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January 2019

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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 9, 2019

Amelioration of drought effects in wheat and cucumber by the combined application of super absorbent polymer and potential biofertilizer

Yongbin Li, Haowen Shi, Haowei Zhang, Sanfeng Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6073 PubMed 30643688

January 10, 2019

Different ecological processes determined the alpha and beta components of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity for plant communities in dryland regions of Northwest China

Jianming Wang, Chen Chen, Jingwen Li, Yiming Feng, Qi Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6220 PubMed 30648001

January 11, 2019

Genetic diversity and its conservation implications of Vitex rotundifolia (Lamiaceae) populations in East Asia

Yiqi Sun, Hong Yang, Qiaoyan Zhang, Luping Qin, Pan Li, Joongku Lee, Shichao Chen, Khalid Rahman, Tingguo Kang, Min Jia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6194 PubMed 30648018

January 8, 2019

Defensin-like peptides in wheat analyzed by whole-transcriptome sequencing: a focus on structural diversity and role in induced resistance

Tatyana I. Odintsova, Marina P. Slezina, Ekaterina A. Istomina, Tatyana V. Korostyleva, Artem S. Kasianov, Alexey S. Kovtun, Vsevolod J. Makeev, Larisa A. Shcherbakova, Alexander M. Kudryavtsev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6125 PubMed 30643692

January 7, 2019

Diversity analysis of the rhizospheric and endophytic bacterial communities of Senecio vulgaris L. (Asteraceae) in an invasive range

Dandan Cheng, Zhongsai Tian, Liang Feng, Lin Xu, Hongmei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6162 PubMed 30643678

January 22, 2019

Effects of dredging on the vegetation in a small lowland river

Edyta Stępień, Andrzej Zawal, Paweł Buczyński, Edyta Buczyńska, Magdalena Szenejko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6282 PubMed 30697485

January 25, 2019

Convergent origin of the narrowly lanceolate leaf in the genus Aster—with special reference to an unexpected discovery of a new Aster species from East China

Guo-Jin Zhang, Hai-Hua Hu, Tian-Gang Gao, Michael G. Gilbert, Xiao-Feng Jin