1. Variation in nesting behavior of eight species of spider mites, Stigmaeopsis having sociality

   • Yutaka Saito
   • Yan-Xuan Zhang
   • Ken Sahara

   Original Paper 01 October 2016 Article: 87

   

2. Caterpillar hairs as an anti-parasitoid defence

   • Azusa Kageyama
   • Shinji Sugiura

   Original Paper 30 September 2016 Article: 86

   

3. Scale insect larvae preserved in vertebrate coprolites (Le Quesnoy, France, Lower Eocene): paleoecological insights

   • Ninon Robin
   • Imre Foldi
   • Gilles Petit

   Original Paper 29 September 2016 Article: 85

   

4. Eavesdropping on cooperative communication within an ant-butterfly mutualism

   • Mark A. Elgar
   • David R. Nash
   • Naomi E. Pierce

   Original Paper 27 September 2016 Article: 84

   

5. The effect of previous experience on trap construction and movement distance in a pit-building predator

   • Shay Adar
   • Inon Scharf
   • Roi Dor

   Original Paper 22 September 2016 Article: 83

   

6. Colour assortative pairing in a colour polymorphic lizard is independent of population morph diversity

   • Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza
   • Enrique Font
   • Miguel Ángel Carretero

   Original Paper 20 September 2016 Article: 82

   

7. Oxygen isotope fractionation between bird eggshell calcite and body water: application to fossil eggs from Lanzarote (Canary Islands)

   • Nicolas Lazzerini
   • Christophe Lécuyer
   • Alejandro Lomoschitz

   Original Paper 17 September 2016 Article: 81

   

8. Facial patterns in a tropical social wasp correlate with colony membership

   • David Baracchi
   • Stefano Turillazzi
   • Lars Chittka

   Short Communication 17 September 2016 Article: 80

   

9. Palate anatomy and morphofunctional aspects of interpterygoid vacuities in temnospondyl cranial evolution

   • Stephan Lautenschlager
   • Florian Witzmann
   • Ingmar Werneburg

   Original Paper Open access 14 September 2016 Article: 79

   

10. Origin of origami cockroach reveals long-lasting (11 Ma) phenotype instability following viviparity

    • Peter V. Vršanský
    • Lucia Šmídová
    • Dena Smith

    Original Paper 10 September 2016 Article: 78

    

11. Integrative taxonomy of the fly orchid group: insights from chemical ecology

    • Nina Joffard
    • Bruno Buatois
    • Bertrand Schatz

    Short Communication 10 September 2016 Article: 77

    

12. Ensifer meliloti overexpressing Escherichia coli phytase gene (appA) improves phosphorus (P) acquisition in maize plants

    • Vikas Sharma
    • Ajit Kumar
    • G. Naresh Kumar

    Original Paper 05 September 2016 Article: 76

    

13. Vocalizations in juvenile anurans: common spadefoot toads (Pelobates fuscus) regularly emit calls before sexual maturity

    • Leonie ten Hagen
    • Ariel Rodríguez
    • Miguel Vences

    Original Paper 02 September 2016 Article: 75

    

14. Evolution of robust circadian clocks in Drosophila melanogaster populations reared in constant dark for over 330 generations

    • Radhika Shindey
    • Vishwanath Varma
    • Vijay Kumar Sharma

    Original Paper 01 September 2016 Article: 74

    

15. Can hibernators sense and evade fires? Olfactory acuity and locomotor performance during deep torpor

    • Julia Nowack
    • Marine Delesalle
    • Fritz Geiser

    Original Paper 22 August 2016 Article: 73

    

16. Investigating determinants of yawning in the domestic (Equus caballus) and Przewalski (Equus ferus przewalskii) horses

    • Aleksandra Górecka-Bruzda
    • Carole Fureix
    • Martine Hausberger

    Original Paper Open access 19 August 2016 Article: 72

    

17. Defenses against keratinolytic bacteria in birds living in radioactively contaminated areas

    • Magdalena Ruiz-Rodríguez
    • Anders Pape Møller
    • Juan J. Soler

    Original Paper 19 August 2016 Article: 71