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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 28, 2018

Gene buddies: linked balanced polymorphisms reinforce each other even in the absence of epistasis

Jacob A. Tennessen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5110 PubMed 29967750

June 27, 2018

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

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 27, 2018

Osteohistology of Late Triassic prozostrodontian cynodonts from Brazil

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

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

June 26, 2018

A new species of Middle Miocene baleen whale from the Nupinai Group, Hikatagawa Formation of Hokkaido, Japan

Yoshihiro Tanaka, Tatsuro Ando, Hiroshi Sawamura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4934 PubMed 29967715

June 25, 2018

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

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

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

June 22, 2018

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

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

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

June 21, 2018

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

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

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

June 19, 2018

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

Damián Eduardo Perez, María Belén Santelli

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

June 19, 2018

Weak population structure in the ant Formica fusca

Helena Johansson, Perttu Seppä, Heikki Helanterä, Kalevi Trontti, Liselotte Sundström

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5024 PubMed 29942691

June 15, 2018

Horizontally transferred genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

Alexandra M. Hernandez, Joseph F. Ryan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5067 PubMed 29922518

June 15, 2018

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

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 15, 2018

The effect of recent competition between the native Anolis oculatus and the invasive A. cristatellus on display behavior

Claire M. S. Dufour, Anthony Herrel, Jonathan B. Losos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4888 PubMed 29922509

June 12, 2018

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

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 11, 2018

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

Germán Montoya-Sanhueza, Anusuya Chinsamy