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May 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

DNA analysis to determine the identity of plant material from the digestive tracts of katydids

Four species of Phaneropterine katydids from Barro Colorado Island

May 3, 2019

DNA analysis to determine the identity of plant material from the digestive tracts of katydids

Researchers adapted a laboratory protocol for extracting and sequencing plant material from gut contents and applied it to Neotropical forest katydids (bush crickets).

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May 10, 2019

Species delimitation of the Dermacentor ticks based on phylogenetic clustering and niche modeling

Fang Wang, Duo Wang, Ge Guo, Yonghong Hu, Jiufeng Wei, Jingze Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6911 PubMed 31123639

May 28, 2019

The biogeography of Elaphe sauromates (Pallas, 1814), with a description of a new rat snake species

Daniel Jablonski, Oleg V. Kukushkin, Aziz Avcı, Sabina Bunyatova, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Çetin Ilgaz, Ekaterina Polyakova, Konstantin Shiryaev, Boris Tuniyev, David Jandzik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6944 PubMed 31179175

May 17, 2019

A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti)

Michelangelo Bisconti, Dirk K. Munsterman, Klaas Post

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6915 PubMed 31149399

May 31, 2019

Climatic niche comparison across a cryptic species complex

Qing Zhao, Hufang Zhang, Jiufeng Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7042 PubMed 31183260

May 13, 2019

The highly toxic and cryptogenic clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. (Hydrozoa, Limnomedusae) on the Swedish west coast

Annette F. Govindarajan, Björn Källström, Erik Selander, Carina Östman, Thomas G. Dahlgren