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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 4, 2018

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

Alexandre Antonelli, María Ariza, James Albert, Tobias Andermann, Josué Azevedo, Christine Bacon, Søren Faurby, Thais Guedes, Carina Hoorn, Lúcia G. Lohmann, Pável Matos-Maraví, Camila D. Ritter, Isabel Sanmartín, Daniele Silvestro, Marcelo Tejedor, Hans ter Steege, Hanna Tuomisto, Fernanda P. Werneck, Alexander Zizka, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5644 PubMed 30310740

October 17, 2018

Comparative systematics and phylogeography of Quercus Section Cerris in western Eurasia: inferences from plastid and nuclear DNA variation

Marco Cosimo Simeone, Simone Cardoni, Roberta Piredda, Francesca Imperatori, Michael Avishai, Guido W. Grimm, Thomas Denk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5793 PubMed 30356975

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