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May 2016

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Coronal muscle

May 5, 2016

Systematics of stalked jellyfishes

In this study, researchers demonstrate a novel view of the evolutionary history of stalked jellyfish, an understudied but important cnidarian clade.

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May 26, 2016

Jan A. Veenstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2043 PubMed 27257538

May 26, 2016

Postcranial anatomy of Pissarrachampsa sera (Crocodyliformes, Baurusuchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil: insights on lifestyle and phylogenetic significance

Pedro L. Godoy, Mario Bronzati, Estevan Eltink, Júlio C. de A. Marsola, Giovanne M. Cidade, Max C. Langer, Felipe C. Montefeltro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2075 PubMed 27257551

May 10, 2016

Incorporation of an invasive plant into a native insect herbivore food web

Menno Schilthuizen, Lúcia P. Santos Pimenta, Youri Lammers, Peter J. Steenbergen, Marco Flohil, Nils G.P. Beveridge, Pieter T. van Duijn, Marjolein M. Meulblok, Nils Sosef, Robin van de Ven, Ralf Werring, Kevin K. Beentjes, Kim Meijer, Rutger A. Vos, Klaas Vrieling, Barbara Gravendeel, Young Choi, Robert Verpoorte, Chris Smit, Leo W. Beukeboom

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1954 PubMed 27190702

May 24, 2016

Evolution of parasitism and mutualism between filamentous phage M13 and Escherichia coli

Jason W. Shapiro, Elizabeth S.C.P. Williams, Paul E. Turner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2060 PubMed 27257543

May 10, 2016

Optimisation of DNA extraction from the crustacean Daphnia

Camila Gonçalves Athanasio, James K. Chipman, Mark R. Viant, Leda Mirbahai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2004 PubMed 27190714

May 18, 2016

Symbiotic essential amino acids provisioning in the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus) under various dietary conditions

Paul A. Ayayee, Thomas Larsen, Zakee Sabree

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2046 PubMed 27231663

May 3, 2016

What is Atraphaxis L. (Polygonaceae, Polygoneae): cryptic taxa and resolved taxonomic complexity instead of the formal lumping and the lack of morphological synapomorphies

Olga V. Yurtseva, Oxana I. Kuznetsova, Maria E. Mavrodieva, Evgeny V. Mavrodiev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1977 PubMed 27168986

May 10, 2016

Advertisement call and genetic structure conservatism: good news for an endangered Neotropical frog

Lucas R. Forti, William P. Costa, Lucas B. Martins, Carlos H. L. Nunes-de-Almeida, Luís Felipe Toledo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2014 PubMed 27190717

May 5, 2016

A novel multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis typing scheme for African phylotype III strains of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex

Santatra Ravelomanantsoa, Isabelle Robène, Frédéric Chiroleu, Fabien Guérin, Stéphane Poussier, Olivier Pruvost, Philippe Prior

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1949 PubMed 27168969

May 24, 2016

Sperm removal during copulation confirmed in the oldest extant damselfly, Hemiphlebia mirabilis

Adolfo Cordero-Rivera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2077 PubMed 27257552

May 11, 2016

The first hominin from the early Pleistocene paleocave of Haasgat, South Africa

AB Leece, Anthony D.T. Kegley, Rodrigo S. Lacruz, Andy I.R. Herries, Jason Hemingway, Lazarus Kgasi, Stephany Potze, Justin W. Adams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2024 PubMed 27190720

May 5, 2016

Genetic structure of the crown-of-thorns seastar in the Pacific Ocean, with focus on Guam

Sergio Tusso, Kerstin Morcinek, Catherine Vogler, Peter J. Schupp, Ciemon F. Caballes, Sergio Vargas, Gert Wörheide

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1970 PubMed 27168979

May 24, 2016

Sex expression and floral diversity in Jatropha curcas: a population study in its center of origin

María de Lourdes Adriano-Anaya, Edilma Pérez-Castillo, Miguel Salvador-Figueroa, Sonia Ruiz-González, Alfredo Vázquez-Ovando, Julieta Grajales-Conesa, Isidro Ovando-Medina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2071 PubMed 27257548

May 17, 2016

The ontogenetic transformation of the mesosaurid tarsus: a contribution to the origin of the primitive amniotic astragalus

Graciela Piñeiro, Pablo Núñez Demarco, Melitta D. Meneghel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2036 PubMed 27231658

May 17, 2016

Microsatellite loci discovery from next-generation sequencing data and loci characterization in the epizoic barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Christine Ewers-Saucedo, John D. Zardus, John P. Wares

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2019 PubMed 27231653

May 17, 2016

Flower, fruit phenology and flower traits in Cordia boissieri (Boraginaceae) from northeastern Mexico

Cristian Adrian Martínez-Adriano, Enrique Jurado, Joel Flores, Humberto González-Rodríguez, Gerardo Cuéllar-Rodríguez