Research at our department spans across a wide range of animals including vertebrates, arthropods, and lophotrochozoans. These are analyzed using various morphological and molecular methods, including immunolabeling, advanced light and confocal microscopy, 3D reconstruction, high speed video analysis, electron microscopy, and gene expression studies. The data generated are used in integrative and comparative approaches to elucidate body plan evolution, development, functional morphology, ecomorphology and phylogeny of non-model organisms.
Integrative Zoology is a member of the Center for Organismal Systems Biology (COSB)
Postdoc Position available (June 14th, 2017)
The University of Vienna seeks to fill the position of an
University Assistant at the Department of Integrative Zoology.
For further information see the advertisement at the Job Centre of the University of Vienna.
The application deadline is July 4th 2017.
Departmental Seminar Integrative Zoology
Departmental Seminar Integrative Zoology
Tuesdays, 10-11:30 hrs, SR 3, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien
Programme Summer Term 2017
Winter Term 2017: Doodle for Speakers
Abstracts of former seminars
June 27th, 2017
Small breeding cells in honeybee - a possible way to overcome the Varroa crises? An experimental approach. (Abstract)
Harald Singer
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
New ultrastructural data on crisiid Cyclostomata. (Abstract)
Uliana Nekliudova
Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna
The anatomy of the feeding apparatus of Calyptocephalella gayi.
Stephanie Kunisch
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Andreas Wanninger
Die Metazoen:
Fiktion, Fakten und Fortschritte in der Evolution tierischer Vielfalt
phylogenie kontroversiell
at the Natural History Museum Vienna
on June 27th,2017, 14:00 – 15:30 at the "Kurssaal" of the Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7 (side entrance) 1010 Vienna
Milasowszky N, Bauder J, & Hepner M 2017.
Diplocephalus komposchi n. sp., a new species of erigonine spider (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Austria.
Zootaxa 4268: 296–300.
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.10, available online
Scherholz M, Redl E, Wollesen T, de Oliveira AL, Todt C & Wanninger A. 2017.
Ancestral and novel roles of Pax family genes in mollusks.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017) 17:81.
DOI 10.1186/s12862-017-0919-x, available online
Kratochvil HG & Pollirer M. 2017.
Acoustic effects during photosynthesis of aquatic plants enable new research opportunities.
Scientific Reports 7: 44526 DOI: 10.1038/srep44526 (2017),
published: 14 March 2017
available online
Kollarits D, Wappl C & Ringler M. 2017.
The role of temporal call structure in species recognition of male Allobates talamancae (Cope, 1875): (Anura: Dendrobatidae).
Herpetozoa. 2017 Jan 30; 29(3-4): 115–124.
available online, IF
Ringler E, Beck KB, Weinlein S, Huber L & Ringler M. 2017.
Adopt, ignore, or kill? Male poison frogs adjust parental decisions according to their territorial status.
Scientific Reports 7:43544, DOI: 10.1038/srep43544, published: 06 March 2017
available online
Redl E, Scherholz M, Wollesen T, Todt C & Wanninger A. 2016.
Cell Proliferation Pattern and Twist Expression in an Aplacophoran Mollusk Argue Against Segmented Ancestry of Mollusca.
J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 00:1-15, DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22714
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Schwaha T, Hirose M & Wanninger A. 2016.
The life of the freshwater bryozoan Stephanella hina (Bryozoa, Phylactolaemata)—a crucial key to elucidating bryozoan evolution.
Zoological Letters 2016 2:25, DOI: 10.1186/s40851-016-0060-5
available online
Verheyen E, et al (Lamboj A). 2016.
Oil extraction imperils Africa's Great Lakes .
Science 04 Nov 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6312, pp. 561-562
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal1722
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Wolff JO, Schwaha T, Seiter M & Gorb SN. 2016.
Whip spiders (Amblypygi) become water-repellent by a colloidal secretion that self-assembles into hierarchical microstructures.
Zoological Letters 2016 2:23, DOI: 10.1186/s40851-016-0059-y
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Gaiti F, Calcino AD, Tanurdžić M & Degnana BM. 2016.
