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Brian Sidlauskas

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Ichthyologist at Oregon State University. Views posted here are my own.
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From Saber-tooth Salmon to Spike-tooth Salmon

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By Ray Troll, Brian Sidlauskas
| around.uoregon.edu
Say goodbye to the saber-tooth salmon, and say hello to the spike-tooth salmon. Don’t be sad. The saber-tooth salmon hasn’t lost any of its fearsome appeal. But new research, including some striking illustrations by paleoartist Ray Troll, has revealed something new about its prehistoric piscine anatomy: The giant salmon Oncorhynchus rastrosus had a pair of spiked teeth that protruded straight out of the side of its skull, instead of the downward-pointing teeth scientists formerly thought it had.
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From sabers to spikes: A newfangled reconstruction of the ancient, giant, sexually dimorphic Pacific salmon, †Oncorhynchus rastrosus (SALMONINAE: SALMONINI)

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By Kerin Claeson, Edward Davis, Philadelphia College, Brian Sidlauskas, Ray Troll
| PLOS ONE
Citation: Claeson KM, Sidlauskas BL, Troll R, Prescott ZM, Davis EB (2024) From sabers to spikes: A newfangled reconstruction of the ancient, giant, sexually dimorphic Pacific salmon, †Oncorhynchus rastrosus (SALMONINAE: SALMONINI). PLoS ONE 19(4): e0300252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300252 Editor: Paul Eckhard Witten, Universiteit Gent, BELGIUM Received: September 13, 2023; Accepted: February 24, 2024; Published: April 24, 2024 Copyright: © 2024 Claeson et al.
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Creating, curating and evaluating a mitogenomic reference database to improve regional species identification using environmental DNA

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By Emily Dziedzic, Brian Sidlauskas, Richard Cronn, James Anthony
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Supporting Information Filename Description men13855-sup-0001-AppendixS1.xlsxExcel 2007 spreadsheet , 241.7 KB Appendix S1. men13855-sup-0002-AppendixS2.pdfPDF document, 11 MB Appendix S2. men13855-sup-0003-AppendixS3.xlsxExcel 2007 spreadsheet , 1.6 MB Appendix S3. men13855-sup-0004-AppendixS4.pdfPDF document, 16.2 MB Appendix S4. men13855-sup-0005-AppendixS5.xlsxExcel 2007 spreadsheet , 6 MB Appendix S5. men13855-sup-0006-AppendixS6.xlsxExcel 2007 spreadsheet , 31 KB Appendix S6.
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