1. Identifying white spots on the roadmap of Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeolimnology in Slovakia: Review and future directions

   • Jaroslav Stoklasa
   • Daniela Dobríková
   • Ladislav Hamerlík

   Review 30 December 2017 Pages: 1229 - 1239

2. Purification of small-size acidic proteoglycan-like domain of carbonic anhydrase IX fused with thioredoxine expressed in Escherichia coli for structural characterization

   • Stanislava Bírová
   • Zdenko Levarski
   • Stanislav Stuchlík

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1240 - 1246

3. Functional and morphological traits of epiphytic lichens in the Western Carpathian oak forests reflect the influence of air quality and forest history

   • Anna Guttová
   • Alica Košuthová
   • Luca Paoli

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1247 - 1257

4. Clonostachys rosea associated with ponderosa and Coulter pine needles in Slovakia

   • Helena Ivanová
   • Ľudmila Hamarová
   • Peter Pristaš

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1258 - 1263

5. First signs of old-growth structure and composition of an oak forest after four decades of abandonment

   • Réka Aszalós
   • Ferenc Horváth
   • János Bölöni

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1264 - 1274

6. Factors responsible for the distribution of invasive plant species in the surroundings of railway areas. A case study from SE Poland

   • Małgorzata Wrzesień
   • Bożena Denisow

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1275 - 1284

7. The role of lipids and polysaccharides in model root mucilage with implications for the surface activity of the rhizosphere

   • Fengxian Chen
   • Gilboa Arye

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1285 - 1290

8. Physiological and proteomic changes in Zizania latifolia under chilling stress

   • Zihong Ye
   • Junping Liu
   • Xiaoping Yu

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1291 - 1299

9. Novel polymorphic EST-based microsatellite markers characterized in lettuce (Lactuca sativa)

   • Shuzhen Wang
   • Bincai Wang
   • Aihua Wang

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1300 - 1305

10. Identification of a HSP40 gene involved in planarian regeneration

    • Kexue Ma
    • Hecai Zhang
    • Guangwen Chen

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1306 - 1313

11. A new species of Bothropolys and a new record of Lithobius magnitergiferous (Lithobiidae) from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

    • Wen Qin
    • Penghai Qiao
    • Tongzuo Zhang

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1314 - 1319

12. Myriapod (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) communities in hedgerows of upland agricultural landscape

    • Slavomír Stašiov
    • Andrea Diviaková
    • Milan Novikmec

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1320 - 1326

13. A new cockroach, with bipectinate antennae, (Blattaria: Olidae fam. nov.) further highlights the differences between the Burmite and other faunas

    • Peter Vršanský
    • Bo Wang

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1327 - 1333

14. Pre-winter larval activity and feeding behavior of Erebia aethiops and E. cassioides in Austrian Alps

    • Pavel Vrba
    • Lenka Zapletalová
    • Martin Konvička

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1334 - 1340

15. Genetic structure of Apis mellifera carnica in Slovakia based on microsatellite DNA polymorphism

    • Matúš Šťastný
    • Jaroslav Gasper
    • Miroslav Bauer

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1341 - 1346

16. Amphibians in Czech zoological gardens — trends and implications for conservation

    • Michal Berec
    • Monika Šindelářová
    • Mikhail F. Bagaturov

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1347 - 1354

17. Phenetic similarity of European golden jackal (Canis aureus moreoticus) populations from southeastern Europe based on craniometric data

    • Georgi Markov
    • Miklós Heltai
    • Ćirović Duško

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1355 - 1361

18. Fucoidan from Undaria pinnatifida regulates type II collagen and COX-2 expression via MAPK and PI3K pathways in rabbit articular chondrocytes

    • Abdul Rehman Phull
    • Song Ja Kim

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1362 - 1369

19. Changes in expression of neurotrophins and neurotrophic factors in the model of eosinophilic inflammation of the esophageal mucosa

    • Mariana Brozmanová
    • Jozef Hatok
    • Andrea Vážzanova

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1370 - 1376

20. The growth inhibitory effects of garlic polysaccharide combined with cis-dichlorodiamine platinum on human HepG2 cells

    • Liyan Li
    • Tao Huang
    • Yang Mao

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 1377 - 1384

21. Erratum to: Reptile surveys reveal high species richness in areas recovering from mining activity in the Brazilian Cerrado

    • Fabrício H. Oda
    • Robson W. Ávila
    • Fausto Nomura

    Erratum 30 December 2017 Pages: 1385 - 1386