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March 2019

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A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Live images of Astrobatrachus kurichiyana

March 12, 2019

A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Researchers describe a new species, Astrobatrachus kurichiyana sp. nov. The discovery of this species adds to the list of deeply divergent and monotypic or depauperate lineages with narrow geographic ranges in the southern massifs of the Western Ghats

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March 5, 2019

DNA metabarcoding allows non-invasive identification of arthropod prey provisioned to nestling Rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)

Alison J. Moran, Sean W.J. Prosser, Jonathan A. Moran

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6596 PubMed 30863689

March 14, 2019

Effects of habitat fragmentation and human disturbance on the population dynamics of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey from 1994 to 2016

Xumao Zhao, Baoping Ren, Dayong Li, Zuofu Xiang, Paul A. Garber, Ming Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6633 PubMed 30886785

March 29, 2019

Comparative analysis and characterization of the gut microbiota of four farmed snakes from southern China

Bing Zhang, Jing Ren, Daode Yang, Shuoran Liu, Xinguo Gong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6658 PubMed 30956901

March 29, 2019

Using road patrol data to identify factors associated with carnivore roadkill counts

Samual T. Williams, Wendy Collinson, Claire Patterson-Abrolat, David G. Marneweck, Lourens H. Swanepoel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6650 PubMed 30956899

March 28, 2019

Comparison of the fecal microbiota of two free-ranging Chinese subspecies of the leopard (Panthera pardus) using high-throughput sequencing

Siyu Han, Yu Guan, Hailong Dou, Haitao Yang, Meng Yao, Jianping Ge, Limin Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6684 PubMed 30944781

March 19, 2019

Large carnivore habitat suitability modelling for Romania and associated predictions for protected areas

Bogdan Cristescu, Csaba Domokos, Kristine J. Teichman, Scott E. Nielsen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6549 PubMed 30918752

March 1, 2019

The role of juvenile hormone in regulating reproductive physiology and dominance in Dinoponera quadriceps ants

Victoria C. Norman, Tobias Pamminger, Fabio Nascimento, William O.H. Hughes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6512 PubMed 30842903

March 11, 2019

The distributive and structural characteristics of bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue (BALT) in Bactrian camels (Camelus bactrianus)

Wanhong He, Wangdong Zhang, Cuicui Cheng, Jianfei Li, Xiuping Wu, Min Li, Zhihua Chen, Wenhui Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6571 PubMed 30881767

March 8, 2019

Transcriptome sequencing and comparative analysis of adult ovary and testis identify potential gonadal maintenance-related genes in Mauremys reevesii with temperature-dependent sex determination

Lei Xiong, Jinxiu Dong, Hui Jiang, Jiawei Zan, Jiucui Tong, Jianjun Liu, Meng Wang, Liuwang Nie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6557 PubMed 30867990

March 26, 2019

Proteomics alterations in chicken jejunum caused by 24 h fasting

Ádám Simon, Gabriella Gulyás, Zoltán Mészár, Mangesh Bhide, János Oláh, Péter Bai, Éva Csősz, András Jávor, István Komlósi, Judit Remenyik, Levente Czeglédi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6588 PubMed 30941268

March 21, 2019

Comparative analysis of the liver transcriptome in the red-eared slider Trachemys scripta elegans under chronic salinity stress

Meiling Hong, Aiping Jiang, Na Li, Weihao Li, Haitao Shi, Kenneth B. Storey, Li Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6538 PubMed 30923649

March 15, 2019

Vocal recognition of a nest-predator in black grouse

Richard Policht, Vlastimil Hart, Denis Goncharov, Peter Surový, Vladimír Hanzal, Jaroslav Červený, Hynek Burda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6533 PubMed 30891367

March 28, 2019

Underwater sound production varies within not between species in sympatric newts

Jiří Hubáček, Monika Šugerková, Lumír Gvoždík