Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 9, 2018

A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico

Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe, Alton C. Dooley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5749 PubMed 30324024

October 12, 2018

Agrichemicals and antibiotics in combination increase antibiotic resistance evolution

Brigitta Kurenbach, Amy M. Hill, William Godsoe, Sophie van Hamelsveld, Jack A. Heinemann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5801 PubMed 30345180

October 4, 2018

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

Alexandre Antonelli, María Ariza, James Albert, Tobias Andermann, Josué Azevedo, Christine Bacon, Søren Faurby, Thais Guedes, Carina Hoorn, Lúcia G. Lohmann, Pável Matos-Maraví, Camila D. Ritter, Isabel Sanmartín, Daniele Silvestro, Marcelo Tejedor, Hans ter Steege, Hanna Tuomisto, Fernanda P. Werneck, Alexander Zizka, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5644 PubMed 30310740

October 2, 2018

Seeing spots: quantifying mother-offspring similarity and assessing fitness consequences of coat pattern traits in a wild population of giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Derek E. Lee, Douglas R. Cavener, Monica L. Bond

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5690 PubMed 30310743

October 12, 2018

A new tuskless walrus from the Miocene of Orange County, California, with comments on the diversity and taxonomy of odobenids

Isaac Magallanes, James F. Parham, Gabriel-Philip Santos, Jorge Velez-Juarbe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5708 PubMed 30345169

October 31, 2018

Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part I—an examination of cancellous bone architecture in the hindlimb bones of theropods

Peter J. Bishop, Scott A. Hocknull, Christofer J. Clemente, John R. Hutchinson, Andrew A. Farke, Belinda R. Beck, Rod S. Barrett, David G. Lloyd

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5778 PubMed 30402347

October 12, 2018

Bite marks on the frill of a juvenile Centrosaurus from the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Provincial Park Formation, Alberta, Canada

David W.E. Hone, Darren H. Tanke, Caleb M. Brown

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5748 PubMed 30345174

October 17, 2018

C9orf72, a protein associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor

Shalini Iyer, Vasanta Subramanian, K. Ravi Acharya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5815 PubMed 30356970

October 26, 2018

Impact of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the yield and quality of silage corn intercropped with soybean

Ali Baghdadi, Ridzwan A. Halim, Ali Ghasemzadeh, Mohd Fauzi Ramlan, Siti Zaharah Sakimin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5280 PubMed 30386686

October 31, 2018

Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part III—Inferring posture and locomotor biomechanics in extinct theropods, and its evolution on the line to birds

Peter J. Bishop, Scott A. Hocknull, Christofer J. Clemente, John R. Hutchinson, Andrew A. Farke, Rod S. Barrett, David G. Lloyd

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5777 PubMed 30402346

October 23, 2018

The effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services at delivering improvements in water quality: lessons for experiments at the landscape scale

Edwin L. Pynegar, Julia P.G. Jones, James M. Gibbons, Nigel M. Asquith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5753 PubMed 30386694

October 30, 2018

Microbiome analysis of Pacific white shrimp gut and rearing water from Malaysia and Vietnam: implications for aquaculture research and management

Muhammad Zarul Hanifah Md Zoqratt, Wilhelm Wei Han Eng, Binh Thanh Thai, Christopher M. Austin, Han Ming Gan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5826 PubMed 30397546

October 3, 2018

A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from southern Brazil

Marcio R. Pie, Luiz F. Ribeiro, André E. Confetti, Mário J. Nadaline, Marcos R. Bornschein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5683 PubMed 30310742

October 19, 2018

Continental-scale suppression of an invasive pest by a host-specific parasitoid underlines both environmental and economic benefits of arthropod biological control

Kris A.G. Wyckhuys, Prapit Wongtiem, Aunu Rauf, Anchana Thancharoen, George E. Heimpel, Nhung T.T. Le, Muhammad Zainal Fanani, Geoff M. Gurr, Jonathan G. Lundgren, Dharani D. Burra, Leo K. Palao, Glenn Hyman, Ignazio Graziosi, Vi X. Le, Matthew J.W. Cock, Teja Tscharntke, Steve D. Wratten, Liem V. Nguyen, Minsheng You, Yanhui Lu, Johannes W. Ketelaar, Georg Goergen, Peter Neuenschwander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5796 PubMed 30364550

October 11, 2018

Virus discovery in all three major lineages of terrestrial arthropods highlights the diversity of single-stranded DNA viruses associated with invertebrates

Karyna Rosario, Kaitlin A. Mettel, Bayleigh E. Benner, Ryan Johnson, Catherine Scott, Sohath Z. Yusseff-Vanegas, Christopher C.M. Baker, Deby L. Cassill, Caroline Storer, Arvind Varsani, Mya Breitbart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5761 PubMed 30324030

October 2, 2018

Osteology of a forelimb of an aetosaur Stagonolepis olenkae (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) from the Krasiejów locality in Poland and its probable adaptations for a scratch-digging behavior

Dawid Dróżdż

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5595 PubMed 30310738

October 18, 2018

What is an archaeon and are the Archaea really unique?

Ajith Harish

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5770 PubMed 30357005

October 29, 2018

Don’t worry, be active: how to facilitate the detection of errors in immersive virtual environments

Sara Rigutti, Marta Stragà, Marco Jez, Giulio Baldassi, Andrea Carnaghi, Piero Miceu, Carlo Fantoni