Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 8, 2016

Towards quantitative viromics for both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses

Simon Roux, Natalie E. Solonenko, Vinh T. Dang, Bonnie T. Poulos, Sarah M. Schwenck, Dawn B. Goldsmith, Maureen L. Coleman, Mya Breitbart, Matthew B. Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2777 PubMed 28003936

December 21, 2016

Spatio-temporal monitoring of deep-sea communities using metabarcoding of sediment DNA and RNA

Magdalena Guardiola, Owen S. Wangensteen, Pierre Taberlet, Eric Coissac, María Jesús Uriz, Xavier Turon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2807 PubMed 28028473

December 21, 2016

Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination

Jamie R. Stavert, Gustavo Liñán-Cembrano, Jacqueline R. Beggs, Brad G. Howlett, David E. Pattemore, Ignasi Bartomeus

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2779 PubMed 28028464

December 7, 2016

Meta-analysis reveals that seed-applied neonicotinoids and pyrethroids have similar negative effects on abundance of arthropod natural enemies

Margaret R. Douglas, John F. Tooker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2776 PubMed 27957400

December 22, 2016

An extensive comparison of species-abundance distribution models

Elita Baldridge, David J. Harris, Xiao Xiao, Ethan P. White

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2823 PubMed 28028483

December 21, 2016

A review and meta-analysis of the enemy release hypothesis in plant–herbivorous insect systems

Kim Meijer, Menno Schilthuizen, Leo Beukeboom, Christian Smit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2778 PubMed 28028463

December 13, 2016

Diversity, taxonomic composition, and functional aspects of fungal communities in living, senesced, and fallen leaves at five sites across North America

Jana M. U’Ren, A. Elizabeth Arnold

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2768 PubMed 27994976

December 13, 2016

Species interactions in an Andean bird–flowering plant network: phenology is more important than abundance or morphology

Oscar Gonzalez, Bette A. Loiselle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2789 PubMed 27994982

December 22, 2016

Effects of wind energy generation and white-nose syndrome on the viability of the Indiana bat

Richard A. Erickson, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Jay E. Diffendorfer, Robin E. Russell, Jennifer A. Szymanski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2830 PubMed 28028486

December 22, 2016

Culturable bioaerosols along an urban waterfront are primarily associated with coarse particles

Angel Montero, M. Elias Dueker, Gregory D. O’Mullan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2827 PubMed 28028485

December 20, 2016

Seqenv: linking sequences to environments through text mining

Lucas Sinclair, Umer Z. Ijaz, Lars Juhl Jensen, Marco J.L. Coolen, Cecile Gubry-Rangin, Alica Chroňáková, Anastasis Oulas, Christina Pavloudi, Julia Schnetzer, Aaron Weimann, Ali Ijaz, Alexander Eiler, Christopher Quince, Evangelos Pafilis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2690 PubMed 28028456

December 22, 2016

Simplified large African carnivore density estimators from track indices

Christiaan W. Winterbach, Sam M. Ferreira, Paul J. Funston, Michael J. Somers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2662 PubMed 28028454

December 1, 2016

Age, growth and population structure of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) in northeast Florida using a length-based, age-structured population model

Eric G. Johnson, Mary Katherine Swenarton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2730 PubMed 27920953

December 14, 2016

Anthropogenic impacts in protected areas: assessing the efficiency of conservation efforts using Mediterranean ant communities

Elena Angulo, Raphaël Boulay, Francisca Ruano, Alberto Tinaut, Xim Cerdá