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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 8, 2018

A new therocephalian (Gorynychus masyutinae gen. et sp. nov.) from the Permian Kotelnich locality, Kirov Region, Russia

10 citations

1,120 downloads

5,604 views

Christian F. Kammerer, Vladimir Masyutin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4933 PubMed 29900076

June 21, 2018

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

4 citations

1,112 downloads

6,346 views

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

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

7 citations

1,081 downloads

3,740 views

Ya-Lei Yin, Rui Pei, Chang-Fu Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4977 PubMed 29942679

June 8, 2018

Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia

8 citations

1,029 downloads

5,234 views

Christian F. Kammerer, Vladimir Masyutin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4954 PubMed 29900078

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

18 citations

886 downloads

3,300 views

Mattia Iannella, Francesco Cerasoli, Paola D’Alessandro, Giulia Console, Maurizio Biondi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4969 PubMed 29888141

June 27, 2018

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

9 citations

813 downloads

2,952 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

19 citations

680 downloads

3,579 views

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

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

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

1 citation

636 downloads

1,966 views

Débora A. Carvalho, Pablo A. Collins, Renata Lima-Gomes, Célio Magalhães, Maria Victoria Torres, Verónica Williner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5028 PubMed 29942694

June 25, 2018

Effects of temperature and salinity stress on DNA methylation in a highly invasive marine invertebrate, the colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum

12 citations

535 downloads

1,792 views

Nicola A. Hawes, Louis A. Tremblay, Xavier Pochon, Brendon Dunphy, Andrew E. Fidler, Kirsty F. Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5003 PubMed 29967721

June 11, 2018

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

6 citations

532 downloads

2,363 views

Germán Montoya-Sanhueza, Anusuya Chinsamy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4944 PubMed 29910978

June 6, 2018

Comparative description and ossification patterns of Dendropsophus labialis (Peters, 1863) and Scinax ruber (Laurenti, 1758) (Anura: Hylidae)

3 citations

525 downloads

1,619 views

Angélica Arenas-Rodríguez, Juan Francisco Rubiano Vargas, Julio Mario Hoyos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4525 PubMed 29892498

June 7, 2018

A new predator connecting the abyssal with the hadal in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, NW Pacific

8 citations

492 downloads

2,379 views

Anne-Nina Lörz, Anna Maria Jażdżewska, Angelika Brandt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4887 PubMed 29892501

June 22, 2018

A Miocene pygmy right whale fossil from Australia

2 citations

483 downloads

2,741 views

Felix G. Marx, Travis Park, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald, Alistair R. Evans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5025 PubMed 29942692

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

3 citations

472 downloads

2,366 views

Donggu Jeon, Donghyun Lim, Wonchoel Lee, Ho Young Soh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4938 PubMed 29915690

June 28, 2018

Re-emergence of the leaf clip gesture during an alpha takeover affects variation in male chimpanzee loud calls

6 citations

469 downloads

2,488 views

Ammie K. Kalan, Christophe Boesch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5079 PubMed 29967740

June 25, 2018

Dry season diet composition of four-horned antelope Tetracerus quadricornis in tropical dry deciduous forests, Nepal

3 citations

463 downloads

2,629 views

Chet Bahadur Oli, Saroj Panthi, Naresh Subedi, Gagan Ale, Ganesh Pant, Gopal Khanal, Suman Bhattarai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5102 PubMed 29967747

June 18, 2018

Unusually low genetic divergence at COI barcode locus between two species of intertidal Thalassaphorura (Collembola: Onychiuridae)

5 citations

463 downloads

1,863 views

Xin Sun, Anne Bedos, Louis Deharveng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5021 PubMed 29938135

June 8, 2018

The first tetrapod from the mid-Miocene Clarkia lagerstätte (Idaho, USA)

1 citation

446 downloads

2,462 views

Jonathan J. M. Calede, John D. Orcutt, Winifred A. Kehl, Bill D. Richards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4880 PubMed 29900070

June 25, 2018

Potamopyrgus antipodarum as a potential defender against swimmer’s itch in European recreational water bodies—experimental study

4 citations

439 downloads

2,043 views

Anna Marszewska, Anna Cichy, Jana Bulantová, Petr Horák, Elżbieta Żbikowska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5045 PubMed 29967728

June 14, 2018

Reproductive ecology of the endangered Beal’s-eyed turtle, Sacalia bealei

1 citation

438 downloads

2,383 views

Liu Lin, Qingru Hu, Jonathan J. Fong, Jiangbo Yang, Zhongdong Chen, Feiyu Zhou, Jichao Wang, Fanrong Xiao, Haitao Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4997 PubMed 29963334

June 5, 2018

In quest of contact: phylogeography of helmeted terrapins (Pelomedusa galeata, P. subrufa sensu stricto)

7 citations

438 downloads

1,494 views

Melita Vamberger, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr, Flora Ihlow, Uwe Fritz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4901 PubMed 29888129

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

6 citations

436 downloads

1,936 views

Charles B. van Rees, J. Michael Reed

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4990 PubMed 29942683

June 4, 2018

Seasonal fluctuation of oribatid mite communities in forest microhabitats

6 citations

433 downloads

1,420 views

Katja Wehner, Michael Heethoff, Adrian Brückner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4863 PubMed 29888124

June 27, 2018

Nectopsyche of Ecuador: a new species from the high Andean páramo and redescription of Nectopsyche spiloma (Ross) (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae)

1 citation

409 downloads

1,652 views

Ralph W. Holzenthal, Blanca Rios-Touma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4981 PubMed 29967719

June 19, 2018

Allometric shell growth in infaunal burrowing bivalves: examples of the archiheterodonts Claibornicardia paleopatagonica (Ihering, 1903) and Crassatella kokeni Ihering, 1899

1 citation

409 downloads

1,524 views

Damián Eduardo Perez, María Belén Santelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5051 PubMed 29942699

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Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Adapted from Fig 1: Predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris

Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

Adapted from Fig 1: Predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris

Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

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