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June 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

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 21, 2018

An integrative taxonomic analysis reveals a new species of lotic Hynobius salamander from Japan

1 citation

904 downloads

4,696 views

Hisanori Okamiya, Hirotaka Sugawara, Masahiro Nagano, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5084 PubMed 29942708

June 6, 2018

Quantitative histological models suggest endothermy in plesiosaurs

5 citations

874 downloads

4,514 views

Corinna V. Fleischle, Tanja Wintrich, P. Martin Sander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4955 PubMed 29892509

June 1, 2018

Cranial anatomy of Bellusaurus sui (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of northwest China and a review of sauropod cranial ontogeny

3 citations

865 downloads

3,891 views

Andrew J. Moore, Jinyou Mo, James M. Clark, Xing Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4881 PubMed 29868283

June 12, 2018

Biomechanical evidence suggests extensive eggshell thinning during incubation in the Sanagasta titanosaur dinosaurs

1 citation

566 downloads

2,595 views

E. Martín Hechenleitner, Jeremías R. A. Taborda, Lucas E. Fiorelli, Gerald Grellet-Tinner, Segundo R. Nuñez-Campero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4971 PubMed 29910984

June 27, 2018

A new, three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach to assess egg shape

3 citations

551 downloads

2,121 views

Marie R.G. Attard, Emma Sherratt, Paul McDonald, Iain Young, Marta Vidal-García, Stephen Wroe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5052 PubMed 29967731

June 22, 2018

Low resolution scans can provide a sufficiently accurate, cost- and time-effective alternative to high resolution scans for 3D shape analyses

7 citations

492 downloads

2,541 views

Ariel E. Marcy, Carmelo Fruciano, Matthew J. Phillips, Karine Mardon, Vera Weisbecker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5032 PubMed 29942695

June 25, 2018

Systematics and phylogeny of the Zygodactylidae (Aves, Neognathae) with description of a new species from the early Eocene of Wyoming, USA

4 citations

472 downloads

2,325 views

N. Adam Smith, Aj M. DeBee, Julia A. Clarke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4950 PubMed 29967716

June 15, 2018

The use of chloroplast genome sequences to solve phylogenetic incongruences in Polystachya Hook (Orchidaceae Juss)

1 citation

438 downloads

1,772 views

Narjara Lopes de Abreu, Ruy José Válka Alves, Sérgio Ricardo Sodré Cardoso, Yann J.K. Bertrand, Filipe Sousa, Climbiê Ferreira Hall, Bernard E. Pfeil, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4916 PubMed 29922511

June 27, 2018

Osteohistology of Late Triassic prozostrodontian cynodonts from Brazil

6 citations

427 downloads

1,462 views

Jennifer Botha-Brink, Marina Bento Soares, Agustín G. Martinelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5029 PubMed 29967724

June 11, 2018

Cortical bone adaptation and mineral mobilization in the subterranean mammal Bathyergus suillus (Rodentia: Bathyergidae): effects of age and sex

3 citations

383 downloads