature of this cost sugg...

    Authors: Antoine Stier, Sophie Reichert, Sylvie Massemin, Pierre Bize and François Criscuolo

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:37

    Content type: Research

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  10. Human speech does not only communicate linguistic information but also paralinguistic features, e.g. information about the identity and the arousal state of the sender. Comparable morphological and physiologic...

    Authors: Marina Scheumann, Anna-Elisa Roser, Wiebke Konerding, Eva Bleich, Hans-Jürgen Hedrich and Elke Zimmermann

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:36

    Content type: Research

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  12. Many Ophidiidae are active in dark environments and display complex sonic apparatus morphologies. However, sound recordings are scarce and little is known about acoustic communication in this family. This pape...

    Authors: Loïc Kéver, Kelly S Boyle, Branko Dragičević, Jakov Dulčić, Margarida Casadevall and Eric Parmentier

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:34

    Content type: Research

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  13. Traditionally, genomic or transcriptomic data have been restricted to a few model or emerging model organisms, and to a handful of species of medical and/or environmental importance. Next-generation sequencing...

    Authors: Ana Riesgo, Sónia C S Andrade, Prashant P Sharma, Marta Novo, Alicia R Pérez-Porro, Varpu Vahtera, Vanessa L González, Gisele Y Kawauchi and Gonzalo Giribet

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:33

    Content type: Research

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  14. Correlations between sea surface temperature (SST) and growth parameters of the solitary azooxanthellate Dendrophylliid Leptopsammia pruvoti were assessed along an 8° latitudinal gradient on western Italian coast...

    Authors: Erik Caroselli, Guido Mattioli, Oren Levy, Giuseppe Falini, Zvy Dubinsky and Stefano Goffredo

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:32

    Content type: Research

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  15. We describe the tagmatization pattern of the anterior region of the extant stomatopod Erugosquilla massavensis. For documentation we used the autofluorescence capacities of the specimens, resulting in a significa...

    Authors: Carolin Haug, Wafaa S Sallam, Andreas Maas, Dieter Waloszek, Verena Kutschera and Joachim T Haug

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:31

    Content type: Research

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  16. Our purpose was to assess how pairs of sibling horseshoe bats coexists when their morphology and echolocation are almost identical. We collected data on echolocation, wing morphology, diet, and habitat use of ...

    Authors: Egoitz Salsamendi, Inazio Garin, Inmaculada Arostegui, Urtzi Goiti and Joxerra Aihartza

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:30

    Content type: Research

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  17. Matrotrophy or extraembryonic nutrition – transfer of nutrients from mother to embryo during gestation – is well known and thoroughly studied among vertebrates, but still poorly understood in invertebrates. Th...

    Authors: Martin Moosbrugger, Thomas Schwaha, Manfred G Walzl, Matthias Obst and Andrew N Ostrovsky

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:29

    Content type: Research

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  18. Ongoing ocean warming and acidification increasingly affect marine ecosystems, in particular around the Antarctic Peninsula. Yet little is known about the capability of Antarctic notothenioid fish to cope with...

    Authors: Anneli Strobel, Swaantje Bennecke, Elettra Leo, Katja Mintenbeck, Hans O Pörtner and Felix C Mark

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:28

    Content type: Research

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  19. Acoels are microscopic marine worms that have become the focus of renewed debate and research due to their placement at the base of the Bilateria by molecular phylogenies. To date, Isodiametra pulchra is the most...

    Authors: Johannes Georg Achatz and Pedro Martinez

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:27

    Content type: Research

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  20. In the past decade neuroanatomy has proved to be a valuable source of character systems that provide insights into arthropod relationships. Since the most detailed description of dipluran brain anatomy dates b...

    Authors: Alexander Böhm, Nikolaus U Szucsich and Günther Pass

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:26

    Content type: Research

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  21. Gene expression in eukaryotes is regulated by histone acetylation/deacetylation, an epigenetic process mediated by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) whose opposing activities a...

    Authors: Krishnendu Mukherjee, Rainer Fischer and Andreas Vilcinskas

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:25

    Content type: Research

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  22. The phenomenon of sexual conflict has been well documented, and in populations with biased operational sex ratios the consequences for the rarer sex can be severe. Females are typically a limited resource and ...

    Authors: Kristine L Grayson, Stephen P De Lisle, Jerrah E Jackson, Samuel J Black and Erica J Crespi

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:24

    Content type: Research

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  23. Two types of excretory systems, protonephridia and metanephridial systems are common among bilaterians. The homology of protonephridia of lophotrochozoan taxa has been widely accepted. In contrast, the homolog...

    Authors: Natalie Baeumler, Gerhard Haszprunar and Bernhard Ruthensteiner

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:23

    Content type: Research

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  24. Some decades ago, biogeographers distinguished three major faunal types of high importance for Europe: (i) Mediterranean elements with exclusive glacial survival in the Mediterranean refugia, (ii) Siberian ele...

