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First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete

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March 9, 2018

First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete

Researchers describe Gammarus plaitisi (a Gammarid amphipod), endemic to Cretan streams. The divergence of the new species is strongly connected to the geological history of the island.

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March 20, 2018

Squeezing water from a stone: high-throughput sequencing from a 145-year old holotype resolves (barely) a cryptic species problem in flying lizards

Jimmy A. McGuire, Darko D. Cotoras, Brendan O’Connell, Shobi Z.S. Lawalata, Cynthia Y. Wang-Claypool, Alexander Stubbs, Xiaoting Huang, Guinevere O.U. Wogan, Sarah M. Hykin, Sean B. Reilly, Ke Bi, Awal Riyanto, Evy Arida, Lydia L. Smith, Heather Milne, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Djoko T. Iskandar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4470 PubMed 29576952

March 26, 2018

Postcranial skeletal anatomy of the holotype and referred specimens of Buitreraptor gonzalezorum Makovicky, Apesteguía and Agnolín 2005 (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae), from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia

Federico A. Gianechini, Peter J. Makovicky, Sebastián Apesteguía, Ignacio Cerda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4558 PubMed 29607264

March 19, 2018

Cenozoic aridization in Central Eurasia shaped diversification of toad-headed agamas (Phrynocephalus; Agamidae, Reptilia)

Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, Vladimir S. Lebedev, Evgeniy A. Dunayev, Roman A. Nazarov, Anna A. Bannikova, Jing Che, Robert W. Murphy, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4543 PubMed 29576991

March 16, 2018

Evolutionary persistence in Gunnera and the contribution of southern plant groups to the tropical Andes biodiversity hotspot

Christine D. Bacon, Francisco J. Velásquez-Puentes, Luis Felipe Hinojosa, Thomas Schwartz, Bengt Oxelman, Bernard Pfeil, Mary T.K. Arroyo, Livia Wanntorp, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4388 PubMed 29576938

March 20, 2018

The systematic position of the enigmatic thyreophoran dinosaur Paranthodon africanus, and the use of basal exemplifiers in phylogenetic analysis

Thomas J. Raven, Susannah C.R. Maidment

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4529 PubMed 29576986

March 28, 2018

Osteology of Batrachuperus londongensis (Urodela, Hynobiidae): study of bony anatomy of a facultatively neotenic salamander from Mount Emei, Sichuan Province, China

Jian-ping Jiang, Jia Jia, Meihua Zhang, Ke-Qin Gao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4517 PubMed 29610705

March 9, 2018

First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete and its evolutionary history—an integrative taxonomy approach

Kamil Hupało, Tomasz Mamos, Weronika Wrzesińska, Michał Grabowski