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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

Long-term effects of straw and straw-derived biochar on soil aggregation and fungal community in a rice–wheat rotation system

Naling Bai, Hanlin Zhang, Shuangxi Li, Xianqing Zheng, Juanqin Zhang, Haiyun Zhang, Sheng Zhou, Huifeng Sun, Weiguang Lv

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6171 PubMed 30631646

January 9, 2019

Microbiota variations in Culex nigripalpus disease vector mosquito of West Nile virus and Saint Louis Encephalitis from different geographic origins

Dagne Duguma, Michael W. Hall, Chelsea T. Smartt, Mustapha Debboun, Josh D. Neufeld

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6168 PubMed 30643680

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