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 22, 2018
Low resolution scans can provide a sufficiently accurate, cost- and time-effective alternative to high resolution scans for 3D shape analyses
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5032 PubMed 29942695
June 5, 2018
Coupling GIS spatial analysis and Ensemble Niche Modelling to investigate climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris, an endangered species from the Mediterranean
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4969 PubMed 29888141
June 25, 2018
Effects of temperature and salinity stress on DNA methylation in a highly invasive marine invertebrate, the colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5003 PubMed 29967721
June 4, 2018
Seasonal fluctuation of oribatid mite communities in forest microhabitats
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4863 PubMed 29888124
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 6, 2018
Physiological and behavioral responses of house sparrows to repeated stressors
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4961 PubMed 29892510
June 27, 2018
A new, three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach to assess egg shape
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5052 PubMed 29967731
June 11, 2018
Cortical bone adaptation and mineral mobilization in the subterranean mammal Bathyergus suillus (Rodentia: Bathyergidae): effects of age and sex
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4944 PubMed 29910978
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 8, 2018
A new therocephalian (Gorynychus masyutinae gen. et sp. nov.) from the Permian Kotelnich locality, Kirov Region, Russia
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4933 PubMed 29900076
June 18, 2018
Comparative demography of commercially-harvested snappers and an emperor from American Samoa
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5069 PubMed 29938139
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 25, 2018
Potamopyrgus antipodarum as a potential defender against swimmer’s itch in European recreational water bodies—experimental study
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5045 PubMed 29967728
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 5, 2018
The energetic cost of mounting an immune response for Pallas’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4627 PubMed 29888121
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 22, 2018
Predicted effects of landscape change, sea level rise, and habitat management on the extirpation risk of the Hawaiian common gallinule (Gallinula galeata sandvicensis) on the island of O‘ahu
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4990 PubMed 29942683
June 28, 2018
Re-emergence of the leaf clip gesture during an alpha takeover affects variation in male chimpanzee loud calls
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5079 PubMed 29967740
June 5, 2018
In quest of contact: phylogeography of helmeted terrapins (Pelomedusa galeata, P. subrufa sensu stricto)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4901 PubMed 29888129
June 15, 2018
The effect of recent competition between the native Anolis oculatus and the invasive A. cristatellus on display behavior
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4888 PubMed 29922509
June 11, 2018
Sex-based differences in anti-predator response of crickets to chemical cues of a mammalian predator
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4923 PubMed 29910976
June 20, 2018
Comparative health assessment of urban and non-urban free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in southeastern British Columbia, Canada
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4968 PubMed 29942678
June 19, 2018
A comparative study of the gastric ossicles of Trichodactylidae crabs (Brachyura: Decapoda) with comments on the role of diet and phylogeny in shaping morphological traits
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5028 PubMed 29942694
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 25, 2018
Dry season diet composition of four-horned antelope Tetracerus quadricornis in tropical dry deciduous forests, Nepal
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5102 PubMed 29967747
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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