VOL. 52
 
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Abundance, recruitment, and shell growth of the exotic mussel Limnoperna fortunei in the Río de la Plata (Argentina)
Fernando Spaccesi
2
Geospatial variability in the autumn community structure of epipelagic zooplankton in the upper layer of the northern South China Sea
Li-Chun Tseng1†, Hans-Uwe Dahms2†, Qing-Chao Chen3 and Jiang-Shiou Hwang1*
3
Effects of sex on characteristics and expression levels of digestive enzymes in the adult guppy Poecilia reticulata
Karun Thongprajukaew1,2* and Uthaiwan Kovitvadhi2,3
4
Assessing the importance of burrows through behavioral observations of Parastacus brasiliensis, a Neotropical burrowing crayfish (Crustacea), in laboratory conditions
Alexandre V Palaoro, Marcelo M Dalosto, Cadidja Coutinho and Sandro Santos*
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Key to species of the genus Cryptorhopalum (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) occurring in the Greater Antilles with description of six new species from Hispaniola
Marcin Kadej1* and Jiří Háva2
6
A new species of Pomacentrus (Actinopterygii: Pomacentridae) from Micronesia, with comments on its phylogenetic relationships
Shang-Yin Vanson Liu1,2*†, Hsuan-Ching Hans Ho3† and Chang-Feng Dai1
7
TOccurrence characteristics of two sibling species, Pseudodiaptomus inopinus and Pseudodiaptomus poplesia (Copepoda, Calanoida, Pseudodiaptomidae), in the Mankyung River estuary, South Korea
Eun-Ok Park1,2*, Jeffery R Cordell3 and Ho Young Soh4
8
Return of the pythons: first formal records, with a special note on recovery of the Burmese python in the demilitarized Kinmen islands
Chung-Wei You1, Yen-Po Lin1, Yen-Hsueh Lai2, You-Ling Chen3, Yao Tang4, Shih-Ping Chou1, Hong-Yi Chang5, Robert T Zappalorti6 and Si-Min Lin1*
9
The genus Cneorane Baly, 1865 from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), with notes on sexual dimorphism and its life history
Chi-Feng Lee1* and Jan Bezděk
10
Comparative proteomics analysis of normal and memory-deficient Drosophila melanogaster heads
Tian-Ren Lee†, Hsiao-Yun Lee†, Shun-Hong Huang, Hsin-Tzu Chan, Ping-Chiang Lyu and Hong-Lin Chan*
11
Biochemical and hematological profiles of a wild population of the nose-horned viper Vipera ammodytes (Serpentes: Viperidae) during autumn, with a morphological assessment of blood cells
Duje Lisičić*, Domagoj Đikić, Vesna Benković, Anica Horvat Knežević, Nada Oršolić and Zoran Tadić
12
Reproductive activity and advertisement calls of the Asian common toad Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae) from
Bach Ma National Park, Vietnam Binh V Ngo1* and Chung D Ngo2
13
A new intertidal Brachionus and intrageneric phylogenetic relationships among Brachionus as revealed by allometry and CO1-ITS1 gene analysis
Dae-Sik Hwang1, Hans-Uwe Dahms2, Heum Gi Park3 and Jae-Seong Lee1,4*
14
An alternative kernel-based method for estimating copepod growth rates from multimodal biomass distributions in artificial cohort experiments
Kuan-Yu Lin1, Akash R Sastri2 and Chih-hao Hsieh1,3*
15
Expressions of oxidative stress-related genes and antioxidant enzyme activities in Mytilus galloprovincialis (Bivalvia, Mollusca) exposed to hypoxia
Seonock Woo1, Vianney Denis2, Hyokyung Won1, Kyungsoon Shin3, Gunsup Lee1, Taek-Kyun Lee1 and Seungshic Yum1*
16
Monitoring European wildcat Felis silvestris populations using scat surveys in central Spain: are population trends related to wild rabbit dynamics or to landscape features?
