Dear Colleagues, Below is the papers published in the latest issue by AZS, which may be helpful to your study.
Acta Zoologica Sinica is an OPEN-ACCESS journal, interested scientists can read and download the published papers free of charge, and the papers on the journal's webpage are browsed and downloaded 2000 times daily. The journal is trying to increase its international presence by publishing more and more papers in English, amd welcome the submissions from other parts of the world. Accetped papers in English will be published ASAP, withoug any charge. In the later half year of 2008, we will pulibish one issue mainly including papers in the filed of ECOLOGY, EVOLUTIOIN AND BEHAVIOR, depending on the number of accepted papers. Looking forward to your submissions. Sincerely, JIA Zhi-Yun, PhD Standing Associate Editor Acta Zoologica Sinica http://www.actazool.org Volume 54, Issue 1 http://www.actazool.org/currentissue.asp ORIGINAL PAPERS Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Pinniped ecology in Santa Monica Bay, California (In English) (PDF File [813 KB]) Maddalena BEARZI, Charles A. SAYLAN, Celia BARROSO Effect of sibling aggression on kittens' behavior in Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx (In English) (PDF File [360 KB]) Anastasiya ANTONEVICH, Sergey NAIDENKO Diversity, distribution and habitat association of large mammals of Alatish, north Gonder, Ethiopia (In English) (PDF File [800 KB]) Girma MENGESHA, Afework BEKELE Ecology of mole rats Tachyoryctes splendens and its impact on agricultural fields at Angacha, central Ethiopia (In English) (PDF File [349 KB]) Abebe KOKISO, Afework BEKELE Inter-annual changes in structure of overwintering population in Calomys venustus (In English) (PDF File [466 KB]) María C. PROVENSAL, Jaime J. POLOP Hormonal patterns associated with social rank and season in male oryxes Oryx dammah and elands Taurotragus oryx (In English) (PDF File [446 KB]) 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) (PDF File [429 KB]) 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 (PDF File [501 KB]) 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) (PDF File [754 KB]) 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) (PDF File [546 KB]) 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) (PDF File [706 KB]) Stanislav PEN-MOURATOV, Salvador Rodriguez ZARAGOZA, Einav MAYZLISH,Yosef STEINBERGER Physiology and Biochemistry, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Genetics and Molecular Biology Genetic diversity of the black muntjac Muntiacus crinifrons population in the central area of Anhui and Zhejiang Province (PDF File [812 KB]) 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) (PDF File [683 KB]) 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 (PDF File [1620 KB]) JIN Yuan-Ting, LIU Nai-Fa Identification by MALDI-TOF MS and expression pattern of a low molecular weight protein, Apolipophorin Ⅲ, from hemolymph in the silkworm Bombyx mori (PDF File [996 KB]) GUAN-Jian, ZHAO-Ping, HOU-Yong, LIU Hong-Li, ZOU-Yong, XIA Qing-You EoRab43 is an atypical Rab gene in Euplotes octocarinatus (PDF File [1956 KB]) NIE Yu, LI Jiang-Jiao, LIANG Ai-Hua, YANG Xin, ZHANG Zhi-Yun, WANG Wei Morphology adn Anatomy Age and growth profile of Indian major carp Catla catla from rivers of Northern India (In English) (PDF File [1112 KB]) 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) (PDF File [2292 KB]) B. NZAU MATONDO, M. OVIDIO, P. Poncin, P. VANDEWALLE, J.C. PHILIPPART Microstructure and ultrastructure of Coelomocytes of the Sipunculan Phascolosoma esculenta (PDF File [1272 KB]) 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) (PDF File [720 KB]) María José CORRIALE, Santiago Manuel ARIAS, Roberto Fabián Bó, Gustavo PORINI Notes Relationships between temperament, husbandry, management, and socio-sexual behavior in captive male and female giant pandas Ailuropoda melanoleuca (In English) (PDF File [714 KB]) 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) (PDF File [965 KB]) Leonardo GOMES, Guilherme GOMES, Helena Gutierrez OLIVEIRA, Margareth Maria de Carvalho QUEIROZ, Claudio José Von ZUBEN
