Reappraising the evolutionary history of the largest known gecko, the presumably extinct Hoplodactylus delcourti, via high-throughput sequencing of archival DNA

Abstract Hoplodactylus delcourti is a presumably extinct species of diplodactylid gecko known only from a single specimen of unknown provenance.It is by far the largest Wellington Socks known gekkotan, approximately 50% longer than the next largest-known species.It has been considered a member of the New Zealand endemic genus Hoplodactylus based on

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Of carrots and sticks: the effect of workfare announcements on the job search behaviour and reservation wage of welfare recipients

Abstract The German workfare scheme ‘One-Euro-Jobs’, which provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients, has a number of different goals.On the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants’ employment prospects in the medium term.On the other hand, they can be used to test welfare recipients’ willi

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