Jorge Lozano*, Emilio Virgós and Sara Cabezas-Díaz
17
Copepods associated with the red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815) in the Barents Sea
Alexander G Dvoretsky and Vladimir G Dvoretsky*
18
DNA variations of the green toad Pseudepidalea viridis (syn. Bufo viridis) from various habitats
Gad Degani1,2*, Tali Goldberg2,4, Avital Gasith3, Eldad Elron3 and Eviatar Nevo4
19
Spatial variation in reproductive measures of female bluegill Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque in a small lake with diverse thermal conditions
Yoshimasa Yamamoto* and Fuh-Kwo Shiah
20
Effects of photoperiod and temperature on the body mass, thermogenesis, and serum leptin levels of Apodemus draco (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Hengduan Mountain region, China
Wan-Long Zhu1,2*, Guang Yang2, Lin Zhang1 and Zheng-Kun Wang1
21
Reproductive behavior of the male rose bitterling Rhodeus ocellatus as influenced by the operational sex ratio
Cai-Ping Liao1,2, Dan Yu1, Yi-Yu Chen1 and Huan-Zhang Liu1*
22
Leaf swallowing and parasitic infection of the Chinese lesser civet Viverricula indica in northeastern Taiwan
Hsiu-hui Su1, Ying-chen Su1 and Michael A Huffman2*
23
Habitat use by giant pandas Ailuropoda melanoleuca in the Wanglang Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China
Dong-Wei Kang1, Hong-Wei Yang1, Jun-Qing Li1*, You-Ping Chen2 and Lian-Jun Zhao2
24
Hematologic and plasma biochemical reference values of the yellow pond turtle Mauremys mutica and the effects of sex and season
Pin-Huan Yu, Pu-Yu Yang, Yun-Shan Chiu and Chau-Hwa Chi*
25
Phylogenetic and taxonomic status of the coral Goniopora stokesi and related species (Scleractinia: Poritidae) in Japan based on molecular and morphological data
Yuko F Kitano1, Masami Obuchi2, Daisuke Uyeno3, Katsumi Miyazaki1 and Hironobu Fukami4*
26
Ariosoma-type Leptocephali (Congridae: Bathymyrinae) in the Mentawai Islands region off western Sumatra, Indonesia
Michael J Miller1*, Mikiya Yamaguchi2, Sam Wouthuyzen3, Jun Aoyama1, Sasanti Suharti3, Tao Ma1, Tatsuki Yoshinaga2, Yuki Minegishi1, Tatsuya Kawakami1 and Katsumi Tsukamoto1
27
Raptor assemblages in grasslands of Southern Brazil: species richness and abundance and the influence of the survey method
Felipe Zilio1,5*, Alan Bolzan2, André de Mendonça-Lima3, Cristiane Oliveira da Silva3, Laura Verrastro4,5 and Márcio Borges-Martins4,5
28
Comparison of the osmoregulatory capabilities among three amphibious sea snakes (Laticauda spp.) in Taiwan
Yuan-Cheng Cheng1, Ming-Chung Tu1, Jyuan-Ru Tsai2, Hui-Chen Lin2,3 and Li-Yih Lin1*
29
Hotspot analysis of Taiwanese breeding birds to determine gaps in the protected area network
Tsai-Yu Wu1, Bruno A Walther2,3, Yi-Hsiu Chen1, Ruey-Shing Lin4 and Pei-Fen Lee1,5*
30
Effects of metamorphosis timing and the larval growth rate on the latitudinal distribution of sympatric freshwater eels, Anguilla japonica and A. marmorata, in the western North Pacific
Nico Jose Leander1, Wann-Nian Tzeng1,2*, Nian-Tzu Yeh1, Kang-Ning Shen1,2 and Yu-San Han1
31
Mesozooplankton community structure in the upper 1,000 m along the western Bay of Bengal during the 2002 fall intermonsoon
Veronica Fernandes and Nagappa Ramaiah*
32
Behaviour-dependent predation risk in swimming zooplankters
Marco Uttieri1*, Daniela Cianelli1,2 and Enrico Zambianchi1
33
Specific dynamic action, postprandial thermophily, and the impact of temperature on gastric digestion in the cornsnake Pantherophis guttatus
Lynnette M Sievert*, Yusuke Suita, Daphne M Mayes, Lynett R Bontrager, Michelle Tuttle and Ashley Everly
34
Ciliate (Euplotes sp.) predation by Pseudodiaptomus annandalei (Copepoda: Calanoida) and the effects of mono-algal and pluri-algal diets
Raunak Dhanker1, Ram Kumar2, Li-Chun Tseng1 and Jiang-Shiou Hwang1*
35
Low phylogeographic structure of Rhinella arunco (Anura: Bufonidae), an endemic amphibian from the Chilean Mediterranean hotspot
Dayana Vásquez1, Claudio Correa1,2*, Luis Pastenes1, R Eduardo Palma2 and Marco A Méndez1
36
Effect of male provisioning on the parental behavior of female Boreal Owls Aegolius funereus
Markéta Zárybnická* and Jiří Vojar
37
The phylogeny of the Orthoptera (Insecta) as deduced from mitogenomic gene sequences
Hong-Li Zhang1,2, Yuan Huang2, Li-Liang Lin2, Xiao-Yang Wang2 and Zhe-Min Zheng2*
38
Molecular analyses of shallow-water zooxanthellate zoanthids (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) from Taiwan and their Symbiodinium spp
James Davis Reimer*, Yuka Irei, Takuma Fujii and Sung-Yin Yang
39
