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August 2016

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Mimicry adaptation between egg-cowries and octocorals

Mixed ovoposition

August 2, 2016

Mimicry adaptation between egg-cowries and octocorals

Researchers measured whether the various camouflage patterns of egg-cowries matched the different coral species that they inhabited.

August 30, 2016

An examination of species limits in the Aulacorhynchus “prasinus” toucanet complex (Aves: Ramphastidae)

Kevin Winker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2381 PubMed 27635345

August 4, 2016

Systematic relationships of five newly sequenced cervid species

Nicola S. Heckeberg, Dirk Erpenbeck, Gert Wörheide, Gertrud E. Rössner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2307 PubMed 27602278

August 18, 2016

Microendemicity in the northern Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates with the description of two new species of geckos of the genus Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae)

Salvador Carranza, Marc Simó-Riudalbas, Sithum Jayasinghe, Thomas Wilms, Johannes Els

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2371 PubMed 27602305

August 16, 2016

Ancient phylogenetic divergence of the enigmatic African rodent Zenkerella and the origin of anomalurid gliding

Steven Heritage, David Fernández, Hesham M. Sallam, Drew T. Cronin, José Manuel Esara Echube, Erik R. Seiffert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2320 PubMed 27602286

August 16, 2016

Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea

Alexandra T. Boersma, Nicholas D. Pyenson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2321 PubMed 27602287

August 24, 2016

Taxonomic revision of Eoalligator (Crocodylia, Brevirostres) and the paleogeographic origins of the Chinese alligatoroids

Yan-yin Wang, Corwin Sullivan, Jun Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2356 PubMed 27635329

August 16, 2016

Experimental exposure to urban and pink noise affects brain development and song learning in zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata)

Dominique A. Potvin, Michael T. Curcio, John P. Swaddle, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2287 PubMed 27602270

August 16, 2016

The adder (Vipera berus) in Southern Altay Mountains: population characteristics, distribution, morphology and phylogenetic position

Shaopeng Cui, Xiao Luo, Daiqiang Chen, Jizhou Sun, Hongjun Chu, Chunwang Li, Zhigang Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2342 PubMed 27602300

August 2, 2016

The masquerade game: marine mimicry adaptation between egg-cowries and octocorals

Juan A. Sánchez, Angela P. Fuentes-Pardo, Íde Ní Almhain, Néstor E. Ardila-Espitia, Jaime Cantera-Kintz, Manu Forero-Shelton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2051 PubMed 27547514

August 18, 2016

Diet of otters (Lutra lutra) in various habitat types in the Pannonian biogeographical region compared to other regions of Europe

József Lanszki, István Lehoczky, Antoinette Kotze, Michael J. Somers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2266 PubMed 27602262

August 16, 2016

Pseudorhabdosynochus sulamericanus (Monogenea, Diplectanidae), a parasite of deep-sea groupers (Serranidae) occurs transatlantically on three congeneric hosts (Hyporthodus spp.), one from the Mediterranean Sea and two from the western Atlantic

Amira Chaabane, Jean-Lou Justine, Delphine Gey, Micah D. Bakenhaster, Lassad Neifar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2233 PubMed 27602259

August 16, 2016

On the diversity of the SE Indo-Pacific species of Terebellides (Annelida; Trichobranchidae), with the description of a new species

Julio Parapar, Juan Moreira, Daniel Martin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2313 PubMed 27602280

August 24, 2016

Anxiolytic effects of fluoxetine and nicotine exposure on exploratory behavior in zebrafish

Matthew L. Singer, Kris Oreschak, Zachariah Rhinehart, Barrie D. Robison

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2352 PubMed 27635325

August 24, 2016

Transmission of a heterologous clade C Symbiodinium in a model anemone infection system via asexual reproduction

Wan-Nan U. Chen, Ya-Ju Hsiao, Anderson B. Mayfield, Ryan Young, Ling-Lan Hsu, Shao-En Peng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2358 PubMed 27635330

August 24, 2016

Fine structure of the spermatozoon in three species of Cambaridae (Arthropoda: Crustacea: Decapoda) Cambarus robustus, Orconectes propinquus and Orconectes rusticus: a comparative biometrical study

Buket Yazicioglu, Přemek Hamr, Pavel Kozák, Antonín Kouba, Hamid Niksirat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2363 PubMed 27635333

August 23, 2016

You can hide but you can’t run: apparent competition, predator responses and the decline of Arctic ground squirrels in boreal forests of the southwest Yukon

Jeffery R. Werner, Elizabeth A. Gillis, Rudy Boonstra, Charles J. Krebs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2303 PubMed 27635312

August 31, 2016

Male foraging efficiency, but not male problem-solving performance, influences female mating preferences in zebra finches

Véronique Chantal, Julie Gibelli, Frédérique Dubois

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2409 PubMed 27635358

August 9, 2016

An optimized approach to germ-free rearing in the jewel wasp Nasonia

J. Dylan Shropshire, Edward J. van Opstal, Seth R. Bordenstein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2316 PubMed 27602283

August 30, 2016

Microsatellite loci in the tiger shark and cross-species amplification using pyrosequencing technology

Natália J. Mendes, Vanessa P. Cruz, Fernando Y. Ashikaga, Sâmia M. Camargo, Claudio Oliveira, Andrew N. Piercy, George H. Burgess, Rui Coelho, Miguel N. Santos, Fernando F. Mendonça, Fausto Foresti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2205 PubMed 27635306

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