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December 2017

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Census of microbial life on the International Space Station

The International Space Station

December 5, 2017

Census of microbial life on the International Space Station

Microbiologists have analyzed swabs taken by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and compared them with samples from homes on Earth as well as the Human Microbiome Project. They found that the microbial community in this unique habitat was very diverse and more closely resembled that of homes than of humans.

December 22, 2017

The early Miocene balaenid Morenocetus parvus from Patagonia (Argentina) and the evolution of right whales

Mónica R. Buono, Marta S. Fernández, Mario A. Cozzuol, José I. Cuitiño, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4148 PubMed 29302389

December 6, 2017

Cytochrome c oxidase barcodes for aquatic oligochaete identification: development of a Swiss reference database

Régis Vivien, Maria Holzmann, Inge Werner, Jan Pawlowski, Michel Lafont, Benoit J.D. Ferrari

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4122 PubMed 29230362

December 11, 2017

Cranial osteology of the pampathere Holmesina floridanus (Xenarthra: Cingulata; Blancan NALMA), including a description of an isolated petrosal bone

Timothy J. Gaudin, Lauren M. Lyon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4022 PubMed 29250462

December 15, 2017

How many species of mammals are there in Brazil? New records of rare rodents (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from Amazonia raise the current known diversity

Alexandre R. Percequillo, Jeronymo Dalapicolla, Edson F. Abreu-Júnior, Paulo Ricardo O. Roth, Katia M.P.M.B. Ferraz, Elisandra A. Chiquito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4071 PubMed 29259840

December 4, 2017

Resurrecting a subgenus to genus: molecular phylogeny of Euphyllia and Fimbriaphyllia (order Scleractinia; family Euphylliidae; clade V)

Katrina S. Luzon, Mei-Fang Lin, Ma. Carmen A. Ablan Lagman, Wilfredo Roehl Y. Licuanan, Chaolun Allen Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4074 PubMed 29226032

December 5, 2017

Microcos magnifica (Sparrmanniaceae) a new species of cloudforest tree from Cameroon

Martin Cheek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4137 PubMed 29230369

December 6, 2017

The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 1. Shiguaignathus wangi gen. et sp. nov., the first akidnognathid therocephalian from China

Jun Liu, Fernando Abdala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4150 PubMed 29230374

December 11, 2017

Disentangling diatom species complexes: does morphometry suffice?

Saúl Blanco, María Borrego-Ramos, Adriana Olenici

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4159 PubMed 29250472

December 22, 2017

First Guatemalan record of natural hybridisation between Neotropical species of the Lady’s Slipper orchid (Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae)

Dariusz L. Szlachetko, Marta Kolanowska, Fred Muller, Jay Vannini, Joanna Rojek, Marcin Górniak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4162 PubMed 29302391

December 14, 2017

The shell morphology of the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) trionychid turtle Helopanoplia distincta

Walter G. Joyce, Tyler R. Lyson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4169 PubMed 29259848

December 1, 2017

Unanticipated discovery of two rare gastropod molluscs from recently located hydrothermally influenced areas in the Okinawa Trough

Chong Chen, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Junichi Miyazaki, Shinsuke Kawagucci

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4121 PubMed 29209579

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