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 5, 2017

SDMtoolbox 2.0: the next generation Python-based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses

Jason L. Brown, Joseph R. Bennett, Connor M. French

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4095 PubMed 29230356

December 13, 2017

Combining occurrence and abundance distribution models for the conservation of the Great Bustard

Chunrong Mi, Falk Huettmann, Rui Sun, Yumin Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4160 PubMed 29255652

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 6, 2017

Genetic differentiation and phylogeography of Mediterranean-North Eastern Atlantic blue shark (Prionace glauca, L. 1758) using mitochondrial DNA: panmixia or complex stock structure?

Agostino Leone, Ilenia Urso, Dimitrios Damalas, Jann Martinsohn, Antonella Zanzi, Stefano Mariani, Emilio Sperone, Primo Micarelli, Fulvio Garibaldi, Persefoni Megalofonou, Luca Bargelloni, Rafaella Franch, David Macias, Paulo Prodöhl, Séan Fitzpatrick, Marco Stagioni, Fausto Tinti, Alessia Cariani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4112 PubMed 29230359

December 12, 2017

Introgression between ecologically distinct species following increased salinity in the Colorado Delta- Worldwide implications for impacted estuary diversity

Clive L.F. Lau, David K. Jacobs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4056 PubMed 29250463

December 19, 2017

Simulations indicate that scores of lionfish (Pterois volitans) colonized the Atlantic Ocean

Jason D. Selwyn, John E. Johnson, Alan M. Downey-Wall, Adam M. Bynum, Rebecca M. Hamner, J. Derek Hogan, Christopher E. Bird

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3996 PubMed 29302383