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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Political Leaders in the APP Ecosystem
Social Sciences, 2021 This article analyzes the process of symbolic and critical-discursive construction of applications developed for mobile devices for some of the world’s most important heads of state through their manifestation in the ecosystem of mobile applications for ...
Raquel Quevedo-Redondo +3 more
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Hydrology controls recruitment of two invasive cyprinids: bigheaded carp reproduction in a navigable large river [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 In the Mississippi River Basin of North America, invasive bigheaded carp (silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and bighead carp H. nobilis, also referred to as Asian carp) have spread rapidly over the past several decades.
Daniel K. Gibson-Reinemer +4 more
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Genomic Evidence for Complex Domestication History of the Cultivated Tomato in Latin America
Molecular biology and evolution, 2020 The process of plant domestication is often protracted, involving underexplored intermediate stages with important implications for the evolutionary trajectories of domestication traits.
Hamid Razifard +11 more
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New fossil lizard specimens from a poorly-known squamate assemblage in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Recent collection efforts in the upper Campanian (∼76-73.5 Ma) Fruitland and Kirtland formations of northwestern New Mexico have significantly increased the taxonomic diversity of lizards in this historically poorly understood squamate assemblage.
C. Henrik Woolley +2 more
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Mesquite bugs, other insects, and a bat in the diet of pallid bats in southeastern Arizona [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) is a species of western North America, inhabiting ecoregions ranging from desert to oak and pine forest. They are primarily insectivorous predators on large arthropods that occasionally take small vertebrate prey, and ...
Nicholas J. Czaplewski +2 more
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Response to “An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans” [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Hörnig, Haug & Haug (2017) published a description of a new specimen of Santanmantis axelrodi MB.I.2068, an extinct species of praying mantis from the Crato Formation of Brazil.
Sydney K. Brannoch, Gavin J. Svenson
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The quality of the fossil record across higher taxa: compositional fidelity of phyla and classes in benthic marine associations [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Although the fossil record preserves a wealth of historical data about past ecosystems, the current paradigm, which postulates that fossils provide faithful archives of ecological information, stems from research primarily focused on a single group of ...
Carrie Tyler, Michał Kowalewski
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Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The diversification of crown cetacean lineages (i.e., crown Odontoceti and crown Mysticeti) occurred throughout the Oligocene, but it remains an ongoing challenge to resolve the phylogenetic pattern of their origins, especially with respect to stem ...
Alexandra T. Boersma +1 more
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Maxent-directed field surveys identify new populations of narrowly endemic habitat specialists [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Rare or narrowly endemic organisms are difficult to monitor and conserve when their total distribution and habitat preferences are incompletely known.
Cody M. Rhoden +2 more
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