Frontiers in Zoology

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Material composition and mechanical properties of the venom-injecting forcipules in centipedes

Nest site selection and fidelity of European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) population of Babat Valley (Gödöllő, Hungary)

Comparative analysis of optional hunting behavior in Cricetinae hamsters using the data compression approach

Authors: J. Levenets, S. Panteleeva, Zh. Reznikova, A. Gureeva, V. Kupriyanov, N. Feoktistova and A. Surov

De novo assembly of transcriptomes and differential gene expression analysis using short-read data from emerging model organisms – a brief guide

Paternal care plasticity: males care more for early- than late-developing embryos in an arboreal breeding treefrog

Authors: Yuan-Cheng Cheng, Cai-Han Xie, Yu-Chen Chen, Nien-Tse Fuh, Ming-Feng Chuang and Yeong-Choy Kam

Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field

Authors: Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda

The integrative future of taxonomy

A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents

Authors: Matthieu Leray, Joy Y Yang, Christopher P Meyer, Suzanne C Mills, Natalia Agudelo, Vincent Ranwez, Joel T Boehm and Ryuji J Machida

The importance of immune gene variability (MHC) in evolutionary ecology and conservation

Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles

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Aims and scope

Frontiers in Zoology is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing high quality research articles and reviews on all aspects of animal life.

As a biological discipline, zoology has one of the longest histories. Today it occasionally appears as though, due to the rapid expansion of life sciences, zoology has been replaced by more or less independent sub-disciplines amongst which exchange is often sparse. However, the recent advance of molecular methodology into "classical" fields of biology, and the development of theories that can explain phenomena on different levels of organisation, has led to a re-integration of zoological disciplines promoting a broader than usual approach to zoological questions. Zoology has re-emerged as an integrative discipline encompassing the most diverse aspects of animal life, from the level of the gene to the level of the ecosystem.

Frontiers in Zoology is the first open access journal focusing on zoology as a whole. It aims to represent and re-unite the various disciplines that look at animal life from different perspectives and at providing the basis for a comprehensive understanding of zoological phenomena on all levels of analysis. Frontiers in Zoology provides a unique opportunity to publish high quality research and reviews on zoological issues that will be internationally accessible to any reader at no cost.

The journal was initiated and is supported by the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, one of the largest national zoological societies with more than a century-long tradition in promoting high-level zoological research.

Editors-in-Chief

Jürgen Heinze is currently Professor of Zoology at University of Regensburg, Germany.

"Zoology is an active and colorful biological discipline with a long history and a promising future. The development of new theories and methodology makes this a particularly exciting time for researchers interested in aspects of animal life."

Ulrich Technau is Professor of developmental biology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

"Zoology is addressing some of the most fundamental questions in Biology. It continues to deliver novel insights into the fascinating diversity and biology of animals by taking advantage of a combination of classical concepts and modern methods."