Dear Colleagues, The papers published in the latest issue, 6th issue, now are available on the journal homepage at http://www.currentzoology.org/currentissue.asp,. This issue consists of three special columns, along with five regular papers.
Publishing SPECIAL COLUMN is the long-term policy of the journal. If you have any idea about hotspot topics for particular reserach fileds, which can be topics for special columns, please contact me. Thanks. Volume 56, Issue 6 Leaf choice in black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus bieti is related to the physical and chemical properties of leaves ( PDF[446 KB] ) Zhipang HUANG, Sheng HUO, Shuguo YANG, Liangwei CUI, Wen XIAO Activity budget of Rhinopithecus bieti at Tibet: Effects of day length, temperature and food availability ( PDF[379 KB] ) Zuofu XIANG, Sheng HUO, Wen XIAO Demography and dynamics of mountain nyala Tragelaphus buxtoni in the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia ( PDF[684 KB] ) Yosef MAMO, Michelle A. PINARD, Afework BEKELE Spatial and temporal variation of fish assemblages in a subtropical small stream of the Huangshan Mountain ( PDF[834 KB] ) Yunzhi YAN,Shan HE, Ling CHU, Xiuying XIANG, Yanju JIA, Juan TAO, Yifeng CHEN Karyological and morphometric variation of the North African green frog Pelophylax saharicus (Anura) in north-eastern Africa ( PDF[2291 KB] ) Nabil AMOR, Sarra FARJALLAH, Slim BEN-YACOUB, Paolo MERELLA, Khaled SAID Special Column: Stress Physiology in Ecology and Evolution. Guest Editor: David COSTANTINI, University of Glasgow, d.costant...@bio.gla.ac.uk Redox physiology in animal function: The struggle of living in an oxidant environment ( PDF[711 KB] ) David COSTANTINI Application of heat shock protein expression for detecting natural adaptation and exposure to stress in natural populations ( PDF[1238 KB] ) Jesper Givskov SØRENSEN Telomeres: Linking stress and survival, ecology and evolution ( PDF[426 KB] ) Mark F. HAUSSMANN, Nicole M. MARCHETTO Covariation between personalities and individual differences in coping with stress: Converging evidence and hypotheses ( PDF[267 KB] ) Claudio CARERE, Doretta CARAMASCHI, Tim W. FAWCETT Special Column: Avian Metabolic Diversity Guest Editor: David SWANSON, University of South Dakota, david.swan...@usd.edu Sources and significance of variation in basal, summit and maximal metabolic rates in birds ( PDF[468 KB] ) Andrew E. MCKECHNIE, David L. SWANSON On the intraspecific variability in basal metabolism and the food habits hypothesis in birds ( PDF[173 KB] ) F. BOZINOVIC, P. SABAT Behavioral and physiological flexibility are used by birds to manage energy and support investment in the early stages of reproduction ( PDF[300 KB] ) François VÉzina, Katrina G. SALVANTE Special Column: Chemical Sense and Communication Guest Editors: Liquan Huang, Monell Chemical Senses Center, lhu...@monell.org Gary Beauchamp, Monell Chemical Senses Center, beauch...@monell.org Loss of CO2 sensing by the olfactory system of CNGA3 knockout mice ( PDF[892 KB] ) Jinlong HAN, Minmin LUO Flank gland-secreted putative chemosignals pertaining to photoperiod, endocrine states, and sociosexual behavior in golden hamsters ( PDF[610 KB] ) Ying-Juan LIU, Da-Wei WANG, Lixing SUN, Jin-Hua ZHANG, Jian-Xu ZHANG Roles of the main olfactory and vomeronasal systems in the detection of androstenone in inbred strains of mice ( PDF[1684 KB] ) Vera V. VOZNESSENSKAYA, Maria A.KLYUCHNIKOVA, Charles J. WYSOCKI Neurobiology of mammalian olfactory learning that occurs during sensitive periods ( PDF[846 KB] ) Hideto KABA Understanding the basic biology underlying the flavor world of children ( PDF[275 KB] ) Julie A. MENNELLA, Alison K. VENTURA Zhiyun Zhi-Yun JIA,Ph.D. Executive Editor Current Zoology http://www.currentzoology.org Institute of Zoology The Chinese Academy of Sciences Beichen Xilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China Coverd by SCI and Current Contents, BIOSIS Preview,Biological Abstract, Zoological Records, Chemical Abstract, and Scopus, CURRENT ZOOLOGY is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed international journal that publishes reviews and research articles, including significant new findings of fundamental and general interest. Submissions in the research fields of ecology, behavioral biology, biogeography, conservation biology, evolutionary biology and genomics are especially welcome. In particular, CURRENT ZOOLOGY seeks to publish research that explores the interface between zoological disciplines, and is truly integrative by illuminating the greater picture.