Origin and evolution of the metazoan non-coding regulatory genome.
Developmental Biology, in press, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.11.013
available online
De Oliveira AL, Wollesen T, Kristof A, Scherholz M, Redl E, Todt C, Bleidorn C & Wanninger A. 2016.
Comparative transcriptomics enlarges the toolkit of known developmental genes in mollusks.
BMC Genomics 201617:905, DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3080-9,
available online
Böhm A & Pass G. 2016.
The ocelli of Archaeognatha (Hexapoda): functional morphology, pigment migration and chemical nature of the reflective tapetum.
J Exp Biol 2016 219:3039-3048. Posted Online July 28, 2016, doi:10.1242/jeb.141275, available online
Nödl MT, Kerbl A, Walzl MG, Müller GB & de Couet HG. 2016.
The cephalopod arm crown: appendage formation and differentiation in the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes.
Frontiers in Zoology201613:44. doi:10.1186/s12983-016-0175-8, available online
Deventer SA, Uhl F, Bugnyar T, Miller R, Fitch WT, Schiestl M, Ringler M & Schwab C. 2016.
Behavioural type affects space use in a wild population of crows (Corvus corone).
Ethology, 122: 881–891. doi:10.1111/eth.12536, available online
Nesshöver C, Vandewalle M, Wittmer H, Balian EV, Carmen E, Geijzendorffer IR, Görg C, Jongman R, Livoreil B, Santamaria L, Schindler S, Settele J, Sousa Pinto I, Török K, Van Dijk J, Watt AD, Young JC & Zulka KP. 2016
The Network of Knowledge approach: improving the science and society dialogue on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe.
Biodivers Conserv (2016) 25: 1215. doi:10.1007/s10531-016-1127-5, available online
Schindler S, Livoreil B, Sousa Pinto I, Araújo RM, Zulka KP, Pullin AS, Santamaria L, Kropik M, Fernández-Méndez P & Wrbka T. 2016
The network BiodiversityKnowledge in practice: insights from three trial assessments.
Biodivers Conserv (2016) 25: 1301. doi:10.1007/s10531-016-1128-4, available online
Kreiderits A, Gamauf A, Krenn HW & Sumasgutner P. 2016.
Investigating the influence of local weather conditions and alternative prey composition on the breeding performance of urban Eurasian Kestrels Falco tinnunculus.
Bird Study, available online
Dicks LV, Wright HL, Ashpole JE, Hutchison J, McCormack CG, Livoreil B, Zulka KP & Sutherland WJ. 2016.
What works in conservation? Using expert assessment of summarised evidence to identify practices that enhance natural pest control in agriculture.
Biodivers Conserv DOI 10.1007/s10531-016-1133-7
available online
Betancourth-Cundar M, Lima AP, Hödl W & Amézquita A. 2016.
Decoupled Evolution between Senders and Receivers in the Neotropical Allobates femoralis Frog Complex.
PLoS ONE 11(6): e0155929. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155929.
available online
Mangiamelea LA, Fuxjager MJ, Schuppe ER, Taylora RS, Hödl W & Preininger D 2016.
Increased androgenic sensitivity in the hind limb muscular system marks the evolution of a derived gestural display.
PNAS 113 (20): 5664–5669, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1603329113
available online
Ringler E, Pasukonis A, Ringler M & Huber L 2016.
Sex-specific offspring discrimination reflects respective risks and costs of misdirected care in a poison frog.
Animal Behaviour 114 (2016) 173-179. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.008
available online
Krenn HW, Fournel J, Bauder J A-S & Hugel S. 2016.
Mouthparts and nectar feeding of the flower visiting cricket Glomeremus orchidophilus (Gryllacrididae).
Arthropod Structure & Development 45 (2016) 221-229.
available online
Fritsch M, Wollesen T, Wanninger A. 2016.
Hox and ParaHox Gene Expression in Early Body Plan Patterning of Polyplacophoran Mollusks.
