Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 20, 2016

New beaked whales from the late Miocene of Peru and evidence for convergent evolution in stem and crown Ziphiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti)

Giovanni Bianucci, Claudio Di Celma, Mario Urbina, Olivier Lambert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2479 PubMed 27688973

September 29, 2016

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Gentiana lawrencei var. farreri (Gentianaceae) and comparative analysis with its congeneric species

Peng-Cheng Fu, Yan-Zhao Zhang, Hui-Min Geng, Shi-Long Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2540 PubMed 27703869

September 6, 2016

Evolutionary patterns of range size, abundance and species richness in Amazonian angiosperm trees

Kyle Dexter, Jérôme Chave

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2402 PubMed 27651991

September 1, 2016

Transcriptome analysis of colored calla lily (Zantedeschia rehmannii Engl.) by Illumina sequencing: de novo assembly, annotation and EST-SSR marker development

Zunzheng Wei, Zhenzhen Sun, Binbin Cui, Qixiang Zhang, Min Xiong, Xian Wang, Di Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2378 PubMed 27635342

September 1, 2016

Specific carotenoid pigments in the diet and a bit of oxidative stress in the recipe for producing red carotenoid-based signals

Esther García-de Blas, Rafael Mateo, Carlos Alonso-Alvarez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2237 PubMed 27635308

September 6, 2016

Rhodopsin 7–The unusual Rhodopsin in Drosophila

Pingkalai R. Senthilan, Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2427 PubMed 27651995

September 22, 2016

Polymorphic DNA microsatellite markers for forensic individual identification and parentage analyses of seven threatened species of parrots (family Psittacidae)

Catherine Jan, Luca Fumagalli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2416 PubMed 27688959

September 27, 2016

Reproductive ecology and isolation of Psittacanthus calyculatus and P. auriculatus mistletoes (Loranthaceae)

Sergio Díaz Infante, Carlos Lara, María del Coro Arizmendi, Luis E. Eguiarte, Juan Francisco Ornelas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2491 PubMed 27703848

September 7, 2016

Testing the link between genome size and growth rate in maize

Maud I. Tenaillon, Domenica Manicacci, Stéphane D. Nicolas, Francois Tardieu, Claude Welcker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2408 PubMed 27651994

September 22, 2016

Evolutionary morphology of the rabbit skull

Brian Kraatz, Emma Sherratt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2453 PubMed 27688967

September 6, 2016

A new rauisuchid (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of New Mexico increases the diversity and temporal range of the clade

Emily J. Lessner, Michelle R. Stocker, Nathan D. Smith, Alan H. Turner, Randall B. Irmis, Sterling J. Nesbitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2336 PubMed 27651983

September 8, 2016

Genetic structure and diversity of the selfing model grass Brachypodium stacei (Poaceae) in Western Mediterranean: out of the Iberian Peninsula and into the islands

Valeriia Shiposha, Pilar Catalán, Marina Olonova, Isabel Marques

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2407 PubMed 27651993

September 27, 2016

The origin of widespread species in a poor dispersing lineage (diving beetle genus Deronectes)

David García-Vázquez, Ignacio Ribera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2514 PubMed 27703857

September 29, 2016

Noise pollution has limited effects on nocturnal vigilance in peahens

Jessica L. Yorzinski, Fredrick S. Hermann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2525 PubMed 27703863

September 20, 2016

Development and characterization of fourteen novel microsatellite markers for the chestnut short-tailed fruit bat (Carollia castanea), and cross-amplification to related species

Katherine A. Cleary, Lisette P. Waits, Paul A. Hohenlohe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2465 PubMed 27688969

September 15, 2016

A juvenile subfossil crocodylian from Anjohibe Cave, Northwestern Madagascar

Joshua C. Mathews, Karen E. Samonds

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2296 PubMed 27672490

September 27, 2016

Evolution history of duplicated smad3 genes in teleost: insights from Japanese flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus

Xinxin Du, Yuezhong Liu, Jinxiang Liu, Quanqi Zhang, Xubo Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2500 PubMed 27703851

September 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Six known Drosophila Rhodopsins

An unusual protein in the eye of drosophila

September 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Six known Drosophila Rhodopsins

An unusual protein in the eye of drosophila

Six known Drosophila Rhodopsins

An unusual protein in the eye of drosophila

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