Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Use of necrophagous insects as evidence of cadaver relocation: myth or reality?

Dermestid beetles and flies on a skeletonized human skull

August 1, 2017

Use of necrophagous insects as evidence of cadaver relocation: myth or reality?

Researchers conducted an extensive review to determine whether (and under which conditions) insects can be used as evidence to tell if a body has been moved.

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August 11, 2017

Quid est Clea helena? Evidence for a previously unrecognized radiation of assassin snails (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea: Nassariidae)

Ellen E. Strong, Lee Ann Galindo, Yuri I. Kantor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3638 PubMed 28828249

August 28, 2017

Uncovering unseen fungal diversity from plant DNA banks

Erin M. Datlof, Anthony S. Amend, Kamala Earl, Jeremy Hayward, Clifford W. Morden, Rachael Wade, Geoffrey Zahn, Nicole A. Hynson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3730 PubMed 28875077

August 14, 2017

Extensive analysis of native and non-native Centaurea solstitialis L. populations across the world shows no traces of polyploidization

Ramona-Elena Irimia, Daniel Montesinos, Özkan Eren, Christopher J. Lortie, Kristine French, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Gastón J. Sotes, José L. Hierro, Andreia Jorge, João Loureiro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3531 PubMed 28828232

August 17, 2017

Late Pleistocene songbirds of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia); the first fossil passerine fauna described from Wallacea

Hanneke J.M. Meijer, Rokus Awe Due, Thomas Sutikna, Wahyu Saptomo, Jatmiko, Sri Wasisto, Matthew W. Tocheri, Gerald Mayr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3676 PubMed 28828271