J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 326B:89–104.
available online
Pasukonis A, Trenkwalder K, Ringler M, Ringler E, Mangione R, Steininger J, Warrington I, Hödl W, 2016
The significance of spatial memory for water finding in a tadpole-transporting frog.
Animal Behaviour 116 (2016) 89-98, available online
Shrubovych J, Bartel D, Szucsich NU, Resch MC, Pass G, 2016
Morphological and Genetic Analysis of the Acerentomon doderoi Group (Protura: Acerentomidae) with Description of A. christiani sp. nov.
PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0148033, April 13, 2016. available online
Moser D, Ellmauer T, Evans D, Zulka KP, Adam M, Dullinger S & Essl F. 2016
Weak agreement between the species conservation status assessments of the European Habitats Directive and Red Lists.
Biological Conservation 198 (2016) 1–8, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.03.024, available online.
Wanninger A, 2016
Twenty years into the “new animal phylogeny”: Changes and challenges.
Org Divers Evol 2016, DOI 10.1007/s13127-016-0277-3
Hickel C, Gereben-Krenn B-A, Zweimüller I, Krenn HW (2016).
Wetterbedingungen für die Erfassung von Tagfaltern (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in alpinen -Lebensräumen in Österreich.
Entomologia Austriaca 23: 7-18. PDF
Zulka KP, 2015
Rote Listen gefährdeter Arten – Datenanforderungen, Defizite, Bedeutung für die Biodiversitätsforschung.
Acta ZooBot Austria 152, 2015, 183–188.
Rimskaya-Korsakova NN, Kristof A, Malakhov VV & Wanninger A. 2016
Neural architecture of Galathowenia oculata Zach, 1923 (Oweniidae, Annelida).
Frontiers in Zoology 2016,13:5, Published: 8 February 2016,
DOI: 10.1186/s12983-016-0136-2 available online
Karolyi K, Hansal T, Krenn HW & Colville JF. 2016
Comparative morphology of the mouthparts of the megadiverse South African monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini): feeding adaptations and guild structure.
PeerJ 2016,
Article first published online: 21 Jan 2016, DOI 10.7717/peerj.1597 available online
Galli L, Bartel D, Capurro M, Pass G, Sará A, Shrubovych J & Szucsich N. 2016
Redescription and review of the most abundant conehead in Italy: Acerentomon italicum Nosek, 1969 (Protura: Acerentomidae).
Italian Journal of Zoology 2015,
Article first published online: 2 Dec 2015, DOI: 10.1080/11250003.2015.1114686, available online
Kristof A, de Oliveira AL, Kolbin KG & Wanninger A. 2016
A putative species complex in the Sea of Japan revealed by DNA sequence data: a study on Lottia cf. kogamogai (Gastropoda: Patellogastropoda).
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research,
Article first published online: 8 JAN 2016, DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12120, available online
Wollesen T, Rodríguez Monje SV, McDougall C, Degnan BM & Wanninger A. 2015
The ParaHox gene Gsx patterns the apical organ and central nervous system but not the foregut in scaphopod and cephalopod mollusks.
EvoDevo 2015, DOI: 10.1186/s13227-015-0037-z. available online
Schmidt- Rhaesa A, Harzsch S & Purschke G (Eds).
Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems, Oxford University Press 2015
Chapter 17: Wanninger A, Kamptozoa (Entoprocta)
Chapter 19: Wanninger A, Mollusca: Bivalvia
Chapter 21: Wollesen T, Mollusca: Cephalopoda
Chapter 23: Kristof A & Maiorova AS, Annelida: Sipuncula
Chapter 25: Richter S, Stach T & Wanninger A, Perspective - Nervous system development in bilaterian larvae - testing the concept of 'primary larvae'
Chapter 26: Gruhl A & Schwaha T: Bryozoa (Ectoprocta)
Chapter 43: Fritsch M & Richter S: Maxillopoda and Branchiopoda
Kristof A, de Oliveira AL, Kolbin KG, Wanninger A. 2015
Neuromuscular development in Patellogastropoda (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and its importance for reconstructing ancestral gastropod bodyplan features.
