期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (2)
Animals living in extremely high elevations have to adapt to low temperatures and low oxygen availability (hypoxia), but the underlying genetic mechan......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (4)
Nestedness is an important pattern frequently reported for species assemblages on islands or fragmented systems. However, to date, there are few studi......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (2)
Parasites are globally widespread pathogenic organisms, which impose important selective forces upon their hosts. Thus, in accordance with the Adjustm......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (4)
Pheromonal communication plays a key role in the sociosexual behavior of rodents. The coadaptation between pheromones and chemosensory systems has bee......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (1)
Sexual conflict in producing and raising offspring is a critical issue in evolutionary ecology research. Individual experience affects their breeding ......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (4)
Understanding how alien species assemble is crucial for predicting changes to community structure caused by biological invasions and for directing man......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (1)
Vigilance behavior is considered as an effective strategy for prey species to detect predators. An individual benefits from living in a group by reduc......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (4)
Climate fluctuations in the past and in the future are likely to result in population expansions, shifts, or the contraction of the ecological niche o......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2021; 67 (3)
Phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation are viewed as the main factors that result in between-population variation in phenotypic traits, but contri......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2020; 66 (5)
Although egg color polymorphism has evolved as an effective defensive adaptation to brood parasitism, spatial variations in egg color polymorphism rem......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2020; 66 (5)
Geographic variation in body size is common within many animal species. The causes of this pattern, however, remain largely unexplored in most vertebr......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2020; 66 (1)
Nest survival is a vital component of breeding success, and affects population dynamics, as the loss of nests is the main cause of reproductive failur......
期刊: CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 2020; 66 (2)
Monitor lizards (Varanidae) inhabit both the mainland and islands of all geological types and have diversified into an exceptionally wide range of bod......