Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 9, 2023

Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae)

Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, John M. Healy, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15854 PubMed 37842057

October 5, 2023

Calcareous dinoflagellate blooms during the Late Cretaceous ‘greenhouse’ world—a case study from western Ukraine

Agnieszka Ciurej, Zofia Dubicka, Andriy Poberezhskyy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16201 PubMed 37814625

October 16, 2023

Genome sizes and repeatome evolution in zoantharians (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia)

Chloé Julie Loïs Fourreau, Hiroki Kise, Mylena Daiana Santander, Stacy Pirro, Maximiliano M. Maronna, Angelo Poliseno, Maria E.A. Santos, James Davis Reimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16188 PubMed 37868064

October 17, 2023

A revised terminology for male genitalia in Hymenoptera (Insecta), with a special emphasis on Ichneumonoidea

Davide Dal Pos, István Mikó, Elijah J. Talamas, Lars Vilhelmsen, Barbara J. Sharanowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15874 PubMed 37868054

October 18, 2023

Sexual dimorphism in skull size and shape of Laticauda colubrina (Serpentes: Elapidae)

Bartosz Borczyk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16266 PubMed 37868070

October 26, 2023

Five new malformed trilobites from Cambrian and Ordovician deposits from the Natural History Museum

Russell D.C. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16326 PubMed 37904847

October 26, 2023

Morphology and ontogeny of carpus and tarsus in stereospondylomorph temnospondyls

Florian Witzmann, Nadia Fröbisch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16182 PubMed 37904842

October 11, 2023

Automatic identification and morphological comparison of bivalve and brachiopod fossils based on deep learning

Jiarui Sun, Xiaokang Liu, Yunfei Huang, Fengyu Wang, Yongfang Sun, Jing Chen, Daoliang Chu, Haijun Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16200 PubMed 37842038

October 11, 2023

Mitochondrial genome characteristics of six Phylloscopus species and their phylogenetic implication

Chao Yang, Xiaomei Dong, Qingxiong Wang, Xiang Hou, Hao Yuan, Xuejuan Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16233 PubMed 37842035

October 16, 2023

Phylomitogenomics elucidates the evolution of symbiosis in Thoracotremata (Decapoda: Cryptochiridae, Pinnotheridae, Varunidae)

Tao Xu, Henrique Bravo, Sancia E.T. van der Meij

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16217 PubMed 37868050

October 19, 2023

Evolutionary insights on critically endangered Kashmir red deer or hangul (Cervus hanglu hanglu) through a mitogenomic lens

Khursheed Ahmad, Ankit Shankar Pacha, Rashid Yahya Naqash, Sathish Kumar Peddamma, Srinivas Yellapu, Shenu Hudson, Dushyant Singh Baghel, Parag Nigam, Samrat Mondol

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15746 PubMed 37872949

October 10, 2023

Complete chloroplast genome assembly and phylogenetic analysis of blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum), red and white currant (Ribes rubrum), and gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) provide new insights into the phylogeny of Grossulariaceae

Xinyu Sun, Ying Zhan, Songlin Li, Yu Liu, Qiang Fu, Xin Quan, Jinyu Xiong, Huixin Gang, Lijun Zhang, Huijuan Qi, Aoxue Wang, Junwei Huo, Dong Qin, Chenqiao Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16272 PubMed 37842068

October 23, 2023

De-novo whole genome assembly of the orange jewelweed, Impatiens capensis Meerb. (Balsaminaceae) using nanopore long-read sequencing

Sudhindra R. Gadagkar, J. Antonio Baeza, Kristina Buss, Nate Johnson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16328 PubMed 37901463

October 24, 2023

Integrative approaches to a revision of the liverwort in genus Aneura (Aneuraceae, Marchantiophyta) from Thailand

Nopparat Anantaprayoon, Passorn Wonnapinij, Ekaphan Kraichak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16284 PubMed 37901454

October 4, 2023

Food and light availability induce plastic responses in fire salamander larvae from contrasting environments

Raluca Ioana Băncilă, Florina Stănescu, Rodica Plăiaşu, Ioana Nae, Diana Székely, Sabina E. Vlad, Dan Cogălniceanu