Crowded developmental environment promotes adult sex-specific nutrient consumption in a polyphagous fly
The fitness of holometabolous insects depends largely on resources acquired at the larval stage. Larval density is an important factor modulating larval resource-acquisition, influencing adult survival, reprod... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - February 18, 2019 Category: Zoology Authors: Juliano Morimoto, Binh Nguyen, Hue Dinh, Anh The Than, Phillip W. Taylor and Fleur Ponton Tags: Research Source Type: research
Limb phase flexibility in walking: a test case in the squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
Previous analyses of factors influencing footfall timings and gait selection in quadrupeds have focused on the implications for energetic cost or gait mechanics separately. Here we present a model for symmetri... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - February 18, 2019 Category: Zoology Authors: Charlotte Elizabeth Miller, Laura Elizabeth Johnson, Henry Pinkard, Pierre Lemelin and Daniel Schmitt Tags: Research Source Type: research
Positive or negative? The shell alters the relationship among behavioral defense strategy, energy metabolic levels and antioxidant capacity in freshwater turtles
The relationships among energy metabolic levels, behavioral and other physiological traits help to determine the trade-off of energy allocation between different traits and the evolution of life-history driven... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - February 13, 2019 Category: Zoology Authors: Wenyi Zhang, Cuijuan Niu, Yukun Liu and Kenneth B. Storey Tags: Research Source Type: research
The Australian dingo: untamed or feral?
The Australian dingo continues to cause debate amongst Aboriginal people, pastoralists, scientists and the government in Australia. A lingering controversy is whether the dingo has been tamed and has now rever... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - February 13, 2019 Category: Zoology Authors: J. William O. Ballard and Laura A. B. Wilson Tags: Debate Source Type: research
Dispersal and adaptation strategies of the high mountain butterfly Boloria pales in the Romanian Carpathians
Habitat quality is one main trigger for the persistence of butterflies. The effects of the influencing biotic and abiotic factors may be enhanced by the challenging conditions in high-alpine environments. To b... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - January 17, 2019 Category: Zoology Authors: Stefan Ehl, Niklas B öhm, Manuel Wörner, László Rákosy and Thomas Schmitt Tags: Research Source Type: research
Also looking like Limulus? – retinula axons and visual neuropils of Amblypygi (whip spiders)
Only a few studies have examined the visual systems of Amblypygi (whip spiders) until now. To get new insights suitable for phylogenetic analysis we studied the axonal trajectories and neuropil architecture of... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - December 19, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Tobias Lehmann and Roland R. Melzer Tags: Research Source Type: research
Standing on the shoulders of giants: young aphids piggyback on adults when searching for a host plant
Upon the detection of imminent peril, pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) often drop off their host plant. Dropping in response to insect enemies is intermittent in nature, but when a mammalian herbivore feeds on th... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - December 6, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Moshe Gish and Moshe Inbar Tags: Research Source Type: research
Anticipatory parental effects in a subtropical lizard in response to experimental warming
Parental effects may produce adaptive or maladaptive plasticity that either facilitates persistence or increases the extinction risk of species and populations in a changing climate. However, empirical evidenc... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - December 5, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Bao-Jun Sun, Yang Wang, Yong Wang, Hong-Liang Lu and Wei-Guo Du Tags: Research Source Type: research
Nutritional quality modulates trait variability
Trait based functional and community ecology is en vogue. Most studies, however, ignore phenotypical diversity by characterizing entire species considering only trait means rather than their variability. Phenotyp... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - December 5, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Adrian Br ückner, Romina Schuster, Katja Wehner and Michael Heethoff Tags: Research Source Type: research
The nervous system in the cyclostome bryozoan Crisia eburnea as revealed by transmission electron and confocal laser scanning microscopy
Among bryozoans, cyclostome anatomy is the least studied by modern methods. New data on the nervous system fill the gap in our knowledge and make morphological analysis much more fruitful to resolve some quest... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - December 3, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Elena N. Temereva and Igor A. Kosevich Tags: Research Source Type: research
Sex chromosomal dimorphisms narrated by X-chromosome translocation in a spiny frog (Quasipaa boulengeri)
In the general model of sex chromosome evolution for diploid dioecious organisms, the Y (or W) chromosome is derived, while the homogametic sex presumably represents the ancestral condition. However, in the fr... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - November 27, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Xiuyun Yuan, Yun Xia and Xiaomao Zeng Tags: Research Source Type: research
Morphological and biochemical characterization of the cutaneous poison glands in toads (Rhinella marina group) from different environments
Amphibian defence against predators and microorganisms is directly related to cutaneous glands that produce a huge number of different toxins. These glands are distributed throughout the body but can form accu... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - November 23, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Pedro Luiz Mailho-Fontana, Marta Maria Antoniazzi, Juliana Mozer Sciani, Daniel Carvalho Pimenta, Katia Cristina Barbaro and Carlos Jared Tags: Research Source Type: research
Physiological predictors of reproductive performance in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
It is widely assumed that variation in fitness components has a physiological basis that might underlie selection on trade-offs, but the mechanisms driving decreased survival and future fecundity remain elusiv... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - November 22, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Melinda A. Fowler, M élissa Paquet, Véronique Legault, Alan A. Cohen and Tony D. Williams Tags: Research Source Type: research
Body size regulation by maturation steroid hormones: a Drosophila perspective
The mechanism that determines the specific body size of an animal is a fundamental biological question that remains largely unanswered. This aspect is now beginning to be understood in insect models, particula... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - November 20, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Seogang Hyun Tags: Review Source Type: research
Comparative morphology and evolution of the cnidosac in Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia)
A number of shelled and shell-less gastropods are known to use multiple defensive mechanisms, including internally generated or externally obtained biochemically active compounds and structures. Within Nudiple... (Source: Frontiers in Zoology)
Source: Frontiers in Zoology - November 13, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Jessica A. Goodheart, Sabrina Bleidi ßel, Dorothee Schillo, Ellen E. Strong, Daniel L. Ayres, Angelika Preisfeld, Allen G. Collins, Michael P. Cummings and Heike Wägele Tags: Research Source Type: research
