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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 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 18, 2018

Natural history and molecular evolution of demersal Mediterranean sharks and skates inferred by comparative phylogeographic and demographic analyses

Alice Ferrari, Fausto Tinti, Victoria Bertucci Maresca, Alessandro Velonà, Rita Cannas, Ioannis Thasitis, Filipe Oliveira Costa, Maria Cristina Follesa, Daniel Golani, Farid Hemida, Sarah J. Helyar, Cecilia Mancusi, Antonello Mulas, Fabrizio Serena, Letizia Sion, Marco Stagioni, Alessia Cariani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5560 PubMed 30245927

September 11, 2018

Complete paternally inherited mitogenomes of two freshwater mussels Unio pictorum and Sinanodonta woodiana (Bivalvia: Unionidae)

Artur Burzyński, Marianna Soroka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5573 PubMed 30221094

September 12, 2018

Deep divergence of Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica: Cardinalidae), a multilocus phylogenetic analysis with emphasis in Mesoamerica

Sandra M. Ramírez-Barrera, Blanca E. Hernández-Baños, Juan P. Jaramillo-Correa, John Klicka

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5496 PubMed 30225165