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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.

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May 31, 2018

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

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

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

May 30, 2018

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

Simone Maganuco, Cristiano Dal Sasso

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

May 29, 2018

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

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

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

May 28, 2018

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

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

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

May 28, 2018

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

Chloe Hawkings, Cecilia Tamborindeguy

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

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

Yajing Wang, Min Zhu

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

May 25, 2018

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

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

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

May 25, 2018

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

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

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

May 24, 2018

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

Kai Wei, Tingting Zhang, Lei Ma

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

May 23, 2018

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

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 21, 2018

On the efficiency of the genetic code after frameshift mutations

Regine Geyer, Amir Madany Mamlouk

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

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

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

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

May 18, 2018

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

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