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Dygmedzhiev A, Tzankov N, Natchev N & Naumov B (2018). A non-traumatic multi-operational method for individual documentation and identification of nose-horned vipers (Vipera ammodytes (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata, Viperidae)) allows reliable recognition of recaptured specimens. Biharean Biologist, 12(2): 92-96.  e181301 

Nebel C, Kadletz K, Gamauf A, Haring E, Sackl P, Tiefenbach M, Winkler H, Zachos FE (2018). Witnessing extinction: Population genetics of the last European Rollers (Coracias garrulus) in Austria and a first phylogeographic analysis of the species across its distribution range. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 57 (2): 1–15. Link. Published online 19.12.2018

Uhl F, Ringler M, Miller R, Deventer SA, Bugnyar T & Schwab C (2018). Counting crows: population structure and group size variation in an urban population of crows. Behavioral Ecology, ary157, doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary157. Link. Published online 08.12.2018 

Milasowszky N & Hepner M (2018). A case of dimorphic males in Troxochrus scabriculus (Araneae: Linyphiidae), with notes on synonymy. Arachnologische Mitteilungen / Arachnology Letters 56: 48-54 Doi: 10.30963/aramit5609.

Ganske A-S, Edgecombe GD & Akkari N (2018). Morphology of the mandibles and the first maxillae in the family Lithobiidae (Myriapoda, Chilopoda), with remarks on their phylogenetic significance. Journal of Morphology. 2018;1–29. Published online 27.11.2018

Schendel V, Kenning M & Sombke A (2018). A comparative analysis of the ventral nerve cord of Lithobius forficatus (Lithobiomorpha): morphology, neuroanatomy, and individually identifiable neurons. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 76(3): 377-394. Published online: 27.11.2018 

Ahmad S, Haq Iu, Cáceres C, Sto Tomas U, Dammalage T, Gembinsky K ... Paulus HF, et al. (2018). One for all: Mating compatibility among various populations of olive fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) for application of the sterile insect technique. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0206739. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206739. Link. Published online 1.11.2018

Calcino AD, Fernandez-Valverde SL,Taft RJ & Degnan BM (2018). Diverse RNA interference strategies in early-branching metazoans. BMC Evolutionary Biology2018 18:160, doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1274-2. Link. Published online 1.11.2018 

Zachos F (Ed.) & Asher R (Ed.) (2018). Mammalian Evolution, Diversity and Systematics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. 

Kristof A, Maiorova AS, Worsaae K & Wanninger A. 2018. Sipuncula in evolutionary developmental biology. In: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Biology of the Sipuncula. pp 35-41. Boyle MJ, Kawauchi GY (eds). Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, 236 pp. DOI: 10.5479/si.1943-667X.42.

Barraclough DA, Colville JF, Karolyi F & Krenn HW (2018). A striking new species of Prosoeca Schiner, 1867 (Diptera: Nemestrinidae): An important pollinator from the Bokkeveld Plateau, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Zootaxa 4497 (3): 411–421, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4497.3.5. Link.  

Wollesen T, Rodríguez Monje SV, de Oliveira AL & Wanninger A (2018). Staggered Hox expression is more widespread among molluscs than previously appreciated Proc. R. Soc. B 2018 285 20181513; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1513. Link. Published online 10.10.2018
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Kuzmanova Y, Natcheva I, Koleva V, Popgeorgiev G, Slavchev M & Natchev N (2018). Public awareness of risks and recent marketingdynamics of Pond sliders (Trachemysscripta, Schoepff, 1792) in NE Bulgaria. Zoology and Ecology, 28(4): 329-336,DOI: 10.1080/21658005.2018.1521675. Link. Published online 24.09.2018

Zachos FE (2018). (New) Species concepts, species delimitation and the inherent limitations of taxonomy Journal of Genetics, Vol. 97, No. 4, September 2018, pp. 811–815 doi.org/10.1007/s12041-018-0965-1. Link. Published online 23.07.2018

Paulus HF (2018). Pollinators as isolation mechanisms: Field observations and field experiments regarding specificity of pollinator attraction in the genus Ophrys (Orchidaceae und Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Entomologia Generalis 37 (3/4): 261-316 DOI: 10.1127/entomologia/2018/0650. Link.  

