Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Pável Matos-Maraví, Camila Duarte Ritter, Christopher J. Barnes, Martin Nielsen, Urban Olsson, Niklas Wahlberg, Daniel Marquina, Ilari Sääksjärvi, Alexandre Antonelli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6727 PubMed 31106048

April 30, 2019

A citizen science approach to evaluating US cities for biotic homogenization

Misha Leong, Michelle Trautwein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6879 PubMed 31106074

April 9, 2019

From climate zone to microhabitat—environmental factors affecting the coastal distribution of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in the south-eastern European biodiversity hotspot

Radomir Jaskuła, Mateusz Płóciennik, Axel Schwerk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6676 PubMed 30993037

April 24, 2019

Likes, comments, and shares of marine organism imagery on Facebook

Craig R. McClain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6795 PubMed 31086737

April 19, 2019

The newly described Araguaian river dolphins, Inia araguaiaensis (Cetartiodactyla, Iniidae), produce a diverse repertoire of acoustic signals

Gabriel Melo-Santos, Angélica Lúcia Figueiredo Rodrigues, Rodrigo Hipólito Tardin, Israel de Sá Maciel, Miriam Marmontel, Maria Luisa Da Silva, Laura Johanna May-Collado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6670 PubMed 31041149

April 9, 2019

Throwing light on dark diversity of vascular plants in China: predicting the distribution of dark and threatened species under global climate change

Lili Tang, Runxi Wang, Kate S. He, Cong Shi, Tong Yang, Yaping Huang, Pufan Zheng, Fuchen Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6731 PubMed 30993048

April 23, 2019

Noblella thiuni sp. n., a new (singleton) species of minute terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the montane forest of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru

Alessandro Catenazzi, Alex Ttito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6780 PubMed 31065457

April 23, 2019

Introgressive hybridization in a Spiny-Tailed Iguana, Ctenosaura pectinata, and its implications for taxonomy and conservation

Eugenia Zarza, Víctor H. Reynoso, Christiana M. A. Faria, Brent C. Emerson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6744 PubMed 31065455

April 8, 2019

Non-host class II ribonucleotide reductase in Thermus viruses: sequence adaptation and host interaction

Christoph Loderer, Karin Holmfeldt, Daniel Lundin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6700 PubMed 30993041

April 5, 2019

Diet and mitochondrial DNA haplotype of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) found dead off Jurong Island, Singapore

Marcus A.H. Chua, David J.W. Lane, Seng Keat Ooi, Serene H.X. Tay, Tsunemi Kubodera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6705 PubMed 30984481

April 1, 2019

Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review

Lucília Souza Miranda, Allen Gilbert Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6693 PubMed 30972259

April 16, 2019

Distribution of crabs along a habitat gradient on the Yellow Sea coast after Spartina alterniflora invasion

Pan Chen, Yan Zhang, Xiaojing Zhu, Changhu Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6775 PubMed 31024775

April 8, 2019

Vegetation dynamics of abandoned paddy fields and surrounding wetlands in the lower Tumen River Basin, Northeast China

Guanglan Cao, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Weihong Zhu, Toshiya Okuro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6704 PubMed 30993042

April 10, 2019

Decoupling species richness variation and spatial turnover in beta diversity across a fragmented landscape

Guang Hu, Maxwell C. Wilson, Jianguo Wu, Jingjing Yu, Mingjian Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6714 PubMed 30993046

April 18, 2019

Bacterial community composition and diversity of two different forms of an organic residue of bioenergy crop

Matheus A.P. Cipriano, Afnan K.A. Suleiman, Adriana P.D. da Silveira, Janaína B. do Carmo, Eiko E. Kuramae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6768 PubMed 31024771

April 11, 2019

Variation in ant-mediated seed dispersal along elevation gradients

Israel Del Toro, Relena R. Ribbons

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6686 PubMed 30997286

April 29, 2019

Genetic differentiation in the southern population of the Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas Rafinesque (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)

Nayarit E. Ballesteros-Nova, Rodolfo Pérez-Rodríguez, Rosa G. Beltrán-López, Omar Domínguez-Domínguez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6224 PubMed 31106042

April 11, 2019

A small caseid synapsid, Arisierpeton simplex gen. et sp. nov., from the early Permian of Oklahoma, with a discussion of synapsid diversity at the classic Richards Spur locality

Robert R. Reisz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6615 PubMed 30997285

April 2, 2019

Environmental modulation of the proteomic profiles from closely phylogenetically related populations of the red seaweed Plocamium brasiliense

Gabriela Calegario, Lucas Freitas, Eidy Santos, Bruno Silva, Louisi Oliveira, Gizele Garcia, Cláudia Omachi, Renato Pereira, Cristiane Thompson, Fabiano Thompson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6469 PubMed 30972241

April 19, 2019

Rapid ecological specialization despite constant population sizes

Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Paul O’Donoghue, Michael W. Bruford, Yoshan Moodley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6476 PubMed 31041147

April 11, 2019

Synopsis of the genus Ponthieva (Orchidaceae) in Colombia

Dariusz L. Szlachetko, Marta Kolanowska, Natalia Olędrzyńska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6728 PubMed 31011491