Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 23, 2020

Two new species of Tardigrada from moss cushions (Grimmia sp.) in a xerothermic habitat in northeast Tennessee (USA, North America), with the first identification of males in the genus Viridiscus

Diane R. Nelson, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Roberto Guidetti, Milena Roszkowska, Daria Grobys, Łukasz Kaczmarek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10251 PubMed 33282552

November 10, 2020

A new genus of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) with three new species from montane cloud forests, western Andean cordillera of Colombia and Ecuador

Jorge Brito, Claudia Koch, Alexandre R. Percequillo, Nicolás Tinoco, Marcelo Weksler, C. Miguel Pinto, Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10247 PubMed 33240614

November 5, 2020

Diversity of the gut microbiome in three grasshopper species using 16S rRNA and determination of cellulose digestibility

Jian-Mei Wang, Jing Bai, Fang-Yuan Zheng, Yao Ling, Xiang Li, Jing Wang, Yong-Chao Zhi, Xin-Jiang Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10194 PubMed 33194406

November 17, 2020

Tropical peatlands and their conservation are important in the context of COVID-19 and potential future (zoonotic) disease pandemics

Mark E. Harrison, Lahiru S. Wijedasa, Lydia E.S. Cole, Susan M. Cheyne, Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad, Liana Chua, Greta C. Dargie, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Suspense A. Ifo, Muhammad Ali Imron, Dianna Kopansky, Trilianty Lestarisa, Patrick J. O’Reilly, Julie Van Offelen, Johannes Refisch, Katherine Roucoux, Jito Sugardjito, Sara A. Thornton, Caroline Upton, Susan Page

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10283 PubMed 33240628

November 18, 2020

Vascular plant species diversity of Mt. Etna (Sicily): endemicity, insularity and spatial patterns along the altitudinal gradient of the highest active volcano in Europe

Saverio Sciandrello, Pietro Minissale, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9875 PubMed 33240583

November 16, 2020

Clostridium manihotivorum sp. nov., a novel mesophilic anaerobic bacterium that produces cassava pulp-degrading enzymes

Pattsarun Cheawchanlertfa, Sawannee Sutheeworapong, Piroon Jenjaroenpun, Thidathip Wongsurawat, Intawat Nookaew, Supapon Cheevadhanarak, Akihiko Kosugi, Patthra Pason, Rattiya Waeonukul, Khanok Ratanakhanokchai, Chakrit Tachaapaikoon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10343 PubMed 33240652

November 27, 2020

Molecular phylogeny and species delimitation of the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium pilimanus species group, with descriptions of three new species from Thailand

Warut Siriwut, Ekgachai Jeratthitikul, Somsak Panha, Ratmanee Chanabun, Chirasak Sutcharit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10137 PubMed 33312765

November 26, 2020

Spatial and temporal activity patterns of Golden takin (Budorcas taxicolor bedfordi) recorded by camera trapping

Jia Li, Yadong Xue, Yu Zhang, Wei Dong, Guoyu Shan, Ruiqian Sun, Charlotte Hacker, Bo Wu, Diqiang Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10353 PubMed 33304652

November 4, 2020

A new nurse frog (Anura: Allobates) from Brazilian Amazonia with a remarkably fast multi-noted advertisement call

Jesus R.D. Souza, Miquéias Ferrão, James Hanken, Albertina P. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9979 PubMed 33194373

November 11, 2020

Population genetics of the freshwater fish Prochilodus magdalenae (Characiformes: Prochilodontidae), using species-specific microsatellite loci

Ricardo M. Landínez-García, Juan Carlos Narváez, Edna J. Márquez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10327 PubMed 33240645

November 24, 2020

The Italian record of the Cretaceous shark, Ptychodus latissimus Agassiz, 1835 (Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranchii)

Manuel Amadori, Jacopo Amalfitano, Luca Giusberti, Eliana Fornaciari, Giorgio Carnevale, Juergen Kriwet

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10167 PubMed 33282548

November 27, 2020

Invasion history of Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Ecuador

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Emilia Peñaherrera-Romero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10461 PubMed 33312773

November 25, 2020

Three new deep-sea species of Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the abyssal plain of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and hadal depths of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench

Gennady M. Kamenev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10405 PubMed 33304654

November 4, 2020

Geographic variation in the skull morphology of the lesser grison (Galictis cuja: Carnivora, Mustelidae) from two Brazilian ecoregions

Raissa Prior Migliorini, Rodrigo Fornel, Carlos Benhur Kasper

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9388 PubMed 33194321

November 20, 2020

Translocation of an arctic seashore plant reveals signs of maladaptation to altered climatic conditions

Maria Hällfors, Susanna Lehvävirta, Tone Aandahl, Iida-Maria Lehtimäki, Lars Ola Nilsson, Anna Ruotsalainen, Leif E. Schulman, Marko T. Hyvärinen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10357 PubMed 33240662

November 23, 2020

The use of artificial substrate units to improve inventories of cryptic crustacean species on Caribbean coral reefs

Luz Verónica Monroy-Velázquez, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, Paul Blanchon, Fernando Alvarez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10389 PubMed 33282560

November 25, 2020

A morphological and molecular study of Hydrodynastes gigas (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), a widespread species from South America

Priscila S. Carvalho, Hussam Zaher, Nelson J. da Silva Jr, Diego J. Santana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10073 PubMed 33304646

November 18, 2020

Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic position of genus Hyperacrius (Rodentia: Arvicolinae) from Kashmir based on evidences from analysis of mitochondrial genome and study of skull morphology

Natalia I. Abramson, Fedor N. Golenishchev, Semen Yu. Bodrov, Olga V. Bondareva, Evgeny A. Genelt-Yanovskiy, Tatyana V. Petrova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10364 PubMed 33240667

November 30, 2020

Using high-resolution melting to identify Calliphoridae (blowflies) species from Brazil

Pablo Viana Oliveira, Francine Alves Nogueira de Almeida, Magda Delorence Lugon, Karolinni Bianchi Britto, Janyra Oliveira-Costa, Alexandre Rosa Santos, Greiciane Gaburro Paneto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9680 PubMed 33335803

November 18, 2020

Evidence of facultative parthenogenesis in three Neotropical pitviper species of the Bothrops atrox group

Sergio D. Cubides-Cubillos, José S.L. Patané, Karina Maria Pereira da Silva, Selma Maria Almeida-Santos, Denise S. Polydoro, Guilherme Guidolin Galassi, Silvia Regina Travaglia Cardoso, Maria José de J. Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10097 PubMed 33240594

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