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July 2016

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Behavioral flexibility in an invasive bird is independent of other
behaviors

Great-tailed grackle

July 12, 2016

Behavioral flexibility in an invasive bird is independent of other behaviors

Researchers investigated whether 'reversal learning' performance was linked to other behaviors in great-tailed grackles. The results provide potential insights into why this invasive species has been able to succeed.

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July 7, 2016

New occurrences of fossilized feathers: systematics and taphonomy of the Santana Formation of the Araripe Basin (Cretaceous), NE, Brazil

Gustavo M.E.M. Prado, Luiz Eduardo Anelli, Setembrino Petri, Guilherme Raffaeli Romero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1916 PubMed 27441102

July 20, 2016

DNA barcode data accurately assign higher spider taxa

Jonathan A. Coddington, Ingi Agnarsson, Ren-Chung Cheng, Klemen Čandek, Amy Driskell, Holger Frick, Matjaž Gregorič, Rok Kostanjšek, Christian Kropf, Matthew Kweskin, Tjaša Lokovšek, Miha Pipan, Nina Vidergar, Matjaž Kuntner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2201 PubMed 27547527

July 19, 2016

Gall-ID: tools for genotyping gall-causing phytopathogenic bacteria

Edward W. Davis II, Alexandra J. Weisberg, Javier F. Tabima, Niklaus J. Grunwald, Jeff H. Chang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2222 PubMed 27547538

July 20, 2016

Evolutionary relationships within the lamioid tribe Synandreae (Lamiaceae) based on multiple low-copy nuclear loci

Tilottama Roy, Nathan S. Catlin, Drake M.G. Garner, Philip D. Cantino, Anne-Cathrine Scheen, Charlotte Lindqvist

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2220 PubMed 27547537

July 19, 2016

Pleistocene phylogeography and cryptic diversity of a tiger beetle, Calomera littoralis, in North-Eastern Mediterranean and Pontic regions inferred from mitochondrial COI gene sequences

Radomir Jaskuła, Tomasz Rewicz, Mateusz Płóciennik, Michał Grabowski