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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 27, 2019

Old wild wolves: ancient DNA survey unveils population dynamics in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Italian remains

Marta Maria Ciucani, Davide Palumbo, Marco Galaverni, Patrizia Serventi, Elena Fabbri, Gloria Ravegnini, Sabrina Angelini, Elena Maini, Davide Persico, Romolo Caniglia, Elisabetta Cilli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6424 PubMed 30944772

March 22, 2019

Evidence of cryptic lineages within a small South American crocodilian: the Schneider’s dwarf caiman Paleosuchus trigonatus (Alligatoridae: Caimaninae)

Pedro Senna Bittencourt, Zilca Campos, Fábio de Lima Muniz, Boris Marioni, Bruno Campos Souza, Ronis Da Silveira, Benoit de Thoisy, Tomas Hrbek, Izeni Pires Farias

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6580 PubMed 30931177

March 20, 2019

Evolution of host plant use and diversification in a species complex of parasitic weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Gerardo Hernández-Vera, Ivo Toševski, Roberto Caldara, Brent C. Emerson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6625 PubMed 30918760

March 20, 2019

Low genetic diversity in captive populations of the critically endangered Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) revealed by a panel of novel microsatellites

Guoling Chen, Chenqing Zheng, Nelson Wan, Daoqiang Liu, Vivian Wing Kan Fu, Xu Yang, Yat-tung Yu, Yang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6643 PubMed 30918762

March 18, 2019

Genome-wide characterization of endogenous retroviruses in snub-nosed monkeys

Xiao Wang, Boshi Wang, Zhijin Liu, Paul A. Garber, Huijuan Pan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6602 PubMed 30918756

March 15, 2019

Phylogenetic signal analysis in the basicranium of Ursidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)

María Eugenia Arnaudo, Néstor Toledo, Leopoldo Soibelzon, Paula Bona

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6597 PubMed 30891368

March 13, 2019

The choice of tree prior and molecular clock does not substantially affect phylogenetic inferences of diversification rates

Brice A.J. Sarver, Matthew W. Pennell, Joseph W. Brown, Sara Keeble, Kayla M. Hardwick, Jack Sullivan, Luke J. Harmon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6334 PubMed 30886768

March 13, 2019

Assessing alignment-based taxonomic classification of ancient microbial DNA

Raphael Eisenhofer, Laura Susan Weyrich

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6594 PubMed 30886779

March 12, 2019

A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar, Robert Alexander Pyron, K. P. Dinesh, Varun R. Torsekar, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Priyanka Swamy, Edward L. Stanley, David C. Blackburn, Kartik Shanker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6457 PubMed 30881763

March 8, 2019

A multi-year experiment shows that lower precipitation predictability encourages plants’ early life stages and enhances population viability

Martí March-Salas, Patrick S. Fitze

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6443 PubMed 30867983

March 7, 2019

Climate change and conservation in a warm North American desert: effect in shrubby plants

Victoria Sosa, Israel Loera, Diego F. Angulo, Marilyn Vásquez-Cruz, Etelvina Gándara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6572 PubMed 30867993

March 5, 2019

The Malacca Strait separates distinct faunas of poorly-flying Cautires net-winged beetles

Alice Jiruskova, Michal Motyka, Matej Bocek, Ladislav Bocak