Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 25, 2015

Metabarcoding dietary analysis of coral dwelling predatory fish demonstrates the minor contribution of coral mutualists to their highly partitioned, generalist diet

Matthieu Leray, Christopher P. Meyer, Suzanne C. Mills

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1047 PubMed 26137428

June 16, 2015

Is grazing exclusion effective in restoring vegetation in degraded alpine grasslands in Tibet, China?

Yan Yan, Xuyang Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1020 PubMed 26157607

June 16, 2015

Deep sequencing of the viral phoH gene reveals temporal variation, depth-specific composition, and persistent dominance of the same viral phoH genes in the Sargasso Sea

Dawn B. Goldsmith, Rachel J. Parsons, Damitu Beyene, Peter Salamon, Mya Breitbart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.997 PubMed 26157645

June 23, 2015

The invasive land planarian Platydemus manokwari (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae): records from six new localities, including the first in the USA

Jean-Lou Justine, Leigh Winsor, Patrick Barrière, Crispus Fanai, Delphine Gey, Andrew Wee Kien Han, Giomara La Quay-Velázquez, Benjamin Paul Yi-Hann Lee, Jean-Marc Lefevre, Jean-Yves Meyer, David Philippart, David G. Robinson, Jessica Thévenot, Francis Tsatsia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1037 PubMed 26131377

June 9, 2015

Catch, bycatch and discards of the Galapagos Marine Reserve small-scale handline fishery

Johanna S. Zimmerhackel, Anna C. Schuhbauer, Paolo Usseglio, Lena C. Heel, Pelayo Salinas-de-León

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.995 PubMed 26082874

June 18, 2015

Genetic architecture of pollination syndrome transition between hummingbird-specialist and generalist species in the genus Rhytidophyllum (Gesneriaceae)

Hermine Alexandre, Justine Vrignaud, Brigitte Mangin, Simon Joly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1028 PubMed 26157613

June 11, 2015

Pyrosequencing revealed shifts of prokaryotic communities between healthy and disease-like tissues of the Red Sea sponge Crella cyathophora

Zhao-Ming Gao, Yong Wang, Ren-Mao Tian, On On Lee, Yue Him Wong, Zenon B. Batang, Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem, Feras F. Lafi, Vladimir B. Bajic, Pei-Yuan Qian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.890 PubMed 26082867

June 2, 2015

Elevational gradient of Hemiptera (Heteroptera, Auchenorrhyncha) on a tropical mountain in Papua New Guinea

Maxime Le Cesne, Stephen W. Wilson, Adeline Soulier-Perkins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.978 PubMed 26056617

June 9, 2015

The taxonomy of a new parvicursorine alvarezsauroid specimen IVPP V20341 (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia, China

Michael Pittman, Xing Xu, Josef B. Stiegler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.986 PubMed 26082871