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September 2016

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An unusual protein in the eye of drosophila

Six known Drosophila Rhodopsins

September 6, 2016

An unusual protein in the eye of drosophila

Drosophila use seven Rhodopsin proteins to detect light. In this study, researchers investigated the unusual attributes of Rhodopsin 7.

September 29, 2016

Deer herbivory reduces web-building spider abundance by simplifying forest vegetation structure

Elizabeth J. Roberson, Michael J. Chips, Walter P. Carson, Thomas P. Rooney

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2538 PubMed 27703868

September 29, 2016

Noise pollution has limited effects on nocturnal vigilance in peahens

Jessica L. Yorzinski, Fredrick S. Hermann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2525 PubMed 27703863

September 28, 2016

Influence of age and sex on winter site fidelity of sanderlings Calidris alba

Pedro M. Lourenço, José A. Alves, Jeroen Reneerkens, AH Jelle Loonstra, Peter M. Potts, José P. Granadeiro, Teresa Catry

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2517 PubMed 27703860

September 27, 2016

The origin of widespread species in a poor dispersing lineage (diving beetle genus Deronectes)

David García-Vázquez, Ignacio Ribera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2514 PubMed 27703857

September 22, 2016

Harvesting and chewing as constraints to forage consumption by the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)

Bruce W. Clegg, Timothy G. O’Connor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2469 PubMed 27688971

September 22, 2016

Evolutionary morphology of the rabbit skull

Brian Kraatz, Emma Sherratt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2453 PubMed 27688967

September 20, 2016

New beaked whales from the late Miocene of Peru and evidence for convergent evolution in stem and crown Ziphiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti)

Giovanni Bianucci, Claudio Di Celma, Mario Urbina, Olivier Lambert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2479 PubMed 27688973

September 20, 2016

Spermatozoon ultrastructure in two monorchiid digeneans

Yann Quilichini, Abdoulaye J.S. Bakhoum, Jean-Lou Justine, Rodney A. Bray, Cheikh T. Bâ, Bernard Marchand

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2488 PubMed 27688980

September 20, 2016

Overland movement in African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis): a systematic review

John Measey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2474 PubMed 27688972

September 20, 2016

Development and characterization of fourteen novel microsatellite markers for the chestnut short-tailed fruit bat (Carollia castanea), and cross-amplification to related species

Katherine A. Cleary, Lisette P. Waits, Paul A. Hohenlohe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2465 PubMed 27688969

September 20, 2016

Environment and host species shape the skin microbiome of captive neotropical bats

Virginie Lemieux-Labonté, Nicolas Tromas, B. Jesse Shapiro, François-Joseph Lapointe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2430 PubMed 27688962

September 20, 2016

Contributions to the functional morphology of caudate skulls: kinetic and akinetic forms

Nikolay Natchev, Stephan Handschuh, Simeon Lukanov, Nikolay Tzankov, Borislav Naumov, Ingmar Werneburg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2392 PubMed 27688958

September 13, 2016

Regional drivers of clutch loss reveal important trade-offs for beach-nesting birds

Brooke Maslo, Thomas A. Schlacher, Michael A. Weston, Chantal M. Huijbers, Chris Anderson, Ben L. Gilby, Andrew D. Olds, Rod M. Connolly, David S. Schoeman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2460 PubMed 27672510

September 13, 2016

Comparative cephalopod shell strength and the role of septum morphology on stress distribution

Robert Lemanis, Stefan Zachow, René Hoffmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2434 PubMed 27672501

September 13, 2016

Effect of fragmentation on the Costa Rican dry forest avifauna

Gilbert Barrantes, Diego Ocampo, José D. Ramírez-Fernández, Eric J. Fuchs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2422 PubMed 27672498

September 7, 2016

Bioavailability of D-methionine relative to L-methionine for nursery pigs using the slope-ratio assay

Changsu Kong, Jong Young Ahn, Beob G. Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2368 PubMed 27651987

September 7, 2016

Digital Accessible Knowledge and well-inventoried sites for birds in Mexico: baseline sites for measuring faunistic change

A. Townsend Peterson, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, Enrique Martínez-Meyer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2362 PubMed 27651986

September 1, 2016

Inferring extinction in North American and Hawaiian birds in the presence of sighting uncertainty

David L. Roberts, Ivan Jarić

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2426 PubMed 27635365

September 1, 2016

Parrotfish grazing ability: interspecific differences in relation to jaw-lever mechanics and relative weight of adductor mandibulae on an Okinawan coral reef

Atsushi Nanami

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2425 PubMed 27635364

September 1, 2016

Stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of soil nematodes from four feeding groups

Carol Melody, Bryan Griffiths, Jens Dyckmans, Olaf Schmidt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2372 PubMed 27635338

September 1, 2016

Specific carotenoid pigments in the diet and a bit of oxidative stress in the recipe for producing red carotenoid-based signals

Esther García-de Blas, Rafael Mateo, Carlos Alonso-Alvarez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2237 PubMed 27635308

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