Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 18, 2016

Molecular phylogeny of the megadiverse insect infraorder Bibionomorpha sensu lato (Diptera)

Jan Ševčík, David Kaspřák, Michal Mantič, Scott Fitzgerald, Tereza Ševčíková, Andrea Tóthová, Mathias Jaschhof

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2563 PubMed 27781163

October 5, 2016

A transcriptomic scan for potential candidate genes involved in osmoregulation in an obligate freshwater palaemonid prawn (Macrobrachium australiense)

Azam Moshtaghi, Md. Lifat Rahi, Viet Tuan Nguyen, Peter B. Mather, David A. Hurwood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2520 PubMed 27761323

October 5, 2016

A new hynobiid-like salamander (Amphibia, Urodela) from Inner Mongolia, China, provides a rare case study of developmental features in an Early Cretaceous fossil urodele

Jia Jia, Ke-Qin Gao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2499 PubMed 27761316

October 11, 2016

Corallimorpharians are not “naked corals”: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses

Mei Fang Lin, Wen Hwa Chou, Marcelo V. Kitahara, Chao Lun Allen Chen, David John Miller, Sylvain Forêt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2463 PubMed 27761308

October 5, 2016

The ethnobotany of psychoactive plant use: a phylogenetic perspective

Nashmiah Aid Alrashedy, Jeanmaire Molina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2546 PubMed 27761334

October 13, 2016

Highly divergent mussel lineages in isolated Indonesian marine lakes

Leontine E. Becking, Christiaan A. de Leeuw, Bram Knegt, Diede L. Maas, Nicole J. de Voogd, Abdunnur, Iwan Suyatna, Katja T.C.A. Peijnenburg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2496 PubMed 27761314

October 27, 2016

Comparative internal anatomy of Staurozoa (Cnidaria), with functional and evolutionary inferences

Lucília S. Miranda, Allen G. Collins, Yayoi M. Hirano, Claudia E. Mills, Antonio C. Marques

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2594 PubMed 27812408

October 25, 2016

Proliferation of group II introns in the chloroplast genome of the green alga Oedocladium carolinianum (Chlorophyceae)

Jean-Simon Brouard, Monique Turmel, Christian Otis, Claude Lemieux

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2627 PubMed 27812423

October 20, 2016

A revision of Sanpasaurus yaoi Young, 1944 from the Early Jurassic of China, and its relevance to the early evolution of Sauropoda (Dinosauria)

Blair W. McPhee, Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion, Corwin Sullivan, Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2578 PubMed 27781168

October 11, 2016

Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, in Northeast Asia

Tong Liu, Keping Sun, Yung Chul Park, Jiang Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2472 PubMed 27761309

October 27, 2016

Sewage treatment plant associated genetic differentiation in the blue mussel from the Baltic Sea and Swedish west coast

Josefine Larsson, Mikael Lönn, Emma E. Lind, Justyna Świeżak, Katarzyna Smolarz, Mats Grahn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2628 PubMed 27812424

October 19, 2016

A reappraisal of Theroteinus (Haramiyida, Mammaliaformes) from the Upper Triassic of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (France)

Maxime Debuysschere

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2592 PubMed 27781174

October 20, 2016

The cranial endocast of Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) and the interrelationships of stem-group lungfishes

Alice M. Clement, Tom J. Challands, John A. Long, Per E. Ahlberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2539 PubMed 27781157

October 26, 2016

Early evolution of polyisoprenol biosynthesis and the origin of cell walls

Jonathan Lombard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2626 PubMed 27812422

October 27, 2016

Characterization of a male reproductive transcriptome for Peromyscus eremicus (Cactus mouse)

Lauren L. Kordonowy, Matthew D. MacManes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2617 PubMed 27812417

October 27, 2016

Palaeoamyda messeliana nov. comb. (Testudines, Pan-Trionychidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit and Geiseltal localities, Germany, taxonomic and phylogenetic insights

Edwin Cadena

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2647 PubMed 27812431

October 26, 2016

Post-reproductive parthenogenetic pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) are visually identifiable and disproportionately positioned distally to clonal colonies

Erik T. Saberski, Julia Daisy Diamond, Nathaniel Fath Henneman, Daniel A. Levitis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2631 PubMed 27812427

October 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Randall Kosaki

Extensive deep coral reefs in Hawaii harbor unique species and high coral cover

October 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Randall Kosaki

Extensive deep coral reefs in Hawaii harbor unique species and high coral cover

Randall Kosaki

Extensive deep coral reefs in Hawaii harbor unique species and high coral cover

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