Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

February 14, 2019

Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics

40 citations

2,130 downloads

7,899 views

Gustavo A. Bravo, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon, Krzysztof Bartoszek, Mozes P. K. Blom, Stella Huynh, Graham Jones, L. Lacey Knowles, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Thomas Marcussen, Hélène Morlon, Luay K. Nakhleh, Bengt Oxelman, Bernard Pfeil, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, Fernanda P. Werneck, John Wiedenhoeft, Sandi Willows-Munro, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6399 PubMed 30783571

February 6, 2019

Quantitative color profiling of digital images with earth mover’s distance using the R package colordistance

9 citations

1,124 downloads

4,534 views

Hannah I. Weller, Mark W. Westneat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6398 PubMed 30775177

February 28, 2019

Active management is required to turn the tide for depleted Ostrea edulis stocks from the effects of overfishing, disease and invasive species

17 citations

843 downloads

3,706 views

Luke Helmer, Paul Farrell, Ian Hendy, Simon Harding, Morven Robertson, Joanne Preston

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6431 PubMed 30842897

February 7, 2019

Tamilokus mabinia, a new, anatomically divergent genus and species of wood-boring bivalve from the Philippines

2 citations

904 downloads

3,671 views

J. Reuben Shipway, Marvin A. Altamia, Gary Rosenberg, Gisela P. Concepcion, Margo G. Haygood, Daniel L. Distel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6256 PubMed 30746304

February 14, 2019

Additional sauropod dinosaur material from the Callovian Oxford Clay Formation, Peterborough, UK: evidence for higher sauropod diversity

868 downloads

2,830 views

Femke M. Holwerda, Mark Evans, Jeff J. Liston

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6404 PubMed 30783572

February 6, 2019

Digging for DNA at depth: rapid universal metabarcoding surveys (RUMS) as a tool to detect coral reef biodiversity across a depth gradient

8 citations

783 downloads

2,763 views

Joseph D. DiBattista, James D. Reimer, Michael Stat, Giovanni D. Masucci, Piera Biondi, Maarten De Brauwer, Michael Bunce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6379 PubMed 30755831

February 21, 2019

Diversity, spatial distribution and activity of fungi in freshwater ecosystems

8 citations

1,162 downloads

2,212 views

Cécile Lepère, Isabelle Domaizon, Jean-Francois Humbert, Ludwig Jardillier, Mylène Hugoni, Didier Debroas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6247 PubMed 30809429

February 15, 2019

Dynamic multi-species occupancy models reveal individualistic habitat preferences in a high-altitude grassland bird community

3 citations

680 downloads

2,186 views

David H. Maphisa, Hanneline Smit-Robinson, Res Altwegg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6276 PubMed 30783562

February 27, 2019

Revision of the Afro-Madagascan genus Costularia (Schoeneae, Cyperaceae): infrageneric relationships and species delimitation

1 citation

636 downloads

2,177 views

Isabel Larridon, Linah Rabarivola, Martin Xanthos, A. Muthama Muasya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6528 PubMed 30834188

February 18, 2019

Diverse microbial communities hosted by the model carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea: analysis of both bacterial and eukaryotic composition across distinct host plant populations

1 citation

890 downloads

2,154 views

Jacob J. Grothjan, Erica B. Young

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6392 PubMed 30805246

February 13, 2019

Everything you always wanted to know about gene flow in tropical landscapes (but were afraid to ask)

6 citations

493 downloads

2,135 views

Waléria Pereira Monteiro, Jamille Costa Veiga, Amanda Reis Silva, Carolina da Silva Carvalho, Éder Cristian Malta Lanes, Yessica Rico, Rodolfo Jaffé

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6446 PubMed 30783576

February 13, 2019

The origin of Oxalis corniculata L.

