Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 18, 2016

Symbiotic essential amino acids provisioning in the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus) under various dietary conditions

Paul A. Ayayee, Thomas Larsen, Zakee Sabree

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2046 PubMed 27231663

May 24, 2016

Sperm removal during copulation confirmed in the oldest extant damselfly, Hemiphlebia mirabilis

Adolfo Cordero-Rivera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2077 PubMed 27257552

May 17, 2016

Microsatellite loci discovery from next-generation sequencing data and loci characterization in the epizoic barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Christine Ewers-Saucedo, John D. Zardus, John P. Wares