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November 2017

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Male sex pheromone components affect female choice

Figure 1: Heliconius melpomene wings showing androconial dimorphism.

November 7, 2017

Male sex pheromone components affect female choice

Researchers combined morphological, chemical & behavioural analyses of male pheromones in the Neotropical butterfly Heliconius Melpomene to investigate how they affect female mate choice.

November 2, 2017

Comparative analysis of the microRNA transcriptome between yak and cattle provides insight into high-altitude adaptation

13 citations

684 downloads

2,394 views

Jiuqiang Guan, Keren Long, Jideng Ma, Jinwei Zhang, Dafang He, Long Jin, Qianzi Tang, Anan Jiang, Xun Wang, Yaodong Hu, Shilin Tian, Zhi Jiang, Mingzhou Li, Xiaolin Luo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3959 PubMed 29109913

November 15, 2017

Lowland extirpation of anuran populations on a tropical mountain

12 citations

596 downloads

3,000 views

Marconi Campos-Cerqueira, T. Mitchell Aide

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4059 PubMed 29158987

November 17, 2017

Anterior-posterior gene expression differences in three Lake Malawi cichlid fishes with variation in body stripe orientation

10 citations

407 downloads

1,812 views

Ehsan Pashay Ahi, Kristina M. Sefc

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4080 PubMed 29158996

November 14, 2017

The ultimate legs of Chilopoda (Myriapoda): a review on their morphological disparity and functional variability

9 citations

1,907 downloads

5,183 views

Matthes Kenning, Carsten H.G. Müller, Andy Sombke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4023 PubMed 29158971

November 28, 2017

Phylogeographic and population insights of the Asian common toad (Bufo gargarizans) in Korea and China: population isolation and expansions as response to the ice ages

9 citations

598 downloads

2,232 views

Amaël Borzée, Joana L. Santos, Santiago Sánchez-RamÍrez, Yoonhyuk Bae, Kyongman Heo, Yikweon Jang, Michael Joseph Jowers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4044 PubMed 29201561

November 9, 2017

Mobile acoustic transects miss rare bat species: implications of survey method and spatio-temporal sampling for monitoring bats

8 citations

967 downloads

4,281 views

Elizabeth C. Braun de Torrez, Megan A. Wallrichs, Holly K. Ober, Robert A. McCleery

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3940 PubMed 29134138

November 7, 2017

A comparison of chloroplast genome sequences in Aconitum (Ranunculaceae): a traditional herbal medicinal genus

8 citations

509 downloads

2,118 views

Hanghui Kong, Wanzhen Liu, Gang Yao, Wei Gong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4018 PubMed 29134154

November 14, 2017

Science responses to IUCN Red Listing

7 citations

569 downloads

2,512 views

Ivan Jarić, David L. Roberts, Jörn Gessner, Andrew R. Solow, Franck Courchamp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4025 PubMed 29158973

November 21, 2017

The reanalysis of biogeography of the Asian tree frog, Rhacophorus (Anura: Rhacophoridae): geographic shifts and climatic change influenced the dispersal process and diversification

6 citations

746 downloads

2,062 views

Tao Pan, Yanan Zhang, Hui Wang, Jun Wu, Xing Kang, Lifu Qian, Jinyun Chen, Dingqi Rao, Jianping Jiang, Baowei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3995 PubMed 29177111

November 9, 2017

The response of soil microbial communities to variation in annual precipitation depends on soil nutritional status in an oligotrophic desert

6 citations

572 downloads

2,694 views

Cristina Montiel-González, Yunuen Tapia-Torres, Valeria Souza, Felipe García-Oliva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4007 PubMed 29134149

November 14, 2017

Snapshot recordings provide a first description of the acoustic signatures of deeper habitats adjacent to coral reefs of Moorea

5 citations

340 downloads

1,370 views

Frédéric Bertucci, Eric Parmentier, Cécile Berthe, Marc Besson, Anthony D. Hawkins, Thierry Aubin, David Lecchini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4019 PubMed 29158970

November 8, 2017

Visual and acoustic components of courtship in the bird-of-paradise genus Astrapia (Aves: Paradisaeidae)

4 citations

743 downloads

3,517 views

Edwin Scholes, Julia M. Gillis, Timothy G. Laman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3987 PubMed 29134145

November 3, 2017

Assessment of fine-scale resource selection and spatially explicit habitat suitability modelling for a re-introduced tiger (Panthera tigris) population in central India

2 citations

632 downloads

2,200 views

Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar, Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Jeyaraj A. Johnson, Subharanjan Sen, Goutam Kumar Saha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3920 PubMed 29114438

November 8, 2017

Assemblage and functional categorization of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from the Pantanal

1 citation

577 downloads

1,954 views

Marcelo B. Pessôa, Thiago J. Izzo, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3978 PubMed 29134142

November 3, 2017

New species of the endemic Neotropical caddisfly genus Contulma from the Andes of Ecuador (Trichoptera: Anomalopsychidae)

1 citation

416 downloads

1,986 views

Ralph W. Holzenthal, Blanca Ríos-Touma, Ernesto Rázuri-Gonzales

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3967 PubMed 29114439

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