Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 22, 2016

An integrative systematic revision and biogeography of Rhynchocalamus snakes (Reptilia, Colubridae) with a description of a new species from Israel

13 citations

1,375 downloads

5,886 views

Karin Tamar, Jiří Šmíd, Bayram Göçmen, Shai Meiri, Salvador Carranza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2769 PubMed 28028461

December 21, 2016

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

44 citations

1,209 downloads

4,639 views

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

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

December 13, 2016

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

16 citations

866 downloads

4,533 views

Oscar Gonzalez, Bette A. Loiselle

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

December 21, 2016

Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination

27 citations

809 downloads

4,147 views

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 13, 2016

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

10 citations

844 downloads

4,128 views

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

2 citations

1,080 downloads

4,124 views

Claudia Koch, Pablo J. Venegas

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

December 22, 2016

Impacts of land-use management on ecosystem services and biodiversity: an agent-based modelling approach

7 citations

1,718 downloads

3,587 views

Thomas J. Habib, Scott Heckbert, Jeffrey J. Wilson, Andrew J. K. Vandenbroeck, Jerome Cranston, Daniel R. Farr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2814 PubMed 28028479

December 8, 2016

Shallow water sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the northwestern coast of the Sea of Japan, north of Peter the Great Bay, Russia

8 citations

1,485 downloads

3,388 views

Anton Chichvarkhin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2774 PubMed 27957399

December 22, 2016

Exploring the cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) fecal microbiome, bacterial inhabitants of a worldwide pet

13 citations

648 downloads

3,220 views

Luis David Alcaraz, Apolinar M. Hernández, Mariana Peimbert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2837 PubMed 28028487

December 6, 2016

The unique deep sea—land connection: interactive 3D visualization and molecular phylogeny of Bathyhedyle boucheti n. sp. (Bathyhedylidae n. fam.)—the first panpulmonate slug from bathyal zones

7 citations

789 downloads

2,883 views

Timea P. Neusser, Katharina M. Jörger, Eva Lodde-Bensch, Ellen E. Strong, Michael Schrödl

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2738 PubMed 27957391

December 21, 2016

Whole-genome single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker discovery and association analysis with the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content in Larimichthys crocea

13 citations

734 downloads

2,761 views

Shijun Xiao, Panpan Wang, Linsong Dong, Yaguang Zhang, Zhaofang Han, Qiurong Wang, Zhiyong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2664 PubMed 28028455

December 14, 2016

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

6 citations

805 downloads

2,499 views

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

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2773 PubMed 27994978

December 22, 2016

Three new species of Bertolonia (Melastomataceae) from Espírito Santo, Brazil

13 citations

546 downloads

2,345 views

Lucas F. Bacci, André M. Amorim, Renato Goldenberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2822 PubMed 28028482

December 13, 2016

Pursuing the quest for better understanding the taxonomic distribution of the system of doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA

40 citations

613 downloads

2,240 views

Arthur Gusman, Sophia Lecomte, Donald T. Stewart, Marco Passamonti, Sophie Breton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2760 PubMed 27994972

December 20, 2016

Metal to phosphorus stoichiometries for freshwater phytoplankton in three remote lakes

2 citations

475 downloads

2,125 views

Aine M. Gormley-Gallagher, Richard W. Douglas, Brian Rippey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2749 PubMed 28028457

December 22, 2016

Simplified large African carnivore density estimators from track indices

13 citations

571 downloads

2,112 views

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

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

December 22, 2016

Life history and past demography maintain genetic structure, outcrossing rate, contemporary pollen gene flow of an understory herb in a highly fragmented rainforest

2 citations

684 downloads

2,086 views

Pilar Suárez-Montes, Mariana Chávez-Pesqueira, Juan Núñez-Farfán

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2764 PubMed 28028460

December 22, 2016

Changes in understory species occurrence of a secondary broadleaved forest after mass mortality of oak trees under deer foraging pressure

5 citations

362 downloads

1,693 views

Hiroki Itô

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2816 PubMed 28028480

December 15, 2016

Feasibility of nuclear ribosomal region ITS1 over ITS2 in barcoding taxonomically challenging genera of subtribe Cassiinae (Fabaceae)

6 citations

564 downloads

1,689 views

Priyanka Mishra, Amit Kumar, Vereena Rodrigues, Ashutosh K. Shukla, Velusamy Sundaresan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2638 PubMed 27994958

December 13, 2016

Biodiversity data obsolescence and land uses changes

9 citations

492 downloads

1,644 views

Nora Escribano, Arturo H. Ariño, David Galicia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2743 PubMed 27994967

December 1, 2016

Development of olfactory epithelium and associated structures in the green iguana, Iguana iguana—light and scanning electron microscopic study

2 citations

442 downloads

1,638 views

Olga Sapoznikov, Petr Cizek, Frantisek Tichy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2561 PubMed 27920949

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