Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

The International Space Station

December 5, 2017

Census of microbial life on the International Space Station

Microbiologists have analyzed swabs taken by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and compared them with samples from homes on Earth as well as the Human Microbiome Project. They found that the microbial community in this unique habitat was very diverse and more closely resembled that of homes than of humans.

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December 6, 2017

Cytochrome c oxidase barcodes for aquatic oligochaete identification: development of a Swiss reference database

Régis Vivien, Maria Holzmann, Inge Werner, Jan Pawlowski, Michel Lafont, Benoit J.D. Ferrari

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4122 PubMed 29230362

December 15, 2017

How many species of mammals are there in Brazil? New records of rare rodents (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from Amazonia raise the current known diversity

Alexandre R. Percequillo, Jeronymo Dalapicolla, Edson F. Abreu-Júnior, Paulo Ricardo O. Roth, Katia M.P.M.B. Ferraz, Elisandra A. Chiquito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4071 PubMed 29259840

December 11, 2017

A molecular phylogenetic appraisal of the acanthostomines Acanthostomum and Timoniella and their position within Cryptogonimidae (Trematoda: Opisthorchioidea)

Andrés Martínez-Aquino, Victor M. Vidal-Martínez, M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo