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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 30, 2018

The double role of pigmentation and convolute leaves in community assemblage of Amazonian epiphytic Lejeuneaceae

Sylvia Mota de Oliveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5921 PubMed 30533291

November 16, 2018

A new microvertebrate assemblage from the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation: insights into the paleobiodiversity and paleobiogeography of early Late Cretaceous ecosystems in western North America

Haviv M. Avrahami, Terry A. Gates, Andrew B. Heckert, Peter J. Makovicky, Lindsay E. Zanno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5883 PubMed 30479889

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 14, 2018

Skin bacterial diversity is higher on lizards than sympatric frogs in tropical Australia

Chava L. Weitzman, Karen Gibb, Keith Christian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5960 PubMed 30479906

November 14, 2018

Honey bee viruses in Serbian colonies of different strength

Dragan Cirkovic, Jevrosima Stevanovic, Uros Glavinic, Nevenka Aleksic, Spomenka Djuric, Jelena Aleksic, Zoran Stanimirovic

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5887 PubMed 30479890

November 13, 2018

A general pattern of the species abundance distribution

Qiang Su

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5928 PubMed 30479898

November 12, 2018

Late Cretaceous sauropod tooth morphotypes may provide supporting evidence for faunal connections between North Africa and Southern Europe

Femke M. Holwerda, Verónica Díez Díaz, Alejandro Blanco, Roel Montie, Jelle W.F. Reumer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5925 PubMed 30473934

November 12, 2018

First evidence of asexual recruitment of Pocillopora acuta in Okinawa Island using genotypic identification

Yuichi Nakajima, Po-Shun Chuang, Nobuo Ueda, Satoshi Mitarai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5915 PubMed 30473933

November 8, 2018

Amphibian life history in a temperate environment of the Mexican Plateau: dimorphism, phenology and trophic ecology of a hylid frog, Hyla eximia (=Dryophytes eximius)

Uriel Hernández-Salinas, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista, Barry P. Stephenson, Raciel Cruz-Elizalde, Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Carlos Jesús Balderas-Valdivia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5897 PubMed 30473932

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 7, 2018

Along urbanization sprawl, exotic plants distort native bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) assemblages in high elevation Andes ecosystem

Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich, Alejandro Vera, Gino Sandoval, Cristian Villagra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5916 PubMed 30425897

November 7, 2018

Novel findings on the impact of chytridiomycosis on the cardiac function of anurans: sensitive vs. tolerant species

Raquel F. Salla, Gisele M. Rizzi-Possignolo, Cristiane R. Oliveira, Carolina Lambertini, Lilian Franco-Belussi, Domingos S. Leite, Elaine Cristina M. Silva-Zacarin, Fábio C. Abdalla, Thomas S. Jenkinson, Luís Felipe Toledo, Monica Jones-Costa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5891 PubMed 30425891

November 6, 2018

Mapping the distribution of scale-rayed wrasse Acantholabrus palloni in Swedish Skagerrak using angling records

Joacim Näslund, Markus Lundgren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5900 PubMed 30416890

November 6, 2018

Genetic population structure of the pelagic mollusk Limacina helicina in the Kara Sea

Galina Anatolievna Abyzova, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nikitin, Olga Vladimirovna Popova, Anna Fedorovna Pasternak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5709 PubMed 30416878