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August 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

New dinosaur found in a South African museum!

Fig 1: Photographs of the skull of BP/1/4779

August 5, 2019

New dinosaur found in a South African museum!

Researchers have unearthed a new species of dinosaur from a 30 year old museum collection in South African. The new species has been named Ngwevu intloko.

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August 30, 2019

Post-fledging habitat use in a declining songbird

Clayton D. Delancey, Kamal Islam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7358 PubMed 31531266

August 30, 2019

The adipokinetic hormones and their cognate receptor from the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria: solution structure of endogenous peptides and models of their binding to the receptor

Graham E. Jackson, Elumalai Pavadai, Gerd Gäde, Niels H. Andersen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7514 PubMed 31531269

August 30, 2019

Comparative and evolutionary analysis of the reptilian hedgehog gene family (Shh, Dhh, and Ihh)

Tian Xia, Honghai Zhang, Lei Zhang, Xiufeng Yang, Guolei Sun, Jun Chen, Dajie Xu, Chao Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7613 PubMed 31531274

August 28, 2019

Testing the function of dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) ‘sickle claws’ through musculoskeletal modelling and optimization

Peter J. Bishop

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7577 PubMed 31523517

August 27, 2019

A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies

Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Gunnar Brehm, Pasi Sihvonen, Axel Hausmann, Sille Holm, Hamid Reza Ghanavi, Erki Õunap, Andro Truuverk, Hermann Staude, Egbert Friedrich, Toomas Tammaru, Niklas Wahlberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7386 PubMed 31523494

August 26, 2019

Three new species, one new genus and subfamily of Dorylaimida (de Man, 1876) Pearse, 1942, and revisions on the families Tylencholaimellidae Jairajpuri, 1964 and Mydonomidae Thorne, 1964 (Nematoda: Dorylaimida)

Wen-Jia Wu, Chun-Ling Xu, Hui Xie, Dong-Wei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7541 PubMed 31523507

August 26, 2019

The association between evidence of a predator threat and responsiveness to alarm calls in Western Australian magpies (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)

Annabel Silvestri, Kate Morgan, Amanda R. Ridley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7572 PubMed 31523516

August 26, 2019

Cell proliferation controls body size growth, tentacle morphogenesis, and regeneration in hydrozoan jellyfish Cladonema pacificum

Sosuke Fujita, Erina Kuranaga, Yu-ichiro Nakajima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7579 PubMed 31523518

August 23, 2019

The complete mitochondrial genome of Pyxicephalus adspersus: high gene rearrangement and phylogenetics of one of the world’s largest frogs

Yin-Yin Cai, Shi-Qi Shen, Li-Xu Lu, Kenneth B. Storey, Dan-Na Yu, Jia-Yong Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7532 PubMed 31497398

August 22, 2019

Revision of the Tanzanian dicynodont Dicynodon huenei (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the Permian Usili Formation

Christian F. Kammerer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7420 PubMed 31497385

August 22, 2019

Estimating the phylogeny of geoemydid turtles (Cryptodira) from landmark data: an assessment of different methods

Eduardo Ascarrunz, Julien Claude, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7476 PubMed 31497387

August 19, 2019

Redescription of Hargeria rapax (Harger, 1879) and description of H. chetumalensis a new species from the Mexican Caribbean (Crustacea, Peracarida, Tanaidacea, Leptocheliidae) based upon morphological and molecular evidence

Jani Jarquín-González, Luis F. Carrera-Parra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7472 PubMed 31489263

August 16, 2019

Towards a barnacle tree of life: integrating diverse phylogenetic efforts into a comprehensive hypothesis of thecostracan evolution

Christine Ewers-Saucedo, Christopher L. Owen, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Jens T. Høeg, Henrik Glenner, Benny K.K. Chan, Keith A. Crandall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7387 PubMed 31440430

August 15, 2019

Experimental removal of introduced slider turtles offers new insight into competition with a native, threatened turtle

Max R. Lambert, Jennifer M. McKenzie, Robyn M. Screen, Adam G. Clause, Benjamin B. Johnson, Genevieve G. Mount, H Bradley Shaffer, Gregory B. Pauly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7444 PubMed 31435491

August 15, 2019

Molecular taxonomy of endemic coastal Ligia isopods from the Hawaiian Islands: re-description of L. hawaiensis and description of seven novel cryptic species

Carlos A. Santamaria

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7531 PubMed 31435494

August 12, 2019

A new species of terrestrial frog of the genus Noblella Barbour, 1930 (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor, Tungurahua, Ecuador

Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Carolina Reyes-Puig, Santiago Ron, Jhael A. Ortega, Juan M. Guayasamin, Mindee Goodrum, Fausto Recalde, Jose J. Vieira, Claudia Koch, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7405 PubMed 31423356

August 9, 2019

Potential benefits from global warming to the thermal biology and locomotor performance of an endangered Patagonian lizard

Facundo Cabezas-Cartes, Jimena B. Fernández, Fernando Duran, Erika L. Kubisch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7437 PubMed 31413930

August 8, 2019

A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW)

Claudia Koch, Angele Martins, Silke Schweiger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7411 PubMed 31410308

August 7, 2019

Gaining insights in the nutritional metabolism of amphibians: analyzing body nutrient profiles of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis

Andrea Brenes-Soto, Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Guido Bosch, Wouter H. Hendriks, Geert P.J. Janssens