5 citations

744 downloads

1,942 views

Quentin J. Groom, Jan Van der Straeten, Ivan Hoste

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6384 PubMed 30783568

February 5, 2019

Molecular and morphological congruence of three new cryptic Neopetrosia spp. in the Caribbean

2 citations

641 downloads

1,932 views

Jan Vicente, Jaime Andrés Ríos, Sven Zea, Robert J. Toonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6371 PubMed 30746308

February 25, 2019

Integrative taxonomic reassessment of Odontophrynus populations in Argentina and phylogenetic relationships within Odontophrynidae (Anura)

2 citations

879 downloads

1,867 views

Adolfo Ludovico Martino, Jonas Maximilian Dehling, Ulrich Sinsch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6480 PubMed 30828491

February 27, 2019

Phylogeny and circumscription of Dasyphyllum (Asteraceae: Barnadesioideae) based on molecular data with the recognition of a new genus, Archidasyphyllum

6 citations

609 downloads

1,745 views

Paola de Lima Ferreira, Mariana Machado Saavedra, Milton Groppo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6475 PubMed 30834184

February 5, 2019

Fruit availability for migratory birds: a GIS approach

2 citations

482 downloads

1,650 views

Clara Tattoni, Erica Soardi, Filippo Prosser, Maurizio Odasso, Paolo Zatelli, Marco Ciolli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6394 PubMed 30740278

February 13, 2019

Balancing plant conservation and agricultural production in the Ecuadorian Dry Inter-Andean Valleys

1 citation

359 downloads

1,621 views

Catalina Quintana, Marco Girardello, Henrik Balslev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6207 PubMed 30783560

February 18, 2019

Mycorrhization of Quercus acutissima with Chinese black truffle significantly altered the host physiology and root-associated microbiomes

7 citations

572 downloads

1,563 views

Xiaoping Zhang, Lei Ye, Zongjing Kang, Jie Zou, Xiaoping Zhang, Xiaolin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6421 PubMed 30805248

February 5, 2019

Blood parasites infecting the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), a unique neotropical folivorous bird

3 citations

354 downloads

1,550 views

M. Andreína Pacheco, M. Alexandra García-Amado, Jaime Manzano, Nubia E. Matta, Ananias A. Escalante

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6361 PubMed 30740273

February 15, 2019

Effects of traditional agroecosystems and grazing areas on amphibian diversity in a region of central Mexico

392 downloads

1,502 views

José Daniel Lara-Tufiño, Luis M. Badillo-Saldaña, Raquel Hernández-Austria, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6390 PubMed 30783569

February 22, 2019

Tracking down the lizards from Gravenhorst's collection at the University of Wrocław: type specimens of Callopistes maculatus Gravenhorst, 1838 and three Liolaemus species rediscovered

505 downloads

1,427 views

Bartosz Borczyk, Tomasz Skawiński

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6525 PubMed 30809465

February 15, 2019

Biodiversity and temporal patterns of macrozoobenthos in a coal mining subsidence area in North China

6 citations

378 downloads

1,407 views

Guanxiong Zhang, Xingzhong Yuan, Kehong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6456 PubMed 30783578

February 28, 2019

A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae)

338 downloads

1,377 views

Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Timothy A. Rawlings

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6569

February 19, 2019

Maternal inheritance of F1 hybrid morphology and colony shape in the coral genus Acropora

1 citation

364 downloads

1,271 views

Hironobu Fukami, Kenji Iwao, Naoki H. Kumagai, Masaya Morita, Naoko Isomura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6429 PubMed 30809440

February 1, 2019

New insight into the phylogeographic pattern of Liriodendron chinense (Magnoliaceae) revealed by chloroplast DNA: east–west lineage split and genetic mixture within western subtropical China

2 citations

487 downloads

1,172 views

Aihong Yang, Yongda Zhong, Shujuan Liu, Lipan Liu, Tengyun Liu, Yanqiang Li, Faxin Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6355 PubMed 30723627

February 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Supplementary Figure S1. 3D reconstruction of Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus

Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, the oldest dinosaur with ‘feather-like’ structures

February 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Supplementary Figure S1. 3D reconstruction of Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus

Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, the oldest dinosaur with ‘feather-like’ structures

Supplementary Figure S1. 3D reconstruction of Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus

Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, the oldest dinosaur with ‘feather-like’ structures

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