Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 4, 2018

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

18 citations

1,718 downloads

7,700 views

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 18, 2018

What is an archaeon and are the Archaea really unique?

5 citations

535 downloads

3,151 views

Ajith Harish

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

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

4 citations

360 downloads

2,601 views

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

13 citations

376 downloads

2,525 views

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

Targeting restoration sites to improve connectivity in a tiger conservation landscape in India

1 citation

626 downloads

2,092 views

Trishna Dutta, Sandeep Sharma, Ruth DeFries

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5587 PubMed 30310737

October 26, 2018

Three, two, one! Revision of the long-bodied sphaerodorids (Sphaerodoridae, Annelida) and synonymization of Ephesiella, Ephesiopsis and Sphaerodorum

1 citation

381 downloads

1,946 views

María Capa, Torkild Bakken, Karin Meißner, Arne Nygren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5783 PubMed 30386698

October 31, 2018

Uncovering hidden specific diversity of Andean glassfrogs of the Centrolene buckleyi species complex (Anura: Centrolenidae)

1 citation

394 downloads

1,783 views

Luis Amador, Andrés Parada, Guillermo D’Elía, Juan M. Guayasamin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5856 PubMed 30402351

October 23, 2018

Proteorhodopsins dominate the expression of phototrophic mechanisms in seasonal and dynamic marine picoplankton communities

5 citations

318 downloads

1,684 views

Ella T. Sieradzki, Jed A. Fuhrman, Sara Rivero-Calle, Laura Gómez-Consarnau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5798 PubMed 30370186

October 5, 2018

Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) illuminate the population genomics of a recent, high-latitude avian speciation event

5 citations

360 downloads

1,624 views

Kevin Winker, Travis C. Glenn, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5735 PubMed 30310754

October 25, 2018

Investigating leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) on the west coast islands of Sabah via checklist-taking and DNA barcoding

786 downloads

1,606 views

Kam-Cheng Yeong, Haruo Takizawa, Thor-Seng Liew

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5811 PubMed 30386703

October 4, 2018

A new limestone-dwelling species of Micryletta (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from northern Vietnam

3 citations

527 downloads

1,584 views

Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tan Van Nguyen, Tang Van Duong, Vladislav A. Gorin, Jian-Huan Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5771 PubMed 30310757

October 16, 2018

Descriptions of four new species of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2018 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with notes on their distribution and phylogeny

1 citation

476 downloads

1,566 views

M. Andrew Jansen, Nico M. Franz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5633 PubMed 30356935

October 17, 2018

Comparative systematics and phylogeography of Quercus Section Cerris in western Eurasia: inferences from plastid and nuclear DNA variation

6 citations

359 downloads

1,514 views

Marco Cosimo Simeone, Simone Cardoni, Roberta Piredda, Francesca Imperatori, Michael Avishai, Guido W. Grimm, Thomas Denk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5793 PubMed 30356975

October 29, 2018

Effects of agricultural management on phyllosphere fungal diversity in vineyards and the association with adjacent native forests

5 citations

335 downloads

1,468 views

Luis E. Castañeda, Toshiko Miura, Roland Sánchez, Olga Barbosa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5715 PubMed 30397540

October 17, 2018

Morphological characterization of virus-like particles in coral reef sponges

4 citations

328 downloads

1,443 views

Cecília Pascelli, Patrick W. Laffy, Marija Kupresanin, Timothy Ravasi, Nicole S. Webster

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5625 PubMed 30356950

October 25, 2018

Molecular assessment of Pocillopora verrucosa (Scleractinia; Pocilloporidae) distribution along a depth gradient in Ludao, Taiwan

2 citations

263 downloads

1,340 views

Stéphane De Palmas, Derek Soto, Vianney Denis, Ming-Jay Ho, Chaolun Allen Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5797 PubMed 30386700

October 16, 2018

Impacts of climate change on Capparis spinosa L. based on ecological niche modeling

3 citations

423 downloads

1,301 views

Uzma Ashraf, Muhammad N. Chaudhry, Sajid R. Ahmad, Irfan Ashraf, Muhammad Arslan, Hassaan Noor, Mobeen Jabbar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5792 PubMed 30356932

October 23, 2018

Seven new species of Cichlidogyrus Paperna, 1960 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) parasitizing the gills of Congolese cichlids from northern Lake Tanganyika

330 downloads

1,269 views

Chahrazed Rahmouni, Maarten P.M. Vanhove, Andrea Šimková

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5604 PubMed 30370182

October 12, 2018

Epiphyte type and sampling height impact mesofauna communities in Douglas-fir trees

3 citations

212 downloads

1,237 views

Alexander R. Young, Jesse E.D. Miller, John Villella, Greg Carey, William R. Miller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5699 PubMed 30345168

October 16, 2018

Pushing the limits of whole genome amplification: successful sequencing of RADseq library from a single microhymenopteran (Chalcidoidea, Trichogramma)

7 citations

323 downloads

1,216 views

Astrid Cruaud, Géraldine Groussier, Guenaëlle Genson, Laure Sauné, Andrew Polaszek, Jean-Yves Rasplus

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5640 PubMed 30356952

October 10, 2018

Residue management alters microbial diversity and activity without affecting their community composition in black soil, Northeast China

2 citations

427 downloads

1,186 views

Siyu Gu, Xingjun Guo, Yuetong Cai, Zehui Zhang, Shuai Wu, Xin Li, Huihui Zhang, Wei Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5754 PubMed 30324027

October 9, 2018

Raritas: a program for counting high diversity categorical data with highly unequal abundances

284 downloads

1,097 views

David B. Lazarus, Johan Renaudie, Dorina Lenz, Patrick Diver, Jens Klump

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5453 PubMed 30324008

October 25, 2018

Estimation of antimicrobial activities and fatty acid composition of actinobacteria isolated from water surface of underground lakes from Badzheyskaya and Okhotnichya caves in Siberia

1 citation

447 downloads

1,076 views

Irina V. Voytsekhovskaya, Denis V. Axenov-Gribanov, Svetlana A. Murzina, Svetlana N. Pekkoeva, Eugeniy S. Protasov, Stanislav V. Gamaiunov, Maxim A. Timofeyev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5832 PubMed 30386707

October 5, 2018

Trophic state (TSI_SD) and mixing type significantly influence pelagic zooplankton biodiversity in temperate lakes (NW Poland)

5 citations

261 downloads

903 views

Łukasz Sługocki, Robert Czerniawski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5731 PubMed 30310753

October 9, 2018

Do an ecosystem engineer and environmental gradient act independently or in concert to shape juvenile plant communities? Tests with the leaf-cutter ant Atta laevigata in a Neotropical savanna

1 citation

226 downloads