Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 20, 2018

Squeezing water from a stone: high-throughput sequencing from a 145-year old holotype resolves (barely) a cryptic species problem in flying lizards

Jimmy A. McGuire, Darko D. Cotoras, Brendan O’Connell, Shobi Z.S. Lawalata, Cynthia Y. Wang-Claypool, Alexander Stubbs, Xiaoting Huang, Guinevere O.U. Wogan, Sarah M. Hykin, Sean B. Reilly, Ke Bi, Awal Riyanto, Evy Arida, Lydia L. Smith, Heather Milne, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Djoko T. Iskandar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4470 PubMed 29576952

March 29, 2018

The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals

Arielle Waldstein Parsons, Christine Goforth, Robert Costello, Roland Kays

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4536 PubMed 29610706

March 19, 2018

Cenozoic aridization in Central Eurasia shaped diversification of toad-headed agamas (Phrynocephalus; Agamidae, Reptilia)

Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, Vladimir S. Lebedev, Evgeniy A. Dunayev, Roman A. Nazarov, Anna A. Bannikova, Jing Che, Robert W. Murphy, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4543 PubMed 29576991

March 12, 2018

Phylogenetic surveys on the newt genus Tylototriton sensu lato (Salamandridae, Caudata) reveal cryptic diversity and novel diversification promoted by historical climatic shifts

Bin Wang, Kanto Nishikawa, Masafumi Matsui, Truong Quang Nguyen, Feng Xie, Cheng Li, Janak Raj Khatiwada, Baowei Zhang, Dajie Gong, Yunming Mo, Gang Wei, Xiaohong Chen, Youhui Shen, Daode Yang, Rongchuan Xiong, Jianping Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4384 PubMed 29576937

March 20, 2018

Conserving relics from ancient underground worlds: assessing the influence of cave and landscape features on obligate iron cave dwellers from the Eastern Amazon

Rodolfo Jaffé, Xavier Prous, Allan Calux, Markus Gastauer, Gilberto Nicacio, Robson Zampaulo, Pedro W.M. Souza-Filho, Guilherme Oliveira, Iuri V. Brandi, José O. Siqueira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4531 PubMed 29576987

March 16, 2018

Seasonal temperature acclimatization in a semi-fossorial mammal and the role of burrows as thermal refuges

Charlotte R. Milling, Janet L. Rachlow, Mark A. Chappell, Meghan J. Camp, Timothy R. Johnson, Lisa A. Shipley, David R. Paul, Jennifer S. Forbey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4511 PubMed 29576977

March 19, 2018

Large-scale assessment of commensalistic–mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet photos

Peter Mikula, Jiří Hadrava, Tomáš Albrecht, Piotr Tryjanowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4520 PubMed 29576981

March 27, 2018

Playing by the rules? Phenotypic adaptation to temperate environments in an American marsupial

Sergio F. Nigenda-Morales, Ryan J. Harrigan, Robert K. Wayne