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Yuri Shirane, Fumihiko Mori, Masami Yamanaka, Masanao Nakanishi, Tsuyoshi Ishinazaka, Tsutomu Mano, Mina Jimbo, Mariko Sashika, Toshio Tsubota, Michito Shimozuru

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9982 PubMed 32999770

September 21, 2020

Nest-site selection and breeding success of passerines in the world’s southernmost forests

Rocío Fernanda Jara, Ramiro Daniel Crego, Michael David Samuel, Ricardo Rozzi, Jaime Enrique Jiménez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9892 PubMed 33005489

September 16, 2020

If you build it, they will come: rapid colonization by dragonflies in a new effluent-dependent river reach

Michael T. Bogan, Drew Eppehimer, Hamdhani Hamdhani, Kelsey Hollien

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9856 PubMed 32995082

September 7, 2020

Adaptations to cursoriality and digit reduction in the forelimb of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus)

Heather F. Smith, Brent Adrian, Rahul Koshy, Ryan Alwiel, Aryeh Grossman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9866 PubMed 33194359

September 2, 2020

Postcranial elements of small mammals as indicators of locomotion and habitat

Christine M. Janis, Alberto Martín-Serra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9634 PubMed 32953256

September 16, 2020

An empirical examination of sample size effects on population demographic estimates in birds using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data

Jessica F. McLaughlin, Kevin Winker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9939 PubMed 32995092

September 11, 2020

Unexpected diversity in the host-generalist oribatid mite Paraleius leontonychus (Oribatida, Scheloribatidae) phoretic on Palearctic bark beetles

Sylvia Schäffer, Stephan Koblmüller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9710 PubMed 32974091

September 24, 2020

A new species of Scapholeberis Schoedler, 1858 (Anomopoda: Daphniidae: Scapholeberinae) from the Colombian Amazon basin highlighted by DNA barcodes and morphology

Camilo Andrade-Sossa, Lorena Buitron-Caicedo, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9989 PubMed 33024635

September 15, 2020

Osteohistology and growth dynamics of the Brazilian noasaurid Vespersaurus paranaensis Langer et al., 2019 (Theropoda: Abelisauroidea)

Geovane Alves de Souza, Marina Bento Soares, Arthur Souza Brum, Maria Zucolotto, Juliana M. Sayão, Luiz Carlos Weinschütz, Alexander W.A. Kellner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9771 PubMed 32983636

September 15, 2020

Ground beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae) as an indicator of ongoing changes in forest habitats due to increased water retention

Emilia Ludwiczak, Mariusz Nietupski, Agnieszka Kosewska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9815 PubMed 32983638

September 16, 2020

Community based actions save Yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) eggs and hatchlings flooded by rapid river level rises

Darren Norris, Fernanda Michalski, James P. Gibbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9921 PubMed 32995087

September 22, 2020

Species distribution modelling of Bryde’s whales, humpback whales, southern right whales, and sperm whales in the southern African region to inform their conservation in expanding economies

Jean Purdon, Fannie W. Shabangu, Dawit Yemane, Marc Pienaar, Michael J. Somers, Ken Findlay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9997 PubMed 33024637

September 3, 2020

Comparative masticatory myology in anteaters and its implications for interpreting morphological convergence in myrmecophagous placentals

Sérgio Ferreira-Cardoso, Pierre-Henri Fabre, Benoit de Thoisy, Frédéric Delsuc, Lionel Hautier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9690 PubMed 32983632

September 8, 2020

Climatic influence on the growth pattern of Panthasaurus maleriensis from the Late Triassic of India deduced from paleohistology

Elżbieta M. Teschner, Sanjukta Chakravorti, Dhurjati P. Sengupta, Dorota Konietzko-Meier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9868 PubMed 33194360

September 28, 2020

Differing physiological and behavioral responses to anthropogenic factors between resident and non-resident African elephants at Mpala Ranch, Laikipia County, Kenya

Sandy Oduor, Janine Brown, Geoffrey M. Macharia, Nicole Boisseau, Suzan Murray, Paul Obade

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10010 PubMed 33062433

September 21, 2020

Microbiomes of fish, sediment and seagrass suggest connectivity of coral reef microbial populations

Rosa León-Zayas, Molly McCargar, Joshua A. Drew, Jennifer F. Biddle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10026 PubMed 33005496

September 4, 2020

Five new pseudocryptic land planarian species of Cratera (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) unveiled through integrative taxonomy

Ana Paula Goulart Araujo, Fernando Carbayo, Marta Riutort, Marta Álvarez-Presas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9726 PubMed 32983634

September 2020

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