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Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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.

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August 16, 2016

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

10 citations

810 downloads

8,882 views

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

The health care and life sciences community profile for dataset descriptions

11 citations

600 downloads

5,290 views

Michel Dumontier, Alasdair J.G. Gray, M. Scott Marshall, Vladimir Alexiev, Peter Ansell, Gary Bader, Joachim Baran, Jerven T. Bolleman, Alison Callahan, José Cruz-Toledo, Pascale Gaudet, Erich A. Gombocz, Alejandra N. Gonzalez-Beltran, Paul Groth, Melissa Haendel, Maori Ito, Simon Jupp, Nick Juty, Toshiaki Katayama, Norio Kobayashi, Kalpana Krishnaswami, Camille Laibe, Nicolas Le Novère, Simon Lin, James Malone, Michael Miller, Christopher J. Mungall, Laurens Rietveld, Sarala M. Wimalaratne, Atsuko Yamaguchi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2331 PubMed 27602295

August 4, 2016

Systematic relationships of five newly sequenced cervid species

21 citations

1,073 downloads

4,543 views

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)

15 citations

983 downloads

3,795 views

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

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

August 24, 2016

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

8 citations

698 downloads

3,726 views

Yan-yin Wang, Corwin Sullivan, Jun Liu

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

August 30, 2016

Osteology of the Late Triassic aetosaur Scutarx deltatylus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia)

7 citations

690 downloads

3,475 views

William G. Parker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2411 PubMed 27635359

August 16, 2016

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

3 citations

549 downloads

3,124 views

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

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

August 30, 2016

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

2 citations

1,670 downloads

2,848 views

Kevin Winker

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

August 18, 2016

Microbe-ID: an open source toolbox for microbial genotyping and species identification

2 citations

575 downloads

2,720 views

Javier F. Tabima, Sydney E. Everhart, Meredith M. Larsen, Alexandra J. Weisberg, Zhian N. Kamvar, Matthew A. Tancos, Christine D. Smart, Jeff H. Chang, Niklaus J. Grünwald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2279 PubMed 27602267

August 16, 2016

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

6 citations

497 downloads

2,155 views

Julio Parapar, Juan Moreira, Daniel Martin

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

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

12 citations

517 downloads