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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 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 1, 2019

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil, roots and rhizosphere of Medicago truncatula: diversity and heterogeneity under semi-arid conditions

Neji Mahmoudi, Cristina Cruz, Mosbah Mahdhi, Mohamed Mars, Maria F. Caeiro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6401 PubMed 30842895

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 13, 2019

Just a small bunch of flowers: the botanical knowledge of students and the positive effects of courses in plant identification at German universities

Thorsten Buck, Ines Bruchmann, Pascale Zumstein, Claudia Drees

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6581 PubMed 30886774

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 13, 2019

Coral-algal interactions at Weizhou Island in the northern South China Sea: variations by taxa and the exacerbating impact of sediments trapped in turf algae

Zhiheng Liao, Kefu Yu, Yinghui Wang, Xueyong Huang, Lijia Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6590 PubMed 30886777

March 21, 2019

Maintenance of dominant populations in heavily grazed grassland: Inference from a Stipa breviflora seed germination experiment

Wenting Liu, Zhijun Wei, Xiaoxia Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6654 PubMed 30923659

March 12, 2019

The effects of Solidago canadensis water extracts on maize seedling growth in association with the biomass allocation pattern

Xiao qi Ye, Jin liu Meng, Ming Wu