Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

August 19, 2019

Global distribution and diversity of Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyta, Mediophyceae): integration of classical and novel strategies

7 citations

604 downloads

1,419 views

Daniele De Luca, Wiebe H.C.F. Kooistra, Diana Sarno, Chetan C. Gaonkar, Roberta Piredda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7410 PubMed 31489261

August 16, 2019

Towards a barnacle tree of life: integrating diverse phylogenetic efforts into a comprehensive hypothesis of thecostracan evolution

7 citations

535 downloads

2,122 views

Christine Ewers-Saucedo, Christopher L. Owen, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Jens T. Høeg, Henrik Glenner, Benny K.K. Chan, Keith A. Crandall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7387 PubMed 31440430

August 6, 2019

262 Voyages Beneath the Sea: a global assessment of macro- and megafaunal biodiversity and research effort at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

6 citations

715 downloads

4,121 views

Andrew D. Thaler, Diva Amon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7397 PubMed 31404427

August 22, 2019

Seasonal dynamics of microbial diversity in the rhizosphere of Ulmus pumila L. var. sabulosa in a steppe desert area of Northern China

6 citations

614 downloads

867 views

Tianyu Liang, Guang Yang, Yunxia Ma, Qingzhi Yao, Yuan Ma, Hui Ma, Yang Hu, Ying Yang, Shaoxiong Wang, Yiyong Pan, Gangtie Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7526 PubMed 31497396

August 5, 2019

Effect of dietary concentrate to forage ratio on growth performance, rumen fermentation and bacterial diversity of Tibetan sheep under barn feeding on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

6 citations

580 downloads

1,127 views

Hongjin Liu, Tianwei Xu, Shixiao Xu, Li Ma, Xueping Han, Xungang Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Linyong Hu, Na Zhao, Yongwei Chen, Li Pi, Xinquan Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7462 PubMed 31404417

August 26, 2019

Effectiveness of small road tunnels and fences in reducing amphibian roadkill and barrier effects at retrofitted roads in Sweden

5 citations

938 downloads

4,480 views

Jan Olof Helldin, Silviu O. Petrovan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7518 PubMed 31523500

August 12, 2019

A new species of terrestrial frog of the genus Noblella Barbour, 1930 (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor, Tungurahua, Ecuador

5 citations

553 downloads

3,095 views

Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Carolina Reyes-Puig, Santiago Ron, Jhael A. Ortega, Juan M. Guayasamin, Mindee Goodrum, Fausto Recalde, Jose J. Vieira, Claudia Koch, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7405 PubMed 31423356

August 5, 2019

Taxonomic reassessment of the genus Dichotomius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) through integrative taxonomy

4 citations

619 downloads

1,691 views

Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Alejandro Lopera Toro, Sergio Andrés Peña Tovar, Rodrigo Sarmiento-Garcés, Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Camilo Salazar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7332 PubMed 31404430

August 8, 2019

A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW)

4 citations

414 downloads

1,754 views

Claudia Koch, Angele Martins, Silke Schweiger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7411 PubMed 31410308

August 22, 2019

Phylogenomic analyses confirm a novel invasive North American Corbicula (Bivalvia: Cyrenidae) lineage

3 citations

459 downloads

1,087 views

Amanda E. Haponski, Diarmaid Ó Foighil

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7484 PubMed 31497390

August 1, 2019

Taxonomic revision of black salamanders of the Aneides flavipunctatus complex (Caudata: Plethodontidae)

2 citations

1,039 downloads

2,609 views

Sean B. Reilly, David B. Wake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7370 PubMed 31396443

August 13, 2019

Grazing effects on woody and herbaceous plant biodiversity on a limestone mountain in northern Tunisia

2 citations

640 downloads

1,030 views

David Anthony Kirk, Katherine Hébert, Frank Barrie Goldsmith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7296 PubMed 31428536

August 6, 2019

Molecular evidence that the Channel Islands populations of the orange-crowned warbler (Oreothlypis celata; Aves: Passeriformes: Parulidae) represent a distinct evolutionary lineage

2 citations

374 downloads

1,131 views

Zachary R. Hanna, Carla Cicero, Rauri C.K. Bowie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7388 PubMed 31404458

August 6, 2019

First report of cestode infection in the crustacean Artemia persimilis from Southern Chilean Patagonia and its relation with the Neotropical aquatic birds

2 citations

322 downloads

805 views

Stella Redón, Gergana P. Vasileva, Boyko B. Georgiev, Gonzalo Gajardo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7395 PubMed 31403003

August 13, 2019

Dynamics of a methanol-fed marine denitrifying biofilm: 2—impact of environmental changes on the microbial community

2 citations

316 downloads

930 views

Richard Villemur, Geneviève Payette, Valérie Geoffroy, Florian Mauffrey, Christine Martineau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7467 PubMed 31423359

August 9, 2019

Taxonomic revision of the genus Cranichis (Orchidaceae, Cranichideae) in Colombia

1 citation

649 downloads

1,770 views

Dariusz L. Szlachetko, Marta Kolanowska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7385 PubMed 31413928

August 13, 2019

The effect of mangrove restoration on avian assemblages of a coastal lagoon in southern Mexico

1 citation

639 downloads

1,689 views

Julio Cesar Canales-Delgadillo, Rosela Perez-Ceballos, Mario Arturo Zaldivar-Jimenez, Martin Merino-Ibarra, Gabriela Cardoza, Jose-Gilberto Cardoso-Mohedano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7493 PubMed 31423362

August 8, 2019

Communities of oil palm flower-visiting insects: investigating the covariation of Elaeidobius kamerunicus and other dominant species

1 citation

638 downloads

931 views

Akhmad Rizali, Bambang Tri Rahardjo, Sri Karindah, Fatma Ramadhani Wahyuningtyas, Nurindah, Bandung Sahari, Yann Clough

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7464 PubMed 31410312

August 19, 2019

Redescription of Hargeria rapax (Harger, 1879) and description of H. chetumalensis a new species from the Mexican Caribbean (Crustacea, Peracarida, Tanaidacea, Leptocheliidae) based upon morphological and molecular evidence

1 citation

390 downloads