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November 2015

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Can we measure beauty?

Kingman reef

November 10, 2015

Can we measure beauty?

Researchers have shown that an objective computational analysis of photographic images can be used to assess the health of a coral reef. The results have even wider posible application. The authors have also created a website using the techniques developed in this article where you can upload your own image to and get an 'aesthetic' score back.

November 24, 2015

Assessing the utility of the Oxford Nanopore MinION for snake venom gland cDNA sequencing

Adam D. Hargreaves, John F. Mulley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1441 PubMed 26623194

November 24, 2015

A critical survey of vestigial structures in the postcranial skeletons of extant mammals

Phil Senter, John G. Moch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1439 PubMed 26623192

November 19, 2015

Tools for quantitative form description; an evaluation of different software packages for semi-landmark analysis

Léo Botton-Divet, Alexandra Houssaye, Anthony Herrel, Anne-Claire Fabre, Raphael Cornette

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1417 PubMed 26618086

November 19, 2015

Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription

Ehsan Kayal, Bastian Bentlage, Paulyn Cartwright, Angel A. Yanagihara, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Russell R. Hopcroft, Allen G. Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1403 PubMed 26618080

November 5, 2015

The Bulimulidae (Mollusca: Pulmonata) from the Región de Atacama, northern Chile

Juan Francisco Araya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1383 PubMed 26587346

November 12, 2015

Demographic and genetic factors in the recovery or demise of ex situ populations following a severe bottleneck in fifteen species of Hawaiian tree snails

Melissa R. Price, David Sischo, Mark-Anthony Pascua, Michael G. Hadfield

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1406 PubMed 26587358

November 10, 2015

Homeotic transformations and number changes in the vertebral column of Triturus newts

Maja Slijepčević, Frietson Galis, Jan W. Arntzen, Ana Ivanović

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1397 PubMed 26587355

November 3, 2015

Alpine endemic spiders shed light on the origin and evolution of subterranean species

Stefano Mammola, Marco Isaia, Miquel A. Arnedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1384 PubMed 26734503

November 19, 2015

Spintharus flavidus in the Caribbean—a 30 million year biogeographical history and radiation of a ‘widespread species’

Austin Dziki, Greta J. Binford, Jonathan A. Coddington, Ingi Agnarsson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1422 PubMed 26618089

November 12, 2015

New craniodental remains of Wakaleo alcootaensis (Diprotodontia: Thylacoleonidae) a carnivorous marsupial from the late Miocene Alcoota Local Fauna of the Northern Territory, Australia

Adam M. Yates

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1408 PubMed 26587359

November 3, 2015

Chewed out: an experimental link between food material properties and repetitive loading of the masticatory apparatus in mammals

Matthew J. Ravosa, Jeremiah E. Scott, Kevin R. McAbee, Anna J. Veit, Annika L. Fling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1345 PubMed 26557436

November 24, 2015

Spatial patterns of coral survivorship: impacts of adult proximity versus other drivers of localized mortality

David A. Gibbs, Mark E. Hay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1440 PubMed 26623193

November 19, 2015

Variation in partner benefits in a shrimp—sea anemone symbiosis

C. Seabird McKeon, James L. O’Donnell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1409 PubMed 26618082

November 24, 2015

Challenges to a molecular approach to prey identification in the Burmese python, Python molurus bivittatus

Bryan G. Falk, Robert N. Reed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1445 PubMed 26623196

November 26, 2015

Geographic variation and genetic structure in the Bahama Oriole (Icterus northropi), a critically endangered synanthropic species

Melissa R. Price, Carl Person, William K. Hayes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1421 PubMed 26644974

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