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Oct 28, 2024 | phys.org | Museum für Naturkunde

Salamanders are the only terrestrial vertebrates that possess the remarkable ability to regenerate limbs or tails. The vast majority of research on vertebrate regeneration is based on the axolotl and has provided great insights on regenerative mechanisms. But how does regeneration proceed in other salamanders with different ecologies and life strategies, and which features are shared or variable?

Jun 18, 2024 | bg.copernicus.org | Technische Universität Berlin |Museum für Naturkunde |Inland Fisheries |Helmholtz Zentrum München

Research article  | Highlight paper  |  27 Nov 2024 Research article | Highlight paper |  | 27 Nov 2024 1 Introduction The Atacama Desert is one of the driest and oldest deserts on Earth, with hyperarid conditions established in the Oligocene (Jordan et al., 2014; Dunai et al., 2005).

May 20, 2024 | journals.plos.org | Museum für Naturkunde |Institut für Biologie |Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |Johannes Müller

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewedResearch Article ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Chowdhury MAW, Müller J, Ghose A, Amin R, Sayeed AA, Kuch U, et al. (2024) Combining species distribution models and big datasets may provide finer assessments of snakebite impacts. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 18(5): e0012161.

Jan 8, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Museum für Naturkunde |Biodiversity Science

The opposing forces of gene flow and isolation are two major processes shaping genetic diversity. Understanding how these vary across space and time is necessary to identify the environmental features that promote diversification. The detection of considerable geographic structure in taxa from the arid Nearctic has prompted research into the drivers of isolation in the region.

Aug 11, 2023 | academic.oup.com | Museum für Naturkunde |Biodiversity Science

Palaeozoic fossils of whip scorpions (Arachnida: Uropygi: Thelyphonida) are extremely rare, with only seven species of this age previously described. A new species of fossil whip scorpion, as well as the first ichnospecies assignable to this group, are described here from the Carboniferous Narragansett Basin of Massachusetts, USA. A body fossil from the Rhode Island Formation (Moscovian) is referred to as Parilisthelyphonus bryantae gen. nov., sp. nov..