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Zhi-Yun JIA,Ph.D. Standing Associate Editor http://www.actazool.org/board_staff/jiazye.htm Institute of Zoology The Chinese Academy of Sciences Chaoyang District, Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China Tel.:86-10-62624530 Free access to http://www.actazool.org, we welcome you to link to this journal! Ecology,Evolution and Behavior Pinniped ecology in Santa Monica Bay, California (In English) Maddalena BEARZI, Charles A. SAYLAN, Celia BARROSO Effect of sibling aggression on kittens¡¯ behavior in Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx (In English) Anastasiya ANTONEVICH, Sergey NAIDENKO Diversity, distribution and habitat association of large mammals of Alatish, north Gonder, Ethiopia (In English) Girma MENGESHA, Afework BEKELE Ecology of mole rats Tachyoryctes splendens and its impact on agricultural fields at Angacha, central Ethiopia (In English) Abebe KOKISO, Afework BEKELE Inter-annual changes in structure of overwintering population in Calomys venustus (In English) Mar¨ªa C. PROVENSAL, Jaime J. POLOP Hormonal patterns associated with social rank and season in male oryxes Oryx dammah and elands Taurotragus oryx (In English) Naama BERG,Rotem LAVI, Yosef STEINBERGER, Yael VISHINSKI, Laurence S. SHORE Ketamine-Induced hyperactivity in mice: an evaluation of age and sex differences (In English) Jeffrey ANASTASI, Christopher WILSON, David KNOBLOCH, Stephanie SAPIO, Katherine KELSEY, Stephanie WILLIAMS Selected body temperature, surface activity and food intake in tailed versus tailless Mongolian racerunners Eremias argus from three populations ZHAO Qun, WANG Zheng, LIU Lin-Lin, ZHAO Wen-Ge, JI Xiang Habitat associations of three stream fishes on a montane plateau (Nyika Plateau, Malawi) (In English) Wilbert T. KADYE, Ngonidzashe A.G. MOYO, Christopher H. D. MAGADZA, Shakkie KATIVU Shifting butterfly habitats and biotope affiliations accompany use of alien nectar sources after deforestation (In English) Peter B. HARDY, Roger L. H. DENNIS Seasonal effect on trophical relationship between soil free-living nematode and protozoan populations in a desert ecosystem (In English) Stanislav PEN-MOURATOV, Salvador Rodriguez ZARAGOZA, Einav MAYZLISH,Yosef STEINBERGER Physiology, Biochemistry, Cellular, Genetic and Molecular Biology Genetic diversity of the black muntjac Muntiacus crinifrons population in the central area of Anhui and Zhejiang Province CHENG Hong-Yi, BAO Yi-Xin, CHEN Liang, ZHOU Xiang-Wu, HU Zhi-Yuan, GE Bao-Ming Myosin heavy chain expression in peripheral muscles of male and female prairie voles Microtus ochrogaster (In English) Andrew C. FRY, Michael H. FERKIN, Brian K. SCHILLING, Stuart T. LEONARD, Matthew P. HARBER, Martyn R. RUBIN, J. Chadwick SMITH Introgression of mtDNA between two Phrynocephalus lizards in Qinghai Plateau JIN Yuan-Ting, LIU Nai-Fa Identification by MALDI-TOF MS and expression pattern of a low molecular weight protein, Apolipophorin ¢ó, from hemolymph in the silkworm Bombyx mori UAN-Jian, ZHAO-Ping, HOU-Yong, LIU Hong-Li, ZOU-Yong, XIA Qing-You EoRab43 is an atypical Rab gene in Euplotes octocarinatus NIE Yu, LI Jiang-Jiao, LIANG Ai-Hua, YANG Xin, ZHANG Zhi-Yun, WANG Wei Morphology and Anatomy Age and growth profile of Indian major carp Catla catla from rivers of Northern India (In English) Prashant K DEEPAK, Uttam K SARKAR, Raje S NEGI, Samir K PAUL Morphological recognition of artificial F1 hybrids between three common European cyprinid species: Rutilus rutilus, Blicca bjoerkna and Abramis brama (In English) B. Nzau MATONDO, M. OVIDIO, P. Poncin, P. VANDEWALLE, J.C. PHILIPPART Ultrastructure of Coelomocytes of the Sipunculan Phascolosoma esculenta SU Xiu-Rong JI Qi-Xiong DING Li-Fa ZHANg Wei ZHU Jun-Quan LI Tai-Wu Methods and Viewpoints A methodology for indirect estimation of the Myocastor coypus abundance at an urban wetland in Argentina (In English) Mar¨ªa Jos¨¦ CORRIALE, Santiago Manuel ARIAS, Roberto Fabi¨¢n B¨®, Gustavo PORINI Notes Relationships between temperament, husbandry, management, and socio-sexual behavior in captive male and female giant pandas Ailuropoda melanoleuca (In English) David POWELL, LIN Hong, Kathy CARLSTEAD, Devra KLEIMAN, ZHANG He-Min, ZHANG Gui-Quan, ZHANG Zhi-He, YU Jian-Qu, ZHANG Jin-Guo, LU Yan-Ping, Timothy SK NG, Jason CL TANG, Rebecca SNYDER Post-feeding larval dispersal in blowflies during summer and winter seasons in southeast Brazil (In English) Leonardo GOMES, Guilherme GOMES, Helena Gutierrez OLIVEIRA, Margareth Maria de Carvalho QUEIROZ, Claudio Jos¨¦ Von ZUBEN
