Vertebrate Zoology

Latest research

1. An optimized in situ hybridization protocol to study early developmental patterns and signaling pathways in paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis)

   • Nóra Szabó
   • Erika Fodor
   • Máté Varga

   in Biologia Futura

   Article Open access 19 October 2025

   

2. Origin and Extinction of Species Driven by Selenium Decline on the Surface of Earth

   • Shiyu Sun
   • Shuwen Xue
   • Peidong Tai

   in Biological Trace Element Research

   Article 18 October 2025

   

3. First Report of Kyphosis in Nilssonia hurum (Gray, 1831) (Reptilia: Testudines: Trionychidae) in India with Notes on the Morphology of a Juvenile

   • Rakesh K. Mohalik
   • Sumidh Ray
   • Pratyush P. Mohapatra

   in National Academy Science Letters

   Article 16 October 2025

   

4. Free Cartilages of the Zebrafish Danio rerio (Danionidae) Caudal Fin Endoskeleton

   • D. V. Kapitanova
   • F. N. Shkil

   in Journal of Ichthyology

   Article 12 October 2025

   

5. Cellular and genetic mechanisms that shape the development and evolution of tail vertebral proportion in mice and jerboas

   • Ceri J. Weber
   • Alexander J. Weitzel
   • Kimberly L. Cooper

   in Nature Communications

   Article Open access 10 October 2025

   

6. Recycling enhancers

   • Chiara Anania

   in Nature Genetics

   Article 10 October 2025

7. A taxonomic and paleoecological review of the Rhaetian chondrichthyan fauna of Bonenburg (NRW) Germany

   • Thomas P. Vida
   • Jürgen Kriwet
   • Thomas Martin

   in PalZ

   Article Open access 09 October 2025

   

8. Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)

   • Simone Hoffmann
   • David W. Krause

   in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

   Article 09 October 2025

   

9. Identification, structural features, and potential functional significance of the myodural Bridge in African clawed frog, the Xenopus laevis

   • Heng Yang
   • Xue Song
   • Hong-Jin Sui

   in Scientific Reports

   Article Open access 08 October 2025

   

10. Cranial ontogeny in Steller sea lions and relationships between cranial morphology and suction feeding

    • Ryunosuke Yuge
    • Yumi Kobayashi
    • Orio Yamamura

    in Mammal Research

    Article 07 October 2025

    

11. The Evolutionary Origin of Self-Awareness in Vertebrates: The “Self-Awareness Homology Hypothesis”

    • Masanori Kohda

    in Philosophia

    Article Open access 07 October 2025

12. Effect of Temperature on Spontaneous Locomotor Activity of the Saddler Bichir Polypterus endlicherii (Polypteridae)

    • A. O. Kasumyan
    • V. V. Zdanovich
    • V. V. Sataeva

    in Journal of Ichthyology

    Article 06 October 2025

    

13. The Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Russian Far East and Other New Sea Turtle Records

    • K. D. Milto
    • I. V. Maslova
    • S. Yu. Stefanov

    in Biology Bulletin

    Article 06 October 2025

    

14. The Dental Enamel Differentiation Quotient of Modern Water Voles of the Genus Arvicola in Azerbaijan: Variation and Diagnostic Value

    • E. A. Markova
    • L. V. Nadirli
    • S. V. Zykov

    in Biology Bulletin

    Article 06 October 2025

    

15. Frog crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Raninoidea) from lower Eocene coral reef environments of the Serraduy Formation (Southern Pyrenees, Huesca, Spain)

    • Fernando A. Ferratges
    • Pedro Artal
    • Javier Luque

    in PalZ

    Article Open access 06 October 2025

    

16. Evolution of the rostral vasculature in turtles

    • Seishiro Tada
    • Takanobu Tsuihiji
    • Ingmar Werneburg

    in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

    Article Open access 06 October 2025

    

17. New Data on the Morphology of Myoxocephalus scorpioides (Cottidae) from the Chaun Bay of the East Siberian Sea and Analysis of the Variability of Some Diagnostic Characters of the Species

    • E. A. Poezzhalova-Chegodaeva

    in Journal of Ichthyology

    Article 06 October 2025

    

18. Diel pattern of locomotor activity of the climbing perch Anabas testudineus: baseline characterisation and alteration under artificial light

    • Efim Pavlov
    • Dmitry Zworykin
    • Tran Duc Dien

    in Environmental Biology of Fishes

    Article 06 October 2025

    

19. The hidden diversity in Thrichomys Trouessart, 1880 (Rodentia: Echimyidae): identity of T. pachyurus (Wagner 1845), and the description of a new species from Central Brazil

    • Ana Lazar
    • Marcelo Weksler
    • Cibele R. Bonvicino

    in Mammalian Biology

    Article 03 October 2025

    

20. Morphological divergence and the complexity of trophic niche plasticity of tetra fishes in subtropical streams

    • Mayara Pereira Neves
    • Pavel Kratina
    • Rosilene Luciana Delariva

    in Hydrobiologia

    Article 01 October 2025

    

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