Data from: Morphometrics and paleoecology of Catenipora (Tabulata) from...
Catenipora is one of the most common tabulate coral genera occurring in various lithofacies in the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation at Zhuzhai in South China. A combination of traditional...
View ArticleData from: A small-bodied species of Brontotheriidae from the Middle Eocene...
We diagnose a new species of Brontotheriidae from a middle Eocene locality, the Clarno Nut Beds, from the Clarno Formation, John Day Basin, Central Oregon. Though renowned for its richness in fossil...
View ArticleData from: Latitudinal body size trends in Oligo-Miocene mammals
Paleoecological data allow not only the study of trends along deep-time chronological transects but can also be used to reconstruct ecological gradients through time, which can help identify causal...
View ArticleData from: Continental-scale biogeographic variation: provinces versus...
Although provinces are widely used to delimit large-scale variations in biotic composition, it is unknown to what extent such variations simply reflect large-scale gradients, much as has been shown at...
View ArticleData from: Decaying of Artemia salina in clay colloids: 14-month experimental...
The mechanism that guided the formation of exceptionally preserved fossils with soft tissues variously displayed is a paramount challenge to paleontology. The key question for exceptional preservation...
View ArticleData from: A combined morphometric and phylogenetic revision of the Late...
Systematic revision of the Late Ordovician brachiopod genera Eochonetes Reed, 1917 and Thaerodonta Wang, 1949 was conducted utilizing specimen-based morphometric and species-level phylogenetic...
View ArticleData from: Requirements and limits of anatomy-based predictions of locomotion...
Modern computer aided techniques foster the availability and quality of 3D visualisation and reconstruction of extinct and extant species. Moreover, animated sequences of locomotion and other movements...
View ArticleData from: Anatomy, systematics, paleoenvironment, growth, and age of the...
BACKGROUND—Sauropod dinosaurs are rare in the Cretaceous North American fossil record in general and are absent from that record for most of the Late Cretaceous. Sonorasaurus thompsoni from the Turney...
View ArticleData from: Character evolution and the origin of Caimaninae (Crocodylia) in...
Alligators and caimans share a close relationship, supported by both molecular and morphological characters. The divergence between alligators and caimans has been difficult to discern in the fossil...
View ArticleData from: Divergence before the host shift? Prezygotic reproductive...
Although divergence via host-plant shifting is a common theme in the speciation of some phytophagous insects, it is not clear whether host shifts are typically initiators of speciation or if they...
View ArticleData from: Trace fossils of possible parasites inside the gut contents of a...
Tiny sinuous trace fossils have been found within probable gut contents of an exceptionally preserved specimen of a hadrosaurid dinosaur, Brachylophosaurus canadensis, from the Judith River Formation...
View ArticleData from: Systematics of organic-walled microfossils from the ~780–740 Ma...
The ~780–740 Ma Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, provides an exceptional record of life during the diversification of crown-group eukaryotes, just prior to the first Cryogenian glaciation. We...
View ArticleData from: The ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs of Careless Creek (Upper Cretaceous of...
The Careless Creek Quarry (CCQ) is a multitaxic bonebed in the Campanian Judith River Formation of south-central Montana (USA) that produced a diverse assemblage of vertebrates, including several...
View ArticleData from: Viruses are a dominant driver of protein adaptation in mammals
Viruses interact with hundreds to thousands of proteins in mammals, yet adaptation against viruses has only been studied in a few proteins specialized in antiviral defense. Whether adaptation to...
View ArticleData from: Regulation of cell protrusions by small GTPases during fusion of...
Epithelial fusion is a crucial process in embryonic development, and its failure underlies several clinically important birth defects. For example, failure of neural fold fusion during neurulation...
View ArticleData from: Dynamic NF-κB and E2F interactions control the priority and timing...
Dynamic cellular systems reprogram gene expression to ensure appropriate cellular fate responses to specific extracellular cues. Here we demonstrate that the dynamics of Nuclear Factor kappa B (NF-κB)...
View ArticleData from: Acute artificial light diminishes central Texas Anuran calling...
Male anuran (frog and toad) advertisement calls associate with fitness and can respond to environmental cues such as rain and air temperature. Moonlight is thought to generally decrease call behaviors...
View ArticleData from: Genome-scale phylogenetic analysis finds extensive gene transfer...
Although the role of lateral gene transfer is well recognized in the evolution of bacteria, it is generally assumed that it has had less influence among eukaryotes. To explore this hypothesis, we...
View ArticleData from: Hiding in plain sight: Koshicola spirodelophila gen. et sp. nov....
Premise of the study: Discovery and morphological characterization of a novel epiphytic aquatic green alga increases our understanding of Chaetopeltidales, a poorly known order in Chlorophyceae....
View ArticleData from: Multi-trait aposematic signal in Batesian mimicry
Batesian mimics can parasitize Müllerian mimicry rings mimicking the warning color signal. The evolutionary success of Batesian mimics can increase adding complexity to the signal by behavioral and...
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