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May 22, 2020

Endosymbiotic adaptations in three new bacterial species associated with Dictyostelium discoideum: Paraburkholderia agricolaris sp. nov., Paraburkholderia hayleyella sp. nov., and Paraburkholderia bonniea sp. nov

Debra A. Brock, Suegene Noh, Alicia N.M. Hubert, Tamara S. Haselkorn, Susanne DiSalvo, Melanie K. Suess, Alexander S. Bradley, Mahboubeh Tavakoli-Nezhad, Katherine S. Geist, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9151 PubMed 32509456

May 29, 2020

Uncovering the species diversity of subterranean rodents at the end of the World: three new species of Patagonian tuco-tucos (Rodentia, Hystricomorpha, Ctenomys)

Pablo Teta, Guillermo D’Elía

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9259 PubMed 32523815

May 22, 2020

Oldest co-occurrence of Varanus and Python from Africa—first record of squamates from the early Miocene of Moghra Formation, Western Desert, Egypt

Georgios L. Georgalis, Mohamed K. Abdel Gawad, Safiya M. Hassan, Ahmed N. El-Barkooky, Mohamed A. Hamdan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9092 PubMed 32509449

May 26, 2020

Descriptions of five new species of the salamander genus Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from eastern Mexico and the status of three currently recognized taxa

Gabriela Parra Olea, Mirna G. Garcia-Castillo, Sean M. Rovito, Jessica A. Maisano, James Hanken, David B. Wake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8800 PubMed 32518712

May 15, 2020

A new genus of sinogaleaspids (Galeaspida, stem-Gnathostomata) from the Silurian Period in Jiangxi, China

Xianren Shan, Min Zhu, Wenjin Zhao, Zhaohui Pan, Pingli Wang, Zhikun Gai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9008 PubMed 32461826

May 13, 2020

The mitochondrial genome of Acrobeloides varius (Cephalobomorpha) confirms non-monophyly of Tylenchina (Nematoda)

Taeho Kim, Yucheol Lee, Hyun-Jong Kil, Joong-Ki Park

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9108 PubMed 32440374

May 12, 2020

Phylogenetic study of extirpated Korean leopard using mitochondrial DNA from an old skin specimen in South Korea

Jee Yun Hyun, Jang Hyuk Cho, Puneet Pandey, Mi-Sook Min, Kyung Seok Kim, Hang Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8900 PubMed 32435529

May 28, 2020

The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 5. Caodeyao liuyufengi gen. et sp. nov., a new peculiar therocephalian

Jun Liu, Fernando Abdala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9160 PubMed 32523808

May 21, 2020

Isolation, characterization, and comparative genomic analysis of a phage infecting high-level aminoglycoside-resistant (HLAR) Enterococcus faecalis

Danial Nasr Azadani, Daiyuan Zhang, J. Robert Hatherill, David Silva, Jeffrey W. Turner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9171 PubMed 32509458

May 27, 2020

A new sponge-associated starfish, Astrolirus patricki sp. nov. (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Brisingidae), from the northwestern Pacific seamounts

Ruiyan Zhang, Yadong Zhou, Ning Xiao, Chunsheng Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9071 PubMed 32518717

May 20, 2020

A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Qianguimon Huang, 2018 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Guangxi, Southern China

Song-Bo Wang, Ya-Nan Zhang, Jie-Xin Zou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9194 PubMed 32509462

May 26, 2020

A new nematode species, Chromadorina tangaroa sp. nov. (Chromadorida: Chromadoridae) from the hull of a research vessel, New Zealand

Daniel Leduc

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9233 PubMed 32518732

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