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February 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Lybia leptochelis

January 31, 2017

How boxer crabs acquire their anemones

Researchers observed that Lybia boxer crabs engage in fights where they steal sea anemones from one another, after which each crab splits their sea anemone into two identical clones.

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February 2, 2017

Geography shapes the phylogeny of frailejones (Espeletiinae Cuatrec., Asteraceae): a remarkable example of recent rapid radiation in sky islands

Mauricio Diazgranados, Janet C. Barber

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2968 PubMed 28168124

February 21, 2017

On Prophoca and Leptophoca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm: redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications

Leonard Dewaele, Olivier Lambert, Stephen Louwye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3024 PubMed 28243538

February 23, 2017

Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the “Topanga” formation of Southern California

Jorge Velez-Juarbe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3022 PubMed 28243536

February 21, 2017

Molecular and morphological data reveal three new cryptic species of Chiasmocleis (Mehely 1904) (Anura, Microhylidae) endemic to the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Mauricio C. Forlani, João F.R. Tonini, Carlos A.G. Cruz, Hussam Zaher, Rafael O. de Sá

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3005 PubMed 28243531

February 16, 2017

Variant profiling of evolving prokaryotic populations

Markus Zojer, Lisa N. Schuster, Frederik Schulz, Alexander Pfundner, Matthias Horn, Thomas Rattei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2997 PubMed 28224054

February 28, 2017

Neogene paleogeography provides context for understanding the origin and spatial distribution of cryptic diversity in a widespread Balkan freshwater amphipod

Michał Grabowski, Tomasz Mamos, Karolina Bącela-Spychalska, Tomasz Rewicz, Remi A. Wattier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3016 PubMed 28265503

February 28, 2017

Genomic analysis of ST88 community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ghana

Grace Kpeli, Andrew H. Buultjens, Stefano Giulieri, Evelyn Owusu-Mireku, Samuel Y. Aboagye, Sarah L. Baines, Torsten Seemann, Dieter Bulach, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Ian R. Monk, Benjamin P. Howden, Gerd Pluschke, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Timothy Stinear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3047 PubMed 28265515

February 23, 2017

Genetic diversity and differentiation in reef-building Millepora species, as revealed by cross-species amplification of fifteen novel microsatellite loci

Caroline E. Dubé, Serge Planes, Yuxiang Zhou, Véronique Berteaux-Lecellier, Emilie Boissin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2936 PubMed 28243525

February 22, 2017

Gait changes in a line of mice artificially selected for longer limbs

Leah M. Sparrow, Emily Pellatt, Sabrina S. Yu, David A. Raichlen, Herman Pontzer, Campbell Rolian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3008 PubMed 28243533

February 8, 2017

Candidate genes that have facilitated freshwater adaptation by palaemonid prawns in the genus Macrobrachium: identification and expression validation in a model species (M. koombooloomba)

Md Lifat Rahi, Shorash Amin, Peter B. Mather, David A. Hurwood