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January 10, 2020

Morphological variation of leaf traits in the Ternstroemia lineata species complex (Ericales: Penthaphylacaceae) in response to geographic and climatic variation

Othón Alcántara-Ayala, Ken Oyama, César A. Ríos-Muñoz, Gerardo Rivas, Santiago Ramirez-Barahona, Isolda Luna-Vega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8307 PubMed 31942256

January 27, 2020

Conserved novel ORFs in the mitochondrial genome of the ctenophore Beroe forskalii

Darrin T. Schultz, Jordan M. Eizenga, Russell B. Corbett-Detig, Warren R. Francis, Lynne M. Christianson, Steven H.D. Haddock

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8356 PubMed 32025367

January 24, 2020

Cranial anatomy of Allosaurus jimmadseni, a new species from the lower part of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western North America

Daniel J. Chure, Mark A. Loewen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7803 PubMed 32002317

January 24, 2020

New protocol for successful isolation and amplification of DNA from exiguous fractions of specimens: a tool to overcome the basic obstacle in molecular analyses of myxomycetes

Paulina Janik, Michał Ronikier, Anna Ronikier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8406 PubMed 32002333

January 13, 2020

A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera

Michelangelo Bisconti, Dirk K. Munsterman, René H.B. Fraaije, Mark E.J. Bosselaers, Klaas Post

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8315 PubMed 31976176

January 27, 2020

Crypsis and convergence: integrative taxonomic revision of the Gehyra australis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Australia

Paul M. Oliver, Audrey Miranda Prasetya, Leonardo G. Tedeschi, Jessica Fenker, Ryan J. Ellis, Paul Doughty, Craig Moritz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7971 PubMed 32025362

January 29, 2020

Remarks on Mastigodiaptomus (Calanoida: Diaptomidae) from Mexico using integrative taxonomy, with a key of identification and three new species

Martha A. Gutiérrez-Aguirre, Adrián Cervantes-Martínez, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Alfonso Lugo-Vázquez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8416 PubMed 32030323

January 21, 2020

Pseudolebinthus lunipterus sp. nov.: a striking deaf and mute new cricket from Malawi (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Eneopterinae)

Karen Salazar, Raymond J. Murphy, Marion Guillaume, Romain Nattier, Tony Robillard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8204 PubMed 31998551

January 24, 2020

Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome sequences of three Merulinidae corals and novel insights into the phylogenetics

Wentao Niu, Jiaguang Xiao, Peng Tian, Shuangen Yu, Feng Guo, Jianjia Wang, Dingyong Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8455 PubMed 32002337

January 9, 2020

New mammalian and avian records from the late Eocene La Meseta and Submeseta formations of Seymour Island, Antarctica

Sarah N. Davis, Christopher R. Torres, Grace M. Musser, James V. Proffitt, Nicholas M.A. Crouch, Ernest L. Lundelius, Matthew C. Lamanna, Julia A. Clarke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8268 PubMed 31942255

January 13, 2020

The mitochondrial genome of Apion squamigerum (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Brentidae) and the phylogenetic implications

Nan Song, Xinxin Li, Xinming Yin, Xinghao Li, Shengjun Yin, Mingsheng Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8386 PubMed 31976182

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