Palythoa zoanthid ‘barrens’ in Okinawa: examination of possible environmental causes
Sung-Yin Yang*, Carine Bourgeois, Carey Denise Ashworth and James Davis Reimer
40
Acropora distribution patterns in the northern and northeastern Persian Gulf
Mohammad Reza Rahmani1,2,3*, Hassan Rahimian1, Mahnaz Ardalan2, Shashank Keshavmurthy4, Silvia Fontana4,5, Carden C Wallace6 and Chaolun Allen Chen4,5,7*
41
Charipinae fauna (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) from Asia with a description of 11 new species
Mar Ferrer-Suay1*, Jesús Selfa2 and Juli Pujade-Villar1
42
Transcriptional profiling of adult Drosophila antennae by high-throughput sequencing
Meng-Shin Shiao1,2, Wen-Lang Fan1,2, Shu Fang1, Mei-Yeh Jade Lu1, Rumi Kondo3 and Wen-Hsiung Li1,4*
43
Locomotor performance of three sympatric species of sea kraits (Laticauda spp.) from Orchid Island, Taiwan
Shiuang Wang1, Harvey B Lillywhite2 and Ming-Chung Tu1*
44
Effects of grazing by herbivorous gastropod (Trochus niloticus) on the survivorship of cultured coral spat
Ronald D Villanueva1*, Maria Vanessa B Baria1,2 and Dexter W dela Cruz1,3
45
Molecular analysis for investigating dietary habits: genetic screening of prey items in scat and stomach contents of leopard cats Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus
Ohsun Lee, Sua Lee, Dong-Ha Nam* and Hak Young Lee*
46
Population and growth of queen conch (Lobatus gigas Linnaeus, 1758) in the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve of Belize
Isani Chan1, Li-Chun Tseng1, Hans-Uwe Dahms2 and Jiang-Shiou Hwang1*
47
Local change of butterfly species in response to global warming and reforestation in Korea
Tae-Sung Kwon1, Sung-Soo Kim2 and Cheol Min Lee1*
48
Genetic structure of Bufo bankorensis distinguished by amplified restriction fragment length polymorphism of cytochrome b
Chu-Chih Chen†, Kou-Wei Li†, Teng-Lang Yu, Li-Hsuen Chen, Pei-Yuan Sheu, Yi-Wen Tong, Kao-Jean Huang*† and Ching-Feng Weng*†
49
Influence of monsoon-driven hydrographic features on thaliacean distribution in waters around Taiwan, western North Pacific Ocean
Zhen-Heng Liao1, Hung-Yen Hsieh2,3 and Wen-Tseng Lo1*
50
Hidden diversity in spring snails from the Andean Altiplano, the second highest plateau on Earth, and the Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world
Gonzalo A Collado1*, Moisés A Valladares2 and Marco A Méndez2
51
Naupliar development of Pseudocyclops sp. (Copepoda: Calanoida: Pseudocyclopidae): description of an unusual set of character states
Frank D Ferrari1, Hans-Uwe Dahms2*, Pawana Kangtia3, Supawadee Chullasorn3 and Mark Schick4
52
Impacts of red imported fire ants Solenopsis invicta on survivorship of hatchlings of the broad-snouted caiman Caiman latirostris
María V Parachú Marcó1,2*, Alejandro Larriera2,3 and Carlos I Piña1,2,4,5
53
Nest site selection by the hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius: is safety more important than food?
Rimvydas Juškaitis*, Linas Balčiauskas and Vita Šiožinytė
54
Foraging guild structure and niche characteristics of waterbirds in an epicontinental lake in Mexico
María José Pérez-Crespo1, Juanita Fonseca1, Rubén Pineda-López2, Eduardo Palacios3 and Carlos Lara4*
55
The phylogenetic position of the enigmatic Atlantic forest-endemic spiny mouse Abrawayaomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae)
Karen Ventura1, Maria José J Silva2, Lena Geise3, Yuri LR Leite4, Ulyses FJ Pardiñas5, Yatiyo Yonenaga-Yassuda1 and Guillermo D'Elía6*
56
Feeding spectra of bivalve mollusks Unio and Dreissena from Kanevskoe Reservoir, Ukraine: are they food competitors or not?
Olesia N Makhutova1*, Alexander A Protasov2, Michail I Gladyshev1,3, Anzhelika A Sylaieva2, Nadezhda N Sushchik1,3, Irina A Morozovskaya2 and Galina S Kalachova1
57
An autoregressive model for global vertebrate richness rankings: long-distance dispersers may have stronger spatial structures
Youhua Chen1,2
58
Revision of the worm eel genus Neenchelys (Ophichthidae: Myrophinae), with descriptions of three new species from the western Pacific Ocean
Hsuan-Ching Ho1*, John E McCosker2 and David G Smith3
59
Evolutionary history of Nile perch Lates sp. inferred from mitochondrial DNA variation analyses
Matthew Tenywa Mwanja1*, Vincent Muwanika2, Charles Masembe3, Sylvester Nyakaana3 and Wilson Waiswa Mwanja4
60
Pattern of chromosomal changes in ‘beta’ Anolis (Norops group) (Squamata: Polychrotidae) depicted by an ancestral state analysis
Riccardo Castiglia1*, Oscar Flores-Villela2, Alexandra Maria Ramos Bezerra3,4, Antonio Muñoz5 and Ekaterina Gornung1