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April 2017

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Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities

Scarabaeus laticollis

April 4, 2017

Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities

Researchers investigated the biodiversity of tropical landscapes by studying the range of dung beetles present in differing biomes.

April 19, 2017

Distribution and establishment of the alien Australian redclaw crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus, in South Africa and Swaziland

Ana L. Nunes, Tsungai A. Zengeya, Andries C. Hoffman, G. John Measey, Olaf L.F. Weyl

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3135 PubMed 28439454

April 26, 2017

An interview-based approach to assess sea turtle bycatch in Italian waters

Alessandro Lucchetti, Claudio Vasapollo, Massimo Virgili

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3151 PubMed 28462017

April 12, 2017

Elucidating the diet of the island flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) in Peninsular Malaysia through Illumina Next-Generation Sequencing

Sheema Abdul Aziz, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Lee Yin Peng, Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, Kim R. McConkey, Pierre-Michel Forget, Han Ming Gan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3176 PubMed 28413729

April 4, 2017

Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities

Cristiane Costa, Victor Hugo F. Oliveira, Rafaella Maciel, Wallace Beiroz, Vanesca Korasaki, Julio Louzada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3125 PubMed 28392980

April 27, 2017

Avian community structure and habitat use of Polylepis forests along an elevation gradient

C. Steven Sevillano-Ríos, Amanda D. Rodewald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3220 PubMed 28462030

April 18, 2017

Pollinator diversity and reproductive success of Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz (Orchidaceae) in anthropogenic and natural habitats

Agnieszka Rewicz, Radomir Jaskuła, Tomasz Rewicz, Grzegorz Tończyk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3159 PubMed 28439457

April 27, 2017

A Profile Hidden Markov Model to investigate the distribution and frequency of LanB-encoding lantibiotic modification genes in the human oral and gut microbiome

Calum J. Walsh, Caitriona M. Guinane, Paul W. O’ Toole, Paul D. Cotter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3254 PubMed 28462050

April 19, 2017

The genomic sequence of Exiguobacterium chiriqhucha str. N139 reveals a species that thrives in cold waters and extreme environmental conditions

Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Carlos Vargas-Chávez, Mariana Reyes-Prieto, Omar F. Ordoñez, Diego Santos-García, Tania Rosas-Pérez, Jorge Valdivia-Anistro, Eria A. Rebollar, Andrés Saralegui, Andrés Moya, Enrique Merino, María Eugenia Farías, Amparo Latorre, Valeria Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3162 PubMed 28439458

April 18, 2017

Mitochondrial diversity in Gonionemus (Trachylina:Hydrozoa) and its implications for understanding the origins of clinging jellyfish in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

Annette F. Govindarajan, Mary R. Carman, Marat R. Khaidarov, Alexander Semenchenko, John P. Wares

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3205 PubMed 28439470

April 20, 2017

New findings of Pleistocene fossil turtles (Geoemydidae, Kinosternidae and Chelydridae) from Santa Elena Province, Ecuador

Edwin A. Cadena, Juan Abella, Maria D. Gregori

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3215 PubMed 28439472

April 5, 2017

Non-native molluscan colonizers on deliberately placed shipwrecks in the Florida Keys, with description of a new species of potentially invasive worm-snail (Gastropoda: Vermetidae)

Rüdiger Bieler, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald, Timothy M. Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3158 PubMed 28392984

April 18, 2017

Arrival and diversification of mabuyine skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the Neotropics based on a fossil-calibrated timetree

Anieli Guirro Pereira, Carlos G. Schrago

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3194 PubMed 28439466

April 26, 2017

An improved method for the molecular identification of single dinoflagellate cysts

Yangchun Gao, Hongda Fang, Yanhong Dong, Haitao Li, Chuanliang Pu, Aibin Zhan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3224 PubMed 28462033

April 27, 2017

Relic populations of Fukomys mole-rats in Tanzania: description of two new species F. livingstoni sp. nov. and F. hanangensis sp. nov.

Chris G. Faulkes, Georgies F. Mgode, Elizabeth K. Archer, Nigel C. Bennett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3214 PubMed 28462027

April 27, 2017

Agerinia marandati sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula, sheds new light on the evolution of the genus Agerinia

Joan Femenias-Gual, Raef Minwer-Barakat, Judit Marigó, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Salvador Moyà-Solà

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3239 PubMed 28462042

April 6, 2017

Two new benthic Euphilomedes Kornicker, 1967 (Ostracoda, Myodocopida, Philomedidae) from the Taiwan Strait (East China Sea)

Peng Xiang, Xiaoyin Chen, Ruixiang Chen, Jinghong Lin, Yu Wang, Youyin Ye, Mao Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3146 PubMed 28396825

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