Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

June 21, 2018

Analyzing mixing systems using a new generation of Bayesian tracer mixing models

Brian C. Stock, Andrew L. Jackson, Eric J. Ward, Andrew C. Parnell, Donald L. Phillips, Brice X. Semmens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5096 PubMed 29942712

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 27, 2018

Significance and potential of marine microbial natural bioactive compounds against biofilms/biofouling: necessity for green chemistry

Mohd Adnan, Eyad Alshammari, Mitesh Patel, Syed Amir Ashraf, Saif Khan, Sibte Hadi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5049 PubMed 29967730

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 5, 2018

Coupling GIS spatial analysis and Ensemble Niche Modelling to investigate climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris, an endangered species from the Mediterranean

Mattia Iannella, Francesco Cerasoli, Paola D’Alessandro, Giulia Console, Maurizio Biondi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4969 PubMed 29888141

June 4, 2018

Teleost and elasmobranch eye lenses as a target for life-history stable isotope analyses

Katie Quaeck-Davies, Victoria A. Bendall, Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, Stuart Hetherington, Jason Newton, Clive N. Trueman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4883 PubMed 29888128

June 25, 2018

Effects of temperature and salinity stress on DNA methylation in a highly invasive marine invertebrate, the colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum

Nicola A. Hawes, Louis A. Tremblay, Xavier Pochon, Brendon Dunphy, Andrew E. Fidler, Kirsty F. Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5003 PubMed 29967721

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 7, 2018

César A. Cárdenas, Marcelo González-Aravena, Alejandro Font, Jon T. Hestetun, Eduardo Hajdu, Nicole Trefault, Maja Malmberg, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4935 PubMed 29892508

June 25, 2018

It’s a matter of design—how pitfall trap design affects trap samples and possible predictions

Fabian A. Boetzl, Elena Ries, Gudrun Schneider, Jochen Krauss

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5078 PubMed 29967739

June 4, 2018

Diversity, host-specificity and stability of sponge-associated fungal communities of co-occurring sponges

Mary T.H.D. Nguyen, Torsten Thomas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4965 PubMed 29888140

June 1, 2018

Phytoregionalisation of the Andean páramo

Gwendolyn Peyre, Henrik Balslev, Xavier Font

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

June 29, 2018

Impact of extreme drought and incentive programs on flooded agriculture and wetlands in California’s Central Valley

Matthew E. Reiter, Nathan K. Elliott, Dennis Jongsomjit, Gregory H. Golet, Mark D. Reynolds

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5147 PubMed 30042882

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 8, 2018

Archaeal and bacterial diversity and community composition from 18 phylogenetically divergent sponge species in Vietnam

Ton That Huu Dat, Georg Steinert, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuc, Hauke Smidt, Detmer Sipkema

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4970 PubMed 29900079

June 15, 2018

MLSTar: automatic multilocus sequence typing of bacterial genomes in R

Ignacio Ferrés, Gregorio Iraola

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5098 PubMed 29922519

June 20, 2018

Plant-insect interactions patterns in three European paleoforests of the late-Neogene—early-Quaternary

Benjamin Adroit, Vincent Girard, Lutz Kunzmann, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Torsten Wappler