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March 2018

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First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete

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March 9, 2018

First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete

Researchers describe Gammarus plaitisi (a Gammarid amphipod), endemic to Cretan streams. The divergence of the new species is strongly connected to the geological history of the island.

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March 26, 2018

Pollination implications of the diverse diet of tropical nectar-feeding bats roosting in an urban cave

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu, John-James Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4572 PubMed 29607265

March 20, 2018

Conserving relics from ancient underground worlds: assessing the influence of cave and landscape features on obligate iron cave dwellers from the Eastern Amazon

Rodolfo Jaffé, Xavier Prous, Allan Calux, Markus Gastauer, Gilberto Nicacio, Robson Zampaulo, Pedro W.M. Souza-Filho, Guilherme Oliveira, Iuri V. Brandi, José O. Siqueira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4531 PubMed 29576987

March 19, 2018

Cenozoic aridization in Central Eurasia shaped diversification of toad-headed agamas (Phrynocephalus; Agamidae, Reptilia)

Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, Vladimir S. Lebedev, Evgeniy A. Dunayev, Roman A. Nazarov, Anna A. Bannikova, Jing Che, Robert W. Murphy, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4543 PubMed 29576991

March 19, 2018

The effect of tides on nearshore environmental DNA

Ryan P. Kelly, Ramón Gallego, Emily Jacobs-Palmer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4521 PubMed 29576982

March 19, 2018

Large-scale assessment of commensalistic–mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet photos

Peter Mikula, Jiří Hadrava, Tomáš Albrecht, Piotr Tryjanowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4520 PubMed 29576981

March 19, 2018

Half-lives of PAHs and temporal microbiota changes in commonly used urban landscaping materials

Marja I. Roslund, Mira Grönroos, Anna-Lea Rantalainen, Ari Jumpponen, Martin Romantschuk, Anirudra Parajuli, Heikki Hyöty, Olli Laitinen, Aki Sinkkonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4508 PubMed 29576975

March 13, 2018

Strong genetic differentiation in tropical seagrass Enhalus acoroides (Hydrocharitaceae) at the Indo-Malay Archipelago revealed by microsatellite DNA

I Nyoman Giri Putra, Yuliana Fitri Syamsuni, Beginer Subhan, Made Pharmawati, Hawis Madduppa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4315 PubMed 29576933

March 12, 2018

Phylogenetic surveys on the newt genus Tylototriton sensu lato (Salamandridae, Caudata) reveal cryptic diversity and novel diversification promoted by historical climatic shifts

Bin Wang, Kanto Nishikawa, Masafumi Matsui, Truong Quang Nguyen, Feng Xie, Cheng Li, Janak Raj Khatiwada, Baowei Zhang, Dajie Gong, Yunming Mo, Gang Wei, Xiaohong Chen, Youhui Shen, Daode Yang, Rongchuan Xiong, Jianping Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4384 PubMed 29576937

March 12, 2018

Out of Asia: mitochondrial evolutionary history of the globally introduced supralittoral isopod Ligia exotica

Luis A. Hurtado, Mariana Mateos, Chang Wang, Carlos A. Santamaria, Jongwoo Jung, Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Won Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4337 PubMed 29576934

March 9, 2018

First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete and its evolutionary history—an integrative taxonomy approach

Kamil Hupało, Tomasz Mamos, Weronika Wrzesińska, Michał Grabowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4457 PubMed 29568704

March 2, 2018

Reproduction and community structure of fish from winter catch sites from industrial shrimp bycatch from the northeast and southeast Mexican Pacific

Jorge de Jesus Tirado-Ibarra, Mariany Loya-Rodriguez, Jose Carlos Morales-Arevalo, Isabel Rosario Muñoz-Garcia, Francisco Martinez-Perez, Jorge Saul Ramirez-Perez, Laura Rebeca Jimenez-Gutierrez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4460 PubMed 29507841

March 2, 2018

Landscape connectivity among remnant populations of guanaco (Lama guanicoe Müller, 1776) in an arid region of Chile impacted by global change

Mara I. Espinosa, Nicolas Gouin, Francisco A. Squeo, David López, Angéline Bertin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4429 PubMed 29507827