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February 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, the oldest dinosaur with ‘feather-like’ structures

Supplementary Figure S1. 3D reconstruction of Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus

February 1, 2019

Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, the oldest dinosaur with ‘feather-like’ structures

Reconstruction of the neornithischian dinosaur with its integumentary coverage.

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February 21, 2019

Lower rotational inertia and larger leg muscles indicate more rapid turns in tyrannosaurids than in other large theropods

Eric Snively, Haley O’Brien, Donald M. Henderson, Heinrich Mallison, Lara A. Surring, Michael E. Burns, Thomas R. Holtz, Anthony P. Russell, Lawrence M. Witmer, Philip J. Currie, Scott A. Hartman, John R. Cotton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6432 PubMed 30809441

February 26, 2019

A new glassfrog (Centrolenidae) from the Chocó-Andean Río Manduriacu Reserve, Ecuador, endangered by mining

Juan M. Guayasamin, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, José Vieira, Sebastián Kohn, Gabriela Gavilanes, Ryan L. Lynch, Paul S. Hamilton, Ross J. Maynard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6400 PubMed 30863669

February 8, 2019

Molecular evidence for sex reversal in wild populations of green frogs (Rana clamitans)

Max R. Lambert, Tien Tran, Andrzej Kilian, Tariq Ezaz, David K. Skelly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6449 PubMed 30775188

February 1, 2019

African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) as an example of a herbivore making movement choices based on nutritional needs

Fiona Sach, Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Simon C. Langley-Evans, Michael J. Watts, Lisa Yon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6260 PubMed 30723615

February 28, 2019

Quantitative heterodonty in Crocodylia: assessing size and shape across modern and extinct taxa

Domenic C. D’Amore, Megan Harmon, Stephanie K. Drumheller, Jason J. Testin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6485 PubMed 30842900

February 7, 2019

Tamilokus mabinia, a new, anatomically divergent genus and species of wood-boring bivalve from the Philippines

J. Reuben Shipway, Marvin A. Altamia, Gary Rosenberg, Gisela P. Concepcion, Margo G. Haygood, Daniel L. Distel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6256 PubMed 30746304

February 12, 2019

The running kinematics of free-roaming giraffes, measured using a low cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Christopher K. Basu, Francois Deacon, John R. Hutchinson, Alan M. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6312 PubMed 30775166

February 25, 2019

Evaluating the utility of camera traps in field studies of predation

Christopher K. Akcali, Hibraim Adán Pérez-Mendoza, David Salazar-Valenzuela, David W. Kikuchi, Juan M. Guayasamin, David W. Pfennig

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6487 PubMed 30828493

February 21, 2019

What does a Pacman eat? Macrophagy and necrophagy in a generalist predator (Ceratophrys stolzmanni)

Diana Székely, Fernando P. Gaona, Paul Székely, Dan Cogălniceanu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6406 PubMed 30809435

February 22, 2019

The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 3. Jiufengia jiai gen. et sp. nov., a large akidnognathid therocephalian

Jun Liu, Fernando Abdala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6463 PubMed 30809450

February 18, 2019

A new testudinoid turtle from the middle to late Eocene of Vietnam

Rafaella C. Garbin, Madelaine Böhme, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6280 PubMed 30805245

February 13, 2019

A large Late Miocene cetotheriid (Cetacea, Mysticeti) from the Netherlands clarifies the status of Tranatocetidae

Felix G. Marx, Klaas Post, Mark Bosselaers, Dirk K. Munsterman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6426 PubMed 30783574

February 5, 2019

Molecular and morphological congruence of three new cryptic Neopetrosia spp. in the Caribbean

Jan Vicente, Jaime Andrés Ríos, Sven Zea, Robert J. Toonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6371 PubMed 30746308

February 12, 2019

Morphological identification and molecular confirmation of the deep-sea blue and red shrimp Aristeus antennatus larvae

Marta Carreton, Joan B. Company, Laia Planella, Sandra Heras, José-Luis García-Marín, Melania Agulló, Morane Clavel-Henry, Guiomar Rotllant, Antonina dos Santos, María Inés Roldán

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6063 PubMed 30775163

February 25, 2019

Integrative taxonomic reassessment of Odontophrynus populations in Argentina and phylogenetic relationships within Odontophrynidae (Anura)

Adolfo Ludovico Martino, Jonas Maximilian Dehling, Ulrich Sinsch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6480 PubMed 30828491

February 6, 2019

Turtles of the genera Geoemyda and Pangshura (Testudines: Geoemydidae) lack differentiated sex chromosomes: the end of a 40-year error cascade for Pangshura

Sofia Mazzoleni, Barbora Augstenová, Lorenzo Clemente, Markus Auer, Uwe Fritz, Peter Praschag, Tomáš Protiva, Petr Velenský, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Michail Rovatsos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6241 PubMed 30755825

February 5, 2019

Blood parasites infecting the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), a unique neotropical folivorous bird

M. Andreína Pacheco, M. Alexandra García-Amado, Jaime Manzano, Nubia E. Matta, Ananias A. Escalante

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6361 PubMed 30740273

February 28, 2019

A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae)

Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Timothy A. Rawlings

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6569

February 22, 2019

Tracking down the lizards from Gravenhorst's collection at the University of Wrocław: type specimens of Callopistes maculatus Gravenhorst, 1838 and three Liolaemus species rediscovered

Bartosz Borczyk, Tomasz Skawiński