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The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Reconstruction of a living Mirarce eatoni

November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

A 75 million year old bird skeleton from a threatened national monument in Utah represents the most complete skeleton ever found in North America for a long extinct group of birds called enantiornithines. This large, fossilized bird provides important new insight into the evolution of flight. It has several advanced adaptations for flying, which show that the Enantiornithes evolved these features separately from living birds.

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November 7, 2018
Wild bees of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: richness, abundance, and spatio-temporal beta-diversity
1 citation
314 downloads
1,905 views
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biogeography
conservation-biology
ecology
entomology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5867 PubMed 30425889
November 13, 2018
MTBseq: a comprehensive pipeline for whole genome sequence analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates
1 citation
133 downloads
537 views
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molecular-biology
infectious-diseases
public-health
population-biology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5895 PubMed 30479891
November 6, 2018
Host anemone size as a determinant of social group size and structure in the orange clownfish (Amphiprion percula)
1 citation
67 downloads
322 views
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animal-behavior
ecology
marine-biology
environmental-impacts
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5841 PubMed 30416882
November 13, 2018
The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae
1,033 downloads
3,844 views
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evolutionary-studies
paleontology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5910 PubMed 30479894
November 2, 2018
Elaborate plumage patterning in a Cretaceous bird
645 downloads
2,087 views
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evolutionary-studies
paleontology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5831 PubMed 30405969
November 12, 2018
Late Cretaceous sauropod tooth morphotypes may provide supporting evidence for faunal connections between North Africa and Southern Europe
384 downloads
1,229 views
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biodiversity
biogeography
paleontology
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5925 PubMed 30473934
November 14, 2018
Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
297 downloads
1,342 views
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bioinformatics
evolutionary-studies
genomics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5902 PubMed 30479892
November 1, 2018
Prionochelys matutina Zangerl, 1953 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the United States and the evolution of epithecal ossifications in marine turtles
247 downloads
822 views
evolutionary-studies
marine-biology
paleontology
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5876 PubMed 30402356
November 12, 2018
Genetic evidence supports a distinct lineage of American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in the Greater Antilles
184 downloads
1,359 views
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evolutionary-studies
genetics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5836 PubMed 30473930
November 6, 2018
Sociality genes are associated with human-directed social behaviour in golden and Labrador retriever dogs
177 downloads
1,727 views
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animal-behavior
genetics
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5889 PubMed 30416887
November 2, 2018
Home sick: impacts of migratory beekeeping on honey bee (Apis mellifera) pests, pathogens, and colony size
176 downloads
920 views
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agricultural-science
ecology
entomology
parasitology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5812 PubMed 30405967
November 16, 2018
A new microvertebrate assemblage from the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation: insights into the paleobiodiversity and paleobiogeography of early Late Cretaceous ecosystems in western North America
168 downloads
999 views
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biodiversity
biogeography
paleontology
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5883 PubMed 30479889
November 8, 2018
Amphibian life history in a temperate environment of the Mexican Plateau: dimorphism, phenology and trophic ecology of a hylid frog, Hyla eximia (=Dryophytes eximius)
163 downloads
348 views
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animal-behavior
biodiversity
ecology
ecohydrology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5897 PubMed 30473932
November 6, 2018
Sexual dimorphism in the Arachnid orders
144 downloads
630 views
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animal-behavior
entomology
evolutionary-studies
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5751 PubMed 30416880
November 8, 2018
Histological analysis of post-eruption tooth wear adaptations, and ontogenetic changes in tooth implantation in the acrodontan squamate Pogona vitticeps
133 downloads
1,127 views
developmental-biology
zoology
histology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5923 PubMed 30425900
November 15, 2018
A taxonomic reassessment of Piramys auffenbergi, a neglected turtle from the late Miocene of Piram Island, Gujarat, India
107 downloads
409 views
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paleontology
taxonomy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5938 PubMed 30479901
November 16, 2018
An emerging viral pathogen truncates population age structure in a European amphibian and may reduce population viability
106 downloads
683 views
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conservation-biology
ecology
zoology
freshwater-biology
population-biology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5949 PubMed 30479902
November 7, 2018
Geophysical upheavals and evolutionary diversification of plant species in the Himalaya
102 downloads
577 views
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biodiversity
biogeography
ecology
evolutionary-studies
plant-science
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5919 PubMed 30425898
November 7, 2018
Along urbanization sprawl, exotic plants distort native bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) assemblages in high elevation Andes ecosystem
98 downloads
441 views
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biodiversity
conservation-biology
ecology
entomology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5916 PubMed 30425897
November 8, 2018
A taxonomically and geographically constrained information base limits non-native reptile and amphibian risk assessment: a systematic review
92 downloads
396 views
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ecology
zoology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5850 PubMed 30425887
November 1, 2018
Plant defense elicitors: plant fitness versus wheat stem sawfly
92 downloads
382 views
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agricultural-science
ecology
entomology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5892 PubMed 30402358
November 13, 2018
A general pattern of the species abundance distribution
88 downloads
509 views
biodiversity
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5928 PubMed 30479898
November 12, 2018
CMTCN: a web tool for investigating cancer-specific microRNA and transcription factor co-regulatory networks
85 downloads
545 views
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bioinformatics
computational-biology
genomics
computational-science
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5951 PubMed 30473937
November 6, 2018
Trait-based predation suitability offers insight into effects of changing prey communities
84 downloads
509 views
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ecology
marine-biology
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5899 PubMed 30416889
November 2, 2018
imGLAD: accurate detection and quantification of target organisms in metagenomes
84 downloads
423 views
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bioinformatics
genomics
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5882 PubMed 30405973
The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Reconstruction of a living Mirarce eatoni

November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

A 75 million year old bird skeleton from a threatened national monument in Utah represents the most complete skeleton ever found in North America for a long extinct group of birds called enantiornithines. This large, fossilized bird provides important new insight into the evolution of flight. It has several advanced adaptations for flying, which show that the Enantiornithes evolved these features separately from living birds.

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