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12112. available online
Stejskal K, Streinzer M, Dyer A, Paulus HF & Spaethe J. 2015.
Functional significance of labellum pattern variation in a sexually deceptive orchid (Ophrys heldreichii): Evidence of individual signature learning effects.
PLoS ONE 10(11): e0142971. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142971
available online
Audino JA, Marian JEAR, Kristof A & Wanninger A
Inferring muscular ground patterns in Bivalvia: Myogenesis in the scallop Nodipecten nodosus.
Frontiers in Zoology (2015) 12:34
DOI 10.1186/s12983-015-0125-x. available online
D'Aniello S ,Delroisse J, Valero-Gracia A, Lowe EK , Byrne M, Cannon JT , Halanychf KM, Elphick MR, Mallefet J, Kaul-Strehlow S, Lowe CJ, Flammang P, Ullrich-Lüter E, Wanninger A, Arnone MI
Opsin evolution in the Ambulacraria.
Marine Genomics (2015), DOI ist: 10.1016/j.margen.2015.10.001, available online
Wollesen T, Rodríguez Monje SV, Todt C, Degnan BM & Wanninger A
Ancestral role of Pax2/5/8 in molluscan brain and multimodal sensory system development.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2015) 15:231, DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0505-z. Available online
Scherholz M, Redl E, Wollesen T, Todt C & Wanninger A, 2015
From complex to simple: myogenesis in an aplacophoran mollusk reveals key traits in aculiferan evolution.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2015) 15:201
doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0467-1, available online
Wanninger A (ed.)
Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates.
Springer Wien Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 6 Volumes, 2015.
Mangold A , Trenkwalder K , Ringler M, Hödl W & Ringler E , 2015
Low reproductive skew despite high male-biased operational sex ratio in a glass frog with paternal care.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2015) 15:181
doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0469-z, available online
Fritsch M, Wollesen T, de Oliveira AL & Wanninger A, 2015
Unexpected co-linearity of Hox gene expression in an aculiferan mollusk.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2015) 15:151
DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0414-1, available online
Audino JA, Marian JEAR, Wanninger A, Lopes SGBC. 2015
Anatomy of the pallial tentacular organs of the scallop Nodipecten nodosus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bivalvia: Pectinidae).
Zoologischer Anzeiger 258: 39–46.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2015.06.004. available online
Pass G, Tögel M, Krenn H & Paululat A, 2015
The circulatory organs of insect wings: Prime examples for the origin of evolutionary novelties. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology Volume 256, May 2015, Pages 82–95, available online
Merkel J, Lieb B, Wanninger A, 2015
Muscular anatomy of an entoproct creeping-type larva reveals extraordinary high complexity and potential shared characters with mollusks.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 130 (10 pages).
DOI:10.1186/s12862-015-0394-1., available online
Ringler E, Pašukonis A, Fitch WT, Huber L, Hödl W & Ringler M, 2015
Flexible compensation of uniparental care: female poison frogs take over when males disappear. Behavioral Ecology (2015), 00(00), 1–7. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv069, available online
Wanninger A, 2015
Morphology is dead – long live morphology!
Integrating MorphoEvoDevo into molecular EvoDevo and phylogenomics.
Front. Ecol.Evol.3:54.doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00054, Available online
Audino JA, Marian JEAR, Wanninger A & Lopes SGBC, 2015
Mantle margin morphogenesis in Nodipecten nodosus (Mollusca: Bivalvia): new insights into the development and the roles of bivalve pallial folds. BMC Developmental Biology (2015) 15:22
DOI 10.1186/s12861-015-0074-9, Available online
Audino JA, Marian JEAR, Wanninger A & Lopes SGBC, 2015
Development of the pallial eye in Nodipecten nodosus (Mollusca: Bivalvia): insights into early visual performance in scallops. Zoomorphology DOI 10.1007/s00435-015-0265-8, Available online
Milasowszky N, Hepner M, Waitzbauer W & Zulka KP, 2015
The epigeic spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae)of 28 forests in eastern Austria. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology in Eastern Austria 1/1,135-163. Available online
Ostrovsky AN, LidgardS , Gordon DP, Schwaha T, Genikhovich G & Ereskovsky AV, 2015
Matrotrophy and placentation in invertebrates: a new paradigm.
