Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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 16, 2018

Evolutionary persistence in Gunnera and the contribution of southern plant groups to the tropical Andes biodiversity hotspot

Christine D. Bacon, Francisco J. Velásquez-Puentes, Luis Felipe Hinojosa, Thomas Schwartz, Bengt Oxelman, Bernard Pfeil, Mary T.K. Arroyo, Livia Wanntorp, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4388 PubMed 29576938

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

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4512 PubMed 29607255

March 6, 2018

The little shrimp that could: phylogeography of the circumtropical Stenopus hispidus (Crustacea: Decapoda), reveals divergent Atlantic and Pacific lineages

‘Ale‘alani Dudoit, Matthew Iacchei, Richard R. Coleman, Michelle R. Gaither, William E. Browne, Brian W. Bowen, Robert J. Toonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4409 PubMed 29527409

March 19, 2018

Phylogeographic structure in three North American tent caterpillar species (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae): Malacosoma americana, M. californica, and M. disstria

Linda A. Lait, Paul D.N. Hebert