Background Extreme environmental conditions can give rise to extreme adaptations. We
document growth, sexual maturation and fecundity in two species of African annual fish …

The Gobiiformes is one of the most diverse orders of the Percomorphs, with approximately
2000 species in 270 genera. They represent 5 to 10% of all teleosts, with species occurring …

Extreme short lifespans are of interest because they mark current evolutionary boundaries
and biological limits within which life's essential tasks must be successfully accomplished …

Life history theory predicts a range of directional generic responses in life history traits with
increasing organism size. Among these are the relationships between size and longevity …

A checklist of the fishes of the order Gobiiformes is presented. The checklist contains 3585
nominal species names (including 77 as incertae sedis and 50 not available names) …

Schindleria (Gobioidei, Schindleriidae), believed to include one of the smallest and
youngest reproducing vertebrates, is broadly distributed in the Indo-Pacific Oceans …

Despite only comprising seven species, extant sea turtles (Cheloniidae and
Dermochelyidae) display great ecological diversity, with most species inhabiting a unique …

The unprecedented level of diversity recorded among the clones of self-fertilizing
gynogenetic unisexuals and self-fertilizing simultaneous hermaphrodites challenges current …

Schindleria brevipinguis n. sp., from the Lizard Island-Carter Reef vicinity of the Great Barrier
Reef, Australia and from Osprey Reef nearby in the Coral Sea, is a small, unpigmented …

The age structures of populations of African annual Nothobranchius spp. were examined for
the first time. Daily increments in sagittal otoliths of Nothobranchius furzeri, Nothobranchius …