Facing the facts: adaptive trade‐offs along body size ranges determine mammalian craniofacial scaling

DR Mitchell, E Sherratt, V Weisbecker - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The mammalian cranium (skull without lower jaw) is representative of mammalian diversity
and is thus of particular interest to mammalian biologists across disciplines. One widely …

Fossil micromammals and the palaeoenvironments of the Paranthropus robustus site of Cooper's Cave

P Linchamps, E Stoetzel, R Cornette, C Denys… - Historical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) provides an important fossil
record of the evolutionary history of PlioPleistocene hominins. Cooper's Cave deposits have …

A Cybertaxonomic Revision of the “Crocidura pergrisea” Species Complex with a Special Focus on Endemic Rocky Shrews: Crocidura armenica and Crocidura arispa …

LL Voyta, TV Petrova, VA Panitsina, SY Bodrov… - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The genus Crocidura has~ 200 species, which accounts for roughly half of
the Soricidae family's diversity. The “pergrisea” species group, which comprises at least four …

Plasmopara echinaceae, a new species of downy mildew affecting cone flowers (Echinacea purpurea) in the United States

C Salgado-Salazar, MK Romberg… - Fungal Systematics …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
Downy mildew is one of the most important diseases of commercial sunflower and other
Asteraceae hosts, including ornamental Rudbeckia. Plasmopara halstedii has historically …

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E Dwijayanti, B Suryobroto, KA Widayati… - Journal of …, 2024 - researchgate.net
The correlation between species' geographic range and morphological variation has been
welldocumented since Darwin's finding on finches' variations in Galapagos (Darwin 1859) …

Evolution of the skull in arvicoline cricetids (Rodentia) according to 3D morphometric insights: Part 1. Morphological disparity of the palato-spheno-pterygoid complex

LL Voyta, DA Melnikov - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Our paper is the first contribution to the comprehensive analysis of the complicated evolution
of cranial and mandibular parts connected by pterygoid muscles, as part of more global …

Origin and diversification of Aquilaria (Thymelaeaceae): inferences from a phylogenetic study based on matK sequences

Z Xie, S Fan, J Xu, H Xiao, J Yang, M Guo, C Cheng - 2024 - researchsquare.com
In the realm of Aquilaria classification and grading, a persistent market uncertainty persists,
questioning whether the basis should be geographical distribution or biological origin. In this …

Phylogenetics and Integrative Taxonomy of African Water Snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Grayia)

T Chaney, OSG Pauwels, ZT Nagy… - Herpetological …, 2024 - meridian.allenpress.com
Grayia is a genus of relatively large (1.2–2.5 m) aquatic Afrotropical snakes. Recent
molecular phylogenies recovered Grayia in its own distinct subfamily (Grayiinae), which was …

[PDF][PDF] Diverzita, distribuce a taxonomie Afrotropických bělozubek (Crocidura, Soricidae)

V MIKEŠOVÁ - is.muni.cz
Small mammals serve as good evolutionary models for studying various facets of African
biogeography but cannot be fully utilized unless we can first resolve their taxonomy. Among …

[HTML][HTML] Sorex morphospace dynamics: Appendices

J Rumford - palaeo-electronica.org
Information is in the following order: full name of a locality, abbreviation in parentheses
(bolded; abbreviation used in text and for all Figs and Tabs), collector and collecting year …