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Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Coronal muscle

May 5, 2016

Systematics of stalked jellyfishes

In this study, researchers demonstrate a novel view of the evolutionary history of stalked jellyfish, an understudied but important cnidarian clade.

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May 10, 2016

Incorporation of an invasive plant into a native insect herbivore food web

Menno Schilthuizen, Lúcia P. Santos Pimenta, Youri Lammers, Peter J. Steenbergen, Marco Flohil, Nils G.P. Beveridge, Pieter T. van Duijn, Marjolein M. Meulblok, Nils Sosef, Robin van de Ven, Ralf Werring, Kevin K. Beentjes, Kim Meijer, Rutger A. Vos, Klaas Vrieling, Barbara Gravendeel, Young Choi, Robert Verpoorte, Chris Smit, Leo W. Beukeboom

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1954 PubMed 27190702

May 3, 2016

What is Atraphaxis L. (Polygonaceae, Polygoneae): cryptic taxa and resolved taxonomic complexity instead of the formal lumping and the lack of morphological synapomorphies

Olga V. Yurtseva, Oxana I. Kuznetsova, Maria E. Mavrodieva, Evgeny V. Mavrodiev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1977 PubMed 27168986

May 5, 2016

A novel multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis typing scheme for African phylotype III strains of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex

Santatra Ravelomanantsoa, Isabelle Robène, Frédéric Chiroleu, Fabien Guérin, Stéphane Poussier, Olivier Pruvost, Philippe Prior

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1949 PubMed 27168969

May 17, 2016

Flower, fruit phenology and flower traits in Cordia boissieri (Boraginaceae) from northeastern Mexico

Cristian Adrian Martínez-Adriano, Enrique Jurado, Joel Flores, Humberto González-Rodríguez, Gerardo Cuéllar-Rodríguez