June 2018

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Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

Adapted from Fig 1: Predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris

June 5, 2018

Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

The pond turtle Emys trinacris is an endangered endemic species of Sicily. In this study, researchers modelled the potential distribution of the species under current and future climatic conditions.

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June 12, 2018
Taxonomy annotation and guide tree errors in 16S rRNA databases
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5030 PubMed 29910992
June 8, 2018
Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4954 PubMed 29900078
June 7, 2018
A new predator connecting the abyssal with the hadal in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, NW Pacific
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4887 PubMed 29892501
June 15, 2018
The use of chloroplast genome sequences to solve phylogenetic incongruences in Polystachya Hook (Orchidaceae Juss)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4916 PubMed 29922511
June 18, 2018
Unusually low genetic divergence at COI barcode locus between two species of intertidal Thalassaphorura (Collembola: Onychiuridae)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5021 PubMed 29938135
June 21, 2018
An integrative taxonomic analysis reveals a new species of lotic Hynobius salamander from Japan
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5084 PubMed 29942708
June 20, 2018
Cranial morphology of Sinovenator changii (Theropoda: Troodontidae) on the new material from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4977 PubMed 29942679
June 18, 2018
Availability of Nanopore sequences in the genome taxonomy for Vibrionaceae systematics: Rumoiensis clade species as a test case
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5018 PubMed 29938134
June 14, 2018
A new minute ectosymbiotic harpacticoid copepod living on the sea cucumber Eupentacta fraudatrix in the East/Japan Sea
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4979 PubMed 29915699
June 5, 2018
The mitochondrial genomes of two walnut pests, Gastrolina depressa depressa and G. depressa thoracica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), and phylogenetic analyses
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4919 PubMed 29888134
June 25, 2018
Systematics and phylogeny of the Zygodactylidae (Aves, Neognathae) with description of a new species from the early Eocene of Wyoming, USA
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4950 PubMed 29967716
June 27, 2018
A new species of the deep-bodied actinopterygian Dapedium from the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) of southwestern Germany
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5033 PubMed 29967726
June 13, 2018
First use of molecular evidence to match sexes in the Monstrilloida (Crustacea: Copepoda), and taxonomic implications of the newly recognized and described, partly Maemonstrilla-like females of Monstrillopsis longilobata Lee, Kim & Chang, 2016
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4938 PubMed 29915690
June 6, 2018
Comparative description and ossification patterns of Dendropsophus labialis (Peters, 1863) and Scinax ruber (Laurenti, 1758) (Anura: Hylidae)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4525 PubMed 29892498
June 27, 2018
Nectopsyche of Ecuador: a new species from the high Andean páramo and redescription of Nectopsyche spiloma (Ross) (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4981 PubMed 29967719
June 11, 2018
Two new species of Primulina (Gesneriaceae) from limestone karsts of China
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4946 PubMed 29910979
June 29, 2018
­Morphological variations in the dorsal fin finlets of extant polypterids raise questions about their taxonomical validity
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5083 PubMed 30042877
June 8, 2018
The first tetrapod from the mid-Miocene Clarkia lagerstätte (Idaho, USA)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4880 PubMed 29900070
June 8, 2018
BCD Beam Search: considering suboptimal partial solutions in Bad Clade Deletion supertrees
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4987 PubMed 29900080
Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

Adapted from Fig 1: Predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris

June 5, 2018

Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

The pond turtle Emys trinacris is an endangered endemic species of Sicily. In this study, researchers modelled the potential distribution of the species under current and future climatic conditions.

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