Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 13, 2019

Phylogenetic revision of the psammophilic Trogloderus LeConte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with biogeographic implications for the Intermountain Region

2 citations

2,334 downloads

1,458 views

M. Andrew Johnston

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8039 PubMed 31741795

November 8, 2019

Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the origin and initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs

11 citations

2,245 downloads

12,785 views

Cristian Pacheco, Rodrigo T. Müller, Max Langer, Flávio A. Pretto, Leonardo Kerber, Sérgio Dias da Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7963 PubMed 31720108

November 7, 2019

A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada

2 citations

1,711 downloads

5,844 views

Victoria M. Arbour, David C. Evans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7926 PubMed 31720103

November 13, 2019

Brittle stars looking like starfish: the first fossil record of the Astrophiuridae and a remarkable case of convergent evolution

1,459 downloads

2,466 views

Ben Thuy, Andy Gale, Lea Numberger-Thuy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8008 PubMed 31741791

November 21, 2019

From command-line bioinformatics to bioGUI

1 citation

1,402 downloads

1,072 views

Markus Joppich, Ralf Zimmer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8111 PubMed 31772845

November 5, 2019

Reconstructing the archosaur radiation using a Middle Triassic archosauriform tooth assemblage from Tanzania

1 citation

1,120 downloads

2,658 views

Devin K. Hoffman, Hunter R. Edwards, Paul M. Barrett, Sterling J. Nesbitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7970 PubMed 31720109

November 19, 2019

Hematological convergence between Mesozoic marine reptiles (Sauropterygia) and extant aquatic amniotes elucidates diving adaptations in plesiosaurs

3 citations

1,088 downloads

3,072 views

Corinna V. Fleischle, P. Martin Sander, Tanja Wintrich, Kai R. Caspar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8022 PubMed 31763069

November 26, 2019

A rapid spread of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak in the Mexican Caribbean

19 citations

1,081 downloads

2,857 views

Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Nuria Estrada-Saldívar, Esmeralda Pérez-Cervantes, Ana Molina-Hernández, Francisco J. González-Barrios

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8069 PubMed 31788355

November 11, 2019

A combined morphological and molecular approach for hair identification to comply with the European ban on dog and cat fur trade

1,029 downloads

1,623 views

Alessia Mariacher, Luisa Garofalo, Rita Fanelli, Rita Lorenzini, Rosario Fico

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7955 PubMed 31737444

November 5, 2019

A new alligatoroid from the Eocene of Vietnam highlights an extinct Asian clade independent from extant Alligator sinensis

3 citations

1,009 downloads

2,539 views

Tobias Massonne, Davit Vasilyan, Márton Rabi, Madelaine Böhme

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7562 PubMed 31720094

November 6, 2019

Neck mobility in the Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus: finite element analysis as a new approach to understanding the cervical skeleton in fossil vertebrates

1 citation

965 downloads

2,878 views

Tanja Wintrich, René Jonas, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Lars Schmitz, P. Martin Sander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7658 PubMed 31720095

November 18, 2019

First palaeoneurological study of a sauropod dinosaur from France and its phylogenetic significance

5 citations

883 downloads

2,467 views

Fabien Knoll, Stephan Lautenschlager, Xavier Valentin, Verónica Díez Díaz, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Géraldine Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7991 PubMed 31763068

November 29, 2019

Taxonomic assessment of species of the genus Octopus from the northeastern Pacific via morphological, molecular and morphometric analyses

1 citation

815 downloads

1,167 views

Mariana Díaz-Santana-Iturrios, César Augusto Salinas-Zavala, Francisco Javier García-Rodríguez, Jasmín Granados-Amores

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8118 PubMed 31803534

November 5, 2019

Genomics of host-pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities across ecological and spatiotemporal scales

8 citations

805 downloads

2,563 views

Kathrin Näpflin, Emily A. O’Connor, Lutz Becks, Staffan Bensch, Vincenzo A. Ellis, Nina Hafer-Hahmann, Karin C. Harding, Sara K. Lindén, Morten T. Olsen, Jacob Roved, Timothy B. Sackton, Allison J. Shultz, Vignesh Venkatakrishnan, Elin Videvall, Helena Westerdahl, Jamie C. Winternitz, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8013 PubMed 31720122

November 28, 2019

Multiple ecosystem services from field margin vegetation for ecological sustainability in agriculture: scientific evidence and knowledge gaps

5 citations

767 downloads

2,008 views

Prisila A. Mkenda, Patrick A. Ndakidemi, Ernest Mbega, Philip C. Stevenson, Sarah E.J. Arnold, Geoff M. Gurr, Steven R. Belmain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8091 PubMed 31799074

November 5, 2019

Endless forms of sexual selection

4 citations

658 downloads

3,118 views

Willow R. Lindsay, Staffan Andersson, Badreddine Bererhi, Jacob Höglund, Arild Johnsen, Charlotta Kvarnemo, Erica H. Leder, Jan T. Lifjeld, Calum E. Ninnes, Mats Olsson, Geoff A. Parker, Tommaso Pizzari, Anna Qvarnström, Rebecca J. Safran, Ola Svensson, Scott V. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7988 PubMed 31720113

November 15, 2019

Identification of novel BRCA1 large genomic rearrangements by a computational algorithm of amplicon-based Next-Generation Sequencing data

638 downloads

854 views

Arianna Nicolussi, Francesca Belardinilli, Valentina Silvestri, Yasaman Mahdavian, Virginia Valentini, Sonia D’Inzeo, Marialaura Petroni, Massimo Zani, Sergio Ferraro, Stefano Di Giulio, Francesca Fabretti, Beatrice Fratini, Angela Gradilone, Laura Ottini, Giuseppe Giannini, Anna Coppa, Carlo Capalbo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7972 PubMed 31741787

November 21, 2019

Sequencing and analyses on chloroplast genomes of Tetrataenium candicans and two allies give new insights on structural variants, DNA barcoding and phylogeny in Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae

7 citations

616 downloads

966 views

Lu Kang, Dengfeng Xie, Qunying Xiao, Chang Peng, Yan Yu, Xingjin He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8063 PubMed 31772837

November 20, 2019

Magnetically directed antioxidant and antimicrobial agent: synthesis and surface functionalization of magnetite with quercetin

2 citations

605 downloads