Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 12, 2017

The landscape of fear conceptual framework: definition and review of current applications and misuses

Sonny S. Bleicher

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3772 PubMed 28929015

September 25, 2017

Bacterial community associated with worker honeybees (Apis mellifera) affected by European foulbrood

Tomas Erban, Ondrej Ledvinka, Martin Kamler, Bronislava Hortova, Marta Nesvorna, Jan Tyl, Dalibor Titera, Martin Markovic, Jan Hubert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3816 PubMed 28966892

September 4, 2017

Stress responses to conspecific visual cues of predation risk in zebrafish

Thiago Acosta Oliveira, Renan Idalencio, Fabiana Kalichak, João Gabriel dos Santos Rosa, Gessi Koakoski, Murilo Sander de Abreu, Ana Cristina Varrone Giacomini, Darlan Gusso, Denis Brook Rosemberg, Rodrigo Egydio Barreto, Leonardo José Gil Barcellos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3739 PubMed 28890851

September 15, 2017

Inferring ‘weak spots’ in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature

Daniel Madzia, Andrea Cau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3782 PubMed 28929018

September 18, 2017

Revisiting the mitogenomic phylogeny of Salmoninae: new insights thanks to recent sequencing advances

Jose L. Horreo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3828 PubMed 28948107

September 12, 2017

Greater reproductive investment, but shorter lifespan, in agrosystem than in natural-habitat toads

Francisco Javier Zamora-Camacho, Mar Comas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3791 PubMed 28924505

September 22, 2017

Functional modularity in lake-dwelling characin fishes of Mexico

Claudia Patricia Ornelas-García, Amando Bautista, Fabian Herder, Ignacio Doadrio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3851 PubMed 28951817

September 11, 2017

Phylogeographic investigation and ecological niche modelling of the endemic frog species Nanorana pleskei revealed multiple refugia in the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Bin Wang, Feng Xie, Jiannan Li, Gang Wang, Cheng Li, Jianping Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3770 PubMed 28924497

September 28, 2017

An exploration of strategies used by dressage horses to control moments around the center of mass when performing passage

Hilary M. Clayton, Sarah Jane Hobbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3866 PubMed 28970972

September 13, 2017

Allele specific expression and methylation in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Zoë Lonsdale, Kate Lee, Maria Kiriakidu, Harindra Amarasinghe, Despina Nathanael, Catherine J. O’Connor, Eamonn B. Mallon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3798 PubMed 28929021

September 11, 2017

Biochemical and structural characterization of a novel arginine kinase from the spider Polybetes pythagoricus

Aldana Laino, Alonso A. Lopez-Zavala, Karina D. Garcia-Orozco, Jesus S. Carrasco-Miranda, Marianela Santana, Vivian Stojanoff, Rogerio R. Sotelo-Mundo, Carlos Fernando Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3787 PubMed 28924503

September 12, 2017

Habitat suitability—density relationship in an endangered woodland species: the case of the Blue Chaffinch (Fringilla polatzeki)

Luis M. Carrascal, Ángel C. Moreno, Alejandro Delgado, Víctor Suárez, Domingo Trujillo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3771 PubMed 28924498

September 1, 2017

A practical guide to build de-novo assemblies for single tissues of non-model organisms: the example of a Neotropical frog

Santiago Montero-Mendieta, Manfred Grabherr, Henrik Lantz, Ignacio De la Riva, Jennifer A. Leonard, Matthew T. Webster, Carles Vilà

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3702 PubMed 28879061

September 4, 2017

Trophic analysis of the fish community in the Ciénega Churince, Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila

Ariana Hernández, Hector S. Espinosa-Pérez, Valeria Souza