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November 2016

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Effects of CO2 laser irradiation on matrix-rich biofilm

Fluorescence Microscopy

November 1, 2016

Effects of CO2 laser irradiation on matrix-rich biofilm

Researchers evaluated the formation of biofilms on tooth enamel, which had been irradiated with a CO2 laser. This study investigates a key aspect of the increasing, wide-spread clinical use of lasers in dentistry.

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November 15, 2016

Biology of tiny animals: three new species of minute salamanders (Plethodontidae: Thorius) from Oaxaca, Mexico

Gabriela Parra-Olea, Sean M. Rovito, Mario García-París, Jessica A. Maisano, David B. Wake, James Hanken

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2694 PubMed 27896029

November 1, 2016

A potential third Manta Ray species near the Yucatán Peninsula? Evidence for a recently diverged and novel genetic Manta group from the Gulf of Mexico

Silvia Hinojosa-Alvarez, Ryan P. Walter, Pindaro Diaz-Jaimes, Felipe Galván-Magaña, E. Misty Paig-Tran

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2586 PubMed 27833795

November 24, 2016

A revision of tetrapod footprints from the late Carboniferous of the West Midlands, UK

Luke E. Meade, Andrew S. Jones, Richard J. Butler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2718 PubMed 27904809

November 9, 2016

A global analysis of bird plumage patterns reveals no association between habitat and camouflage

Marius Somveille, Kate L.A. Marshall, Thanh-Lan Gluckman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2658 PubMed 27867762

November 16, 2016

Historical reconstruction of climatic and elevation preferences and the evolution of cloud forest-adapted tree ferns in Mesoamerica

Victoria Sosa, Juan Francisco Ornelas, Santiago Ramírez-Barahona, Etelvina Gándara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2696 PubMed 27896030

November 15, 2016

The scavenger receptor repertoire in six cnidarian species and its putative role in cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

Emilie F. Neubauer, Angela Z. Poole, Olivier Detournay, Virginia M. Weis, Simon K. Davy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2692 PubMed 27896028

November 3, 2016

Phylogeography of Arenaria balearica L. (Caryophyllaceae): evolutionary history of a disjunct endemic from the Western Mediterranean continental islands

Javier Bobo-Pinilla, Sara B. Barrios de León, Jaume Seguí Colomar, Giuseppe Fenu, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Julio Peñas de Giles, María Montserrat Martínez-Ortega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2618 PubMed 27833802

November 17, 2016

Multiple, independent colonizations of the Hawaiian Archipelago by the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera)

Kari Roesch Goodman, Neal Evenhuis, Pavla Bartošová-Sojková, Patrick Michael O’Grady

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2704 PubMed 27896033

November 8, 2016

The origin of the lower fourth molar in canids, inferred by individual variation

Masakazu Asahara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2689 PubMed 27843722

November 30, 2016

Bioinformatical analysis of eukaryotic shugoshins reveals meiosis-specific features of vertebrate shugoshins

Tatiana M. Grishaeva, Darya Kulichenko, Yuri F. Bogdanov