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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 20, 2018

Shark and ray diversity in the Tropical America (Neotropics)—an examination of environmental and historical factors affecting diversity

Jorge Domingo Carrillo-Briceño, Juan D. Carrillo, Orangel Antonio Aguilera, Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5313 PubMed 30042900

July 4, 2018

Evidence of avian-mediated long distance dispersal in American tardigrades

Matthew J. Mogle, Scott A. Kimball, William R. Miller, Richard D. McKown

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5035 PubMed 30018851

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 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 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 12, 2018

Ecological and molecular characterization of a coral black band disease outbreak in the Red Sea during a bleaching event

Ghaida Hadaidi, Maren Ziegler, Amanda Shore-Maggio, Thor Jensen, Greta Aeby, Christian R. Voolstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5169 PubMed 30013839

July 12, 2018

Protected areas’ effectiveness under climate change: a latitudinal distribution projection of an endangered mountain ungulate along the Andes Range

Carlos Riquelme, Sergio A. Estay, Rodrigo López, Hernán Pastore, Mauricio Soto-Gamboa, Paulo Corti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5222 PubMed 30013852

July 24, 2018

Absence of heterosis in hybrid crested newts

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