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Featured article: Sexual maturity of reef manta ray in captivity

In this article the authors report the first case of a male reef manta ray, Mobula alfredi, becoming sexually mature in captivity and present its reproductive characteristics.

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| 29 August 2018

Turbulence exposure recapitulates desperate behavior in late-stage sand dollar larvae

Authors: Jason Hodin, Matthew C. Ferner, Gabriel Ng and Brian Gaylord
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| 29 August 2018

Natural selection in bats with historical exposure to white-nose syndrome

Authors: Markéta Harazim, Ivan Horáček, Lucie Jakešová, Kristína Luermann, Jiří C. Moravec, Shannon Morgan, Jiri Pikula, Petr Sosík, Zuzana Vavrušová, Alexandra Zahradníková Jr., Jan Zukal and Natália Martínková
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| 13 August 2018

Life as a fortress – structure, function, and adaptive values of morphological and chemical defense in the oribatid mite Euphthiracarus reticulatus (Actinotrichida)

Authors: Michael Heethoff, Adrian Brückner, Sebastian Schmelzle, Mario Schubert, Maria Bräuer, Reinhard Meusinger, Stefan Dötterl, Roy A. Norton and Günther Raspotnig
Content type: Commentary
| 13 July 2018

The future of clay model studies

Authors: Daniela C. Rößler, Heike Pröhl and Stefan Lötters
Content type: Research article
| 13 July 2018

Brain investment under colony-level selection: soldier specialization in Eciton army ants (Formicidae: Dorylinae)

Authors: Sean O’Donnell, Susan Bulova, Meghan Barrett and Christoph von Beeren

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| 10 February 2017

Nymphister kronaueri von Beeren & Tishechkin sp. nov., an army ant-associated beetle species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Haeteriinae) with an exceptional mechanism of phoresy

Authors: Christoph von Beeren and Alexey K. Tishechkin
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| 17 February 2017

LemurFaceID: a face recognition system to facilitate individual identification of lemurs

Authors: David Crouse, Rachel L. Jacobs, Zach Richardson, Scott Klum, Anil Jain, Andrea L. Baden and Stacey R. Tecot
Content type: Methodology article
| 31 July 2017

Micro-CT imaging of live insects using carbon dioxide gas-induced hypoxia as anesthetic with minimal impact on certain subsequent life history traits

Authors: Danny Poinapen, Joanna K. Konopka, Joseph U. Umoh, Chris J. D. Norley, Jeremy N. McNeil and David W. Holdsworth
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| 23 August 2016

Host-parasite ecology, behavior and genetics: a review of the introduced fly parasite Philornis downsi and its Darwin’s finch hosts

Authors: Sonia Kleindorfer and Rachael Y. Dudaniec
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| 19 April 2017

Rediscovering a forgotten canid species

Authors: Suvi Viranta, Anagaw Atickem, Lars Werdelin and Nils Chr. Stenseth

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BMC Zoology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of zoology, including comparative physiology, mechanistic and functional studies, morphology, life history, animal behavior, signaling and communication, cognition, parasitism, systematics, biogeography and conservation.

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Life as a fortress – structure, function, and adaptive values of morphological and chemical defense in the oribatid mite Euphthiracarus reticulatus (Actinotrichida)

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Brain investment under colony-level selection: soldier specialization in Eciton army ants (Formicidae: Dorylinae)

Nymphister kronaueri von Beeren & Tishechkin sp. nov., an army ant-associated beetle species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Haeteriinae) with an exceptional mechanism of phoresy

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Micro-CT imaging of live insects using carbon dioxide gas-induced hypoxia as anesthetic with minimal impact on certain subsequent life history traits

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