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A new tyrannosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation

Fig 1: Frontals of UMNH VP 28348 in rostral view

October 9, 2018

A new tyrannosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation

Researchers report a new tyrannosaurid represented by an associated skeleton from the lower Campanian Allison Member of the Menefee Formation of New Mexico. The specimen is the holotype of the new genus and species Dynamoterror dynastes.

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October 11, 2018

Virus discovery in all three major lineages of terrestrial arthropods highlights the diversity of single-stranded DNA viruses associated with invertebrates

Karyna Rosario, Kaitlin A. Mettel, Bayleigh E. Benner, Ryan Johnson, Catherine Scott, Sohath Z. Yusseff-Vanegas, Christopher C.M. Baker, Deby L. Cassill, Caroline Storer, Arvind Varsani, Mya Breitbart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5761 PubMed 30324030

October 19, 2018

Continental-scale suppression of an invasive pest by a host-specific parasitoid underlines both environmental and economic benefits of arthropod biological control

Kris A.G. Wyckhuys, Prapit Wongtiem, Aunu Rauf, Anchana Thancharoen, George E. Heimpel, Nhung T.T. Le, Muhammad Zainal Fanani, Geoff M. Gurr, Jonathan G. Lundgren, Dharani D. Burra, Leo K. Palao, Glenn Hyman, Ignazio Graziosi, Vi X. Le, Matthew J.W. Cock, Teja Tscharntke, Steve D. Wratten, Liem V. Nguyen, Minsheng You, Yanhui Lu, Johannes W. Ketelaar, Georg Goergen, Peter Neuenschwander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5796 PubMed 30364550

October 16, 2018

Pushing the limits of whole genome amplification: successful sequencing of RADseq library from a single microhymenopteran (Chalcidoidea, Trichogramma)

Astrid Cruaud, Géraldine Groussier, Guenaëlle Genson, Laure Sauné, Andrew Polaszek, Jean-Yves Rasplus

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5640 PubMed 30356952

October 9, 2018

Do an ecosystem engineer and environmental gradient act independently or in concert to shape juvenile plant communities? Tests with the leaf-cutter ant Atta laevigata in a Neotropical savanna

Alan N. Costa, Emilio M. Bruna, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5612 PubMed 30324010

October 25, 2018

Investigating leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) on the west coast islands of Sabah via checklist-taking and DNA barcoding

Kam-Cheng Yeong, Haruo Takizawa, Thor-Seng Liew