Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Roberto A. Camargo, Guilherme O. Barbosa, Isabella Presotto Possignolo, Lazaro E. P. Peres, Eric Lam, Joni E. Lima, Antonio Figueira, Henrique Marques-Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2673 PubMed 27994959

December 22, 2016

Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the “Wealden facies” of Germany

Sven Sachs, Jahn J. Hornung, Benjamin P. Kear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2813 PubMed 28028478

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 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 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 13, 2016

Malagasy Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea) and the secret of scutes

István Mikó, Carolyn Trietsch, Emily L. Sandall, Matthew Jon Yoder, Heather Hines, Andrew Robert Deans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2682 PubMed 27994960

December 13, 2016

A large and unusually colored new snake species of the genus Tantilla (Squamata; Colubridae) from the Peruvian Andes

Claudia Koch, Pablo J. Venegas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2767 PubMed 27994975

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 7, 2016

Pests, diseases and crop protection practices in the smallholder sweetpotato production system of the highlands of Papua New Guinea

Geoff M. Gurr, Jian Liu, Anne C. Johnson, Deane N. Woruba, Gunnar Kirchhof, Ryosuke Fujinuma, William Sirabis, Yapo Jeffery, Ramakrishna Akkinapally

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2703 PubMed 27957387

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 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 8, 2016

Perception of color emotions for single colors in red-green defective observers

Keiko Sato, Takaaki Inoue

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2751 PubMed 27957394

December 20, 2016

Identification and characterization of Daldinia eschscholtzii isolated from skin scrapings, nails, and blood

Kee Peng Ng, Chai Ling Chan, Su Mei Yew, Siok Koon Yeo, Yue Fen Toh, Hong Keat Looi, Shiang Ling Na, Kok Wei Lee, Wai-Yan Yee, Chee Sian Kuan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2637 PubMed 28028453

December 1, 2016

On the intrinsic sterility of 3D printing

Russell Y. Neches, Kaitlin J. Flynn, Luis Zaman, Emily Tung, Nicholas Pudlo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2661 PubMed 27920950

December 21, 2016

Deciphering the preservation of fossil insects: a case study from the Crato Member, Early Cretaceous of Brazil

Gabriel Ladeira Osés, Setembrino Petri, Bruno Becker-Kerber, Guilherme Raffaeli Romero, Marcia de Almeida Rizzutto, Fabio Rodrigues, Douglas Galante, Tiago Fiorini da Silva, Jessica F. Curado, Elidiane Cipriano Rangel, Rafael Parra Ribeiro, Mírian Liza Alves Forancelli Pacheco

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2756 PubMed 28028459

December 6, 2016

Ten genes and two topologies: an exploration of higher relationships in skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae)

Ranjit Kumar Sahoo, Andrew D. Warren, Niklas Wahlberg, Andrew V. Z. Brower, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2653 PubMed 27957386

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 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