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Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

DNA analysis to determine the identity of plant material from the digestive tracts of katydids

Four species of Phaneropterine katydids from Barro Colorado Island

May 3, 2019

DNA analysis to determine the identity of plant material from the digestive tracts of katydids

Researchers adapted a laboratory protocol for extracting and sequencing plant material from gut contents and applied it to Neotropical forest katydids (bush crickets).

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May 28, 2019

The biogeography of Elaphe sauromates (Pallas, 1814), with a description of a new rat snake species

Daniel Jablonski, Oleg V. Kukushkin, Aziz Avcı, Sabina Bunyatova, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Çetin Ilgaz, Ekaterina Polyakova, Konstantin Shiryaev, Boris Tuniyev, David Jandzik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6944 PubMed 31179175

May 31, 2019

Climatic niche comparison across a cryptic species complex

Qing Zhao, Hufang Zhang, Jiufeng Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7042 PubMed 31183260

May 27, 2019

On the presence of Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Central Mediterranean area

Pierluigi Carbonara, Rita Cannas, Marilena Donnaloia, Riccardo Melis, Cristina Porcu, Maria Teresa Spedicato, Walter Zupa, Maria Cristina Follesa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7009 PubMed 31179191

May 13, 2019

The highly toxic and cryptogenic clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. (Hydrozoa, Limnomedusae) on the Swedish west coast

Annette F. Govindarajan, Björn Källström, Erik Selander, Carina Östman, Thomas G. Dahlgren