Lo Stato cellulare e i suoi cittadini: metafore bio-politiche sulla questione dell’individualità cellulare by Valeria Maggiore

“…The pathologist Rudolf Virchow and the zoologist Ernst Haeckel showed the philosophical and aesthetic potential of the latter metaphor, opening two different perspectives on a crucial problem in the science of living: the problem of the definition of biological individual.…”
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Novo gastrópode fóssil da bacia de São José de Itaboraí, estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Endodontidae) A new fossil gastropod from São José de It... by Cândido Simões Ferreira, Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho

“…<abstract language="eng">A new species of a very small land snail (Endodontidae) occurring in São José de Itaboraí limestone basin, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is described in honour of zoologist Hugo de Souza Lopes. Austrodiscus Parodiz, 1957 is registered in the paleontological records, for the first time.…”
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Alulah Taibel (1892-1984) a remarkable ornithologist, aviculturist and zoo-biologist by Spartaco Gippoliti

“…Alula Taibel has been an Italian zoologist of Austrian- Yemenite origin. After having served the Italian Army, he graduated in Natural Sciences at Bologna University in 1925. …”
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Vitalist temptations: life, earth and the nature of war by Klinke, I

“…This article stages an encounter between contemporary vitalist thought and the work of the controversial zoologist turned political geographer Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904). …”

Cellular Anatomy / by Lemus, Lurlene, author 648739

“…Credited as the first to use a diminutive of organ (t.e. little organ) for cellular structures was German zoologist Karl August Mobius (1884), who used the term "organula" (plural form of organulum, the diminutive of Latin organum). …”
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Organelle in Cell Biology / by Rasmussen, Michale, author 648305

L’île : un cadre propice au choc culturel by Marcos Sarmiento Pérez, José Juan Batista Rodríguez

“…From late 1866 to early 1867, young Swiss zoologist Hermann Fol, who later became one of Switzerland’s most eminent embryologists, spent three months in Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. …”
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Reidentification of a 19th century specimen reveals the first record of Amphisbaena hogei Vanzolini, 1950 (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Henrique C. Costa

“…For almost 60 years, a specimen of Amphisbaena collected in the 19th century by the Danish zoologist Johannes Theodor Reinhardt in southeastern Brazil has been identified as Amphisbaena prunicolor. …”
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Elie Metchnikoff: father of natural immunity. by Gordon, S

“…Metchnikoff is rightly famous for his recognition of the biological significance of leukocyte recruitment and phagocytosis of microbes in host defence against infection, inflammation and immunity. As a comparative zoologist he utilised a broad range of model organisms for microscopic studies in vivo and in vitro. …”

Vadym Nehoda (1979–2016), an investigator of bats and a guard of the nature by I. Zagorodniuk

“…A brief essay about a Ukrainian zoologist who distinguished himself in a number of studies of the waterbirds of the Dnipro basin and the bats of Polissia and Podillia. …”
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Destroyed research in Nazi Vienna: The tragic fate of the Institute for Experimental Biology in Austria by Klaus Taschwer

“…Among them were two of the three founders and sponsors, zoologist Hans Przibram and botanist Leopold von Portheim. …”
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Human Language, Animal Code, and the Question of Beeing by Sean Meighoo

“…In the first part of my paper, I present a close reading of some selected texts by Benveniste and Lacan in which they critically assess the Austrian zoologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch’s research on communication among honey bees.  …”
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A life in science – marriage as an epistemic relationship and the joint scientific persona of Astri and John Runnström by Kirsti Niskanen

“…This article analyses an unpublished (auto)biographical account by Astri Runnström, wife of the internationally renowned Swedish zoologist John Runnström (1888-1971). Runnström pioneered his research area in Sweden, experimental zoology and cellular physiology. …”
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Three contributions of Emil Goeldi (1859-1917) to amazonian archaeology and ethnology by Nelson Sanjad, João Batista Poça da Silva

“…The paper presents three contributions of the Swiss zoologist Emil August Goeldi (1859-1917) to Amazonian archaeology and ethnology published between 1900 and 1906, in German, when Goeldi was the director of Paraense Museum, in Belém, Brazil. …”
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Is Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid the Antidote to the Predatory Journal Problem? by Andrew Robert du Rocher

“…Mutual aid is an organisational component of the anarchist communism proposed by Russian dissident, geographer, zoologist, and anarchist Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin. …”
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Experience Professional dermatomycosis of the face, neck and upper part of chest caused by T. mentagrophytes by O. V. Matveeva, G. N. Mikheev, E. V. Sokolovskiy

“…A 43-year-old female zoologist has an occupational dermatomycosis of the face, neck and upper part of chest caused by T. mentagrophytes. …”
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More than 100 years of a mistake: on the anatomy of the atlas of the enigmatic Macrauchenia patachonica by Hans P. Püschel, Agustín G. Martinelli

“…One of these elements is the atlas of M. patachonica that due to a misidentification made 159 years ago by the prominent zoologist Hermann Burmeister, was not examined or illustrated by later researchers even with access to excellent specimens. …”
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The shifting of mankind’s origins: paleoanthropology in and beyond the Southern Hemisphere by Diego Ballestero, Erik Petschelies

“…Abstract This article examines the works of the Argentinian naturalist Florentino Ameghino (1854-1911) and the German zoologist Hermann von Ihering (1850-1930) concerning the origin and classification of human ‘races’ and the development of human culture. …”
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Cut and Paste: The Mexican Axolotl, Experimental Practices and the Long History of Regeneration Research in Amphibians, 1864-Present by Christian Reiß

“…In the context of their unclear status as larvae or adults and the mysterious transformation of some animals into an adult form, the Paris zoologist Auguste Duméril cut off the gills of several individuals in an attempt to artificially induce the metamorphosis. …”
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Implications of clonality for ageing research by Salguero-Gomez, R

“…Senescence, an organismal performance decline with age, has historically been considered a universal phenomenon by evolutionary biologists and zoologist. Yet, increasing fertility and survival with age are nothing new to plant ecologists, among whom it is common knowledge that senescence is not universal. …”