Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

October 4, 2018

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

16 citations

1,679 downloads

7,522 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 12, 2018

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

767 downloads

5,460 views

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

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

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

346 downloads

2,545 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 2, 2018

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

1 citation

615 downloads

2,036 views

Trishna Dutta, Sandeep Sharma, Ruth DeFries

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

October 2, 2018

What’s for dinner? Diet and potential trophic impact of an invasive anuran Hoplobatrachus tigerinus on the Andaman archipelago

2 citations

269 downloads

1,854 views

Nitya Prakash Mohanty, John Measey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5698 PubMed 30310745

October 9, 2018

Population structure in the Andaman keelback, Xenochrophis tytleri: geographical distance and oceanic barriers to dispersal influence genetic divergence on the Andaman archipelago

281 downloads

1,673 views

Ashwini Venkatanarayana Mohan, Priyanka Swamy, Kartik Shanker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5752 PubMed 30324026

October 23, 2018

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

5 citations

310 downloads

1,638 views

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

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

October 23, 2018

Creating functional groups of marine fish from categorical traits

3 citations

463 downloads

1,576 views

Monique A. Ladds, Nokuthaba Sibanda, Richard Arnold, Matthew R. Dunn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5795 PubMed 30370185

October 10, 2018

Regional differences in an established population of invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) in south Florida

242 downloads

1,570 views

David R. Bryan, Jeremiah Blondeau, Ashley Siana, Jerald S. Ault

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5700 PubMed 30324014

October 1, 2018

Can secondary contact following range expansion be distinguished from barriers to gene flow?

2 citations

353 downloads

1,529 views

Johanna Bertl, Harald Ringbauer, Michael G.B. Blum

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5325 PubMed 30294507

October 17, 2018

Intraspecific phenotypic variation in life history traits of Daphnia galeata populations in response to fish kairomones

3 citations

404 downloads

1,462 views

Verena Tams, Jennifer Lüneburg, Laura Seddar, Jan-Phillip Detampel, Mathilde Cordellier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5746 PubMed 30356988

October 12, 2018

Shifts in community composition and co-occurrence patterns of phyllosphere fungi inhabiting Mussaenda shikokiana along an elevation gradient

3 citations

588 downloads

1,414 views

Xin Qian, Liang Chen, Xiaoming Guo, Dan He, Miaomiao Shi, Dianxiang Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5767 PubMed 30345176

October 9, 2018

Artificial light at night alters life history in a nocturnal orb-web spider

4 citations

281 downloads

1,410 views

Nikolas J. Willmott, Jessica Henneken, Caitlin J. Selleck, Therésa M. Jones

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5599 PubMed 30324009

October 26, 2018

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

1 citation

3,589 downloads

1,362 views

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

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

October 2, 2018

Conserved microbiota among young Heliconius butterfly species

3 citations

379 downloads

1,349 views

Bas van Schooten, Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, W. Owen McMillan, Riccardo Papa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5502 PubMed 30310733

October 8, 2018

The CCB-ID approach to tree species mapping with airborne imaging spectroscopy

213 downloads

1,325 views

Christopher B. Anderson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5666 PubMed 30324011

October 9, 2018

Effects of wine-cap Stropharia cultivation on soil nutrients and bacterial communities in forestlands of northern China

347 downloads

1,312 views

Sai Gong, Chen Chen, Jingxian Zhu, Guangyao Qi, Shuxia Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5741 PubMed 30324022

October 24, 2018

Phylogenomics picks out the par excellence markers for species phylogeny in the genus Staphylococcus

1 citation

252 downloads

1,284 views

Lucia Graña-Miraglia, César Arreguín-Pérez, Gamaliel López-Leal, Alan Muñoz, Angeles Pérez-Oseguera, Estefan Miranda-Miranda, Raquel Cossío-Bayúgar, Santiago Castillo-Ramírez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5839 PubMed 30386709

October 30, 2018

From the cage to the wild: introductions of Psittaciformes to Puerto Rico

1 citation

381 downloads

1,270 views

Wilfredo Falcón, Raymond L. Tremblay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5669 PubMed 30397538

October 16, 2018

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

3 citations

404 downloads