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Female bonobo fishing (Copyright: Zana Clay, LuiKotal Bonobo Project)
Featured blog: Fishing for iodine
Iodine is critical for brain development, especially the higher cognitive functions of the brain. Here, researchers describe how the foraging activities of bonobos in the Congo basin give us an insight into how prehistoric humans obtained this nutrient, and is the first report of iodine consumption by a nonhuman primate.
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3D printed spermathecae as experimental models to understand sperm dynamics in leaf beetles
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Surrounding landscape influences the abundance of insect predators in rice field
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The hummingbird syrinx morphome: a detailed three-dimensional description of the black jacobin’s vocal organ
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Response of a rice insect pest, Scirpophaga incertulas (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in warmer world
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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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Fishing for iodine: what aquatic foraging by bonobos tells us about human evolution
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LemurFaceID: a face recognition system to facilitate individual identification of lemurs
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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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Host-parasite ecology, behavior and genetics: a review of the introduced fly parasite Philornis downsi and its Darwin’s finch hosts
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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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- Alison Cuff, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Dylan Smith, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
- James Edwards, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Brock Fenton, University of Western Ontario
- Thomas Flatt, University of Lausanne
- Herbert Hoi, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
- Serge Morand, University of Montpellier
- Laurence Packer, York University
Meet the editors
Thomas Flatt is Associate Professor at the Department of Biology at the University of Fribourg. His main interest is the evolution and mechanisms of life history and aging. He is a Section Editor for BMC Zoology since its inception in 2016.
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2.115 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.529 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.786 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
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