1. Evolution of the staminode in a representative sample of Scrophularia and its role as nectar safeguard in three widespread species

   • Tomás Rodríguez-Riaño
   • Francisco J. Valtueña
   • Ana Ortega-Olivencia

   Original Paper 04 June 2015 Article: 37

   

2. Influence of task switching costs on colony homeostasis

   • Raphaël Jeanson
   • Jean-Paul Lachaud

   Short Communication 04 June 2015 Article: 36

   

3. Tracing the origin of the panda’s thumb

   • Juan Abella
   • Alejandro Pérez-Ramos
   • Jorge Morales

   Original Paper 03 June 2015 Article: 35

   

4. Lower Cambrian polychaete from China sheds light on early annelid evolution

   • Jianni Liu
   • Qiang Ou
   • Tongjiang He

   Original Paper Open access 28 May 2015 Article: 34

   

5. How territoriality and host-tree taxa determine the structure of ant mosaics

   • Alain Dejean
   • Suzanne Ryder
   • Bruno Corbara

   Original Paper 26 May 2015 Article: 33

   

6. Thermoregulation of individual paper wasps (Polistes dominula) plays an important role in nest defence and dominance battles

   • Nicole Höcherl
   • Jürgen Tautz

   Original Paper 26 May 2015 Article: 32

   

7. Helping enhances productivity in campo flicker (Colaptes campestris) cooperative groups

   • Raphael Igor Dias
   • Michael S. Webster
   • Regina H. Macedo

   Original Paper 26 May 2015 Article: 31

   

8. Quantitative inferences on the locomotor behaviour of extinct species applied to Simocyon batalleri (Ailuridae, Late Miocene, Spain)

   • Anne-Claire Fabre
   • Manuel J. Salesa
   • Stéphane Peigné

   Original Paper 13 May 2015 Article: 30

   

9. A universal model of ontogenetic growth

   • Leonid M. Martyushev
   • Pavel S. Terentiev

   Original Paper 28 April 2015 Article: 29

   

10. Tip of the clade on the top of the World—the first fossil Lophopidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Palaeocene of Tibet

    • Jacek Szwedo
    • Adam Stroiński
    • Qibin Lin

    Short Communication Open access 28 April 2015 Article: 28

    

11. Historical revisionism and the inheritance theories of Darwin and Weismann

    • Karl J. Niklas
    • Ulrich Kutschera

    Comments & Replies 28 April 2015 Article: 27

    

12. Prenatal exposure to aflatoxin B1: developmental, behavioral, and reproductive alterations in male rats

    • Ch. Supriya
    • P. Sreenivasula Reddy

    Original Paper 25 April 2015 Article: 26

    

13. Keratin subsidies promote feather decomposition via an increase in keratin-consuming arthropods and microorganisms in bird breeding colonies

    • Shinji Sugiura
    • Hayato Masuya

    Original Paper 24 April 2015 Article: 25

    

14. Darwin’s sub-cellular theory of inheritance: unknown or ignored?

    • Mingxing Zhi
    • Yongsheng Liu

    Comments & Replies 19 April 2015 Article: 24

15. Strong support for Rensch’s rule in an American clade of lizards (Teiidae and Gymnophtalmidae) and a paradox of the largest tejus

    • Petra Frýdlová
    • Daniel Frynta

    Original Paper 16 April 2015 Article: 23

    

16. The Arnold Berliner Award 2015

    • Sven Thatje

    Editorial 08 April 2015 Article: 22

    

17. Quantifying space use of breeders and floaters of a long-lived species using individual movement data

    • Vincenzo Penteriani
    • Maria del Mar Delgado
    • Letizia Campioni

    Original Paper 07 April 2015 Article: 21