Candidate Species for Marine Ornamental Aquaculture: Porkfish, Anisotremis virginicus by Eric Cassiano, Kevin Barden

“…Porkfish also have additional appeal to aquarists because they are “cleaner” fish during their juvenile phase, picking parasites from larger fish and other vertebrates. Scientists and aquarists have recently achieved a greater understanding of appropriate aquaculture protocols for grunts in general and porkfish in particular. …”
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Bone Loss Triggered by the Cytokine Network in Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases by Dulshara Sachini Amarasekara, Jiyeon Yu, Jaerang Rho

“…Bone remodeling is a lifelong process in vertebrates that relies on the correct balance between bone resorption by osteoclasts and bone formation by osteoblasts. …”
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Social Experience-Dependent Myelination: An Implication for Psychiatric Disorders by Michihiro Toritsuka, Manabu Makinodan, Toshifumi Kishimoto

“…Myelination is one of the strategies to promote the conduction velocity of axons in order to adjust to evolving environment in vertebrates. It has been shown that myelin formation depends on genetic programing and experience, including multiple factors, intracellular and extracellular molecules, and neuronal activities. …”
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A Robotic Brain Scheme: Proposal Originated by a Modular Robotic Control by J. Negrete-Martínez

“…Each of these five classes roughly corresponds to areas in a vertebrate’s brain and proved to be an effective robotic brain scheme as they assist in the development of greater complexity in robotic brains and a means to compare different implementations. …”
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UV-Excited Fluorescence on Riparian Insects except Hymenoptera Is Associated with Nitrogen Content by William D. Wiesenborn

“…These structural compounds may be an important nitrogen source for insectivorous vertebrates.…”
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Peptide with Dual Roles in Immune and Metabolic Regulation: Liver-Expressed Antimicrobial Peptide-2 (LEAP-2) by Yitong Li, Ying Liu, Meng Gou

“…Liver-expressed antimicrobial peptide 2 (LEAP-2) was originally discovered as an antimicrobial peptide that plays a vital role in the host innate immune system of various vertebrates. Recent research discovered LEAP-2 as an endogenous antagonist and inverse agonist of the GHSR1a receptor. …”
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Mathematical Model for the Transmission Dynamics of Malaria in Kabale Municipality. by Nabasa, Moses

“…It is caused by the protozoan Plasmodium, transmitted to vertebrates by female genus Anopheles mosquitoes when they feed on blood. …”
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A rare deleterious missense mutation in the AXIN2 gene in Chinese women with polycystic ovary syndrome by Ying Zhang, Yu Chen, Fa-Ying Liu, Jing-Wen Fu, Xian-Xian Liu, Jun Tan, Ou-Ping Huang, Yang Zou

“…The evolutionary conservation analysis of the identified Axin-2 mutant was analyzed among 15 vertebrates from human to zebrafish. The protein structure change was analyzed between the wild-type and mutation-type. …”
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Methods of Developing User-Friendly Keys to Identify Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) from Photographs by Jane R. Lloyd, Miguel Á. Maldonado, Richard Stafford

“…User-friendly keys are, therefore, a suitable method for the photographic identification of turtles and could be used for other large marine vertebrates in conservation or behavioural studies.…”
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Functional Role of Milk Fat Globule-Epidermal Growth Factor VIII in Macrophage-Mediated Inflammatory Responses and Inflammatory/Autoimmune Diseases by Young-Su Yi

“…Milk fat globule-epidermal growth factor 8 (MFG-E8) is a secreted protein found in vertebrates and was initially discovered as a critical component of the milk fat globule. …”
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Limb Regeneration in Axolotl: Is It Superhealing? by Stéphane Roy, Mathieu Lévesque

“…In fact, urodeles such as the axolotl are the only vertebrates that can regenerate multiple structures like their limbs, jaws, tail, spinal cord, and skin (the list goes on) throughout their lives. …”
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High Sequence Variations in Mitochondrial DNA Control Region among Worldwide Populations of Flathead Mullet Mugil cephalus by Brian Wade Jamandre, Jean-Dominique Durand, Wann-Nian Tzeng

“…The mtDNA CR sequence variations among M. cephalus populations largely exceeded intraspecific polymorphisms that are generally observed in other vertebrates. The length of CR sequence varied among M. cephalus populations due to the presence of indels and variable number of tandem repeats at the 3′ hypervariable domain. …”
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At the Start of the Sarcomere: A Previously Unrecognized Role for Myosin Chaperones and Associated Proteins during Early Myofibrillogenesis by J. Layne Myhre, David B. Pilgrim

“…The development of striated muscle in vertebrates requires the assembly of contractile myofibrils, consisting of highly ordered bundles of protein filaments. …”
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Investigating Aerobic Hive Microflora: Role of Surface Microbiome of Apis Mellifera by Grigory Kashchenko, Amir Taldaev, Leonid Adonin, Daniil Smutin

“…While the significance of the microbiome to insect health and behavior is increasingly recognized, research on invertebrate surface microbiota lags behind that of vertebrates. A combined metagenomic and cultivation-based approach was employed to characterize the bacterial communities inhabiting the honeybee exoskeleton. …”
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Genome-Based Virus Taxonomy with the ICTV Database Extension by Shinduck Kang, Young-Chang Kim

“…The primary virus classification provided by ICTV in 1971 was for viruses infecting vertebrates, which includes 19 genera, 2 families, and 24 unclassified groups. …”
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Revisiting two hypotheses on the “domestication syndrome” in light of genomic data by A. S. Wilkins

“…Two general explanations of its basis have been proposed, which in principle, could also apply to other vertebrates, such as fish and birds, whose domesticated varieties show some of its elements. …”
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Cardiac regeneration: 20 years of development and update in zebrafish and mouse by Lekun Gui, Lijun Jin, Huangjun Liu

“…In contrast, some lower vertebrates, such as zebrafish, regenerate cardiac muscle throughout their lifetime. …”
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Human-Terrestrial Wildlife Conflict in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review by Getahun Shanko, Bekele Tona

“…Forty-seven species of terrestrial vertebrates were reported in conflict-related studies, being Bovidae and Cercopithecidae the most frequently studied groups, of which eleven are found in threatened list species. …”
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Introduced Spiders in Panama: Species Distributions and New Records by Daniel Murcia-Moreno, Dumas Gálvez

“…Invasive species are well recorded for vertebrates, plants and a number of invertebrates. A taxa for which there is a lack of information in some countries are arachnids, and this is the case of reports on introduced species in Panama. …”
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On growth and form of animal behavior by Ilan Golani, Neri Kafkafi

“…In this study we propose an architecture (bauplan) for the growth and form of behavior in vertebrates and arthropods. We show in what sense behavior is an extension of anatomy. …”
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