Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 13, 2019

Genome skimming is a low-cost and robust strategy to assemble complete mitochondrial genomes from ethanol preserved specimens in biodiversity studies

6 citations

1,187 downloads

1,860 views

Bruna Trevisan, Daniel M.C. Alcantara, Denis Jacob Machado, Fernando P.L. Marques, Daniel J.G. Lahr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7543 PubMed 31565556

September 2, 2019

Revealing biases in the sampling of ecological interaction networks

2 citations

754 downloads

2,504 views

Marcus A.M. de Aguiar, Erica A. Newman, Mathias M. Pires, Justin D. Yeakel, Carl Boettiger, Laura A. Burkle, Dominique Gravel, Paulo R. Guimarães, James L. O’Donnell, Timothée Poisot, Marie-Josée Fortin, David H. Hembry

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7566 PubMed 31534845

September 6, 2019

Expanding walls and shrinking beaches: loss of natural coastline in Okinawa Island, Japan

8 citations

701 downloads

2,609 views

Giovanni Diego Masucci, James D. Reimer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7520 PubMed 31534840

September 13, 2019

Notes on vocalizations of Brazilian amphibians IV: advertisement calls of 20 Atlantic Forest frog species

1 citation

695 downloads

1,932 views

Lucas Rodriguez Forti, Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad, Felipe Leite, Leandro de Oliveira Drummond, Clodoaldo de Assis, Lucas Batista Crivellari, Caio Marinho Mello, Paulo Christiano Anchietta Garcia, Camila Zornosa-Torres, Luís Felipe Toledo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7612 PubMed 31565563

September 3, 2019

Effects of mechanical and chemical control on invasive Spartina alterniflora in the Yellow River Delta, China

1 citation

626 downloads

765 views

Baohua Xie, Guangxuan Han, Peiyang Qiao, Baoling Mei, Qing Wang, Yingfeng Zhou, Anfeng Zhang, Weimin Song, Bo Guan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7655 PubMed 31534866

September 11, 2019

Plant host and drought shape the root associated fungal microbiota in rice

3 citations

624 downloads

1,266 views

Beatriz Andreo-Jimenez, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Amandine Lê Van, Arvid Heutinck, Marie Duhamel, Niteen Kadam, Krishna Jagadish, Carolien Ruyter-Spira, Harro Bouwmeester

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7463 PubMed 31565550

September 19, 2019

Yak rumen microbial diversity at different forage growth stages of an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

4 citations

585 downloads

1,062 views

Li Ma, Shixiao Xu, Hongjin Liu, Tianwei Xu, Linyong Hu, Na Zhao, Xueping Han, Xiaoling Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7645 PubMed 31579584

September 18, 2019

Mismatches between the genetic and phenotypic sex in the wild Kou population of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus

5 citations

485 downloads

839 views

Rokyatou Sissao, Helena D’Cotta, Jean-François Baroiller, Aboubacar Toguyeni

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7709 PubMed 31579600

September 26, 2019

Larval assemblages over the abyssal plain in the Pacific are highly diverse and spatially patchy

4 citations

479 downloads

1,548 views

Oliver Kersten, Eric W. Vetter, Michelle J. Jungbluth, Craig R. Smith, Erica Goetze

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7691 PubMed 31579593

September 16, 2019

Seasonal and inter-annual community structure characteristics of zooplankton driven by water environment factors in a sub-lake of Lake Poyang, China

2 citations

478 downloads

766 views

Beijuan Hu, Xuren Hu, Xue Nie, Xiaoke Zhang, Naicheng Wu, Yijiang Hong, Hai Ming Qin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7590 PubMed 31576234

September 27, 2019

Long-term studies reveal major environmental factors driving zooplankton dynamics and periodicities in the Black Sea coastal zooplankton

1 citation

408 downloads

664 views

Alexander L. Vereshchaka, Liudmila L. Anokhina, Taisiya A. Lukasheva, Anastasiia A. Lunina

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7588 PubMed 31579575

September 26, 2019

Simulated manned Mars exploration: effects of dietary and diurnal cycle variations on the gut microbiome of crew members in a controlled ecological life support system

3 citations

395 downloads

873 views

Hai-Sheng Dong, Pu Chen, Yan-Bo Yu, Peng Zang, Zhao Wei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7762 PubMed 31579622

September 19, 2019

A new record of kelp Lessonia spicata (Suhr) Santelices in the Sub-Antarctic Channels: implications for the conservation of the “huiro negro” in the Chilean coast

2 citations

384 downloads

1,104 views

Sebastián Rosenfeld, Fabio Mendez, Martha S. Calderon, Francisco Bahamonde, Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Jaime Ojeda, Johanna Marambio, Matthias Gorny, Andrés Mansilla

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7610 PubMed 31579579

September 10, 2019

Plant density and life history traits of Aconitum spicatum in North-central Nepal: effects of elevation and anthropogenic disturbances

376 downloads

1,115 views

Deep J. Chapagain, Henrik Meilby, Suresh K. Ghimire

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7574 PubMed 31565560

September 13, 2019

Searching for phylogenetic patterns of Symbiodiniaceae community structure among Indo-Pacific Merulinidae corals

5 citations

373 downloads

905 views