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June 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Holotype and paratype specimens of Micryletta aishani sp. nov. in life.

June 11, 2019

A new species of Micryletta frog

Researchers describe a new species of frog in the microhylid genus Micryletta Dubois, from Northeast India. This validates the presence of genus Micryletta in Northeast India based on genetic evidence, and confirms the extension of its geographical range, westwards from Southeast Asia up to Northeast India.

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June 17, 2019

Expanding global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction

7 citations

1,002 downloads

4,812 views

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber, Abhishek Chaudhary

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7068

June 11, 2019

A new species of Micryletta frog (Microhylidae) from Northeast India

4 citations

1,434 downloads

4,222 views

Abhijit Das, Sonali Garg, Amir Hamidy, Eric N. Smith, S. D. Biju

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7012 PubMed 31223526

June 7, 2019

Garden centre customer attitudes to pollinators and pollinator-friendly planting

3 citations

495 downloads

2,203 views

Veronica R. Wignall, Karin Alton, Francis L.W. Ratnieks

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7088 PubMed 31211021

June 10, 2019

In vitro performance in cotton plants with different genetic backgrounds: the case of Gossypium hirsutum in Mexico, and its implications for germplasm conservation

2 citations

469 downloads

2,068 views

Alejandra Hernández-Terán, Ana Wegier, Mariana Benítez, Rafael Lira, Tania Gabriela Sosa Fuentes, Ana E. Escalante

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7017 PubMed 31218120

June 7, 2019

Timing and ecological priority shaped the diversification of sedges in the Himalayas

3 citations

630 downloads

1,955 views

Uzma, Pedro Jiménez-Mejías, Rabia Amir, Muhammad Qasim Hayat, Andrew L. Hipp

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6792 PubMed 31211007

June 7, 2019

Reduced thermal variability in cities and its impact on honey bee thermal tolerance

2 citations

371 downloads

1,927 views

Karina Sánchez-Echeverría, Ignacio Castellanos, Luis Mendoza-Cuenca, Iriana Zuria, Gerardo Sánchez-Rojas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7060 PubMed 31211017

June 13, 2019

Dynamics of soil properties and fungal community structure in continuous-cropped alfalfa fields in Northeast China

1 citation

646 downloads

1,920 views

Qin Yao, Yanxia Xu, Xuefeng Liu, Junjie Liu, Xinyu Huang, Weiguang Yang, Zhao Yang, Lan Lan, Jingming Zhou, Guanghua Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7127 PubMed 31223541

June 10, 2019

A comparison of impact and risk assessment methods based on the IMO Guidelines and EU invasive alien species risk assessment frameworks

3 citations

514 downloads

1,813 views

Greta Srėbalienė, Sergej Olenin, Dan Minchin, Aleksas Narščius

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6965 PubMed 31218119

June 7, 2019

The complete chloroplast genome of Fagus crenata (subgenus Fagus) and comparison with F. engleriana (subgenus Engleriana)

4 citations

650 downloads

1,804 views

James R. P. Worth, Luxian Liu, Fu-Jin Wei, Nobuhiro Tomaru

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7026 PubMed 31211014

June 14, 2019

Could do better! A high school market survey of fish labelling in Sydney, Australia, using DNA barcodes

1 citation

411 downloads

1,503 views

Andrew Mitchell, Anna Rothbart, Greta Frankham, Rebecca N. Johnson, Linda E. Neaves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7138 PubMed 31231598

June 18, 2019

Bacterial and archaeal spatial distribution and its environmental drivers in an extremely haloalkaline soil at the landscape scale

3 citations

463 downloads

1,357 views

Martha Adriana Martínez-Olivas, Norma G. Jiménez-Bueno, Juan Alfredo Hernández-García, Carmine Fusaro, Marco Luna-Guido, Yendi E. Navarro-Noya, Luc Dendooven

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6127 PubMed 31249729

June 13, 2019

Development of the cephalopod-specific universal primer set and its application for the metabarcoding analysis of planktonic cephalopods in Korean waters

1 citation

486 downloads

1,269 views

Eun-Bi Kim, Soo Rin Lee, Chung Il Lee, Hyun Park, Hyun-Woo Kim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7140 PubMed 31223542

June 21, 2019

Skin bacterial communities of neotropical treefrogs vary with local environmental conditions at the time of sampling

6 citations

470 downloads