Saad LO, Schwaha T, Handschuh S, Wanninger A & Marian JEAR (2018). A mating plug in a squid? Sneaker spermatophores can block the female sperm-storage organ in Doryteuthis plei. Zoology, doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2018.08.002. Link. Published online 08 .09.2018

Dudley R & Pass G (2018) Wings and powered flight: Core novelties in insect evolution. Arthropod Structure & Development 47 (2018) 319e321 doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2018.06.006. Link. Published online 14.07.2018

Tumulty JP, Pašukonis A, Ringler M, Forester JD, Hödl W & Bee MA (2018). Brilliant-thighed poison frogs do not use acoustic identity information to treat territorial neighbours as dear enemies. Animal Behaviour 141: 203-220. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.05.008. Link. Published online 27.06.2018

Chiozzi G, Stiassny MLJ, de Marchi G, Lamboj A, Fasola M & Fruciano C (2018). A diversified kettle of fish: phenotypic variation in the endemic cichlid genus Danakilia of the Danakil Depression of northeastern Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 124, Issue 4, 690–705, 24 July 2018, doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly085. Link. Published online 04.07.2018

Akkari N & Ganske A-S (2018). Two centipedes new to the fauna of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) and notes on the Lithobiomorpha of the island (Chilopoda, Myriapoda). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e26746. doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e26746. Link. Published online 11.07.2018  

Kornilev YV, Popgeorgiev G, Vacheva E & Tzankov N.(2018). First records of melanism (including in tail bifurcation) of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) in Bulgaria. North-Western Journal of Zoology 14(1): 142–144. Link.

Querner P, Milasowszky N, Zulka KP, Abensperg-Traun M, Willner W, Sauberer N, Jakomini C, Wrbka T, Schmitzberger I & Zechmeister HG (2018). Habitat structure, quality and landscape predicting species richness and communities of Collembola on dry grasslands in Austria. Insects 2018, 9, 81; doi:10.3390/insects9030081. Link. Published online 07.07.2018.

Pass G (2018) Beyond aerodynamics: The critical roles of the circulatory and tracheal systems in maintaining insect wing functionality Arthropod Structure & Development 47 (4) 2018: 1-17. Link. Published online 07.07.2018.

Akkari N , Ganske A-S, Komerički A & Metscher B (2018). New avatars for Myriapods: Complete 3D morphology of type specimens transcends conventional species description (Myriapoda, Chilopoda).  PLOS ONE 13(7): e0200158. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200158. Link. Published online 03.07.2018  

Böhm A, Meusemann K, Misof B & Pass G (2018). Hypothesis on monochromatic vision in scorpionflies questioned by new transcriptomic data.  Scientific Reports (2018) 8:9872, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-28098-2. Link. Published online 29.06.2018

Walzl MG & Schreiber M (2018). News from the past: personal documents relating to professor Berthold Hatschek (1854–1941) and his family at Vienna University’s former Zoological Institute. Schriften des Vereins zur Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse 154 (2018): 17–42. Link.

Wanninger A & Wollesen T (2018) The evolution of molluscs.  Biol. Rev. (2019) 94, pp. 102-115 doi: 10.1111/brv.12439. Link  

Seiter M, Schramm FD  & Schwaha T (2018). Description of a new Charinus species (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from the Monseñor Nouel province, Dominican Republic.  Zootaxa 4438 (2): 349–361. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4438.2.9. Link  

Wanninger M, Schwaha T & Heiss E (2018). Form and Function of the skin glands in the Himalayan newt Tylototriton verrucosus. Zoological Letters 2018 4:15. doi.org/10.1186/s40851-018-0095-x. Link. Published online 13.06.2018.  

Schwaha T, Handschuh S, Ostrovsky AN & Wanninger A (2018). Morphology of the bryozoan Cinctipora elegans (Cyclostomata, Cinctiporidae) with first data on its sexual reproduction and the cyclostome neuro-muscular system. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 18:92. doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1206-1. Link. Published online 14.06.2018.  

