Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

July 20, 2018

Shark and ray diversity in the Tropical America (Neotropics)—an examination of environmental and historical factors affecting diversity

1 citation

512 downloads

2,467 views

Jorge Domingo Carrillo-Briceño, Juan D. Carrillo, Orangel Antonio Aguilera, Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5313 PubMed 30042900

July 12, 2018

Minimizing confounders and increasing data quality in murine models for studies of the gut microbiome

1 citation

97 downloads

414 views

Jun Miyoshi, Vanessa Leone, Kentaro Nobutani, Mark W. Musch, Kristina Martinez-Guryn, Yunwei Wang, Sawako Miyoshi, Alexandria M. Bobe, A. Murat Eren, Eugene B. Chang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5166 PubMed 30013837

July 17, 2018

Whole-genome amplification in double-digest RADseq results in adequate libraries but fewer sequenced loci

1 citation

91 downloads

424 views

Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Brian D. Farrell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5089 PubMed 30038852

July 19, 2018

A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah, USA

1,160 downloads

12,741 views

Jelle P. Wiersma, Randall B. Irmis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5016 PubMed 30065856

July 24, 2018

The real Bigfoot: a pes from Wyoming, USA is the largest sauropod pes ever reported and the northern-most occurrence of brachiosaurids in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation

646 downloads

7,807 views

Anthony Maltese, Emanuel Tschopp, Femke Holwerda, David Burnham

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5250 PubMed 30065867

July 17, 2018

Illusory resizing of the painful knee is analgesic in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis

638 downloads

7,485 views

Tasha R. Stanton, Helen R. Gilpin, Louisa Edwards, G. Lorimer Moseley, Roger Newport

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5206 PubMed 30038863

July 5, 2018

The largest European theropod dinosaurs: remains of a gigantic megalosaurid and giant theropod tracks from the Kimmeridgian of Asturias, Spain

583 downloads

2,630 views

Oliver W.M. Rauhut, Laura Piñuela, Diego Castanera, José-Carlos García-Ramos, Irene Sánchez Cela

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4963 PubMed 30002951

July 6, 2018

Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur

555 downloads

1,374 views

Michael P. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5212 PubMed 30002991

July 3, 2018

New insights into chasmosaurine (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) skulls from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alberta, and an update on the distribution of accessory frill fenestrae in Chasmosaurinae

498 downloads

2,440 views

James A. Campbell, Michael J. Ryan, Claudia J. Schröder-Adams, David C. Evans, Robert B. Holmes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5194 PubMed 30002987

July 20, 2018

Habitat and landscape factors influence pollinators in a tropical megacity, Bangkok, Thailand

478 downloads

1,149 views

Alyssa B. Stewart, Tuanjit Sritongchuay, Piyakarn Teartisup, Sakonwan Kaewsomboon, Sara Bumrungsri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5335 PubMed 30042902

July 24, 2018

Satellite tracking of juvenile whale sharks in the Sulu and Bohol Seas, Philippines

458 downloads

1,323 views

Gonzalo Araujo, Christoph A. Rohner, Jessica Labaja, Segundo J. Conales, Sally J. Snow, Ryan Murray, Simon J. Pierce, Alessandro Ponzo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5231 PubMed 30065862

July 5, 2018

Who bears the cost of forest conservation?

455 downloads

2,107 views

Mahesh Poudyal, Julia P.G. Jones, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Neal Hockley, James M. Gibbons, Rina Mandimbiniaina, Alexandra Rasoamanana, Nilsen S. Andrianantenaina, Bruno S. Ramamonjisoa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5106 PubMed 30002962

July 20, 2018

Time to get our four priorities right: an 8-year prospective investigation of 1326 player-seasons to identify the frequency, nature, and burden of time-loss injuries in elite Gaelic football

349 downloads

354 views

Mark Roe, John C. Murphy, Conor Gissane, Catherine Blake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4895 PubMed 30042873

