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January 28, 2020

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

Freek T. Bakker, Alexandre Antonelli, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph A. Cook, Scott V. Edwards, Per G.P. Ericson, Søren Faurby, Nuno Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Martin Irestedt, Kennet Lundin, Ellen Larsson, Pável Matos-Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, George K. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, Mari Källersjö

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8225 PubMed 32025365

January 28, 2020

Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein-coding genes in jatropha and the comparison with castor, cassava and arabidopsis

Yongguo Zhao, Hua Kong, Yunling Guo, Zhi Zou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8465 PubMed 32025382

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 23, 2020

Growth rate and locomotor performance tradeoff is not universal in birds

Tao Zhao, Zhiheng Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8423 PubMed 32002334

January 22, 2020

First record of Gyrosteus mirabilis (Actinopterygii, Chondrosteidae) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of the Baltic region

Jahn J. Hornung, Sven Sachs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8400 PubMed 32002331

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 20, 2020

Appetite regulating genes may contribute to herbivory versus carnivory trophic divergence in haplochromine cichlids

Ehsan P. Ahi, Anna Duenser, Pooja Singh, Wolfgang Gessl, Christian Sturmbauer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8375 PubMed 31998557

January 17, 2020

Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in the wing musculature of Drosophila

Claire B. Tracy, Janet Nguyen, Rayna Abraham, Troy R. Shirangi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8360 PubMed 31988804

January 13, 2020

Structure and pigment make the eyed elater’s eyespots black

Victoria L. Wong, Paul E. Marek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8161 PubMed 31976171

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 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

January 10, 2020

Identifying model violations under the multispecies coalescent model using P2C2M.SNAPP

Drew J. Duckett, Tara A. Pelletier, Bryan C. Carstens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8271 PubMed 31949994

January 9, 2020

Analysis of the RNA virome of basal hexapods

Sabina Ott Rutar, Dusan Kordis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8336 PubMed 31942257

January 6, 2020

The first pterosaur basihyal, shedding light on the evolution and function of pterosaur hyoid apparatuses

Shunxing Jiang, Zhiheng Li, Xin Cheng, Xiaolin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8292 PubMed 31934505

January 3, 2020

The inflated mitochondrial genomes of siphonous green algae reflect processes driving expansion of noncoding DNA and proliferation of introns

Sonja I. Repetti, Christopher J. Jackson, Louise M. Judd, Ryan R. Wick, Kathryn E. Holt, Heroen Verbruggen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8273 PubMed 31915577

January 3, 2020

Identification of a genome-specific repetitive element in the Gossypium D genome

Hejun Lu, Xinglei Cui, Yanyan Zhao, Richard Odongo Magwanga, Pengcheng Li, Xiaoyan Cai, Zhongli Zhou, Xingxing Wang, Yuling Liu, Yanchao Xu, Yuqing Hou, Renhai Peng, Kunbo Wang, Fang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8344 PubMed 31915591

January 2, 2020

Symmetry systems on the wings of Dichromodes Guenée (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) are unconstrained by venation

Sandra R. Schachat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8263 PubMed 31915575

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