Dear Members of the Zoological Society of Japan

One paper published in Vol. 41, No. 1, and two papers scheduled for publication in No. 2 have been released.

Volume 41, Number 1 will be a special issue titled ”Recent Advances in Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Systems”.

We apologize for the delay in issuance from the usual date of February 1st.

The published papers are all that have been released this time, but an official version with a re-edited table of contents, including the overview, is scheduled to be released at a later date.

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Vol. 41, No. 1

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Ontogenetic Expression of Aquaporins in the Kidney and Urinary Bladder of the Japanese Tree Frog, Dryophytes japonicus Masatoshi Hibino, Ryota Aoki, Duy Anh Ha, Haruna Sano, Shiori Yamashita, Haruto Ogasawara, Kazuma Nishio, Kohei Kotake, Md. Main Uddin Mamun, Reiko Okada, Yuki Shibata, Masakazu Suzuki Zoological Science 41 (1), (29 February 2024) https://doi.org/10.2108/zs230069

KEYWORDS: Dryophytes japonicus, Japanese tree frog, metamorphosis, kidney, urinary bladder, aquaporin, AQP

Vol. 41, No. 2

ORIGINAL ARTICLES: MORPHOLOGY

A New Species of the Blind Cave Loach Genus Protocobitis (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae), Protocobitis longicostatus sp. nov., from Guangxi, China Jia-Jun Zhou, Zhi-Xian Qin, Li-Na Du, Hong-Ying Wu Zoological Science 41 (2), (29 February 2024) https://doi.org/10.2108/zs230104

KEYWORDS: cavefish, karst region, rib degenerated, taxonomy, Youjiang River

ORIGINAL ARTICLES: DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeographic History of Endangered Hokuriku Salamander, Hynobius takedai (Amphibia: Caudata) Mitsushi Kameya, Takumi Watanabe, Hisao Nambu, Yuji Yamazaki Zoological Science 41 (2), (29 February 2024) https://doi.org/10.2108/zs230101

KEYWORDS: divergence time, Lentic breeder, mitochondrial DNA, paleogeographic events, population expansion

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