    Authors: Thomas Schmitt and Zoltán Varga

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:22

    Content type: Review

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  25. Tonsils are secondary lymphoid organs located in the naso- and oropharynx of most mammalian species. Most tonsils are characterised by crypts surrounded by dense lymphoid tissue. However, tonsils without crypt...

    Authors: Martina R Crole and John T Soley

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:21

    Content type: Research

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  26. Aposematism is a defense system against predators consisting of the toxicity warning using conspicuous coloration. If the toxin production and aposematic coloration is costly, only individuals in good physical...

    Authors: J Manuel Vidal-Cordero, Gregorio Moreno-Rueda, Antonio López-Orta, Carlos Marfil-Daza, José L Ros-Santaella and F Javier Ortiz-Sánchez

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:20

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  27. Sexual selection is a major force driving evolution and is intertwined with ecological factors. Differential allocation of limited resources has a central role in the cost of reproduction. In this paper, I rev...

    Authors: Gerlind U C Lehmann

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:19

    Content type: Review

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  28. The hide beetle Dermestes maculatus (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) feeds as an adult and larva on decomposing animal remains and can also be found on human corpses. Therefore, forensic entomological questions with reg...

    Authors: Christian von Hoermann, Joachim Ruther and Manfred Ayasse

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:18

    Content type: Research

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  30. Gas exchangers fundamentally form by branching morphogenesis (BM), a mechanistically profoundly complex process which derives from coherent expression and regulation of multiple genes that direct cell-to-cell ...

    Authors: John N Maina

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:16

    Content type: Review

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  31. Establishment of distinct follicle cell fates at the early stages of Drosophila oogenesis is crucial for achieving proper morphology of individual egg chambers. In Drosophila oogenesis, Notch-signaling controls p...

    Authors: Daniel Bäumer, Nadi M Ströhlein and Michael Schoppmeier

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:15

    Content type: Research

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  32. The differential allocation hypothesis (DAH) predicts that individuals should adjust their parental investment to their current mate’s quality. Although in principle the DAH holds for both sexes, male adjustme...

    Authors: Katharina Mahr, Matteo Griggio, Michela Granatiero and Herbert Hoi

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:14

    Content type: Research

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  34. Female sperm storage has evolved independently multiple times among vertebrates to control reproduction in response to the environment. In internally fertilising amphibians, female salamanders store sperm in c...

    Authors: Susanne Kuehnel and Alexander Kupfer

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:12

    Content type: Short report

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  35. The avian glottis channels air from the oropharynx to the trachea and is situated on an elevated structure, the laryngeal mound. It is imperative that the glottis be protected and closed during swallowing, whi...

    Authors: Martina R Crole and John T Soley

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:11

    Content type: Research

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  36. The aim of this study was to evaluate the visual acuity of adult zebrafish by assessing the optokinetic reflex. Using a modified commercially available optomotor device (OptoMotry®), virtual three-dimensional ...

    Authors: Christoph Tappeiner, Simon Gerber, Volker Enzmann, Jasmin Balmer, Anna Jazwinska and Markus Tschopp

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:10

    Content type: Research

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  37. A huge diversity of marine species reproduce by synchronously spawning their gametes into the water column. Although this species-specific event typically occurs in a particular season, the precise time and da...

    Authors: Patrick S York, Scott F Cummins, Sandie M Degnan, Ben J Woodcroft and Bernard M Degnan

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:9

    Content type: Research

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  38. Many coral reef fishes undergo habitat and diet shifts during ontogeny. However, studies focusing on the physiological and morphological adaptations that may prepare them for these transitions are relatively s...

    Authors: Bruno Frédérich, Orphal Colleye, Gilles Lepoint and David Lecchini

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:8

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  39. Male monogyny in the absence of paternal investment is arguably one of the most puzzling mating systems. Recent evidence suggests that males of monogynous species adjust their life-history and their mating dec...

    Authors: Klaas W Welke, Stefanie M Zimmer and Jutta M Schneider

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:7

    Content type: Research

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  41. Honey bees, Apis mellifera, have a diverse community of pathogens. Previous research has mostly focused on bacterial brood diseases of high virulence, but milder diseases caused by fungal pathogens have recently ...

    Authors: Svjetlana Vojvodic, Jacobus J Boomsma, Jørgen Eilenberg and Annette B Jensen

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:5

    Content type: Research

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  43. Osmotic stress transcriptional factor 1 (Ostf1) was firstly identified in tilapia in 2005. Then numerous studies have investigated its regulation and expression profile in fish gill tissues in related to osmor...

    Authors: William KF Tse, Sheung C Chow and Chris KC Wong

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2012 9:3

    Content type: Short report

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  46. Intermediate forms in the evolution of new adaptations such as transitions from water to land and the evolution of flight are often poorly understood. Similarly, the evolution of superfast sonic muscles in fis...

    Authors: Hin-Kiu Mok, Eric Parmentier, Kuo-Hsun Chiu, Kai-En Tsai, Pai-Ho Chiu and Michael L Fine

    Citation: Frontiers in Zoology 2011 8:31

    Content type: Research

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