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November 2018

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Reconstruction of a living Mirarce eatoni

November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

A 75 million year old bird skeleton from a threatened national monument in Utah represents the most complete skeleton ever found in North America for a long extinct group of birds called enantiornithines. This large, fossilized bird provides important new insight into the evolution of flight. It has several advanced adaptations for flying, which show that the Enantiornithes evolved these features separately from living birds.

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November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Jessie Atterholt, J. Howard Hutchison, Jingmai K. O’Connor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5910 PubMed 30479894

November 7, 2018

Geophysical upheavals and evolutionary diversification of plant species in the Himalaya

Kumar Manish, Maharaj K. Pandit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5919 PubMed 30425898

November 2, 2018

Elaborate plumage patterning in a Cretaceous bird

Quanguo Li, Julia A. Clarke, Ke-Qin Gao, Jennifer A. Peteya, Matthew D. Shawkey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5831 PubMed 30405969

November 6, 2018

Sexual dimorphism in the Arachnid orders

Callum J. McLean, Russell J. Garwood, Charlotte A. Brassey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5751 PubMed 30416880

November 14, 2018

Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions

Carlos E. Santibáñez-López, Ricardo Kriebel, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Nathaniel Rush, Zachary Witter, John Williams, Daniel A. Janies, Prashant P. Sharma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5902 PubMed 30479892

November 12, 2018

Genetic evidence supports a distinct lineage of American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in the Greater Antilles

Yoamel Milián-García, Michael A. Russello, Jessica Castellanos-Labarcena, Martin Cichon, Vikas Kumar, Georgina Espinosa, Natalia Rossi, Frank Mazzotti, Evon Hekkala, George Amato, Axel Janke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5836 PubMed 30473930

November 30, 2018

Anti-predator defences of a bombardier beetle: is bombing essential for successful escape from frogs?

Shinji Sugiura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5942 PubMed 30533294

November 26, 2018

Braincase and endocranial anatomy of two thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs and their relevance in understanding their adaptations to the marine environment

Yanina Herrera, Juan Martín Leardi, Marta S. Fernández

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5686 PubMed 30515353

November 28, 2018

Taxonomic patterns in the zoonotic potential of mammalian viruses

Alex D. Washburne, Daniel E. Crowley, Daniel J. Becker, Kevin J. Olival, Matthew Taylor, Vincent J. Munster, Raina K. Plowright

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5979 PubMed 30519509

November 1, 2018

Prionochelys matutina Zangerl, 1953 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the United States and the evolution of epithecal ossifications in marine turtles

Andrew D. Gentry

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5876 PubMed 30402356

November 15, 2018

Do mothers also “manipulate” grandparental care?

Mari V. Busch, Sandra Olaisen, Ina Jeanette Bruksås, Ivar Folstad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5924 PubMed 30479896

November 21, 2018

First steps towards assessing the evolutionary history and phylogeography of a widely distributed Neotropical grassland bird (Motacillidae: Anthus correndera)

Heraldo V. Norambuena, Paul Van Els, Carlos P. Muñoz-Ramírez, Pedro F. Victoriano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5886 PubMed 30498628

November 7, 2018

Microbiome differences between river-dwelling and cave-adapted populations of the fish Astyanax mexicanus (De Filippi, 1853)

Patricia Ornelas-García, Silvia Pajares, Víctor M. Sosa-Jiménez, Sylvie Rétaux, Ramsés A. Miranda-Gamboa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5906 PubMed 30425894

November 15, 2018

Ecological divergence of burying beetles into the forest canopy

Jillian D. Wettlaufer, Kevin W. Burke, Adam Schizkoske, David V. Beresford, Paul R. Martin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5829 PubMed 30479886

November 21, 2018

Appetitive reversal learning differences of two honey bee subspecies with different foraging behaviors

Eddie Pérez Claudio, Yoselyn Rodriguez-Cruz, Okan Can Arslan, Tugrul Giray, José Luis Agosto Rivera, Meral Kence, Harrington Wells, Charles I. Abramson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5918 PubMed 30498631

November 23, 2018

Effects of blood parasite infection and innate immune genetic diversity on mating patterns in a passerine bird breeding in contrasted habitats

Dany Garant, Audrey Bourret, Clarence Schmitt, Audrey Turcotte, Fanie Pelletier, Marc Bélisle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6004 PubMed 30505637