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July 2018

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Investigating parental care behaviour in same-sex pairing of zoo greater flamingo

Greater flamingos at Kutch

July 18, 2018

Investigating parental care behaviour in same-sex pairing of zoo greater flamingo

Same-sex pair bonding is an understudied area of research interest. In an early, small sample study, researchers have observed similar behavior in female-female parenting as with heterosexual pairs in the zoo greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus). These early results could be illuminating with regard to the evolution of flamingo social behavior, same-sex pair bonds, and why pair bonds form in general. Image credit: Dhaval Vargiya, CC SA 4.0.

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July 13, 2018

SECAPR—a bioinformatics pipeline for the rapid and user-friendly processing of targeted enriched Illumina sequences, from raw reads to alignments

Tobias Andermann, Ángela Cano, Alexander Zizka, Christine Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5175 PubMed 30023140

July 5, 2018

Testing accuracy in 2D and 3D geometric morphometric methods for cut mark identification and classification

Lloyd A. Courtenay, Miguel Ángel Maté-González, Julia Aramendi, José Yravedra, Diego González-Aguilera, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5133 PubMed 30002969

July 11, 2018

Digging the compromise: investigating the link between limb bone histology and fossoriality in the aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

Lucas J. Legendre, Jennifer Botha-Brink

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5216 PubMed 30018860

July 30, 2018

The divergence history of European blue mussel species reconstructed from Approximate Bayesian Computation: the effects of sequencing techniques and sampling strategies

Christelle Fraïsse, Camille Roux, Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire, Jonathan Romiguier, Nicolas Faivre, John J. Welch, Nicolas Bierne

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5198 PubMed 30083438

July 23, 2018

Multiple transgressions and slow evolution shape the phylogeographic pattern of the blind cave-dwelling shrimp Typhlocaris

Tamar Guy-Haim, Noa Simon-Blecher, Amos Frumkin, Israel Naaman, Yair Achituv

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5268 PubMed 30057861

July 19, 2018

A novel approach to study the morphology and chemistry of pollen in a phylogenetic context, applied to the halophytic taxon Nitraria L.(Nitrariaceae)

Amber Woutersen, Phillip E. Jardine, Raul Giovanni Bogotá-Angel, Hong-Xiang Zhang, Daniele Silvestro, Alexandre Antonelli, Elena Gogna, Roy H.J. Erkens, William D. Gosling, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Carina Hoorn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5055 PubMed 30038851

July 4, 2018

Phylogeny and divergence times of suckers (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) inferred from Bayesian total-evidence analyses of molecules, morphology, and fossils

Justin C. Bagley, Richard L. Mayden, Phillip M. Harris

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5168 PubMed 30013838

July 5, 2018

The largest European theropod dinosaurs: remains of a gigantic megalosaurid and giant theropod tracks from the Kimmeridgian of Asturias, Spain

Oliver W.M. Rauhut, Laura Piñuela, Diego Castanera, José-Carlos García-Ramos, Irene Sánchez Cela

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4963 PubMed 30002951

July 19, 2018

A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah, USA

Jelle P. Wiersma, Randall B. Irmis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5016 PubMed 30065856

July 5, 2018

Trabecular bone patterning in the hominoid distal femur

Leoni Georgiou, Tracy L. Kivell, Dieter H. Pahr, Matthew M. Skinner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5156 PubMed 30002981

July 13, 2018

Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered basal angiosperm Brasenia schreberi (Cabombaceae) in China

Zhi-Zhong Li, Andrew W. Gichira, Qing-Feng Wang, Jin-Ming Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5296 PubMed 30013859

July 3, 2018

Genetic polymorphisms and forensic efficiency of 19 X-chromosomal STR loci for Xinjiang Mongolian population

Ling Chen, Yuxin Guo, Cheng Xiao, Weibin Wu, Qiong Lan, Yating Fang, Jiangang Chen, Bofeng Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5117 PubMed 30002965

July 24, 2018

Absence of heterosis in hybrid crested newts

Jan W. Arntzen, Nazan Üzüm, Maja D. Ajduković, Ana Ivanović, Ben Wielstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5317 PubMed 30065885

July 18, 2018

Genetic analysis reveals candidate genes for activity QTL in the blind Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus

Brian M. Carlson, Ian B. Klingler, Bradley J. Meyer, Joshua B. Gross

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5189 PubMed 30042884

July 16, 2018

Comparative chemical analysis of army ant mandibular gland volatiles (Formicidae: Dorylinae)

Adrian Brückner, Philipp O. Hoenle, Christoph von Beeren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5319 PubMed 30038876

July 31, 2018

The periodical cicada four-year acceleration hypothesis revisited and the polyphyletic nature of Brood V, including an updated crowd-source enhanced map (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada)

John R. Cooley, Nidia Arguedas, Elias Bonaros, Gerry Bunker, Stephen M. Chiswell, Annette DeGiovine, Marten Edwards, Diane Hassanieh, Diler Haji, John Knox, Gene Kritsky, Carolyn Mills, Dan Mozgai, Roy Troutman, John Zyla, Hiroki Hasegawa, Teiji Sota, Jin Yoshimura, Chris Simon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5282 PubMed 30083444

July 4, 2018

Speciation among sympatric lineages in the genus Palythoa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Zoantharia) revealed by morphological comparison, phylogenetic analyses and investigation of spawning period

Masaru Mizuyama, Giovanni D. Masucci, James D. Reimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5132 PubMed 30013833

July 6, 2018

Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur

Michael P. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5212 PubMed 30002991

July 3, 2018

AnnotationBustR: an R package to extract subsequences from GenBank annotations

Samuel R. Borstein, Brian C. O’Meara