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Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Three-dimensional skull of BMT 1955.G35.1, Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis.

January 8, 2019

Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Representing one of the first times that medical imaging and three-dimensional reconstruction methods have been applied to a large skull of a marine reptile, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a large ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Warwickshire, England. The unusual three-dimensional preservation of the specimen permitted computed tomography (CT) scanning of individual braincase elements as well as the entire reassembled skull.

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January 15, 2019

Duplicated flavonoid 3’-hydroxylase and flavonoid 3’, 5’-hydroxylase genes in barley genome

Alexander V. Vikhorev, Ksenia V. Strygina, Elena K. Khlestkina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6266 PubMed 30671306

January 14, 2019

Mantle transcriptome sequencing of Mytilus spp. and identification of putative biomineralization genes

Magdalena Malachowicz, Roman Wenne

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6245 PubMed 30723611

January 21, 2019

Genetic variability in a Brazilian apple germplasm collection with low chilling requirements

Livia Costa Mariano, Felipe Liss Zchonski, Clandio Medeiros da Silva, Paulo Roberto Da-Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6265 PubMed 30693149

January 4, 2019

Functional polymorphisms of the APOA1/C3/A4/A5-ZPR1-BUD13 gene cluster are associated with dyslipidemia in a sex-specific pattern

Wei Bai, Changgui Kou, Lili Zhang, Yueyue You, Weiying Yu, Wanqing Hua, Yuanyuan Li, Yaqin Yu, Tiancheng Zhao, Yanhua Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6175 PubMed 30631647

January 30, 2019

Extraordinary centromeres: differences in the meiotic chromosomes of two rock lizards species Darevskia portschinskii and Darevskia raddei

Victor Spangenberg, Marine Arakelyan, Eduard Galoyan, Mark Pankin, Ruzanna Petrosyan, Ilona Stepanyan, Tatiana Grishaeva, Felix Danielyan, Oxana Kolomiets

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6360 PubMed 30723630

January 8, 2019

The origin of exotic pet sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) kept in the United States of America

Catriona D. Campbell, Jill Pecon-Slattery, Rebecca Pollak, Leo Joseph, Clare E. Holleley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6180 PubMed 30643698

January 11, 2019

Detection and variability analyses of CRISPR-like loci in the H. pylori genome

Jerson Alexander García-Zea, Roberto de la Herrán, Francisca Robles Rodríguez, Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Carmelo Ruiz Rejón

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6221 PubMed 30648020

January 10, 2019

MicroRNA-705 regulates the differentiation of mouse mandible bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

Xiao Hong Yang, Kun Yang, Yu Lin An, Li Bo Wang, Guo Luo, Xiao Hua Hu