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April 2018

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Variation in Late Jurassic tridactyl dinosaur tracks

Fig 2 - Pictures and false-color depth maps of the tracks

April 2, 2018

Variation in Late Jurassic tridactyl dinosaur tracks

Minute to medium-sized tridactyl dinosaur footprints from the tracksites of Highway A16 in the Jura Mountains represent one of the largest samples from the Late Jurassic worldwide. Researchers conducted Integrated analyses of the quality of preservation, the maximum depth, the shape variation along the trackway, and the footprint proportions

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April 16, 2018

Distinctive courtship phenotype of the Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise Lophorina niedda Mayr, 1930 confirms new species status

Edwin Scholes, Timothy G. Laman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4621 PubMed 29682415

April 25, 2018

phylopath: Easy phylogenetic path analysis in R

Wouter van der Bijl

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4718 PubMed 29713568

April 11, 2018

Present and future ecological niche modeling of garter snake species from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

Andrea González-Fernández, Javier Manjarrez, Uri García-Vázquez, Maristella D’Addario, Armando Sunny

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4618 PubMed 29666767

April 10, 2018

Description of two new sympatric species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from western Yunnan of China

Jian-Huan Yang, Zhao-Chi Zeng, Ying-Yong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4586 PubMed 29666755

April 10, 2018

Rhinochelys amaberti Moret (1935), a protostegid turtle from the Early Cretaceous of France

Isaure Scavezzoni, Valentin Fischer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4594 PubMed 29666758

April 5, 2018

Variation in the diversity and richness of parasitoid wasps based on sampling effort

Thomas E. Saunders, Darren F. Ward

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4642 PubMed 29632746

April 27, 2018

Applying real-time quantitative PCR to diagnosis of freemartin in Holstein cattle by quantifying SRY gene: a comparison experiment

Qinghua Qiu, Taoqi Shao, Yang He, Aziz-Ur-Rahman Muhammad, Binghai Cao, Huawei Su

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4616 PubMed 29719732

April 24, 2018

Shifting reef fish assemblages along a depth gradient in Pohnpei, Micronesia

Richard R. Coleman, Joshua M. Copus, Daniel M. Coffey, Robert K. Whitton, Brian W. Bowen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4650 PubMed 29707432

April 11, 2018

Evaluation of a therapy for Idiopathic Chronic Enterocolitis in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and linked microbial community correlates

Joshua M. Taylor, Erik L. Clarke, Kate Baker, Abigail Lauder, Dorothy Kim, Aubrey Bailey, Gary D. Wu, Ronald G. Collman, Lara Doyle-Meyers, Kasi Russell-Lodrigue, James Blanchard, Frederic D. Bushman, Rudolf Bohm

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4612 PubMed 29666764

April 19, 2018

Gene characteristics of the complete mitochondrial genomes of Paratoxodera polyacantha and Toxodera hauseri (Mantodea: Toxoderidae)

Le-Ping Zhang, Yin-Yin Cai, Dan-Na Yu, Kenneth B. Storey, Jia-Yong Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4595 PubMed 29686943

April 30, 2018

Complexity of the prey spectrum of Agaronia propatula (Caenogastropoda: Olividae), a dominant predator in sandy beach ecosystems of Pacific Central America

Nathan J. Robinson, Winfried S. Peters

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4714 PubMed 29736346

April 9, 2018

miRNAome expression profiles in the gonads of adult Melopsittacus undulatus

Lan Jiang, Qingqing Wang, Jue Yu, Vinita Gowda, Gabriel Johnson, Jianke Yang, Xianzhao Kan, Xiaojun Yang