Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 15, 2018

Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber, Russell A. Mittermeier, Serge Wich, Sidney Gouveia, Ricardo Dobrovolski, K.A.I. Nekaris, Vincent Nijman, Anthony B. Rylands, Fiona Maisels, Elizabeth A. Williamson, Julio Bicca-Marques, Agustin Fuentes, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Steig Johnson, Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo, Leonardo Oliveira, Christoph Schwitzer, Christian Roos, Susan M. Cheyne, Maria Cecilia Martins Kierulff, Brigitte Raharivololona, Mauricio Talebi, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Jatna Supriatna, Ramesh Boonratana, Made Wedana, Arif Setiawan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4869 PubMed 29922508

June 13, 2018

Can non-destructive DNA extraction of bulk invertebrate samples be used for metabarcoding?

Melissa E. Carew, Rhys A. Coleman, Ary A. Hoffmann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4980 PubMed 29915700

June 22, 2018

Cities may save some threatened species but not their ecological functions

Álvaro Luna, Pedro Romero-Vidal, Fernando Hiraldo, Jose L. Tella

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4908 PubMed 29942675

June 22, 2018

Low resolution scans can provide a sufficiently accurate, cost- and time-effective alternative to high resolution scans for 3D shape analyses

Ariel E. Marcy, Carmelo Fruciano, Matthew J. Phillips, Karine Mardon, Vera Weisbecker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5032 PubMed 29942695

June 11, 2018

Diversity and abundance of conspicuous macrocrustaceans on coral reefs differing in level of degradation

Roberto González-Gómez, Patricia Briones-Fourzán, Lorenzo Álvarez-Filip, Enrique Lozano-Álvarez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4922 PubMed 29910975

June 1, 2018

Phytoregionalisation of the Andean páramo

Gwendolyn Peyre, Henrik Balslev, Xavier Font

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4786 PubMed 29868254

June 25, 2018

DNA barcoding of marine fish species from Rongcheng Bay, China

Lijuan Wang, Zhihao Wu, Mengxia Liu, Wei Liu, Wenxi Zhao, Hongjun Liu, Feng You

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5013 PubMed 29967722

June 13, 2018

Seasonal dynamics alter taxonomical and functional microbial profiles in Pampa biome soils under natural grasslands

Anthony Diego Muller Barboza, Victor Satler Pylro, Rodrigo Josemar Seminot Jacques, Paulo Ivonir Gubiani, Fernando Luiz Ferreira de Quadros, Júlio Kuhn da Trindade, Eric W. Triplett, Luiz Roesch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4991 PubMed 29915701

June 4, 2018

Seasonal fluctuation of oribatid mite communities in forest microhabitats

Katja Wehner, Michael Heethoff, Adrian Brückner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4863 PubMed 29888124

June 13, 2018

Genetic differentiation, local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in fragmented populations of a rare forest herb

Rodolfo Gentili, Aldo Solari, Martin Diekmann, Cecilia Duprè, Gianna Serafina Monti, Stefano Armiraglio, Silvia Assini, Sandra Citterio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4929 PubMed 29915689

June 1, 2018

Sexually dimorphic venom proteins in long-jawed orb-weaving spiders (Tetragnatha) comprise novel gene families

Pamela A. Zobel-Thropp, Emily A. Bulger, Matthew H.J. Cordes, Greta J. Binford, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Michael S. Brewer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4691 PubMed 29876146

June 8, 2018

Does bathymetry drive coastal whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aggregations?

Joshua P. Copping, Bryce D. Stewart, Colin J. McClean, James Hancock, Richard Rees

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4904 PubMed 29900072

June 13, 2018

Dynamic succession of substrate-associated bacterial composition and function during Ganoderma lucidum growth

Bo Zhang, Lijuan Yan, Qiang Li, Jie Zou, Hao Tan, Wei Tan, Weihong Peng, Xiaolin Li, Xiaoping Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4975 PubMed 29915697

June 20, 2018

How many fish? Comparison of two underwater visual sampling methods for monitoring fish communities

Zoi Thanopoulou, Maria Sini, Konstantinos Vatikiotis, Christos Katsoupis, Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos, Stelios Katsanevakis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5066 PubMed 29942703

June 15, 2018

The use of chloroplast genome sequences to solve phylogenetic incongruences in Polystachya Hook (Orchidaceae Juss)

Narjara Lopes de Abreu, Ruy José Válka Alves, Sérgio Ricardo Sodré Cardoso, Yann J.K. Bertrand, Filipe Sousa, Climbiê Ferreira Hall, Bernard E. Pfeil, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4916 PubMed 29922511

June 13, 2018

Long-term experimental in situ farming of Crambe crambe (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida)

Andrea Padiglia, Fabio D. Ledda, Bachisio M. Padedda, Roberto Pronzato, Renata Manconi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4964 PubMed 29915695

June 29, 2018

Changes in leaf chlorophyll content associated with flowering and its role in the diversity of phytophagous insects in a tree species from a semiarid Caatinga

Leandro Sousa-Souto, Adriana Bocchiglieri, Douglas de M. Dias, Anthony S. Ferreira, José P. de L. Filho

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5059 PubMed 30042875

June 21, 2018

An integrative taxonomic analysis reveals a new species of lotic Hynobius salamander from Japan

Hisanori Okamiya, Hirotaka Sugawara, Masahiro Nagano, Nikolay A. Poyarkov