1. The riddle of “life,” a biologist’s critical view

   • Heinz Penzlin

   Review 02 September 2008 Pages: 1 - 23

   

2. Variation in levels of reactive oxygen species is explained by maternal identity, sex and body-size-corrected clutch size in a lizard

   • Mats Olsson
   • Mark Wilson
   • Caroline Isaksson

   Original Paper 27 August 2008 Pages: 25 - 29

   

3. Surface functionalized amorphous nanosilica and microsilica with nanopores as promising tools in biomedicine

   • Ayesha Rahman
   • Dipankar Seth
   • Arunava Goswami

   Original Paper 13 September 2008 Pages: 31 - 38

   

4. Keeping the blood flowing—plasminogen activator genes and feeding behavior in vampire bats

   • Åsa Tellgren-Roth
   • Katharina Dittmar
   • David A. Liberles

   Original Paper 13 September 2008 Pages: 39 - 47

   

5. Sex mosaics in a male dimorphic ant Cardiocondyla kagutsuchi

   • Juri Yoshizawa
   • Kohei Mimori
   • Koji Tsuchida

   Original Paper 17 September 2008 Pages: 49 - 55

   

6. Predation and aggressiveness in host plant protection: a generalization using ants from the genus Azteca

   • Alain Dejean
   • Julien Grangier
   • Jerôme Orivel

   Original Paper 03 October 2008 Pages: 57 - 63

   

7. Immune activation affects chemical sexual ornaments of male Iberian wall lizards

   • Pilar López
   • Marianne Gabirot
   • José Martín

   Original Paper 07 October 2008 Pages: 65 - 69

   

8. Isolation of five Rubrobacter strains from biodeteriorated monuments

   • L. Laiz
   • A. Z. Miller
   • C. Saiz-Jimenez

   Original Paper 25 October 2008 Pages: 71 - 79

   

9. Feather-like development of Triassic diapsid skin appendages

   • Sebastian Voigt
   • Michael Buchwitz
   • Robert Georgi

   Original Paper 03 October 2008 Pages: 81 - 86

   

10. Biased sex ratio and low population density increase male mating success in the bug Nysius huttoni (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)

    • Qiao Wang
    • Xiong Zhao He
    • Lorraine K. Davis

    Original Paper 07 October 2008 Pages: 87 - 91

    

11. Does weather shape rodents? Climate related changes in morphology of two heteromyid species

    • Mosheh Wolf
    • Michael Friggens
    • Jorge Salazar-Bravo

    Original Paper 09 October 2008 Pages: 93 - 101

12. Sex identification in female crayfish is bimodal

    • Laura Aquiloni
    • Alessandro Massolo
    • Francesca Gherardi

    Original Paper 11 October 2008 Pages: 103 - 110

    

13. Nacre and false nacre (foliated aragonite) in extant monoplacophorans (=Tryblidiida: Mollusca)

    • Antonio G. Checa
    • Joaquín Ramírez-Rico
    • Antonio Sánchez-Navas

    Original Paper 09 October 2008 Pages: 111 - 122

    

14. Do feather-degrading bacteria affect sexually selected plumage color?

    • Matthew D. Shawkey
    • Shreekumar R. Pillai
    • Geoffrey E. Hill

    Original Paper 14 October 2008 Pages: 123 - 128

    

15. Inhibition of lipid peroxidation by extracts/subfractions of Chickrassy (Chukrasia tabularis A. Juss.)

    • Rajbir Kaur
    • Tarunpreet Singh Thind
    • Saroj Arora

    Short Communication 28 August 2008 Pages: 129 - 133

    

16. Triple tracks in CR-39 as the result of Pd–D Co-deposition: evidence of energetic neutrons

    • Pamela A. Mosier-Boss
    • Stanislaw Szpak
    • Lawrence P. G. Forsley

    Short Communication 01 October 2008 Pages: 135 - 142

    

17. The evolutionary origin of auditory receptors in Tettigonioidea: the complex tibial organ of Schizodactylidae

    • Johannes Strauß
    • Reinhard Lakes-Harlan

    Short Communication 08 October 2008 Pages: 143 - 146

    

18. Airborne myxomycete spores: detection using molecular techniques

    • Akiko Kamono
    • Hisaya Kojima
    • Manabu Fukui

    Short Communication 03 October 2008 Pages: 147 - 151

    

19. Seasonality of spawning by tropical anguillid eels around Sulawesi Island, Indonesia

    • Sam Wouthuyzen
    • Jun Aoyama
    • Katsumi Tsukamoto

    Short Communication 11 October 2008 Pages: 153 - 158

    

20. Male fighting and “territoriality” within colonies of the ant Cardiocondyla venustula

    • Sabine Frohschammer
    • Jürgen Heinze

    Short Communication 16 October 2008 Pages: 159 - 163

    

21. Summer dormancy in edible dormice (Glis glis) without energetic constraints

    • Claudia Bieber
    • Thomas Ruf

    Short Communication 26 November 2008 Pages: 165 - 171