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September 2018

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A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies

Fig 2: Results from the working-memory variant of the task paradigm.

September 11, 2018

A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies

To aid in pharmacological-fMRI studies, researchers developed and validated two variants of a novel fMRI control task. Their stimulus code is freely available online for re-use by the scientific community.

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September 20, 2018

An examination of the Devonian fishes of Michigan

Jack Stack, Lauren Sallan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5636 PubMed 30258725

September 19, 2018

A phylogenetic taxonomy of the Cyrtodactylus peguensis group (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with descriptions of two new species from Myanmar

L. Lee Grismer, Perry L. Wood, Evan S.H. Quah, Matthew L. Murdoch, Marta S. Grismer, Mark W. Herr, Robert E. Espinoza, Rafe M. Brown, Aung Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5575 PubMed 30258710

September 28, 2018

New mud dragons from Svalbard: three new species of Cristaphyes and the first Arctic species of Pycnophyes (Kinorhyncha: Allomalorhagida: Pycnophyidae)

Martin Vinther Sørensen, Katarzyna Grzelak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5653 PubMed 30280030

September 7, 2018

Biodiversity surveys reveal eight new species of freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Yunnan Province, China

Tohru Naruse, Jing En Chia, Xianmin Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5497 PubMed 30210939

September 7, 2018

Flower-mediated plant-butterfly interactions in an heterogeneous tropical coastal ecosystem

Cristian A. Martínez-Adriano, Cecilia Díaz-Castelazo, Armando Aguirre-Jaimes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5493 PubMed 30210938

September 6, 2018

Genetic variability of Akhal-Teke horses bred in Italy

Maria C. Cozzi, Maria G. Strillacci, Paolo Valiati, Elisa Rogliano, Alessandro Bagnato, Maria Longeri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4889 PubMed 30202639

September 13, 2018

Assessment of the bacterial community structure in shallow and deep sediments of the Perdido Fold Belt region in the Gulf of Mexico

Ma. Fernanda Sánchez-Soto Jiménez, Daniel Cerqueda-García, Jorge L. Montero-Muñoz, Ma. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo, José Q. García-Maldonado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5583 PubMed 30225176

September 25, 2018

High-throughput metabarcoding reveals the effect of physicochemical soil properties on soil and litter biodiversity and community turnover across Amazonia

Camila D. Ritter, Alexander Zizka, Fabian Roger, Hanna Tuomisto, Christopher Barnes, R. Henrik Nilsson, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5661 PubMed 30280033

September 5, 2018

Lysmata arvoredensis nov. sp. a new species of shrimp from the south coast of Brazil with a key to species of Lysmata (Caridea: Lysmatidae) recorded in the southwestern Atlantic

Bruno W. Giraldes, Thais P. Macedo, Manoela C. Brandão, J. Antonio Baeza, Andrea S. Freire

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5561 PubMed 30202657

September 14, 2018

Lessepsian migration and parasitism: richness, prevalence and intensity of parasites in the invasive fish Sphyraena chrysotaenia compared to its native congener Sphyraena sphyraena in Tunisian coastal waters

Wiem Boussellaa, Lassad Neifar, M. Anouk Goedknegt, David W. Thieltges

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5558 PubMed 30233995

September 4, 2018

Factors influencing exotic species richness in Argentina’s national parks

Mariela G. Gantchoff, Clay M. Wilton, Jerrold L. Belant

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5514 PubMed 30202651

September 27, 2018

Assessing the role of dispersed floral resources for managed bees in providing supporting ecosystem services for crop pollination

Annalie Melin, Mathieu Rouget, Jonathan F. Colville, Jeremy J. Midgley, John S. Donaldson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5654 PubMed 30280031

September 24, 2018

Different environmental gradients affect different measures of snake β-diversity in the Amazon rainforests

Rafael de Fraga, Miquéias Ferrão, Adam J. Stow, William E. Magnusson, Albertina P. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5628 PubMed 30280020

September 20, 2018

Spatial and temporal variations of aridity shape dung beetle assemblages towards the Sahara desert

Indradatta deCastro-Arrazola, Joaquín Hortal, Marco Moretti, Francisco Sánchez-Piñero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5210 PubMed 30258704

September 5, 2018

Integrative taxonomy of the genus Pseudostegana (Diptera, Drosophilidae) from China, with descriptions of eleven new species

Jinming Lu, Yuan Zhang, Hongwei Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5160 PubMed 30202640

September 26, 2018

Population history of deep-sea vent and seep Provanna snails (Mollusca: Abyssochrysoidea) in the northwestern Pacific

Tomomi Ogura, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Chong Chen, Takenori Sasaki, Shigeaki Kojima, Jun-ichiro Ishibashi, Katsunori Fujikura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5673 PubMed 30280041

September 19, 2018

Population trend inferred from aural surveys for calling anurans in Korea

Amaël Borzée, Desiree Andersen, Yikweon Jang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5568 PubMed 30258708

September 18, 2018

Mitogenomics of Perumytilus purpuratus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) and its implications for doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria

Beata Śmietanka, Marek Lubośny, Aleksandra Przyłucka, Karin Gérard, Artur Burzyński

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5593 PubMed 30245933

September 24, 2018

Successful transplantation of guinea pig gut microbiota in mice and its effect on pneumonic plague sensitivity

Xiang Li, Zhengchao Li, Yuxiao Chang, Fengyi Hou, Zongyu Huang, Han Ni, Ruifu Yang, Yujing Bi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5637 PubMed 30280023

September 26, 2018

Effect of changes in the fractal structure of a littoral zone in the course of lake succession on the abundance, body size sequence and biomass of beetles

Joanna Pakulnicka, Andrzej Zawal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5662 PubMed 30280034

September 28, 2018

First record of Holothuria (Metriatyla) scabra Jaeger, 1833 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the coastal waters of the United Arab Emirates

Fadi Yaghmour, Brendan Whittington-Jones

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5555 PubMed 30280015

September 7, 2018

A bathypelagic ostracod Conchoecissa nigromaculatus sp. nov. (Myodocopa, Halocyprididae) from the South China Sea

Peng Xiang, Yu Wang, Ruixiang Chen, Liyuan Zhao, Chunguang Wang, Mao Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5557 PubMed 30210944

September 20, 2018

Gap analysis and implications for seasonal management on a local scale

Li Yang, Baofeng Zhang, Xinrui Wang, Yueheng Ren, Jinlin Chen, Chao Zhang, Yongpeng Xia, Yuankun Li, Jianguo Sun, Jiangang Guo, Weijia Wang, XiaoFeng Luan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5622 PubMed 30258719

September 18, 2018

Functional significance of cuckoo Cuculus canorus calls: responses of conspecifics, hosts and non-hosts

Piotr Tryjanowski, Federico Morelli, Tomasz S. Osiejuk, Anders Pape Møller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5302 PubMed 30245923

September 21, 2018

Plant dominance in a subalpine montane meadow: biotic vs. abiotic controls of subordinate diversity within and across sites

Erika LaPlante, Lara Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5619 PubMed 30258717