Biological Reviews. Article first published online: 29 April 2015, DOI: 10.1111/brv.12189
Erich M, Ringler M, Hödl W, Ringler E, 2015
Brood-partitioning behaviour in unpredictable environments: hedging the bets? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Article first published online: 10 April 2015, DOI 10.1007/s00265-015-1913-1
Bauder JAS, Morawetz L, Warren AD & Krenn HW, 2015
Functional constraints on the evolution of long butterfly proboscides: lessons from Neotropical skippers (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae).
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 28, Issue 3, p 678–687
Article first published online: 31 March 2015, DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12601
Stangel J, Preininger D, Sztatecsy M & Hödl W, 2015
Ontogenetic Change of Signal Brightness in the Foot-Flagging Frog Species Staurois parvus and Staurois guttatus.
Herpetologica, 71(1), 2015, 1–7, available online
Natchev N, Tzankov N, Vergilov V, Kummer S, Handschuh S, 2015
Functional morphology of a highly specialised pivot joint in the cranio-cervical complex of the minute lizard Ablepharus kitaibelii in relation to feeding ecology and behaviour.
Contributions to Zoology, 84: 13-23, available online
Heiss E, Aerts P, Van Wassenbergh S
Flexibility is everything: prey capture throughout the seasonal habitat switches in the smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris
Organisms Diversity & Evolution Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 127-142 (March 2015)
available online
Kaul-Strehlow S, Urata M , Minokawa T, Stach T & Wanninger A
Neurogenesis in directly and indirectly developing enteropneusts: of nets and cords
Organisms Diversity & Evolution (2015)
10.1007/s13127-015-0201-2 available online
Misof B, Liu S, Meusemann K, Peters RS, Donath A, Mayer C, Frandsen PB, Ware J, Flouri T, Beutel RG, Niehuis O, Petersen M, Izquierdo-Carrasco F, Wappler T, Rust J, Aberer AJ, Aspöck U, Aspöck H, Bartel D, Blanke A, Berger S, Böhm A, Buckley TR, Calcott B, Chen J, Friedrich F, Fukui M, Fujita M, Greve C, Grobe P, Gu S, Huang Y, Jermiin LS, Kawahara AY, Krogmann L, Kubiak M, Lanfear R, Letsch H, Li Y, Li Z, Li J, Lu H, Machida R, Mashimo Y, Kapli P, McKenna DD, Meng G, Nakagaki Y, Navarrete-Heredia JL, Ott M, Ou Y, Pass P, Podsiadlowski L, Pohl H, von Reumont BM, Schütte K, Sekiya K, Shimizu S, Slipinski A, Stamatakis A, Song W, Su X, Szucsich NU, Tan M, Tan X, Tang M, Tang J, Timelthaler G, Tomizuka S, Trautwein M, Tong X, Uchifune T, Walzl MG, Wiegmann BM, Wilbrandt J, Wipfler B, Wong TKF, Wu Q, Wu G, Xie Y, Yang S, Yang Q, Yeates DK, Yoshizawa K, Zhang Q, Zhang R, Zhang W, Zhang Y, Zhao J, Zhou C, Zhou L, Ziesmann T, Zou S, Li Y, Xu X, Zhang Y, Yang H, Wang J, Wang J, Kjer KM,
Zhou X
Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution
Science 7 November 2014: Vol. 346 no. 6210 pp. 763-767
DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570
Starnberger I, Preininger D, & Hödl W (2014)
The anuran vocal sac: a tool for multimodal signalling.
Animal Behaviour, 97, 281–288. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.07.027
Ringler M, Mangione R, Pašukonis A, Rainer G, Gyimesi K, Felling-Wagner J, Kronaus H, Réjou-Méchain M, Chave J, Reiter K, Ringler E. (2014)
High-resolution forest mapping for behavioural studies in the Nature Reserve ‘Les Nouragues’, French Guiana.
