Research Article
In this study, we report the first case of a male reef manta ray, Mobula alfredi, becoming sexually mature in captivity and present its reproductive characteristics.
BMC Zoology 2017 2:14
Published on: 17 October 2017
Research Article
Agrochemicals are widely used in many parts of the world posing direct and indirect threats to organisms. Xenobiotic-related disease susceptibility is a common phenomenon and a proposed cause of amphibian decl...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:13
Published on: 22 September 2017
Research Article
Emerging infectious diseases in wildlife are an increasing threat to global biodiversity. White-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats is one of the most recently emerged infectious diseases in North America, causing mas...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:12
Published on: 25 August 2017
Research Article
Recent phylogenies of deer mice, genus Peromyscus, have relied heavily on mitochondrial markers. These markers provided resolution at and below the level of species groups, but relationships among species groups ...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:11
Published on: 18 August 2017
Methodology article
Live imaging of whole invertebrates can be accomplished with X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) at 10-100 μm spatial resolution. However, image quality could be compromised by the movement of live subj...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:9
Published on: 31 July 2017
Research article
Flexible spatial memory, such as “place” learning, is an important adaptation to assist successful foraging and to avoid predation and is thought to be more adaptive than response learning which requires a con...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:10
Published on: 28 July 2017
Erratum
BMC Zoology 2017 2:8
Published on: 15 June 2017
The original article was published in BMC Zoology 2017 2:7
Research Article
The Gharana wetland conservation reserve (GWCR) is a semi-arid wetland adjacent to agricultural areas on the Indo-Pakistani border. Despite being declared an Important Bird Area (IBA) by Birdlife International...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:7
Published on: 19 May 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Zoology 2017 2:8
Research Article
The African wolf, for which we herein recognise Canis lupaster Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1832 (Symbolae Physicae quae ex Itinere Africam Borealem er Asoam Occidentalem Decas Secunda. Berlin, 1833) as the valid spec...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:6
Published on: 19 April 2017
Research Article
Populations of Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferous) appear to be declining range-wide. While this could be associated with habitat loss, declines in populations of many other species of migratory aeria...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:5
Published on: 11 April 2017
Research article
The genus Caenorhabditis has been central to our understanding of metazoan biology. The best-known species, Caenorhabditis elegans, is but one member of a genus with around 50 known species, and knowledge of thes...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:4
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research article
Long-term research of known individuals is critical for understanding the demographic and evolutionary processes that influence natural populations. Current methods for individual identification of many animal...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:2
Published on: 17 February 2017
Research article
For more than a century we have known that a high diversity of arthropod species lives in close relationship with army ant colonies. For instance, several hundred guest species have been described to be associ...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:3
Published on: 10 February 2017
Research article
Previous studies have established ovarian cycle characteristics of adult Asian elephants using progestagen analyses, but little work has been done on young elephants to determine age at puberty. Demographic st...
BMC Zoology 2017 2:1
Published on: 21 January 2017
Research article
Reproductive strategies and evolutionary pressures differ between males and females. This often results in size differences between the sexes, and also in sex-specific seasonal variation in body mass. Seasonal...
BMC Zoology 2016 1:9
Published on: 19 October 2016
Research article
We used the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus, one of the largest brooding invertebrates in the Western Atlantic, to test for the presence/absence of active parental care and to explore reproductive perform...
BMC Zoology 2016 1:6
Published on: 23 August 2016
Research article
Species of Hirudo are used extensively for medicinal purposes, but are currently listed as endangered due to population declines from economic utilization and environmental pollution. In total, five species of Hi...
BMC Zoology 2016 1:5
Published on: 23 August 2016
Review
Understanding host-parasite interactions requires that the multi-faceted relationships among ecological, behavioral and molecular processes be characterized and integrated. The introduced parasitic fly of birds,
BMC Zoology 2016 1:1
Published on: 23 August 2016
Research article
One of the biggest challenges in avian taxonomy is the delimitation of allopatric species because their reproductive incompatibility cannot be directly studied in the wild. Instead, reproductive incompatibilit...
BMC Zoology 2016 1:4
Published on: 23 August 2016
Research article
The freshwater cnidarian Hydra temporarily binds itself to numerous natural substrates encountered underwater, such as stones, leafs, etc. This adhesion is mediated by secreted material from specialized ectoderma...
BMC Zoology 2016 1:3
Published on: 23 August 2016
Research article
The Bornean banteng (Bos javanicus lowi) is an endangered subspecies that often inhabits logged forest; however very little is known about the effects of logging on their ecology, despite the differing effects th...
BMC Zoology 2016 1:8
Published on: 23 August 2016
Review
Since European settlement more than 10 % of Australia’s native fauna have become extinct and the current picture reflects 46 % are at various vulnerability stages. Australia’s iconic marsupial species, koala (Pha...
BMC Zoology 2016 1:2
Published on: 23 August 2016
Editorial
This editorial accompanies the launch of BMC Zoology, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal within the BMC series that considers manuscripts on all aspects of zoology. BMC Zoology will increase and disseminate...
BMC Zoology 2016 1:7
Published on: 23 August 2016
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