Juvenile agile frogs spatially avoid ranavirus-infected conspecifics.

Exposure to contagious pathogens can result in behavioural changes, which can alter the spread of infectious diseases. Healthy individuals can express generalized social distancing or avoid the sources of infection, while infected individuals can show passive or active self-isolation. Amphibians are globally threatened by contagious diseases, yet their behavioural responses to infections are scarcely known.

From darkness to twilight: Morphological divergence between cave and surface-subterranean ecotone species.

Subterranean and surface habitats are in stark contrast in several environmental factors. Therefore, adaptation to the subterranean environment typically impedes the (re)colonisation of surface habitats. The genus includes amphipod crustaceans that primarily occupy subterranean habitats.

Integrating behavioural thermoregulatory strategy into the animal personality framework using the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara as a model.

The study of consistent between-individual behavioural variation in single (animal personality) and across two or more behavioural traits (behavioural syndrome) is a central topic of behavioural ecology. Besides behavioural type (individual mean behaviour), behavioural predictability (environment-independent within-individual behavioural variation) is now also seen as an important component of individual behavioural strategy. Research focus is still on the 'Big Five' traits (activity, exploration, risk-taking, sociability and aggression), but another prime candidate to integrate to the personality framework is behavioural thermoregulation in small-bodied poikilotherms.

Hemorrhagic Pneumonia in a Kidney Transplant Recipient Caused by Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia Infection: A Case Report.

Pneumonia is a common nosocomial complication in transplant patients. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is recognized as a common cause and is typically seen in immunocompromised and critically ill patients. S.

Sexual dimorphism in subterranean amphipod crustaceans covaries with subterranean habitat type.

Sexual dimorphism can evolve in response to sex-specific selection pressures that vary across habitats. We studied sexual differences in subterranean amphipods Niphargus living in shallow subterranean habitats (close to the surface), cave streams (intermediate), and cave lakes (deepest and most isolated). These three habitats differ because at greater depths there is lower food availability, reduced predation, and weaker seasonality.