Schwaha T & Wanninger A (2018). Unity in diversity: a survey of muscular systems of ctenostome Gymnolaemata (Lophotrochozoa, Bryozoa). Frontiers in Zoology (2018). doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0269-6. Link. Published online 07.06.2018.  

Szipl G, Ringler E, Bugynar T (2018). Attacked ravens flexibly adjust signalling behaviour according to audience composition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. online first. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0375. rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1880/20180375. Link. Published online 06.06.2018.  

Starnberger I, Maier PM, Hödl W & Preininger D (2018). Multimodal Signal Testing Reveals Gestural Tapping Behavior in Spotted Reed Frogs.  Herpetologica 74(2) 127-134,  doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-17-00053.1. Link. Published online 01.06.2018.

Ringler E (2018). Testing skin swabbing for DNA sampling in dendrobatid frogs. Amphibia-Reptilia 29: 245–251. DOI:10.1163/15685381-17000206. Link. Published online 24.04.2018

Ringler E, Szipl G, Harrigan RJ, Bartl-Binder P, Mangione R & Ringler M (2018). Hierarchical decision-making balances current and future reproductive success. Molecular Ecology 27: 2289-2301. DOI:10.1111/mec.14583. Link. Published online 06.04.2018.

Savchenko E, Nicklas L, Milasowszky N & Krenn HW (2018). Zeitliche und räumliche Verteilung alpiner Tagfalter (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) entlang eines Höhengradienten in den Zillertaler Alpen (Österreich). Entomologica Austriaca 25: 25–29.  

Choudhary A, Vanichkina DP, Ender C, Crawford J, Baillie GJ, Calcino AD, Ru K &Taft RJ (2018). Identification of miR-29b targets using 3-cyanovinylcarbazole containing mimics. RNA. 2018 Apr;24(4):597-608. doi: 10.1261/rna.064923.117. Link. Published online 16.03.2018.

Schwaha T (2018). Morphology and ontogeny of Lophopus crystallinus lophophore support the epistome as ancestral character of phylactolaemate bryozoans. Zoomorphology (2018). doi.org/10.1007/s00435-018-0402-2. Link. Published online 16.03.2018.  

Baranek B, Kuba K, Bauder J & Krenn H (2018). Mouthpart dimorphism in male and female wasps of Vespula vulgaris and Vespula germanica (Vespidae, Hymenoptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65(1): 65-74 doi: 10.3897/dez.65.23593. Link. Published online 13.03.2018.  

Zachos FE (2018). Mammals and meaningful taxonomic units: the debate about species concepts and conservation. Mam Rev. doi:10.1111/mam.12121. Link. Published online 05.03.2018.

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Merkel J, Wanninger A & Lieb B (2018). Novel and Conserved Features of the Hox Cluster of Entoprocta (Kamptozoa). J Phylogenetics Evol Biol 6: 194. doi:10.4172/2329-9002.1000194. Link. Published online 02.03.2018.  

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Sumasgutner P, Adrion M & Gamauf A (2018). Carotenoid coloration and health status of urban Eurasian kestrels (Falco tinnunculus).  PLoS ONE 13(2): e0191956. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191956. Link. Published online 08.02.2018  

Martha SO, Afshar Y, Ostrovsky AN, Scholz J, Schwaha T & Wood TS (2018). Variation of the tentacles in Paludicella": The unfinished work of the german bryozoologist and embryologist Fritz Braem. In: Annals of Bryozoology 6, Patrick Wyse Jackson (ed.).45-73.  

Pavlicek A, Schwaha T & Wanninger A (2018). Towards a ground pattern reconstruction of bivalve nervous systems: neurogenesis in the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s13127-017-0356-0. Link. Published online 18.01.2018    

Kummer S, Heiss E, Singer K, Lemell P & Natchev  N (2017). Feeding Behaviour and Feeding Motorics in Subadult  European Pond Turtles, Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758). Acta zool. bulg. 10: 77-84.