Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

December 15, 2016

RNA interference as a gene silencing tool to control Tuta absoluta in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

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 21, 2016

Cretaceous origin of dogwoods: an anatomically preserved Cornus (Cornaceae) fruit from the Campanian of Vancouver Island

Brian A. Atkinson, Ruth A. Stockey, Gar W. Rothwell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2808 PubMed 28028474

December 22, 2016

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

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

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

December 21, 2016

Floral development and vascularization help to explain merism evolution in Paepalanthus (Eriocaulaceae, Poales)

Arthur de Lima Silva, Marcelo Trovó, Alessandra Ike Coan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2811 PubMed 28028476

December 15, 2016

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

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

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

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 6, 2016

Stress responses of the oil-producing green microalga Botryococcus braunii Race B

Ivette Cornejo-Corona, Hem R. Thapa, Daniel R. Browne, Timothy P. Devarenne, Edmundo Lozoya-Gloria

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2748 PubMed 27957393

December 21, 2016

Molecular phylogenetics, seed morphometrics, chromosome number evolution and systematics of European Elatine L. (Elatinaceae) species

Gábor Sramkó, Attila Molnár V., János Pál Tóth, Levente Laczkó, Anna Kalinka, Orsolya Horváth, Lidia Skuza, Balázs András Lukács, Agnieszka Popiela

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2800 PubMed 28028470

December 22, 2016

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

Hiroki Itô

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

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

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

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

December 1, 2016

Grassland productivity in response to nutrient additions and herbivory is scale-dependent

Erica A.H. Smithwick, Douglas C. Baldwin, Kusum J. Naithani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2745 PubMed 27920956

December 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

December 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Archives - Biology

Filter on subjects this month