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The population ecology and habitat relationships of Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti Brooke, 1872) in the Lamo Forest and the adjacent fragmented forests in South Central Ethiopia

Authors: Taye Dobamo and Zewde Achiso

Content type: Research 29 September 2025
The first complete mitochondrial genome of Zu cristatus (Bonelli, 1819) sheds new light on its phylogenetic position and molecular evolution

Authors: Marco Albano, Domenico Giosa, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira Fernandes, Serena Savoca, Andrea Bonomo, Letterio Giuffrè, Partha Sarathi Tripathy, Orazio Romeo, Nunziacarla Spanò and Gioele Capillo

Content type: Research 29 August 2025
New Miocene litoptern remains from Colombia and ecological structure of American Neogene herbivore guilds

Authors: Andrew J. McGrath, Darin A. Croft, Juan D. Carrillo, M. Gabriela Suárez, Andres Vanegas, Siobhan B. Cooke and Andres Link

Content type: Research 20 August 2025
Mitochondrial genomes of Meghimatium pictum and Succinea arundinetorum provide insight into the gene order rearrangement within Stylommatophora (Gastropoda, Panpulmonata)

Authors: Gang Wang, Chijie Yin, Ying Zhu, Qiuting Ji, Jun Tang, Xiaoli Sun, Hao Chen, Zijun Sun, Qiuning Liu, Boping Tang, Lianfu Chen and Daizheng Zhang

Content type: Research 7 August 2025
Assessment of the size distribution of the big-scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810) in the diet of the Caspian seal (Pusa caspica Gmellin, 1788) using fish otoliths from fecal samples

Authors: Mirgaliy Baimukanov, Akzhan Iskakov and Anuar Shagilbayev

Content type: Research 4 August 2025

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Fishing for iodine: what aquatic foraging by bonobos tells us about human evolution

Authors: Gottfried Hohmann, Sylvia Ortmann, Thomas Remer and Barbara Fruth

Content type: Research article 2 July 2019
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

Content type: Research article 10 February 2017
White-nose syndrome fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, on bats captured emerging from caves during winter in the southeastern United States

Authors: Riley F. Bernard, Emma V. Willcox, Katy L. Parise, Jeffrey T. Foster and Gary F. McCracken

Content type: Research Article 25 August 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: Research article 17 February 2017
Understanding the dynamics of physiological impacts of environmental stressors on Australian marsupials, focus on the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

Authors: Edward J. Narayan and Michelle Williams

Content type: Review 23 August 2016

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From cooperation to collective action: social behavior in zoology

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eDNA metabarcoding and metagenomics in zoology

Endangered species and conservation challenges

Life at the limits: animal adaptations to extreme environments

Marine mammals: adaptations, challenges, and conservation strategies

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The population ecology and habitat relationships of Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti Brooke, 1872) in the Lamo Forest and the adjacent fragmented forests in South Central Ethiopia

The first complete mitochondrial genome of Zu cristatus (Bonelli, 1819) sheds new light on its phylogenetic position and molecular evolution

New Miocene litoptern remains from Colombia and ecological structure of American Neogene herbivore guilds

Mitochondrial genomes of Meghimatium pictum and Succinea arundinetorum provide insight into the gene order rearrangement within Stylommatophora (Gastropoda, Panpulmonata)

Assessment of the size distribution of the big-scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810) in the diet of the Caspian seal (Pusa caspica Gmellin, 1788) using fish otoliths from fecal samples

Fishing for iodine: what aquatic foraging by bonobos tells us about human evolution

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

White-nose syndrome fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, on bats captured emerging from caves during winter in the southeastern United States

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

Understanding the dynamics of physiological impacts of environmental stressors on Australian marsupials, focus on the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

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