Journal of Maps. doi:10.1080/17445647.2014.972995
Sumasgutner P, Vasko V, Varjonen R, Korpimäki E (2014)
Public information revealed by pellets in nest sites is more important than ecto-parasite avoidance in the settlement decisions of Eurasian kestrels.
Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol: doi: 10.1007/s00265-014-1808-6
Blanke, A., Machida, R., Szucsich, N. U., Wilde, F. and Misof, B.
Mandibles with two joints evolved much earlier in the history of insects: dicondyly is a synapomorphy of bristletails, silverfish and winged insects.
Systematic Entomology. doi: 10.1111/syen.12107
Schwaha TF, Handschuh S, Redl F & Wanninger A
Insights into the organization of plumatellid larvae (lophotrochozoa, bryozoa) by means of 3D-imaging and confocal microscopy
Article first published online: 2 OCT 2014, DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20326
Karolyi F, Colville JF, Handschuh S, Metscher BD & Krenn HW
One proboscis, two tasks: Adaptations to blood-feeding and
nectar-extracting in long-proboscid horse flies (Tabanidae, Philoliche)
Arthropod Structure & Development 43 (2014) 403-413
Available online
Wipfler B & Pass G
Antennal heart morphology supports relationship
of Zoraptera with polyneopteran insects
Systematic Entomology (2014), DOI: 10.1111/syen.12088
Available online
Fröschl M, Handschuh S, Erlach R, Schwaha T, Goldammer H, Fragner R & Walzl MG
Computer-generated images of microscopic soil organisms for documentary films
Soil Organisms 86 (2), pp. 95–102, August 2014
Available online
Hustert R, Frisch M, Böhm A & Pass G
A new kind of auxiliary heart in insects: functional morphology and neuronal control of the accessory pulsatile organs of the cricket ovipositor
Frontiers in Zoology 2014, 11: 43
doi:10.1186/1742-9994-11-43
Available online June 2014,(open access)
Iris Starnberger, Doris Preininger, Walter Hödl
Review: From uni- to multimodality: towards an integrative view on anuran communication
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Volume 200, Issue 9 (2014), Page 777-787
DOI 10.1007/s00359-014-0923-1
Available online June 2014,(open access)
Petra Sumasgutner, Erwin Nemeth, Graham Tebb, Harald W. Krenn, Anita Gamauf
Hard times in the city - attractive nest sites but insufficient food supply lead to low reproduction rates in a bird of prey.
Frontiers in Zoology 11:48.
Available online 27 May 2014 (open access)
Petra Sumasgutner, Christian H. Schulze, Harald W. Krenn, Anita Gamauf
Conservation related conflicts in nest-site selection of the Eurasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and the distribution of its avian prey
Landscape and Urban Planning 127:94–103
Available online 4 May 2014 (open access)
Ringler E, Mangold A, Trenkwalder K, Ringler M, Hödl W (2014)
Characterisation of nine new polymorphic microsatellite loci in the reticulated glass frog Hyalinobatrachium valerioi (Centrolenidae).
Amphibia-Reptilia 2014; 35(2): 243–246. doi: 10.1163/15685381-00002940.
available online
Pašukonis A, Loretto M-C , Landler L, Ringler M & Hödl W
Homing trajectories and initial orientation in a Neotropical territorial frog, Allobates femoralis (Dendrobatidae)
Frontiers in Zoology 2014, 11:29, doi:10.1186/1742-9994-11-29
Available online
Monika Carol Resch, Julia Shrubovych, Daniela Bartel, Nikolaus U. Szucsich, Gerald Timelthaler, Yun Bu, Manfred Walzl, Günther Pass
Where Taxonomy Based on Subtle Morphological Differences Is Perfectly Mirrored by Huge Genetic Distances: DNA Barcoding in Protura (Hexapoda).
