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May 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

Tracks of five wide-ranging blue whales tagged in Chilean Northern Patagonia.

April 30, 2018

Blue whale migratory pathways along the Eastern South Pacific

Researchers tracked 10 blue whales and documented their individual variations in departure time, northbound migratory routes and potential wintering grounds in the Eastern South Pacific.

May 23, 2018

A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology

111 citations

9,370 downloads

38,845 views

Xavier A. Harrison, Lynda Donaldson, Maria Eugenia Correa-Cano, Julian Evans, David N. Fisher, Cecily E.D. Goodwin, Beth S. Robinson, David J. Hodgson, Richard Inger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4794 PubMed 29844961

May 10, 2018

A new large-bodied thalattosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Hungary, with further evidence of the mosaic acquisition of marine adaptations in Metriorhynchoidea

6 citations

1,360 downloads

7,991 views

Attila Ősi, Mark T. Young, András Galácz, Márton Rabi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4668 PubMed 29761038

May 17, 2018

Perinatal specimens of Maiasaura from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana (USA): insights into the early ontogeny of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs

3 citations

882 downloads

3,198 views

Albert Prieto-Marquez, Merrilee F. Guenther

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4734 PubMed 29785343

May 30, 2018

The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur: a tiny pedal ungual of a juvenile Spinosaurus from the Cretaceous of Morocco

3 citations

852 downloads

6,292 views

Simone Maganuco, Cristiano Dal Sasso

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4785 PubMed 29868253

May 8, 2018

Uncovering the hidden players in Lepidoptera biology: the heritable microbial endosymbionts

10 citations

657 downloads

2,107 views

Anne Duplouy, Emily A. Hornett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4629 PubMed 29761037

May 18, 2018

Tetrapod tracks in Permo–Triassic eolian beds of southern Brazil (Paraná Basin)

6 citations

559 downloads

3,261 views

Heitor Francischini, Paula Dentzien-Dias, Spencer G. Lucas, Cesar L. Schultz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4764 PubMed 29796341

May 18, 2018

A quantitative approach to determine the taxonomic identity and ontogeny of the pycnodontiform fish Pycnodus (Neopterygii, Actinopterygii) from the Eocene of Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy

4 citations

448 downloads

1,846 views

John Joseph Cawley, Giuseppe Marramà, Giorgio Carnevale, Jürgen Kriwet

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4809 PubMed 29796348

May 28, 2018

Redescription of Phymolepis cuifengshanensis (Antiarcha: Yunnanolepididae) using high-resolution computed tomography and new insights into anatomical details of the endocranium in antiarchs

2 citations

415 downloads

1,983 views

Yajing Wang, Min Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4808 PubMed 29868260

May 28, 2018

Change of niche in guanaco (Lama guanicoe): the effects of climate change on habitat suitability and lineage conservatism in Chile

2 citations

363 downloads

1,544 views

Andrea G. Castillo, Dominique Alò, Benito A. González, Horacio Samaniego

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4907 PubMed 29868293

May 15, 2018

An examination of the impact of Olson’s extinction on tetrapods from Texas

1 citation

329 downloads

2,298 views

Neil Brocklehurst

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4767 PubMed 29780669

May 24, 2018

Divergent and convergent evolution of housekeeping genes in human–pig lineage

1 citation

326 downloads

1,218 views

Kai Wei, Tingting Zhang, Lei Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4840 PubMed 29844985

May 28, 2018

Expression analysis of vitellogenins in the workers of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta)

2 citations

320 downloads

1,260 views

Chloe Hawkings, Cecilia Tamborindeguy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4875 PubMed 29868280

May 25, 2018

Rapid evolution of the Helicobacter pylori AlpA adhesin in a high gastric cancer risk region from Colombia

1 citation

319 downloads

1,053 views

Andrés Julián Gutiérrez-Escobar, Gina Méndez-Callejas, Orlando Acevedo, Maria Mercedes Bravo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4846 PubMed 29844987

May 29, 2018

MIPhy: identify and quantify rapidly evolving members of large gene families

303 downloads

1,845 views

David M. Curran, John S. Gilleard, James D. Wasmuth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4873 PubMed 29868279

May 8, 2018

The brown anole dewlap revisited: do predation pressure, sexual selection, and species recognition shape among-population signal diversity?

2 citations

291 downloads

1,857 views

Simon Baeckens, Tess Driessens, Raoul Van Damme

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4722 PubMed 29761044

May 31, 2018

Assessing canalisation of intraspecific variation on a macroevolutionary scale: the case of crinoid arms through the Phanerozoic

2 citations

279 downloads

1,699 views

Catalina Pimiento, Kit Lam Tang, Samuel Zamora, Christian Klug, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4899 PubMed 29868289

May 21, 2018

On the efficiency of the genetic code after frameshift mutations

8 citations

266 downloads

1,493 views

Regine Geyer, Amir Madany Mamlouk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4825 PubMed 29844977

May 25, 2018

Selective constraint acting on TLR2 and TLR4 genes of Japanese Rana frogs

2 citations

211 downloads

1,212 views

Quintin Lau, Takeshi Igawa, Tiffany A. Kosch, Yoko Satta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4842 PubMed 29844986

May 8, 2018

Asymmetries in mother-infant behaviour in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

2 citations

210 downloads

1,042 views

Barbara Regaiolli, Caterina Spiezio, William Donald Hopkins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4736 PubMed 29761052

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