July 9, 2018

A Pan-Amazonian species delimitation: high species diversity within the genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae)

265 downloads

1,492 views

Rommel R. Rojas, Antoine Fouquet, Santiago R. Ron, Emil José Hernández-Ruz, Paulo R. Melo-Sampaio, Juan C. Chaparro, Richard C. Vogt, Vinicius Tadeu de Carvalho, Leandra Cardoso Pinheiro, Robson W. Avila, Izeni Pires Farias, Marcelo Gordo, Tomas Hrbek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4941 PubMed 30013824

July 6, 2018

Fossil eggshell cuticle elucidates dinosaur nesting ecology

238 downloads

1,972 views

Tzu-Ruei Yang, Ying-Hsuan Chen, Jasmina Wiemann, Beate Spiering, P. Martin Sander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5144 PubMed 30002976

July 3, 2018

An online survey of personal mosquito-repellent strategies

212 downloads

1,664 views

Emily Lucille Moore, Mary Alice Scott, Stacy Deadra Rodriguez, Soumi Mitra, Julia Vulcan, Joel Javierla Cordova, Hae-Na Chung, Debora Linhares Lino de Souza, Kristina Kay Gonzales, Immo Alex Hansen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5151 PubMed 30002979

July 19, 2018

Conspicuously concealed: revision of the arid clade of the Gehyra variegata (Gekkonidae) group in Western Australia using an integrative molecular and morphological approach, with the description of five cryptic species

200 downloads

673 views

Luke Kealley, Paul Doughty, Mitzy Pepper, J. Scott Keogh, Mia Hillyer, Joel Huey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5334 PubMed 30038877

July 4, 2018

Phylogeny and divergence times of suckers (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) inferred from Bayesian total-evidence analyses of molecules, morphology, and fossils

156 downloads

926 views

Justin C. Bagley, Richard L. Mayden, Phillip M. Harris

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5168 PubMed 30013838

July 30, 2018

More of the same: allopatric humpback whale populations share acoustic repertoire

148 downloads

1,690 views

Michelle E.H. Fournet, Lauren Jacobsen, Christine M. Gabriele, David K. Mellinger, Holger Klinck

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5365 PubMed 30083470

July 26, 2018

‘Rolling’ stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

140 downloads

2,727 views

Pavel Sroka, Arnold H. Staniczek, Boris C. Kondratieff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5354 PubMed 30065894

July 4, 2018

Evidence of avian-mediated long distance dispersal in American tardigrades

140 downloads

784 views

Matthew J. Mogle, Scott A. Kimball, William R. Miller, Richard D. McKown

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5035 PubMed 30018851

July 5, 2018

Trabecular bone patterning in the hominoid distal femur

139 downloads

752 views

Leoni Georgiou, Tracy L. Kivell, Dieter H. Pahr, Matthew M. Skinner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5156 PubMed 30002981

July 27, 2018

Skeletal muscle mitochondrial volume and myozenin-1 protein differences exist between high versus low anabolic responders to resistance training

137 downloads

7,120 views

Michael D. Roberts, Matthew A. Romero, Christopher B. Mobley, Petey W. Mumford, Paul A. Roberson, Cody T. Haun, Christopher G. Vann, Shelby C. Osburn, Hudson H. Holmes, Rory A. Greer, Christopher M. Lockwood, Hailey A. Parry, Andreas N. Kavazis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5338 PubMed 30065891

July 11, 2018

Digging the compromise: investigating the link between limb bone histology and fossoriality in the aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

137 downloads

885 views

Lucas J. Legendre, Jennifer Botha-Brink

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5216 PubMed 30018860

July 4, 2018

Back to beaked: Zea mays subsp. mays Rostrata Group in northern Italy, refugia and revival of open-pollinated maize landraces in an intensive cropping system

137 downloads

791 views

Nicola Maria Giuseppe Ardenghi, Graziano Rossi, Filippo Guzzon