PLOS ONE, Published: March 07, 2014, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090653
Zulka KP, Abensperg-Traun M, Milasowszky N, Bieringer G, Gereben-Krenn B-A, Holzinger W, Hölzler G, Rabitsch W, Reischütz A, Querner P, Sauberer N, Schmitzberger I, Willner W, Wrbka T & Zechmeister H
Species richness in dry grassland patches of eastern Austria: A multi-taxon study on the role of local, landscape and habitat quality variables.
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 182, 25-36 (1 January 2014)
Werneburg I, Hinz JK, Gumpenberger M, Volpato V, Natchev N, Joyce WG. 2014.
Modeling neck mobility in fossil turtles.
J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 9999B:1–14.
Sumasgutner P, Rubin I, Gamauf A. 2014
Collecting blood samples in Eurasian Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) (Aves: Falconidae) via blood-sucking bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae) and their use in genetics and leucocyte profiles.
Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 116:247-257
Emiliano Dell’Ampio, Karen Meusemann, Nikolaus U. Szucsich, Ralph S. Peters, Benjamin Meyer, Janus Borner, Malte Petersen, Andre J. Aberer, Alexandros Stamatakis, Manfred G. Walzl, Bui Quang Minh, Arndt von Haeseler, Ingo Ebersberger, Günther Pass and Bernhard Misof
Decisive Data Sets in Phylogenomics: Lessons from Studies on the Phylogenetic Relationships of Primarily Wingless Insects
Mol. Biol. Evol. 31(1):239–249, doi:10.1093/molbev/mst196, IF
Egon Heiss, Peter Aerts and Sam Van Wassenbergh
Masters of change: seasonal plasticity in the prey-capture behavior of the Alpine newt Ichthyosaura alpestris (Salamandridae).
Journal of Experimental Biology 216:4426-4434. doi: 10.1242/jeb.091991, IF
Andreas Altenburger, Andreas Wanninger and Lars E. Holmer
Metamorphosis in Craniiformea revisited: Novocrania anomala shows delayed development of the ventral valve.
Zoomorphology, December 2013, Volume 132, Issue 4, pp 379-387, IF
Steven Lechelt, Walter Hödl and Max Ringler
The role of spectral advertisement call properties in species recognition of male Allobates talamancae (COPE, 1875) (Amphibia: Aromobatidae).
Herpetozoa 26 (3/4), December 30, 2013, IF
Florian Karolyi, Linde Morawetz, Jonathan F. Colville, Stephan Handschuh, Brian D. Metscher and Harald W. Krenn
Time management and nectar flow: flower handling and suction feeding in long-proboscid flies (Nemestrinidae:Prosoeca).
Naturwissenschaften first published online November 21, 2013, doi: 10.1007/s00114-013-1114-6, IF
Eva Ringler, Andrius Pašukonis, Walter Hödl and Max Ringler
Tadpole transport logistics in a Neotropical poison frog: indications for strategic planning and adaptive plasticity in anuran parental care.
Frontiers in Zoology first published online November 9, 2013, 10:67
doi:10.1186/1742-9994-10-67, IF
Maik Scherholz, Emanuel Redl, Tim Wollesen, Christiane Todt
and Andreas Wanninger
Aplacophoran Mollusks Evolved from Ancestors with Polyplacophoran-like Features.
Current Biology 23, 1–5, November 4, 2013. IF
Elena Perea-Atienza, Maria Botta, Willi Salvenmoser, Robert Gschwentner, Bernhard Egger, Alen Kristof, Pedro Martinez and Johannes Georg Achatz
Posterior regeneration in Isodiametra pulchra (Acoela, Acoelomorpha).
Frontiers in Zoology first published online October 28, 2013, 10:64
doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-64 (41 Pages), IF
Iris Starnberger, Dennis Poth, Pardah Saradhi Peram, Stefan Schulz, Miguel Vences, Jette Knudsen, Michael F. Barej, Mark-Oliver Roedel, Manfred Walzl and Walter Hödl
Take time to smell the frogs - Vocal sac glands of reed frogs (Anura: Hyperoliidae) contain species-specific chemical cocktails.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society first published online October 24, 2013. doi: 10.1111/bij.12167 (PDF), IF
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