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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 4, 2019

Phylogeny of Paleozoic limbed vertebrates reassessed through revision and expansion of the largest published relevant data matrix

David Marjanović, Michel Laurin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5565 PubMed 30631641

January 18, 2019

Review of the ant genus Meranoplus Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species M. mosalahi sp. n. from Oman

Mostafa R. Sharaf, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6287 PubMed 30687589

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 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 22, 2019

Shifting faunal baselines through the Quaternary revealed by cave fossils of eastern Australia

Gilbert J. Price, Julien Louys, Garry K. Smith, Jonathan Cramb

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6099 PubMed 30697475

January 3, 2019

Polyphasic evaluation of key cyanobacteria in biocrusts from the most arid region in Europe

Beatriz Roncero-Ramos, M. Ángeles Muñoz-Martín, Sonia Chamizo, Lara Fernández-Valbuena, Diego Mendoza, Elvira Perona, Yolanda Cantón, Pilar Mateo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6169 PubMed 30627491

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 3, 2019

The existence and evolution of morphotypes in Anolis lizards: coexistence patterns, not adaptive radiations, distinguish mainland and island faunas

Steven Poe, Christopher G. Anderson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6040 PubMed 30627481

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 11, 2019

Characterizing ecomorphological patterns in hyenids: a multivariate approach using postcanine dentition

Carlos Coca-Ortega, Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6238 PubMed 30648005

January 28, 2019

Gastric Helicobacter pylori infection perturbs human oral microbiota

Eng-Guan Chua, Ju-Yee Chong, Binit Lamichhane, K. Mary Webberley, Barry J. Marshall, Michael J. Wise, Chin-Yen Tay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6336 PubMed 30713820

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 31, 2019

A new species of Escallonia (Escalloniaceae) from the inter-Andean tropical dry forests of Bolivia

Felipe Zapata, Daniel Villarroel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6328 PubMed 30723621

January 16, 2019

Putatively asexual chrysophytes have meiotic genes: evidence from transcriptomic data

Diana Kraus, Jingyun Chi, Jens Boenigk, Daniela Beisser, Nadine Graupner, Micah Dunthorn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5894 PubMed 30671284

January 14, 2019

Global genomic similarity and core genome sequence diversity of the Streptococcus genus as a toolkit to identify closely related bacterial species in complex environments

Hugo R. Barajas, Miguel F. Romero, Shamayim Martínez-Sánchez, Luis D. Alcaraz