Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

July 10, 2019

A new paravian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America supports a late acquisition of avian flight

Scott Hartman, Mickey Mortimer, William R. Wahl, Dean R. Lomax, Jessica Lippincott, David M. Lovelace

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7247 PubMed 31333906

July 9, 2019

A highly diverse fungal community associated with leaves of the mangrove plant Acanthus ilicifolius var. xiamenensis revealed by isolation and metabarcoding analyses

Wei-Chiung Chi, Weiling Chen, Chih-Chiao He, Sheng-Yu Guo, Hyo-Jung Cha, Ling Ming Tsang, Tsz Wai Ho, Ka-Lai Pang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7293 PubMed 31328048

July 25, 2019

The Munduruku marmoset: a new monkey species from southern Amazonia

Rodrigo Costa-Araújo, Fabiano R. de Melo, Gustavo Rodrigues Canale, Sandra M. Hernández-Rangel, Mariluce Rezende Messias, Rogério Vieira Rossi, Felipe E. Silva, Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva, Stephen D. Nash, Jean P. Boubli, Izeni Pires Farias, Tomas Hrbek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7019 PubMed 31380146

July 4, 2019

A new species of the Asian music frog genus Nidirana (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) from Southwestern China

Shize Li, Gang Wei, Ning Xu, Jianguo Cui, Liang Fei, Jianping Jiang, Jing Liu, Bin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7157

July 8, 2019

An integrative approach to the anatomy of Syllis gracilis Grube, 1840 (Annelida) using micro-computed X-ray tomography

Julio Parapar, Carlos Caramelo, María Candás, Xela Cunha-Veira, Juan Moreira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7251 PubMed 31328035

July 29, 2019

First molecular approach to the octopus fauna from the southern Caribbean

Elena A. Ritschard, Jürgen Guerrero-Kommritz, Juan A. Sanchez