Philanthropy in America: A History
Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2012 Philanthropy in America: A History. Written by Olivier Zunz, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2012. 396 pp. ISBN: 9780691128368 (cloth).
Alicia Schatteman
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Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Vermetid worm-snails are sessile and irregularly coiled marine mollusks common in warmer nearshore and coral reef environments that are subject to high predation pressures by fish. Often cryptic, some have evolved sturdy shells or long columellar muscles
Rüdiger Bieler +6 more
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Mezcal worm in a bottle: DNA evidence suggests a single moth species [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Mezcals are distilled Mexican alcoholic beverages consumed by many people across the globe. One of the most popular mezcals is tequila, but there are other forms of mezcal whose production has been part of Mexican culture since the 17th century.
Akito Y. Kawahara +6 more
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Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 DNA barcoding is critical to conservation and biodiversity research, yet public reference databases are incomplete. Existing barcode databases are biased toward cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and frequently lack associated voucher specimens or ...
Mykle L. Hoban +6 more
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Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Living baleen whales (mysticetes) are bulk filter feeders that use keratinous baleen plates to filter food from prey laden water. Extant mysticetes are born entirely edentulous, though they possess tooth buds early in ontogeny, a trait inherited from ...
Carlos Mauricio Peredo +1 more
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Preservation of latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)—Paleocene frogs (Eorubeta nevadensis) of the Sheep Pass Formation of east-central Nevada and implications for paleogeography of the Nevadaplano [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Here we report on exceptional preservation of remains of the frog Eorubeta nevadensis in deposits of the Sheep Pass Formation, ranging from Late Cretaceous to Eocene, in the south Egan Range, Nevada.
Joshua W. Bonde +4 more
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A synthesis tree of the Copepoda: integrating phylogenetic and taxonomic data reveals multiple origins of parasitism [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The Copepoda is a clade of pancrustaceans containing 14,485 species that are extremely varied in their morphology and lifestyle. Not only do copepods dominate marine plankton and sediment communities and make up a sizeable component of the freshwater ...
James P. Bernot +2 more
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Diegoaelurus, a new machaeroidine (Oxyaenidae) from the Santiago Formation (late Uintan) of southern California and the relationships of Machaeroidinae, the oldest group of sabertooth mammals [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Machaeroidinae is a taxonomically small clade of early and middle Eocene carnivorous mammals that includes the earliest known saber-toothed mammalian carnivores.
Shawn P. Zack +2 more
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Open Archaeology, 2021 The archaeological site of the Domus Romana in Rabat, Malta was excavated almost 100 years ago yielding artefacts from the various phases of the site. The Melite Civitas Romana project was designed to investigate the domus, which may have been the home ...
Tanasi Davide +5 more
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